Firecrawl review

Firecrawl is built for AI workloads first. You send a URL or a search query and get back clean Markdown, structured JSON or a screenshot, with navigation, footers and ads stripped out; Firecrawl says this cuts input tokens by 93% on its own example. Beyond single pages, the Map and Crawl endpoints cover whole sites, Actions let you click, type and scroll first, and the parser handles PDFs and DOCX files. It connects to agents through an MCP server, a CLI and installable skills, and the code is open source. Pricing is simple: 1,000 free credits a month, then Hobby at $19 a month or $16 billed annually for 5,000 credits, and Standard at $83 a month billed annually for 100,000 credits. The limits show on the low tiers, where Hobby allows 5 concurrent requests, and teams that want prebuilt scrapers for specific sites or a no-code editor should look at Apify or Browse AI instead.

Who it is for

Developers feeding live web content into LLM apps, agents and RAG pipelines.

Price

Free plan with 1,000 credits a month; Hobby from $16 per month billed annually.

Hobby: $19/month billed monthly, or $16/month billed annually, for 5,000 credits per month
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 7, 2026.

Key features

• Search, Scrape, Map and Crawl endpoints on one credit balance
• Output as Markdown, JSON or screenshots
• Actions to click, scroll, type and wait before scraping
• Parses PDFs and DOCX files as well as HTML
• Open-source code on GitHub

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Very short path from API key to clean Markdown
• Strength: Free monthly credits with no card
• Strength: One balance covers both searches and page scrapes
• Weakness: Hobby allows only 5 concurrent requests
• Weakness: Credit costs differ by feature, so estimate before large crawls
• Weakness: No visual builder for non-developers

Key facts

• Hobby plan: 5,000 credits, 5 concurrent requests
• Standard plan: $83 per month billed annually, 100,000 credits
• Vendor benchmark: 96% coverage on a 1,000-URL dataset (Jan 13, 2026)
• GitHub stars: 199.3K

Where it ranks

Firecrawl is No. 2 in our Best Web Scraping Tools verdict.