Browse AI vs Firecrawl
Browse AI is a No-code, while Firecrawl is an AI extraction API. Browse AI fits best for: Non-technical users who want to monitor or extract data from a handful of sites without writing code. Firecrawl fits best for: Developers building LLM/RAG apps or agents who want clean markdown or JSON from any URL with minimal setup.
| Browse AI | Firecrawl | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | No-code | AI extraction API |
| Starting price | $19/mo | $19/mo |
| Free tier | 50 credits/month, 2 websites, 3 users, unlimited robots | 1,000 credits/month, 2 concurrent requests, no credit card |
| Pricing model | credits | credits |
| AI extraction | ||
| Structured JSON | ||
| JS rendering | ||
| Proxies / anti-bot | ||
| API | ||
| No-code UI | ||
| Open source | ||
| MCP server | ||
| Best for | Non-technical users who want to monitor or extract data from a handful of sites without writing code. | Developers building LLM/RAG apps or agents who want clean markdown or JSON from any URL with minimal setup. |
| Visit Browse AI | Visit Firecrawl |
Why choose Browse AI
- Point-and-click robot training, no code
- Scheduled monitoring with change alerts
- Prebuilt robots for popular sites
- Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier and Make integrations
Watch out for
- Credits run out fast on the free and Personal plans
- Large price gap between annual and monthly billing
- Not designed for LLM/schema extraction or high-volume crawling
Why choose Firecrawl
- Scrape, crawl, map and search endpoints
- Clean markdown output for LLMs
- LLM-based JSON extraction with a schema or prompt
- Agent endpoint (preview) and browser interact sessions
Watch out for
- JSON extraction costs 5x a plain scrape (1 + 4 credits)
- No pay-as-you-go on the free plan
- Self-hosted version lacks some cloud-only features
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