#1 Linkup Alternative

• Key difference

  Rendered, protected pages at 1 credit, not up to $10 per 1,000

  Linkup Fetch bills $0.001 per page without JavaScript, $0.005 with renderJs, which its docs recommend as the default in agentic pipelines, and $0.01 in Pro mode with rendering, the mode it points to for hard-to-retrieve pages. Context.dev renders JavaScript and runs managed proxies and anti-bot handling in every 1-credit scrape, so 1,000 such pages cost $0.90 on Pro ($90/mo) instead of $5 to $10, and Pro covers 100,000 of them a month.

• Independent benchmark

  38 of 40 agent scrape tasks finished, against Linkup’s 34

  Scrapingbench v2 runs the same agent, model, and limits for every provider and checks answers by script. On its 40-task scrape track, an agent finished 38 tasks (95%) with Context.dev and 34 (85%) with Linkup, a 10-point gap the report rates as confident (95% range -20.5 to -2.3), at a similar cost per finished task: 1.36¢ on Context.dev and 1.23¢ on Linkup.

• Search

  Search with relevant passages for $1.80 per 1,000 calls

  Context.dev Web Search returns up to 100 ranked results and can add the passages that answer your query, read from every result page. Ten results with passages cost 2 credits, or $1.80 per 1,000 searches on Pro, and plain results cost $0.90. A Linkup search at flash, fast, or standard depth costs $5 per 1,000 and returns snippets, and deep search costs $50. Linkup’s sourced answers are cheaper, though: $6 per 1,000 against $9.00 for Context.dev Answers in fast mode.

• Crawl

  Crawl and map whole sites, not one URL at a time

  Linkup has no crawl or map endpoint, and Fetch reads one URL without following links. Its Extract agent, in closed beta, pulls rows from a listing page for $2 to $10 per task and delivers them as an NDJSON download that expires after 24 hours. Context.dev crawls at 1 credit per page with rendering included and maps a site’s URLs for 1 credit per call.

• Scale

  Batches of 100,000 URLs and 100 concurrent requests on Pro

  Linkup Tasks accepts up to 100 searches, fetches, or research calls per submission, and Search and Fetch are limited to 10 queries per second per organization. Context.dev Batches accept up to 100,000 URLs or a crawl, support every Scrape output including JSON extraction, refund pages that fail, and keep results for 180 days. Pro allows 100 concurrent requests with no per-minute cap, and Scale allows 500.

• Extraction

  Screenshots, parsers, and office files from the same scrape

  Linkup Fetch returns Markdown, with optional raw HTML, image URLs, and JSON against a schema for $0.001 more, and accepts only HTML and PDF. A Context.dev scrape returns Markdown, rendered HTML, a screenshot, and images for 1 credit, JSON against your schema for 5 credits, and prebuilt parsers for Google Maps, app store and G2 reviews, and Instagram. Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files go through the same endpoint.

• Interaction

  Click, scroll, sign in, and monitor pages for changes

  Run up to five browser actions per scrape (a natural-language step, scroll, wait, or wait for a selector) for 2 credits on paid plans, and reuse a saved browser profile for pages behind a login; Linkup Fetch does not authenticate and returns what an anonymous visitor sees. Monitors re-check a page or sitemap for 1 credit per run, post changes to your webhook, and skip the charge when a run fails.

Derived from Context.dev Pro ($90 for 100,000 credits) at monthly billing and Linkup’s pay-as-you-go list prices, which are the same on every account. Linkup rates are from linkup.so/pricing and docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/platform/pricing.

Full comparison

1. Rendered pages assume Linkup Fetch in standard mode with renderJs ($0.005 per call), the setting its docs recommend by default in agentic pipelines, and 1 credit per page on Context.dev, where rendering, managed proxies, and anti-bot handling are always on. Linkup’s Pro mode for hard-to-retrieve pages costs $0.01 per rendered call, $10 per 1,000. Context.dev ranges run from yearly to monthly billing.
2. Linkup’s static rate ($1.00 per 1,000 pages without rendering) is below Context.dev Developer ($1.67–$2.00), and its free credit, $20 a month for eligible accounts that sign up with a professional email, covers more pages than 1,000 free credits. Context.dev costs less per page from Pro up, static pages included.
3. Linkup rates are from linkup.so/pricing and docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/platform/pricing. Search and Fetch are limited to 10 queries per second per organization (docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/platform/rate-limits). Top-ups of $1,000 or more earn bonus credits, and startups can apply for $5,000 in credits.
4. Linkup does not charge for errors, including searches where it finds nothing relevant. Context.dev does not bill a scrape when every output fails, except that a target 404 keeps the base credit.

Prices and plans checked on October 30, 2026.

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• Context.dev vs You.comSearch passages for $1.80 per 1,000 instead of $5, and 38 of 40 agent scrape tasks finished in an independent benchmark, against 29.