Firecrawl
Firecrawl accepts URLs and crawl targets, uses headless browsers to render pages, scrapes and extracts content into language model-friendly markdown or JSON schemas, returns screenshots and interactive actions, and provides hosted API responses with documented credit quotas and rate limits.
Firecrawl offers a permanent Free plan (1,000 credits/month) plus Hobby, Standard, Growth, Scale, and Enterprise tiers; several paid tiers show monthly prices billed annually on the pricing page.Is Firecrawl right for you?
Good for
- Founders building AI agents or retrieval-augmented systems that need rendered, token-efficient web content and schema-driven extraction at scale.
- Open-source codebase is available alongside the hosted service, enabling self-host or hosted options.
- Hosted offering includes a permanent free monthly credit allocation suitable for prototyping and small-scale usage.
Keep in mind
- Unused credits roll over only on Scale and Enterprise plans; entry plans do not carry over unused credits.
- Teams requiring built-in multi-team SSO/SCIM or guaranteed credit rollover on entry plans without upgrading; verify SSO/SCIM and rollover rules before selecting a plan.
Pricing and plan limits
The pricing pages list exact monthly credits and per-month prices (billed annually) for Hobby, Standard, Growth, and Scale; pay-as-you-go increments are $5 with credits per increment documented. The linked official pages provide these details.
More about capabilities and limits
Documented strengths
Open-source codebase is available alongside the hosted service, enabling self-host or hosted options.
Hosted offering includes a permanent free monthly credit allocation suitable for prototyping and small-scale usage.
The site documents a high benchmarked coverage figure on a 1,000-URL dataset for scraping coverage comparisons.
Limitations to consider
Unused credits roll over only on Scale and Enterprise plans; entry plans do not carry over unused credits.
Choosing a plan
Test Firecrawl by running your typical crawl set, compare extracted JSON and markdown outputs for quality and schema fit, and confirm rate limits and credit consumption against your projected monthly workload.
Based on the linked product documentation.
Available on
Web, Api.
Official sources
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