Firecrawl provides APIs that turns websites into LLM-ready data.
Overall Firecrawl performs relatively well on Scrapeway's benchmarks taking top spots in some targets with acceptable performance on others.
Firecrawl excels at providing solutions for scraping data that are LLM-ready. Their main features are:
- Scrape: scrapes a URL and get its content in LLM-ready format (markdown, summary, structured data via json mode, screenshot, html).
- Crawl: scrapes all the URLs of a web page and return content in LLM-ready format.
- Map: input a website and get all the website urls - extremely fast.
- Search: search the web and get full content from results.
- Extract: get structured data from single page, multiple pages or entire websites with AI.
Firecrawl offers a wide range of features for customizing your scraping needs. This includes the ability to choose from different proxy pools, control the headless browser actions, the format of the retrieved data, and more.
Pros
- Scrape websites data in LLM-ready format.
- Ability to crawl entire websites using one API call.
- Control the headless browser actions after a certain process.
- Python and NodeJS SDKs.
- Low pricing entry point at $19.
- Integrations for no-code tools: n8n, Zapier, Make, and Dfyn.
Cons
- Plan to credits are considered expensive compared to other services.
- Blocked requests are charged.
- Credits do not roll over to the next month/year.
- No pay-per-use plan offered.
- No support for webhook callbacks.
Firecrawl vs Other Services
Here's how Firecrawl compares against other web scraping APIs in terms of success rate, speed and cost.
| # | Service | Success % | Speed | Cost $/1000 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scrapfly |
98%
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7.3s
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$4.02
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| 2 | WebScrapingAPI |
91%
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20.5s
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$2.71
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| 3 | Firecrawl |
77%
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5.5s
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$4.95
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| 4 | Scraperapi |
60%
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7.8s
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$3.51
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| 5 | Zenrows |
60%
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12.4s
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$4.65
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| 6 | Scrapingdog |
39%
|
2.6s
|
$1.72
|
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| 7 | Scrapingbee |
33%
|
2.8s
|
$1.52
|
|
| 8 | Scrapingant |
25%
|
26.8s
|
$1.27
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| - | Scrapeowl | - | - | - | |
| - | Zenscrape | - | - | - |
This data is based on the averages of Scrapeway's weekly benchmarks covering 13 most popular web scraping targets and overall:
- Firecrawl has an above-average success rate of 76.9% compared to industry average of 60.3%
- Firecrawl has an above-average scraping speed of 5.5s compared to industry average of 10.7s
- Firecrawl has an above-average price of $4.9/1000 scrapes compared to industry average of $3.0
Firecrawl Benchmarks
Scrapeway runs weekly benchmarks for Firecrawl for the most popular web scraping targets.
| Target | Success % | Speed | Cost $/1000 | |
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104%
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7.1s
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$6.36
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102%
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6.2s
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$6.03
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100%
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5.3s
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$6.23
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98%
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7.4s
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$6.34
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97%
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7.7s
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$6.34
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95%
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6.6s
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$6.32
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95%
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10.9s
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$6.06
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93%
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8.9s
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$6.32
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0%
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0%
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Firecrawl Ranking History
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Firecrawl Pricing
Firecrawl is a credit-based service where each scrape request can cost 1-5 credits depending on the used features and required proxy pool.
| Plan | Price | Credits | Concurrency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | - | ∞ | ∞ |
| Growth | $333 | 500,000 | 100 |
| Hobby | $16 | 3,000 | 5 |
| Standard | $83 | 100,000 | 50 |
Overall Firecrawl is considered expensive compared to other services. But it provides a low entry point at $19 for 3000 credits. The individual credit cost for scrape calls is clear, ranging from 1 to 5 credits depending on the used features and required proxy pool.
Firecrawl Features
Overall, Firecrawl offers most features required customizing your scraping needs.
| Feature | Availability |
|---|---|
| Browser control | Yes |
| Custom JS evaluation | Yes |
| Geolocation | 26 countries |
| Integrations | Python, Javascript |
| Javascreipt rendering | Yes, enabled by default |
| Proxy support | Datacenter default, Residential (stealth) optional |
| Screenshots | Yes, with a fullpage option and customizable viewport |
| Sessions | No |
| Webhook support | No |
To add, Firecrawl offers some unique features at no extra cost included with every plan:
- Customize the data formats to be LLM-ready.
- Control the headless browser actions after a certain process (click, scroll, wait, etc.).