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🔥 The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web for AI

Model APIsFreeFree tier
Inputs: urlOutputs: text
Starting Price
$16/mo
Type
Open Source
Founded
2022
Company
Firecrawl
Visit Website GitHub (114.5k stars)

About firecrawl

Firecrawl is an open-source API that transforms the live web into clean Markdown and structured data for LLMs, agents, and AI-native software. It provides a complete toolkit to search, scrape, interact, map, crawl, and monitor websites at scale. Developers can feed real-time web data into AI agents, RAG pipelines, and chatbots with a single API call. Trusted by 150,000+ companies and one of the fastest-growing open-source projects, Firecrawl offers a free tier (1,000 credits/month) and paid plans starting at $16/month.

Key Features

Search the web and get full page content (not just links) as clean data
Scrape any URL into Markdown, JSON, screenshots, or structured text
Interact with pages using natural language prompts or code (click, fill forms, navigate)
Map all relevant URLs from a website
Crawl entire domains following links
Monitor: always-on search that pings your agent when new content appears
Agent (Preview): autonomous data gathering with 5 free daily runs
Token-efficient – removes navs, footers, ads (93% fewer input tokens)
Reliable on 96% of the web, including JavaScript-heavy pages
P95 latency of 3.4 seconds across millions of requests

Pros & Cons

Pros
  • Open source and free to start (1,000 credits/month with no credit card)
  • Fast and reliable – P95 latency of 3.4 seconds, covers 96% of the web
  • Token-efficient output – only clean content, no bloat
  • Easy integration with AI agents via MCP, CLI, and SDKs
  • Supports multiple output formats: Markdown, JSON, screenshots, structured data
  • Actively maintained with a large community (125K+ GitHub stars)
  • Backed by Y Combinator and $16.2M in funding
  • Testimonials report 50x faster than alternatives like Apify
Cons
  • Free tier limited to 1,000 credits per month with low rate limits
  • Higher-tier features (Interact, Agent) are credit-intensive and may cost more
  • Agent feature is still in Preview and has limited daily free runs
  • No built-in support for custom scripts or headless browser automation beyond provided endpoints
  • Pricing plans require yearly commitment for advertised rates

Best For

Power AI agents with real-time web data for accurate answers and actionsFeed clean, structured web content into RAG pipelines and LLMsScrape product pages, documentation, or knowledge bases at scaleAutomate web interactions (e.g., click first result, fill forms) via APIMonitor websites for changes and trigger agent alertsBuild AI-native software where intelligence is part of the core

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FAQ

Is Firecrawl free?
Yes, Firecrawl offers a free plan with 1,000 credits per month (1,000 pages scraped) with no credit card required. If you need more, you can upgrade to a paid plan.