Firecrawl Scraping API Review
By ProxyGlance Editorial Team · Last reviewed
Our verdict
Developer-focused scraping API that turns pages and whole sites into clean Markdown or JSON for LLM use, with crawl, map, search and browser endpoints.
Best for: Developers building AI agents or RAG pipelines who need clean Markdown or JSON from web pages without running their own scraping stack.
From
$3.80
per 1k pages
Pros
- Free plan with 1,000 credits a month, no card required
- Open-source core (AGPL-3.0) that can be self-hosted
- One credit pool covers scrape, crawl, map and search
Cons
- JSON and other AI formats cost 5 credits per page instead of 1
- Credits on Hobby, Standard and Growth do not roll over; no refunds
- Low entry-tier limits (Hobby: 5 concurrent browsers)
About Firecrawl
Firecrawl is a web data API that turns websites into LLM-ready Markdown or structured JSON through scrape, crawl, map, search and browser-session endpoints. Its core is open source (AGPL-3.0) and can be self-hosted; it uses proxies internally but does not sell them.
Full review in progress
Our hands-on test of Firecrawl scraping API is still running. Until it's published, this page lists the facts from Firecrawl's official pages. See how we test.
Specs
- Starting price
- $3.80 per 1k pages
- Free trial
- Free plan (1,000 credits per month, no card)
- API types
- General web, SERP, Browser
- JavaScript rendering
- Yes
- Parsed JSON output
- Yes
- Pay only for success
- No
Score breakdown
Not scored yet. We publish a score only after hands-on testing. The facts on this page come from Firecrawl's official pages, last checked .
When we score it, these criteria and weights apply:
- Performance · 30%
- Target Coverage · 15%
- Pricing & Value · 20%
- Features · 15%
- Ease of Use · 10%
- Support · 5%
- Trust & Compliance · 5%
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