Firecrawl alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of Firecrawl, shown against it.

Firecrawl ScrapingBee Diffbot Apify
Vendor Mendable AI, Inc. ScrapingBee SAS Diffbot Technologies Corporation Apify Technologies s.r.o.
Pricing model Free tier + paid plans Subscription Subscription Subscription
Free tier Yes No Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud Cloud Cloud
Open source Yes (AGPL-3.0) No No No
Best for Teams feeding web content into LLM, RAG or agent pipelines rather than building traditional scrapers. Developers who need a simple, drop-in fetch API rather than a full scraping platform. Teams that need structured data from many unfamiliar sites without maintaining per-site extraction rules. Teams that want to rent or run scrapers as managed cloud jobs without operating their own infrastructure.
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.

Free $0/month
Hobby $19/month ($16/month billed annually)
Standard $83/month billed annually
Growth $333/month billed annually

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

Monthly plans include an API-credit allowance; JavaScript rendering and premium proxies consume more credits per request. A free trial (no paid free tier) is offered.

Hobby $19/month
Freelance $49/month
Startup $99/month
Business $249/month

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

Monthly plans include a credit allowance consumed per successful API call, with per-credit overage pricing beyond the plan limit; higher tiers add crawl capacity and seats.

Free $0/month
Startup $299/month
Plus $899/month
Enterprise custom

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

Monthly plans include a platform-credit allowance that covers compute, proxy and storage usage; overage is billed on top.

Free $0/month
Starter $19/month ($17/month billed annually)
Scale $199/month ($179/month billed annually)
Business $999/month ($899/month billed annually)

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
  • Single API call for JavaScript-rendered page fetching
  • Automatic proxy rotation with premium/residential options
  • AI-based and CSS-selector data extraction
  • Screenshot capture endpoint
  • Geotargeting by country
  • Google search and Google Maps scraping endpoints
  • Concurrency-based rate limits per plan
  • Automatic page-type classification (article, product, discussion, event, image)
  • ML-based extraction with no per-site rules to maintain
  • Full-site Crawl product for bulk extraction
  • Knowledge Graph of entities built from web-scale crawling
  • Natural-language query interface over extracted/graph data
  • Visual and NLP models trained specifically for web content
  • REST API with per-credit billing
  • Marketplace of pre-built scraper "Actors" for common sites
  • SDK for building custom Actors (JavaScript/Python, open-source Crawlee core)
  • Built-in rotating proxy pool
  • Scheduling, webhooks and REST/GraphQL API
  • Managed storage for datasets, key-value stores and request queues
  • Headless browser and HTTP-based crawling support
  • Team and usage-based billing dashboard

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