Firecrawl

Firecrawl

Search & Research
Firecrawl
FreemiumOpen SourceAPI

About

The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. Turn web content into clean Markdown or structured data for AI agents.

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Our Verdict

Highly Recommended

The leading web context API for AI agents

161K+ stars, huge community, and a hosted service that just works. If your AI agent needs to search and scrape the web, Firecrawl is the gold standard.

Best for

  • AI agents that need web search and content extraction

Consider alternatives if

  • You only need a simple web search API

Supported Platforms

Web AppAPI

Available platforms include Web App and API.

Key Features

Web search and scraping API
Clean Markdown output
Structured data extraction
Scale to millions of pages
Open source (AGPL-3.0)
161K+ GitHub stars

Pricing

free
Free tier (500 pages/month)
paid
Paid plans starting at 9/month

Use Cases

Web search for AI agents
Content extraction and cleaning
Scale web data collection

Pros

161K+ stars, massive community
Clean Markdown output for AI agents
Self-hostable open source
Generous free tier
Active development with 6K+ commits

Cons

API pricing can be expensive at scale
Self-hosting requires infrastructure
AGPL license may not suit all projects

Latest Update

2026-08-04

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