Firecrawl review

Firecrawl is built for the newest reason teams scrape: feeding live web content to language models and agents. One API key covers Search, which returns full page content from results, Scrape, Map for listing a site's URLs, and Crawl for whole sites, all returning Markdown, JSON or screenshots. A newer Interact endpoint lets you click through a page with prompts or code, and an MCP server and CLI connect it to AI agents in a single command. The code is open source if you prefer to self-host. Pricing is easy to read: one credit per page on a basic scrape, a free plan of 1,000 credits a month, Hobby at $19 a month for 5,000 credits, or $16 billed annually, and Standard at $99 for 100,000 credits. Structured JSON costs 4 extra credits per page, and the cheaper plans cap concurrent browsers, so very large crawls need Growth or Scale. It is less suited to field-level ecommerce monitoring than Bright Data or ScraperAPI.

Who it is for

AI and product teams that need clean, model-ready page content from search results and whole sites.

Price

Free plan with 1,000 credits a month; Hobby $19 per month billed monthly or $16 billed annually; Standard $99 per month.

Entry plan Hobby: $19/month billed monthly, or $16/month billed annually, for 5,000 credits per month
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 9, 2026.

Key features

• Search, Scrape, Map and Crawl endpoints that share one credit balance
• Output as Markdown, JSON or screenshots for language model pipelines
• Interact endpoint to act on a page with AI prompts or code
• MCP server, CLI and SDKs for Python and Node.js
• Open-source code alongside the hosted API

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card
• Strength: Simple unit: one credit per page on a basic scrape or crawl
• Strength: Scrapes that return no result are not charged
• Weakness: JSON and similar formats add 4 credits per page
• Weakness: Hobby allows only 5 concurrent browsers
• Weakness: Built for AI content extraction rather than structured ecommerce fields

Key facts

• Free plan: 1,000 credits per month
• Hobby: 5,000 credits, 5 concurrent browsers
• Standard: $99 per month, 100,000 credits
• Companies using it: 150,000+, per Firecrawl

Where it ranks

Firecrawl is No. 3 in our Best Web Scraping Tools verdict.