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Firecrawl pricing and alternatives: web search API

Firecrawl's sitellms.txt
17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 27 plans we rank by price is Firecrawl, $399 monthly, at $1.596 per 1,000 searches.
Plan: Free one of Firecrawl's 14 plans
Call: POST /v2/search Firecrawl's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of Firecrawl's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Date.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 500 calls. Unused credits expire at the end of the month.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v2/search. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Firecrawl: web search API alternatives

The table starts with Firecrawl's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Firecrawl's.

Firecrawl, $7,190 yearlyLinkup, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search, standardTavily, $500 monthly, Growth, POST /search, Search, basic
$ per 1,000 searches$1.198$5.00$5.00
Completeness17%17%17%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthly
Pay$7,190any amount$500
Enough for500,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for100,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownlive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardiananyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter the Terms, or authorized to bind the company

Web search 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 2026-10-27.

  1. docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/endpoint/search
  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.

  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Scrape · Crawl · Map · Interact · Monitor · Agent · Search with Content Scraping
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchUsed to perform web searches and optionally retrieve content from the results.
Data
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 for500 calls a month
Expiresend of the month
Rate limit
Per second0.17
Concurrent2
The call
You sendquery. Optional: limit, sources, domainTools, toolDetail, categories, includeDomains, excludeDomains, tbs, location, country, safe, timeout, ignoreInvalidURLs, highlights, enterprise, threatProtection, scrapeOptions
MethodPOST
Path/v2/search
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 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, credits used, warning, position, page title, URL, description, category, snippet, published date, image URL, image width, image height

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