Inkpluck vs Smart Article Extractor and easyapi Article Content Extractor: article extractors compared
Which article extractor should I use to turn links into clean text for an LLM?
If you already have the article links or RSS feeds and want clean text plus Markdown, authors, dates and a paywall flag at $0.001 per article (failures free), use Inkpluck. If you want a tool to crawl a whole news site and find the articles for you, Smart Article Extractor does that and has no Actor fee; you pay only compute.
Inkpluck: Any article link to clean text and Markdown
$0.001 per article, failures freeClean text and Markdown ready for LLMs and RAG
Runs on your own Apify account, pay per result; failed results are not charged.How we compared
- Price per article from Apify's pricing API today
- Markdown output for LLMs
- Whether it discovers articles on a site by itself
- What failed pages cost
Side by side
| What buyers compare | Inkpluck (CyberMax) | Smart Article Extractor | easyapi Article Content Extractor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price (live from Apify) | $1.00 per 1,000 (article extracted) | no Actor fee; you pay only Apify platform usage (compute) for each run | $2.99 per 1,000 (result); plus $0.09 per run start; plus Apify platform usage |
| Markdown output | Yes | HTML table, JSON, Excel, RSS exports listed | JSON with content and metadata |
| Finds articles on a whole site | No: you give URLs or RSS feeds | Yes: crawls the site and tells articles from other pages | No: you give URLs |
| Paywall flag | Yes | Not stated on its page | Not stated on its page |
Sources: Inkpluck (our live page) · Smart Article Extractor (checked 2026-10-23) · easyapi Article Content Extractor (checked 2026-10-23).
The options and their published prices
| Option | Published price | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inkpluck (CyberMax) | $1.00 per 1,000 (article extracted) | Clean text and Markdown ready for LLMs and RAG; Title, authors, publish date, language, top image, videos and a paywall flag; Article URLs or RSS feeds in | Our page |
| Smart Article Extractor (lukaskrivka/article-extractor-smart) | no Actor fee; you pay only Apify platform usage (compute) for each run | Pick it if you want it to crawl a whole news or blog site and find the articles itself | Their page |
| Article Content Extractor (easyapi/article-content-extractor) | $2.99 per 1,000 (result); plus $0.09 per run start; plus Apify platform usage | Pick it if you already use that developer's other Actors and want the same JSON shape | Their page |
Rival prices as shown on each seller's own page (Apify Actors: Apify's public pricing API), checked 2026-10-23. Prices change; check the seller's page before buying. Options whose price we could not confirm on that day are left out.
Where the alternatives are better
- Smart Article Extractor (lukaskrivka/article-extractor-smart): Crawls entire sites and detects which pages are articles, with no per-article Actor fee.
- Article Content Extractor (easyapi/article-content-extractor): Returns description and structured metadata fields in one JSON per page.
Which one should you pick?
Choose Inkpluck if
- you feed an LLM or RAG pipeline and want Markdown out
- you already have links or RSS feeds
- you want failures to cost nothing at a flat price
Choose Smart Article Extractor if
- you want it to crawl a whole news or blog site and find the articles itself
Choose easyapi Article Content Extractor if
- you already use that developer's other Actors and want the same JSON shape
What Inkpluck includes
- Clean text and Markdown ready for LLMs and RAG
- Title, authors, publish date, language, top image, videos and a paywall flag
- Article URLs or RSS feeds in
- newspaper3k-compatible field names
- Pages that fail, are blocked, paywalled or too short are not charged; compute included
Questions
Which article extractor should I use to turn links into clean text for an LLM?
If you already have the article links or RSS feeds and want clean text plus Markdown, authors, dates and a paywall flag at $0.001 per article (failures free), use Inkpluck. If you want a tool to crawl a whole news site and find the articles for you, Smart Article Extractor does that and has no Actor fee; you pay only compute.
Can it read paywalled articles?
No. Paywalled pages are flagged and not charged; it never bypasses a paywall.
Why Markdown?
Headings, lists and links survive in Markdown, which helps an LLM chunk and cite the text.
Inkpluck: Any article link to clean text and Markdown
$0.001 per article, failures freeAny article link to clean text and Markdown
Runs on your own Apify account, pay per result; failed results are not charged.Free how-tos
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