Firecrawl alternatives
At 10,000 pages scraped a month, Firecrawl costs $44 a month. 1 web scraping tool costs less, from $15 (Bright Data). The closest match, Apify, covers 79% of what Firecrawl does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.
What Firecrawl does
Core: URL scraping API, Site crawling, LLM-ready output, AI data extraction.
Important: Anti-bot unblocking (partly), Web search API, Research & answer API, AI browser agents (partly), AI agent integrations, Open source & self-hosting (partly).
Also has: Proxy network (partly), Search engine results (partly), Cloud browsers (partly), Scheduling & change alerts (partly), Exports & integrations (partly), Custom scraper hosting (partly), Compliance & ethical sourcing (partly).
Alternatives to Firecrawl at 10,000 pages scraped a month, best match first
- Apify: $199/mo Headless pages at Apify's approximate $0.5-5 per 1k (Scale plan ($199/mo, monthly billing); its $199 usage credit covers the top-of-range headless usage of $50 a month.). It covers 79% of Firecrawl; missing or partial: AI data extraction (partly), Web search API (partly), Research & answer API, AI browser agents. Free plan: $5 of platform usage each month, no card needed; access pauses until the next billing cycle once it is used up.. Last price hike: Aug 2026.
- Bright Data: $15/mo Web Unlocker pay as you go; free tier is 5K/month (Pay as you go: Web Unlocker at $1.5 per 1,000 requests). It covers 61% of Firecrawl; missing or partial: URL scraping API (partly), Site crawling (partly), LLM-ready output (partly), AI data extraction (partly), Web search API (partly). Free plan: Free Tier: 5K requests a month (Web Unlocker, SERP API) and 5K credits plus 1 GB a month (Browser API), no credit card needed.. Last price hike: Jan 2025.
Other kinds of products that cover part of Firecrawl
- Perplexity (AI assistants): covers 42% of Firecrawl; missing or partial: URL scraping API, Site crawling, LLM-ready output (partly), AI data extraction (partly), Anti-bot unblocking
Prices at every size
- Firecrawl: 10,000 pages scraped a month $44/mo, 5,000 web searches a month $44/mo, 100 cloud browser hours a month $54/mo (Assumes 1 credit per basic scrape (JS cost unstated))
- Apify: 10,000 pages scraped a month $199/mo, 5,000 web searches a month $19/mo, 100 cloud browser hours a month not offered (Headless pages at Apify's approximate $0.5-5 per 1k)
- Bright Data: 10,000 pages scraped a month $15/mo, 5,000 web searches a month $7.50/mo, 100 cloud browser hours a month $160/mo (Web Unlocker pay as you go; free tier is 5K/month)
Prices are USD per month on monthly billing for three jobs: scraping 10,000 JavaScript-rendered pages (the headline), running 5,000 web search queries and using 100 hours of cloud browser time, each on the cheapest self-serve plan or pay-as-you-go rate that fully covers it. A product that does not do a job shows no price for it.
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