Pricing

FairCrawl uses cost-plus pricing. The price you see is tied to the route or worker method that actually ran.

Core prices

Action	Typical billed price
web/scrape	starts at $0.0007 per standard page; volume discounts apply
web/crawl	based on the underlying page reads
map	$0.0005 per request
interact	$0.002 per request
agent	$0.005 coordination cost before tool usage
research	$0.007 per successful query, billed from the first query; synthesis included; successful enrichment pages separately metered at the canonical scrape rate
pdf.fast	$0.00065 per page
pdf.ocr	$0.0065 per page

Research failures, queries with no results, and failed enrichment pages cost $0.

Method overrides matter

For web/scrape, the final bill can move depending on the worker method:

• direct fetch keeps the cheapest path
• playwright / cf_browser escalations cost more than a plain static fetch
• pdf.fast and pdf.ocr bill per page
• premium or proxy-backed fallbacks bill at the cost of the path actually used

Inspect pricing without guessing

Use the endpoint catalog as the public pricing map

curl

```bash curl https://api.faircompany.ai/v1/crawl/endpoints \ -H "Authorization: Bearer fc_live_xxx" ```

TypeScript SDK

```ts import FairCrawl from "faircrawl"; const fc = new FairCrawl({ apiKey: process.env.FAIRCRAWL_API_KEY || "fc_live_xxx" }); const catalog = await fc.endpoints(); console.log(catalog.total); console.log(catalog.platforms.web); ```

Python SDK

```python from faircrawl import FairCrawl import httpx import os api_key = os.environ.get("FAIRCRAWL_API_KEY", "fc_live_xxx") response = httpx.get( "https://api.faircompany.ai/v1/crawl/endpoints", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}"}, timeout=30, ) response.raise_for_status() print(response.json()["total"]) ```

MCP

```json { "tool": "faircrawl_scrape", "arguments": { "url": "https://faircrawl.ai/docs/getting-started/authentication/", "format": "markdown" } } ```

No free tier

Every action bills cost-plus from the first call — nothing is bundled and no endpoint has an allowance. New accounts get a one-time $0.50 welcome credit in the wallet, which spends like money and runs out.

Work that delivers nothing still costs nothing: a failed, empty, or unscrapable result settles at $0. That is not an allowance, it is us not charging you for nothing.

The authenticated /v1/crawl/endpoints catalog is the source of truth for all other action prices. A response’s _meta block records what that call cost.

Best practice

Map before you crawl, and scrape before you interact. That keeps your bill aligned with the cheapest endpoint that can answer the question.