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Firecrawl pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping

Firecrawl's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 379 plans by price. Octen's top-up from $5 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.10.Context.dev, Desearch and ContextFetch are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Firecrawl's 14 plans
Call: POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping one of Firecrawl's 4 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of Firecrawl's 2 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 2 days old. You get pages from Firecrawl's index.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text, Links.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for about 83 calls. Unused credits expire at the end of the month.
  • One call. You send query and scrapeOptions.formats 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. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a week old.

Firecrawl, $7,190 yearly, Scale, POST /v2/search, Search with Content ScrapingSearch1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search, fullScrapeGraphAI, $100 monthlyTako, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/v3/search, Search, fastTavily, $30 monthly, Project, POST /search, Search, basic
$ per 1,000 searches$7.19$6.00$6.00$7.00$7.50
Completeness50%33%17%33%50%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$7,190$5$100any amount$30
Enough forabout 83,333 calls a monthas many as you pay forabout 16,666 calls a monthas many as you pay for4,000 calls a month
Freshness2 dayslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardiananyoneanyone who can form a binding contract and whose use is lawful where they and their users operate (its terms: "You may use ScrapeGraphAI only if you can form a binding contract and if your use is lawful in the places where you and your users operate.")anyone who signs upanyone 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

Every web search API provider we score, ranked

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
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
AggregatorsDeepline: your key free for 50,000 calls a month, then $5.00 per 1,000, paid, no fixed price
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Scrape · Crawl · Map · Interact · Monitor · Agent · Search · Search the Developer Index
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch and retrieve content from the search results in one operation.
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 forabout 83 calls a month
Expiresend of the month
Rate limit
Per second0.17
Concurrent2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median20.94 s
The call
You sendquery, scrapeOptions.formats. Optional: limit, sources, domainTools, toolDetail, categories, includeDomains, excludeDomains, tbs, location, country, safe, timeout, ignoreInvalidURLs, highlights, enterprise, threatProtection
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 25 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, page markdown, page HTML, raw HTML, page links, screenshot, audio, video, source URL, status code, page count, total pages, scrape error

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