# Firecrawl, free: Web scraping API

> Scrape turns any URL into clean Markdown or structured data for AI agents, including JS-heavy pages and dynamic apps.

Firecrawl's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 6 of the 7 key fields we check: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Summary, Links, Images.
We rank 950 plans by price. [PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 pages: as little as $0.022. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan covers up to 15,000 pages a day.
[Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/40-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more to start than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.
[WebScraping.AI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/29-monthly-personal-get-html-get-page-html-datacenter-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt), [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/475-monthly-scaling-get-sync-api/llms.txt) and [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/free
- [Best web scraping API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/endpoint/scrape
- Sold by: Firecrawl (https://www.firecrawl.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 86%
- Screenshot: ✓
- Markdown: ✓
- HTML: ✓
- Summary: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Images: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Crawl · Map · Interact · Monitor · Agent · Search with Content Scraping · Search the Developer Index · Search

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Scrape turns any URL into clean Markdown or structured data for AI agents, including JS-heavy pages and dynamic apps.

## Data

- Freshness: 2 days
- Keep data: no 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 get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month
- Expires: end of the month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 2.12 s

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: formats, onlyMainContent, includeTags, excludeTags, maxAge, minAge, headers, waitFor, mobile, skipTlsVerification, timeout, parsers, actions, location, removeBase64Images, blockAds, proxy, storeInCache, zeroDataRetention, profile, lockdown, redactPII
- Method: POST
- Path: /v2/scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Firecrawl's plans (14)

- [Firecrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Hobby](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-hobby/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Standard](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-standard/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Growth](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-growth/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Scale](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-scale/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/19-monthly/llms.txt): $3.80 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.99 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/399-monthly/llms.txt): $0.798 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $749 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/749-monthly/llms.txt): $0.749 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $190 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/190-yearly/llms.txt): $3.167 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.825 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $3,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/3990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.665 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $7,190 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/7190-yearly/llms.txt): $0.599 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/contact-us/llms.txt): 86% complete, 2 days

## Firecrawl's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v2/scrape`: [Firecrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/free/llms.txt)

## Firecrawl's APIs (2)

- [Firecrawl: web scraping API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [Firecrawl: web search API pricing, 14 plans, POST /v2/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [Firecrawl: web search API pricing, 14 plans, GET /v2/search/developer](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free-get-v2-search-developer/llms.txt)
- [Firecrawl: web search API pricing, 14 plans, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free-free-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt)
- [Firecrawl: web search API pricing, 14 plans, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt)

## Firecrawl: web scraping API alternatives

- [Spider Cloud, free, No API key](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/free-no-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, 2 days
- [fastCRW, $299 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fastcrw/299-pack/llms.txt): $0.598 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Ujeebu, $10,789.20 yearly, Business, POST /markdown, Markdown Generation, advanced proxy, with JS](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ujeebu/10789-20-yearly-business-post-markdown-markdown-generation-advanced-proxy-with-js/llms.txt): $0.599 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Decodo, $99 monthly, $99, POST /v1/scrape, 165,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/decodo/99-monthly-99-post-v1-scrape-165000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Anakin, $300 monthly, Advanced (social data), POST /v1/url-scraper/scrape, Scrape URL (Inline)](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anakin/300-monthly-advanced-social-data-post-v1-url-scraper-scrape-scrape-url-inline/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 29% complete, 24 hours

## 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.

- https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/endpoint/scrape
- https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/scrape
- https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/search
- https://docs.firecrawl.dev/rate-limits
- https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing
- https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing.md
- https://www.firecrawl.dev/terms-of-service