Firecrawl
Developer Tools & Infrastructure
active
★ 4.6
freemium · $19/month
Free tier available
Verified Oct 2026
An API that turns websites into clean Markdown or structured JSON for LLM apps, with endpoints to scrape, crawl, map, search, and interact with pages. The core is open source (AGPL-3.0) and can be self-hosted.
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Use Cases
- Feeding web content into RAG pipelines and knowledge bases
- Giving agents live web search and page reading
- Extracting structured data from websites into JSON
- Monitoring pages for changes
- Building datasets from site crawls
Pros
- LLM-ready Markdown and JSON output removes most HTML cleanup work
- Handles JavaScript-heavy pages and whole-site crawls
- Free tier, simple credit pricing, and an open-source core you can self-host
- Very large community (about 188k GitHub stars) and wide framework support
Cons
- JSON extraction and browser interaction use extra credits per page
- Some sites block scraping, and you remain responsible for terms and legal use
- The AGPL license can be a problem for embedding the self-hosted version in a product
- The self-hosted version does not match every feature of the cloud service
Pricing
| Plan | Price |
|---|
| Free (1,000 credits) | Free |
| Hobby (5,000 credits) | $19/monthly |
| Standard (100,000 credits) | $99/monthly |
| Growth (500,000 credits) | $399/monthly |
| Scale (1,000,000 credits) | $749/monthly |
| Enterprise | Custom |
Tags
api-availableopen-sourceself-hostablefree-tierweb-searchragagents
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