- Firecrawl Research Index — Added a specialized index for agentic AI/ML research: search across 3M+ arXiv papers and the GitHub code behind them (issues, merged PRs, and READMEs, refreshed daily),…
- Keyless access for core endpoints — Use /scrape, /search, /interact, and /parse without an API key from official MCP, CLI, and SDK clients.
- Automatic PII redaction — Added a redactPII option that strips personal and sensitive data like names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, and secrets out of scraped content before it's returned.
- deterministicJson format — Added a format that returns structured JSON without running an LLM on every request. Firecrawl generates a reusable extractor for your schema and caches it per site, so…
- Video discovery on any page — Expanded the video format to find videos on any page, not just supported providers like YouTube, returning each video's URL, title, thumbnail, duration, and more.
- Attach your own browser automation — Added a CDP WebSocket URL (cdpUrl) to browser session responses, so you can drive a live Firecrawl browser session directly with Playwright, Puppeteer, or any…
Firecrawl by Firecrawl
Turns websites into clean Markdown or structured data for AI agents: scrape, crawl, map and search the web through one API.
Agent tooling for cost, context and memory
New · Added to AgentGid on Oct 8, 2026Web data API for agentsOpen source · AGPL-3.0Free to start
Price
Free + $16/mo
free tier available
Popularity
Top 3 in Agent tooling
Gid Score 63 / 100 · #14 of 283 overall
Trend
Slowing down
usage down 5.6% over 30 days
Development
Quiet lately
latest 2.11.0, 3mo ago
Community
190K GitHub stars
2.7M package downloads a week
What Firecrawl does
Key facts
| Maker | Firecrawl |
|---|---|
| Type | Web data API for agents |
| License | AGPL-3.0 |
| Interfaces | REST API, Python SDK, TypeScript SDK, MCP server |
| Main language | TypeScript |
| Open issues and PRs | 534 |
Pricing
Free plan with 1,000 credits a month. Hobby is $16 a month (5,000 credits) and Standard $83 a month (100,000 credits), billed yearly. Self-hosting the open-source version is free.
Source: official pricing page, checked Oct 9, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Quick answers
- Free to start?Yes
- Open source?Yes (AGPL-3.0)
- Where you use itREST API, Python SDK, TypeScript SDK, MCP server
- Closest alternativeLiteLLM · all alternatives
Get started with Firecrawl
| npm | npm install -g @mendable/firecrawl-js |
|---|---|
| PyPI | pip install firecrawl-py |
These commands use the packages tracked on this page. The vendor may recommend a different installer; see the official documentation.
Firecrawl works with
Firecrawl alternatives
Best Firecrawl alternatives compared · All agent tooling for cost, context and memory
| # | Agent | Gid Score | Downloads 7d | 7d | 30d | VS Code installs | Stars | Latest release | Price | ||
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| 8 |
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73 | 23.1M | up 1.8% | — | — | 60.4K+60/day | 1.104.2yesterday | Free (OSS) | ||
| 15 |
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63 | 8.7M | up 11.2% | down 1.9% | — | 35.5K+39/day | 4.55.0yesterday | Free (OSS) | ||
| 21 |
|
60 | 3.7M | up 2.6% | up 13.7% | — | 14.2K+24/day | 2.53.13d ago | Free + $150/mo | ||
| 34 |
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55 | 1.7M | up 8.4% | up 33.7% | — | 30.5K+16/day | 0.13.010d ago | Free + $29/mo | ||
| 35 |
|
55 | 351K | up 5.9% | down 6.5% | — | 85K+61/day | 0.9.416d ago | Free (OSS) | ||
| 63 |
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47 | 692K | up 4.8% | down 29.9% | — | 66.8K+63/day | 3.3.114d ago | Free (OSS) | ||
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Firecrawl news
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25 agents added to AgentGid
LiteLLM, Firecrawl, Langfuse, E2B, Composio, Crawl4AI, Mem0, Repomix, CodeGPT, Context7, Phoenix, Headroom and 13 more
What changed: recent Firecrawl releases
- /parse endpoint — Upload local files (PDF, DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF, XLSX, XLS, HTML) up to 50 MB and get back clean, LLM-ready Markdown, JSON, or a summary. Tables and reading order are preserved,…
- Lockdown Mode — Set lockdown: true on /scrape to serve results exclusively from Firecrawl's index with zero outbound requests and zero data retention by default. Gated outbound paths include HTTP…
- question format — Pass a natural-language prompt to /scrape and get a grounded, hallucination-free answer back in data.question. Runs on a managed model chain with automatic fallback,…
- highlights format — Returns the exact sentences, code blocks, and table rows on a page that match your query. Consecutive sentences re-join into paragraphs, code lines wrap in fenced blocks with…
- video format — Added video to scrape formats. Returns a signed downloadable video URL for supported sites (e.g. YouTube), with cookie forwarding for authenticated downloads and explicit Lockdown…
- /search domain filters — Added includeDomains and excludeDomains parameters to /search for scoping results to a specific set of sites.
- Browser Interaction via /interact endpoint — Scrape a page, then call /interact to take actions on it — click buttons, fill forms, navigate deeper, or extract dynamic content. Describe what you…
- query format — Added query format to the /scrape endpoint — pass a natural-language prompt and get a direct answer back in data.answer.
- audio format — Added audio format option to scrape responses, returning audio output as a field on the document.
- onlyCleanContent parameter — Added onlyCleanContent parameter to the /scrape endpoint, which strips navigation, ads, cookie banners, and other non-semantic content from markdown output.
- PDF parsing modes — Added PDF parsing modes (fast, auto, ocr) and a maxPages option to control extraction depth and OCR behavior.
- Java and Elixir SDKs — Added official Java and Elixir SDKs with full v2 API support.
- Parallel Agents for running thousands of /agent queries simultaneously, powered by our new Spark 1 Fast model.
- Firecrawl CLI with full support for scrape, search, crawl, and map commands.
- Firecrawl Skill for enabling AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) to use Firecrawl autonomously.
- Three new models powering /agent: Spark 1 Fast for instant retrieval (currently only available in Playground), Spark 1 Mini for complex research queries, and Spark 1 Pro for advanced extraction tasks.
- Agent enhancements including webhooks, model selection, and new MCP Server tools.
- Platform-wide performance improvements including faster search execution and optimized Redis calls.
- ZDR Search support for enterprise customers.
- Improved Branding Format with better detection.
- Partner Integrations API now in closed beta.
- Faster and more accurate screenshots.
- Self-hosted improvements
- Improved Branding Extract
- Unified Billing Model - Credits and tokens merged into single system. Extract now uses credits (15 tokens = 1 credit), existing tokens work everywhere.
- Full Release of Branding Format - Full support across Playground, MCP, JS and Python SDKs.
- Change Tracking - Faster and more reliable detection of web page content updates.
- Reliability and Speed Improvements - All endpoints significantly faster with improved reliability.
- Instant Credit Purchases - Buy credit packs directly from dashboard without waiting for auto-recharge.
- Improved Markdown Parsing - Enhanced markdown conversion and main content extraction accuracy.
Firecrawl popularity and usage data
Firecrawl was downloaded 2.7M times from npm and PyPI in the week ending Oct 5, 2026, down 3.5% on the week before and down 5.6% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 190K stars, 12,451 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 2.11.0, published Jun 19, 2026. It was mentioned in 12 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
Download the raw daily series: firecrawl.csv
Gid Score breakdown
Adoption77
Community95
Attention14
Momentum44
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
Firecrawl FAQ
How much does Firecrawl cost?
Free plan with 1,000 credits a month. Hobby is $16 a month (5,000 credits) and Standard $83 a month (100,000 credits), billed yearly. Self-hosting the open-source version is free.
Is Firecrawl open source?
Yes. Firecrawl is open source, released under the AGPL-3.0 license.
How popular is Firecrawl?
Firecrawl was downloaded 2.7M times from npm and PyPI in the week ending Oct 5, 2026, down 3.5% on the week before and down 5.6% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 190K stars, 12,451 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 2.11.0, published Jun 19, 2026.
What is the latest version of Firecrawl?
The latest stable release we track is 2.11.0, published on Jun 19, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Firecrawl?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are LiteLLM, Langfuse, E2B, Composio.
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Where these numbers come from
npm: @mendable/firecrawl-js. PyPI: firecrawl-py. GitHub: firecrawl/firecrawl. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: github.com, firecrawl.dev, docs.firecrawl.dev.