Scaling AI Web Scraping & HTML to JSON Extraction on a Budget
Raw web pages contain thousands of useless CSS classes and script tags. Sanitizing HTML before prompting reduces input token consumption by 70%.
Typical monthly workload
- Input tokens
- 25,000,000
- Output tokens
- 3,000,000
- Requests / day
- 5,000
Illustrative estimate. Adjust the sliders below to match your own volume.
Recommended setup
Convert raw HTML to clean markdown with readability algorithms before sending to LLM; enforce strict JSON schemas.
Monthly cost by model for this workload
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 1.5 Flash | $0.075 | $0.30 | $2.77 |
| DeepSeek V3 / V2.5 | $0.140 | $0.28 | $4.34 |
| GPT-4o Mini | $0.150 | $0.60 | $5.55 |
| Llama 3.3 70B (Groq/Together) | $0.590 | $0.79 | $17.12 |
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | $0.800 | $4.00 | $32.00 |
| o1-mini | $1.100 | $4.40 | $40.70 |
| Gemini 1.5 Pro | $1.250 | $5.00 | $46.25 |
| Mistral Large 2 | $2.000 | $6.00 | $68.00 |
| GPT-4o (Omni) | $2.500 | $10.00 | $92.50 |
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | $3.000 | $15.00 | $120.00 |
| o1 (Reasoning) | $15.000 | $60.00 | $555.00 |
Computed from list prices and the workload above (25,000,000 input and 3,000,000 output tokens per month), with no caching or batch discounts. Real bills vary.
How to cut this cost
- Pre-process with Readability / Turndown
Strip navbars, footers, and scripts locally in Node.js/Python before passing HTML to the model.
Simulate your own spend
Quick Workload Presets
Pick a ready-made scenario or customize your token volume below.
Token & Usage Parameters
By switching or routing background tasks from GPT-4o to Gemini 1.5 Flash, your team saves up to $2,270 annually.
Lowest cost per token, high-frequency tasks, real-time audio/video
State-of-the-art open economics, high-performance general intelligence
High-volume text processing, fast chatbots, classification
Open-weights privacy, self-hosting or ultra-cheap hosted inferencing
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Fast STEM reasoning, competitive programming at lower cost
Massive context (2M tokens), full video/audio analysis, large codebases
Multilingual tasks, European compliance, enterprise code generation
Complex multimodal reasoning, coding, and production apps
Software engineering, nuanced writing, complex agentic workflows
Advanced mathematics, algorithmic coding, PhD-level scientific logic
Frequently asked questions
Can I extract structured data from 10,000 web pages cheaply?
Yes! Sanitizing the HTML to markdown and using Gemini 1.5 Flash costs less than $4 for 10,000 full product extraction runs.