Firecrawl review60 of 100, fair
Pages for language models: 1,000 free credits a month, Hobby at $16 for 5,000 pages, Standard at $83 for 100,000, priced per month and billed annually.
Reviewed 2026-09-18 by Phillip Paul Inker. Facts re-read 2026-09-18. 2 sources. www.firecrawl.dev. Brand searches: 135,000 a month worldwide (Google, read 2026-09-18).
The unit is a page turned into clean text, one credit each, with search at two credits per ten results and browser time at two a minute. Cheap plans are small: 5,000 pages for $16 is the dearest entry price per 1,000 in this database, and the printed prices assume annual billing.
Best for: Builders feeding pages to a model who want scrape, crawl and search from one credit pool and SDKs for it.
Hobby is $16 a month billed yearly for 5,000 credits, $3.20 per 1,000 pages; Standard $83 for 100,000, $0.83; Growth $333 for 500,000, $0.67; Scale $599 for 1,000,000, $0.60. Extra credits are $5 per 1,000 on Hobby and $5 per 5,000 on Scale.
Scrape, crawl, search and browser sessions from one credit balance, with the page counting searches and pages scraped per plan; an index built for coding agents is announced on the page.
Concurrency printed per plan, 2 free to 100 on Scale, and rate limits described as low on the free tier; no success rate or latency figure.
The documentation hub names SDKs for Python and Node, with Ruby, PHP and Java mentioned, a CLI, an MCP server, webhooks, LangChain and LlamaIndex.
Credits, concurrency, extra-credit prices and the credit cost of each operation are public; the prices shown are annual, and monthly prices were not on the page read.
1,000 free credits a month with no card; the plan prices are per month billed annually, and refund terms were not on the pages read.
Every scraper in the database on one axis, rank 11 of 14. The zones are the grades.
Google Ads Keyword Planner, worldwide searches for “firecrawl”, read 2026-09-18. Demand, not quality: the rubric ignores it.
- 1,000 free credits every month, no card
- One credit per page, no rendering multiplier
- Scrape, crawl, search and browser from one balance
- SDKs, CLI, MCP and framework integrations documented
- $3.20 per 1,000 pages on the entry plan
- Printed prices are annual; monthly prices were not on the page read
- No success rate or latency published
- Refund terms not on the pages read
- Plans
- Free $0 (1,000 credits, 2 concurrent), Hobby $16 (5,000, 5), Standard $83 (100,000, 25), Growth $333 (500,000, 50), Scale $599 (1,000,000, 100), Enterprise custom [1]
- Billing
- Prices shown are per month, billed annually; savings printed per plan, $38 to $1,798 a year [1]
- Credit costs
- 1 per page scraped, 2 per 10 search results, 2 per browser minute [1]
- Extra credits
- 1,000 per $5 on Hobby, 2,000 on Standard, 2,500 on Growth, 5,000 on Scale [1]
- Support
- Basic on Hobby, standard on Standard, priority from Growth [1]
- Integration
- Python and Node SDKs, CLI, MCP server, webhooks, LangChain, LlamaIndex, per the documentation [2]
| Challenge | Price | Unit | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 requests, entry plan | $3.20 | per 1,000 pages, Hobby at $16 a month billed yearly for 5,000 credits | 5 concurrent requests; 1,000 extra credits per $5 | [1] |
| 1,000 requests, mid plan | $0.83 | per 1,000 pages, Standard at $83 a month billed yearly for 100,000 credits | 25 concurrent requests; 2,000 extra credits per $5 | [1] |
| JavaScript rendering | 1 credit | per page scraped | Rendering is not a separate charge; search costs 2 credits per 10 results and a browser 2 credits a minute | [1] |
| Free tier | $0 | 1,000 credits a month, 2 concurrent requests, no card | 500 searches or 1,000 pages | [1] |
What the pricing page says
Free is 1,000 credits a month with no card, 500 searches or 1,000 pages, 2 concurrent requests and low rate limits. Hobby is $16 a month for 5,000 credits and 5 concurrent requests, Standard $83 for 100,000 and 25, Growth $333 for 500,000 and 50, Scale $599 for 1,000,000 and 100, then Enterprise. The page states that prices shown are per month, billed annually, and prints the yearly saving on each card. Extra credits are sold in $5 packs that grow with the plan: 1,000 credits on Hobby, 5,000 on Scale.
What a credit buys
One credit per page scraped, two per ten search results, two per browser minute. There is no rendering multiplier because the product's unit is the rendered, cleaned page; the plan card counts the same balance as searches or pages, 50,000 searches or 100,000 pages on Standard.
Integration and terms
The documentation hub names Python and Node SDKs, with Ruby, PHP and Java mentioned, a CLI, an MCP server, webhooks, LangChain and LlamaIndex. Terms: no card for the free tier, annual billing on the printed prices. A refund policy was not on the pages read.
Questions people ask
How much is a page?
One credit; on Hobby that is $3.20 per 1,000 pages and on Standard $0.83, at the annual prices printed on the read date.
Is the free tier monthly?
Yes, 1,000 credits a month with 2 concurrent requests and no card, per the pricing page.
Are the prices monthly or annual?
The page states that prices shown are per month, billed annually; monthly billing was not on the page read.
- Monthly-billing prices were not on the page read; the figures are the annual per-month prices.
- Refund terms were not on the pages read.
- The per-1,000 figures are the plan price divided by its credits, our arithmetic on the vendor's numbers.
- [1]Firecrawl pricing Firecrawl, read 2026-09-18.
“Free Plan 1,000 credits / month $0 /month 500 searches or 1,000 pages scraped 2 concurrent requests. Hobby 5,000 credits / month $16 /month Billed yearly 5 concurrent requests 1,000 extra credits per $5. Standard 100,000 credits / month $83 /month 25 concurrent requests. Growth 500,000 credits / month $333 /month 50 concurrent requests. Scale 1,000,000 credits / month $599 /month 100 concurrent requests. Prices shown are per month, billed annually. 1 / page. 2 / 10 results. 2 / browser minute.”
- [2]Firecrawl documentation Firecrawl, read 2026-09-18.
“SDKs, Python, Node, CLI, MCP, webhook, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Ruby, PHP, Java named on the documentation hub.”
Badge for Firecrawl’s own site
Certificate SC-7AF452, valid until 2027-09-18. Every badge links to it, so a reader can check the score is genuine. Eight looks on the badges page.
Shows Firecrawl’s current score, 60 of 100, fair. Dark card, for most pages. It links to certificate SC-7AF452, valid until 2027-09-18, and changes by itself when the review does.
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