Web scraping & data extraction · Mendable AI, Inc.

Firecrawl

Hosted fetch API that turns any URL or site crawl into clean Markdown/JSON, built for feeding LLM and RAG pipelines.

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Firecrawl is a simple fetch API in the same spirit as ScrapingBee, but aimed specifically at AI use cases: point it at a URL and it returns clean Markdown, structured JSON or an LLM-ready format instead of raw HTML, handling JavaScript rendering, proxies and basic anti-bot handling behind the scenes. Beyond single-page fetches it offers a crawl mode that follows internal links across a site and a map/extract mode that pulls structured fields using a schema or natural-language instruction. It is billed in credits consumed per page, with JavaScript-heavy pages costing more. It runs as a hosted cloud API with an open-source self-hosting option for the core engine, making it a middle ground between a plain fetch API and a full crawler platform.

At a glance

Vendor Mendable AI, Inc.
Pricing model Free tier + paid plans
Free tier Yes
Deployment Cloud, Self-hosted
Open source Yes (AGPL-3.0)
Best for Teams feeding web content into LLM, RAG or agent pipelines rather than building traditional scrapers.

Pricing

Monthly plans include a credit allowance consumed per page scraped; higher tiers add crawling depth and priority support; pay-as-you-go credit top-ups available.

Plan Price Notes
Free $0/month 1,000 credits/month, no card required
Hobby $19/month ($16/month billed annually) 5,000 credits/month
Standard $83/month billed annually 100,000 credits/month
Growth $333/month billed annually 500,000 credits/month

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features

  • URL-to-Markdown/JSON scraping API
  • Site crawl mode that follows internal links
  • Schema- or prompt-based structured extraction
  • JavaScript rendering for dynamic pages
  • Map endpoint for fast URL discovery across a domain
  • Open-source self-hosted engine available
  • SDKs for Python, Node.js and LangChain/LlamaIndex integration

Integrations

Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

Alternatives

ScrapingBee Simple fetch API that renders JavaScript and rotates proxies, returning page HTML or extracted data for a credit per request. Diffbot Extraction API that uses machine-learning models to return structured data (articles, products, discussions) from any page without site-specific rules. Apify Hosted crawler platform where scrapers run as cloud 'Actors', with a marketplace of pre-built ones and a proxy add-on.

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