Firecrawl vs Scrapingdog

Firecrawl
www.firecrawl.dev
72%
Success
5.4s
Speed
$2.7
Cost
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Firecrawl
vs
Scrapingdog
Scrapingdog
www.scrapingdog.com
34%
Success
4.5s
Speed
$2.7
Cost
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Side-by-side comparison of Firecrawl and Scrapingdog using the latest benchmark data for success rate, speed, cost, and features.

Pros & Cons of Firecrawl

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.

Pros & Cons of Scrapingdog

Pros
  • Low entry point of $40.
  • Autoparse can output structured JSON for some targets.
  • High concurrency for higher plans.
  • Dedicated APIs for Google Search, Amazon, Linkedin, Twitter and Indeed scraping.
  • No charge for blocked scrape requests.
Cons
  • Not a generic web scraping API as many targets require dedicated API configuration (amazon, google, yelp etc.)
  • No integration SDKs.
  • Basic web interface.
  • Limited feature set and headless browser support.
  • Some targets are not supported (see benchmarks).
  • Credits do not carry over month-to-month.

Benchmark Comparison

Success rate per target from the latest benchmark run. Higher is better; the winning value is highlighted in green.

Target Firecrawl success Scrapingdog success
all average 72.1% 34.0%
amazon.com 91.7% 85.9%
booking.com 91.8% 14.1%
etsy.com 99.7% 15.3%
indeed.com 66.6% -
instagram.com - -
linkedin.com - 20.4%
realtor.com 72.0% 50.3%
stockx.com 94.6% -
twitter.com 74.4% 74.0%
walmart.com 85.3% 72.9%
zillow.com 92.7% 0.9%
Data range Sep 11 - Sep 25

Feature Comparison

Feature Firecrawl Scrapingdog
Capterra ratingCapterra rating — —
Browser control Yes No
Custom JS evaluation Yes No
Geolocation 26 countries 15 countries
Integrations Python, Javascript No
Javascreipt rendering Yes, enabled by default Yes, at extra cost
Proxy support Datacenter default, Residential (stealth) optional Datacenter, Residential extra cost
Screenshots Yes, with a fullpage option and customizable viewport Yes, full page only
Sessions No Yes, persistent IP
Webhook support No Yes

Pricing Comparison

Firecrawl
Plan Price Credits Concurrency
Enterprise — ∞ ∞
Growth 333 500,000 100
Hobby 16 3,000 5
Standard 83 100,000 50
Scrapingdog
Plan Price Credits Concurrency
Lite 40 200,000 5
Standard 90 1,000,000 50
Pro 200 3,000,000 100
Enterprise 500 8,000,000 200
Custom — — —

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