# FireScraper, free: Web scraping API

> Turn any website into clean, structured text ready for retrieval, indexing, and evaluation pipelines.

FireScraper's Free plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. FireScraper's docs list 2: Markdown, Text.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), the best plan from FireScraper scores 35.0 out of 100. FireScraper ranks 199th of 214 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 3,359 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 pages. [765 web scraping API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) [HirePulse's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/hirepulse/free-daily-calls/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 77.1 out of 100.
[LinkPreview's $25 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/25-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price. [Gapup's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gapup/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 pages a month: $1.00.
[Scrape.land's $19 monthly plan (/v1/batch)](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrape-land/19-monthly-pool-post-v1-batch/llms.txt) covers any number of pages, and costs less up front than LinkPreview's $25 monthly plan.
[Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt), [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) and [APIFreaks](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/50-monthly-monthly-600000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firescraper/free
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://firescraper.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://firescraper.com/api/v1/scrape`
- API key: with the plan, on https://firescraper.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://firescraper.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: FireScraper (https://firescraper.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 29%
- Markdown: ✓
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Turn any website into clean, structured text ready for retrieval, indexing, and evaluation pipelines.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: 6 months
- Use data: "You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the service in accordance with these terms. You are responsible for how you use scraped outputs, the sites you target, and your compliance with applicable laws, contracts, and website restrictions."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 1,000 results

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5 (30 a minute)

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook
- Median: 8.33 s

## The call

- You send: name, urls. Optional: ignoreUrls, maxDepth, minTextLength, scraper, uniqueTextDownloads, respectRobotsTxt, contentSelector, webhookUrl, extractionSchema
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

request status, URL, page title, page text, page markdown, word count, page status, extracted data, page chunks

## FireScraper's plans (4)

- [FireScraper, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firescraper/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [FireScraper, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firescraper/20-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [FireScraper, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firescraper/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [FireScraper, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firescraper/100-pack/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 29% complete, live

## FireScraper's calls (1)

- `POST /api/v1/scrape`: [FireScraper, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firescraper/free/llms.txt)

## FireScraper's APIs (1)

- [FireScraper Web scraping API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firescraper/free/llms.txt)

## FireScraper: web scraping API alternatives

[FireScraper alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked](https://datacircle.dev/firescraper-alternatives.txt)

We list FireScraper's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to FireScraper in price per 1,000 pages. Each plan in the list gives live data.

- [FireScraper, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firescraper/100-pack/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [APIFreaks, $100 pack, One-Off 600,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/100-pack-one-off-600000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [SpecStream, $228 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/specstream/228-yearly/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [AnyCrawler, $5 monthly, Agent Lite, POST /v1/crawl/page, Fetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/5-monthly-agent-lite-post-v1-crawl-page-fetch/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Irmu, $200 monthly, Pro, GET /crawl, Premium fetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/irmu/200-monthly-pro-get-crawl-premium-fetch/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 14% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-11.

- https://firescraper.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://firescraper.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://firescraper.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://firescraper.com/privacypolicy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://firescraper.com/termsofuse?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing