Firecrawl quietly cut what you get
Search now draws from the same credit pool as scraping (2 credits per 10 results), so the same allowance covers fewer pages for users who search. PricingSaaS records no numeric limits before or after.
What changed
- Limits cut, Sep 7, 2026
- Before: Plan allowances covered scrape only
- After: One shared credit pool for search and scrape
- Existing customers: not stated
Cheaper alternatives to Firecrawl
At 10,000 pages scraped a month, Firecrawl costs $44/mo. 1 web scraping tool costs less:
- Bright Data: $15/mo (Pay as you go: Web Unlocker at $1.5 per 1,000 requests), 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)
Firecrawl alternatives: 2 web scraping tools compared, at every size.
Sources
Every price and change for Firecrawl: Firecrawl.