Firecrawl
Firecrawl is a web data API designed to power AI applications with clean, structured web data.
Our verdict
Who it's for
Turn websites into LLM-ready data for your AI applications.
Who should look elsewhere
Credit-based pricing model might require careful usage monitoring
Pros
- +Provides clean, LLM-ready data for AI applications
- +High reliability, covering 96% of the web
- +Exceptional speed for real-time applications
- +Open-source and developer-friendly with multiple integration options
- +Offers a free tier for trying out the service
Cons
- −Credit-based pricing model might require careful usage monitoring
- −Advanced AI Agent feature is currently in preview with dynamic pricing
Key features
- ✓Scrape web pages into Markdown, JSON, or screenshots
- ✓Search the web and retrieve full content from results
- ✓Crawl all pages on a website to gather data
- ✓AI Agent for extracting data with AI prompts
- ✓Open-source with Python, Node.js SDKs, cURL, and CLI
- ✓Handles JavaScript-heavy and protected pages reliably
- ✓Fast data delivery, often under 1 second
- ✓Parallel Agents for simultaneous queries
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Plan | $0 | month | 500 credits (one-time); Scrape 500 pages; 2 concurrent requests |
| Hobby | $16 | month | 3,000 credits / month; Scrape 3,000 pages; 5 concurrent requests |
| Standard | $83 | month | 100,000 credits / month; Scrape 100,000 pages; 50 concurrent requests |
| Growth | $333 | month | 500,000 credits / month; Scrape 500,000 pages; 100 concurrent requests |
| Scale | $599 | month | 1,000,000 credits; Scrape 1,000,000 pages; 150 concurrent requests |
| Enterprise | — | month | Custom credits; Scrape unlimited pages; Custom concurrent requests |