AI extraction API

Firecrawl review

Turns any website into LLM-ready markdown or schema-based JSON through one API.

Visit FirecrawlPricing checked Oct 29, 2026
Starting price
$19/mo
Hobby: 5,000 credits/month, 5 concurrent requests ($16/mo billed yearly)
Free tier
1,000 credits/month, 2 concurrent requests, no credit card
Pricing model
credits

Best for

Developers building LLM/RAG apps or agents who want clean markdown or JSON from any URL with minimal setup.

What it does well

  • 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
  • { "Alexandria (Sept 2026)": "one search across official data providers, Firecrawl indexes and the live web for AI agents" }
  • Self-hostable open-source core (AGPL-3.0)

Limitations

  • 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
  • AGPL license can be restrictive for commercial embedding

Capabilities

AI extraction
Structured JSON
JS rendering
Proxies / anti-bot
API
No-code UI
Open source
MCP server

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