The context API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale
It handles JS rendering, content waiting, and extraction so developers don't have to run their own headless-browser scraping stack.
Published by the vendor themselves — not community forks.
Official Firecrawl MCP Server - adds web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude, and other LLM/MCP clients.
Official CLI and Agent Skill for Firecrawl - adds scrape, search, and browsing capabilities to AI agents.
Firecrawl plugin for Claude Code - web scraping and crawling.
| Plan | Price | Included | Notable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Plan | $0/month | 1,000 credits/month + 1,000 search credits | Scrape up to 1,000 pages, 2 concurrent requests, Low rate limits |
| Hobby | $16/month | 5,000 credits/month + 1,000 search credits (billed yearly, save $38) | Scrape up to 5,000 pages, 5 concurrent requests, Basic support |
| Standard | $83/month | 100,000 credits/month + 1,000 search credits (billed yearly, save $198) | Scrape up to 100,000 pages, 50 concurrent requests, Standard support |
| Growth | $333/month | 500,000 credits/month + 1,000 search credits (billed yearly, save $798) | Scrape up to 500,000 pages, 100 concurrent requests, Priority support |
| Scale | $599/month | 1,000,000 credits/month + 1,000 search credits (billed yearly, save $1,798) | Scrape up to 1,000,000 pages, 150 concurrent requests, Priority support |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Custom credits | Unlimited pages, Custom concurrency, Dedicated support & SLA |
Checked 2026-07-30 against their pricing page. Vendors change pricing without notice.
Firecrawl is a developer-focused API product (by the team behind Mendable) that packages web scraping, crawling, and browser automation into a single credit-metered API and official MCP server, aimed at teams building AI agents, RAG pipelines, lead-enrichment tools, and research assistants that need live web data without maintaining their own scraping infrastructure. The vendor claims 1.25M+ developers and 150,000+ companies use it, naming Apple, Canva, Shopify, Zapier, and DoorDash as customers, and the core `firecrawl/firecrawl` GitHub repo has 158K+ stars.
Developers and AI teams building agents, RAG pipelines, lead enrichment, competitive intelligence, content generation, price monitoring, or chatbots that need reliable, LLM-ready web data via API or MCP - from solo builders on the free tier up to enterprises needing zero-data-retention and SSO.
Teams without engineering resources to call an API or wire up an MCP client should note that the official material checked on 2026-08-05 emphasized a data-extraction API and open-source app examples rather than a point-and-click GTM application. High-volume scraping teams should also model per-credit cost because credits are consumed by page, search, or browser minute and do not roll over on the retained self-serve plans.
Infrastructure for fetching web pages at scale — proxies, headless browsers, and crawl-to-markdown services that agents can call directly.
Category: Scraping and browser infrastructure. Membership is decided by 3 stated tests, not by category tags — see them and the full comparison.
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Yes - the Free Plan gives 1,000 credits/month plus 1,000 search credits with no card required, and basic use is even possible without an API key at reduced rate limits.
The API reference exists as rendered docs, not as a spec we could confirm.
Credit-based, metered per feature (1 credit/page for scrape, crawl, and map; 2 credits/10 search results; 2 credits/browser-minute for Interact). Self-serve plans run from a free 1,000-credit tier up to $599/month for 1,000,000 credits, billed yearly with a monthly-equivalent price; Enterprise is custom.
The vendor claims 1.25M+ developers and 150,000+ companies, naming Apple, Canva, Shopify, Zapier, and DoorDash as customers.
The core engine (firecrawl/firecrawl) is open source on GitHub with 158K+ stars, alongside dozens of official example apps, SDKs, and integrations (n8n node, MCP server, CLI, browser plugins) published under the same GitHub org.
A live browser-session tool that lets an AI agent click, fill forms, and navigate a page via natural-language prompts to reach content that plain scraping can't, billed per browser-minute.
The Enterprise plan lists zero-data retention, SSO & advanced security, dedicated support, and an SLA on the pricing page.
A first call can happen in minutes - no API key is required to start, and the SDKs are a single install command away - though using the full surface (crawl, extract, interact, agent) well takes more reading.
This page tells you whether Firecrawl fits. Cheetah builds and runs the system it goes into — enrichment, sequencing, CRM and the joins between them.
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