What is Firecrawl?
Search, scrape and interact with the web through one API.
Who is Firecrawl best for?
Firecrawl is best for developers building AI agents and RAG pipelines that need live web pages as clean markdown.
AI agents that need the live web
An official MCP server, a CLI and agent skills let Cursor, Claude Code and similar tools search and scrape pages directly.
RAG and knowledge bases
It returns pages as clean markdown without navigation or ads, or as JSON that matches a schema you pass in.
Pages behind clicks and forms
Interact clicks buttons, fills forms and steps through multi-page flows before it pulls the data out.
Teams that want to self-host
The core is open source on GitHub, while the hosted API adds Firecrawl's own proxy and rendering layer, interact and a usage dashboard.
How much does Firecrawl cost?
Firecrawl is free for 1,000 credits a month, and its paid plans cost $19 (Hobby), $99 (Standard) or $399 (Growth) a month, or from $16 a month billed yearly.
- 1,000 credits a month, about 1,000 pages scraped
- 2 concurrent requests
- No credit card needed
- 5,000 credits a month (2,500 searches or 5,000 pages)
- 5 concurrent requests, basic support
- Extra credits at 1,000 per $5
- 100,000 credits a month (50,000 searches or 100,000 pages)
- 25 concurrent requests, standard support
- Extra credits at 2,000 per $5
- 500,000 credits a month (250,000 searches or 500,000 pages)
- 50 concurrent requests, priority and Slack support
- Extra credits at 2,500 per $5
Scale costs $749 a month for 1,000,000 credits and 100 concurrent requests, with unused credits carried over for one month; Enterprise is priced on request. Billed yearly, Hobby is $16, Standard $83, Growth $333 and Scale $599 a month ($190, $990, $3,990 and $7,190 a year). A basic scrape or crawl costs 1 credit a page, a search 2 credits per 10 results, and JSON output adds 4 credits a page. On paid plans, pay-as-you-go adds credits in $5 steps up to a monthly limit you set. Prices are in USD. Full pricing on firecrawl.dev. We checked these prices on .
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Is Firecrawl open source?
Yes. Firecrawl's code is public under the AGPL 3.0 or later licence, so you can run it on your own server.
On GitHub
201,291stars
- Last commit
- 12 Nov
- Repository age
- 2 years
- Latest release
- 19 Jun
- Licence
- AGPL 3.0 or later
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Repository
- firecrawl/firecrawl
How do I connect Firecrawl to my AI agent?
Firecrawl MCP is Firecrawl's official MCP server. Add it to your agent once, then ask it to search the web and pull clean page content with Firecrawl.
Gives your agent Firecrawl's live web search, scraping and crawling, so it can read pages as clean text, compare sources and gather data from whole sites.
$ claude mcp add --transport http firecrawl https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp
Claude Code connects to Firecrawl over the web.
Make an API key in your Firecrawl account and add it where the guide says.
Then ask your agent
- Runs
- On the web
- Sign-in
- API key
- Checked
- Answered 13 Nov
- Guide
- github.com
What are the best Firecrawl alternatives?
Firecrawl is an open source alternative to AgentQL, Apify, Context.dev and 3 more.
AgentQLFreeQuery web pages by meaning to scrape data and drive browsers.
ApifyFreeBuild, run, and share web scrapers and automation tools in the cloud.
Context.devFreeClean web data for agents through one API.
Crawl endpointFreeCloudflare API that crawls a whole website and returns Markdown, HTML or JSON for AI pipelines.
HyperbrowserFreemiumHosted Chrome sessions, code sandboxes and web data APIs that AI agents and scrapers call on demand.
ScrapingBeeFreemiumSend a URL, get the page back: rotating IPs, headless Chrome and anti-bot handling done for you.
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Questions about Firecrawl
What is Firecrawl?
Search, scrape and interact with the web through one API.
Who is Firecrawl for?
Firecrawl is best for developers building AI agents and RAG pipelines that need live web pages as clean markdown.
Is Firecrawl free?
Yes. Firecrawl's Free plan gives 1,000 credits every month, about 1,000 scraped pages, with no credit card and no end date. Paid plans start at $19 a month for 5,000 credits, and pay-as-you-go top-ups need a paid plan.
How much does Firecrawl cost?
Firecrawl's paid plans are Hobby at $19 per month, Standard at $99 per month and Growth at $399 per month.
Is Firecrawl open source?
Yes. Firecrawl's code is public under the AGPL 3.0 or later licence, so you can run it on your own server.
Does Firecrawl have an MCP server?
Yes. Firecrawl MCP is Firecrawl's official MCP server, so agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot can search the web and pull clean page content with Firecrawl. Firecrawl runs it on the web and it signs in with an API key from your Firecrawl account.
What are the best Firecrawl alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are AgentQL, Apify, Context.dev, Crawl endpoint, Hyperbrowser and ScrapingBee.
Where can I try Firecrawl?
On its official website, firecrawl.dev.
Do Firecrawl credits roll over?
Only on the largest plans. Firecrawl's Scale plan carries unused credits into the next month and Enterprise gets a custom amount, while Free, Hobby, Standard and Growth credits reset monthly. Credits you buy separately stay until used, unless you cancel.
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