Crawlbase

Free allowance: Up to 5,000 successful requests free, no credit card
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: free tier
Identity: emailno card, no phone
Binding limit: per-object-capsite difficulty and JavaScript rendering multiply a group's ladder total
Evidence: documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22

Free tier	up to 5,000 successful requests free, no credit card unit requests; metered on request-count
Price	none stated
Limits	request-rate USD 0.76 per 1,000 successful requests at 100,000 a month, falling to USD 0.15 at 10,000,000 source per-object-cap (binding) site difficulty and JavaScript rendering multiply a group's ladder total source
Identity	email no credit card required, stated on the page
Egress	not applicable: JSON or HTML answers
Per-object cap	not applicable: the unit is a successful request
Retention	only successful requests are billed
Interface	rest REST Crawling API, Crawler, Smart AI Proxy and Cloud Storage on one rate card
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	Its cb_status field is one of the few provider-level block markers the platform report trusts
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The 5,000 is one-time. The multiplier is the trap: a ladder price per 1,000 says nothing about what one defended, rendered page costs.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 1

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	crawlbase.com/pricing	up to 5,000 requests free with no credit card; USD 0.76 blended per 1,000 requests at 100,000; site difficulty and JavaScript rendering multiply the rate card

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