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Firecrawl vs Oxylabs

Firecrawl is an AI extraction API, while Oxylabs is a Proxy & data infrastructure. Firecrawl fits best for: Developers building LLM/RAG apps or agents who want clean markdown or JSON from any URL with minimal setup. Oxylabs fits best for: Businesses needing reliable proxies and a managed scraping API for search and e-commerce data at scale.

FirecrawlOxylabs
TypeAI extraction APIProxy & data infrastructure
Starting price$19/mo$30/mo
Free tier1,000 credits/month, 2 concurrent requests, no credit card$5 'Welcome credits' usable on any product
Pricing modelcreditsper 1K results (Scraper API) and per GB (proxies)
AI extraction
Structured JSON
JS rendering
Proxies / anti-bot
API
No-code UI
Open source
MCP server
Best forDevelopers building LLM/RAG apps or agents who want clean markdown or JSON from any URL with minimal setup.Businesses needing reliable proxies and a managed scraping API for search and e-commerce data at scale.
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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

Why choose Oxylabs

  • Large residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter proxy pools
  • Web Scraper API with JS rendering and geotargeting
  • OxyCopilot / AI-assisted parsing
  • Dedicated Google, Amazon and e-commerce scrapers

Watch out for

  • Enterprise focus; pricing gets complex across products
  • Smallest proxy tiers are relatively expensive per GB
  • AI features priced separately and not clearly listed
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