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Firecrawl pricing and alternatives: cached web scraping API

Firecrawl's sitellms.txt
86% complete: 6 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesThe cheapest of the 15 plans we rank by price is Firecrawl, $399 monthly, at $0.798 per 1,000 pages.
Plan: Free one of Firecrawl's 14 plans
Call: POST /v2/scrape Firecrawl's only call for this API
API: Cached web scraping API one of Firecrawl's 3 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 2 days old. You get the page from Firecrawl's cache.
  • 6 of the 7 key fields we check. Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Summary, Links, Images.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Unused credits expire at the end of the month.
  • One call. You send url to POST /v2/scrape. The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Firecrawl: cached web scraping API alternatives

The table starts with Firecrawl's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to Firecrawl's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a week old.

Firecrawl, $7,190 yearlyScraperAPI, $21,330 yearly, Advanced, GET /, Sync API with ultra premium
$ per 1,000 pages$0.599$2.48
Completeness86%43%
Billingyearlyyearly
Pay$7,190$21,330
Enough for1,000,000 calls a monthabout 716,666 calls a month
Freshness2 days10 minutes
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardiananyone

Cached web scraping API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/endpoint/scrape
  2. docs.firecrawl.dev/features/scrape
  3. docs.firecrawl.dev/features/search
  4. docs.firecrawl.dev/rate-limits
  5. firecrawl.dev/pricing
  6. firecrawl.dev/pricing.md
  7. firecrawl.dev/terms-of-service

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Screenshot
  • Markdown
  • HTML
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Summary
  • Links
  • Images
Price
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Crawl · Map · Interact · Monitor · Agent · Search with Content Scraping · Search the Developer Index · Search
In their words
Their pitchScrape turns any URL into clean Markdown or structured data for AI agents, including JS-heavy pages and dynamic apps.
Data
Freshness2 days
Keep datano retention period is set for what the API answers, "Reproduce any portion of the Services in any form or by any means, except as expressly permitted in this Agreement or otherwise in writing by our authorized agent", "If there is a conflict between this Agreement and an Order Form or Enterprise Data Provider Agreement, the applicable Order Form or Enterprise Data Provider Agreement shall govern", data supplied by a third-party provider through the Services is under that provider's own terms
Use data"The following are prohibited activities under this Agreement: [...] Use the Services for any commercial purposes except as expressly authorized by Firecrawl, [...] Modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Services in any manner [...], [...] Employing the Services in association with debt collection, Employing the Services for hard background check purposes, Employing the Services to determine eligibility for a government license, Employing the Services for any purpose prohibited by applicable data privacy and security laws, including the GDPR or CCPA, Using our Services to benefit any government agency operating as an intelligence agency whose purpose is to collect and analyze data on people, Any evidentiary purpose related to law enforcement or criminal prosecution, Using or reselling Services in connection with any purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act"
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for1,000 calls a month
Expiresend of the month
Rate limit
Per second0.17
Concurrent2
Speed
Median2.12 s
The call
You sendurl. Optional: formats, onlyMainContent, includeTags, excludeTags, maxAge, minAge, headers, waitFor, mobile, skipTlsVerification, timeout, parsers, actions, location, removeBase64Images, blockAds, proxy, storeInCache, zeroDataRetention, profile, lockdown, redactPII
MethodPOST
Path/v2/scrape
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian
The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

page markdown, page summary, page HTML, raw HTML, raw response body, screenshot, page links, page images, page attributes, action results, change tracking, branding, page title, description, language, keywords, alternate locales, source URL, URL, status code, content type, page count, total pages, scrape error, warning

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