Firecrawl by Firecrawl (Sideguide Technologies)
Scrapes, crawls, maps and searches websites, returning clean markdown or JSON for LLMs.
Scraping and crawling Official MCP server Open source
Price
$5 / 1k requests
paid plans from $19/mo
Free tier
Yes
1,000 credits/month, no credit card (500 searches or 1,000 pages)
SDK downloads
2.5M
npm @mendable/firecrawl-js · PyPI firecrawl-py
Pricing
| Free tier | 1,000 credits/month, no credit card (500 searches or 1,000 pages) |
|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | $19 a month |
| Usage price | 1 credit = 1 page scraped; Hobby extra credits 1,000 per $5 (Standard 2,000 per $5, Growth 2,500 per $5) |
| Good to know | Hobby $19/month billed monthly ($16/month billed annually) for 5,000 credits. per_1k_usd is the Hobby pay-as-you-go rate per 1,000 basic pages. Search = 2 credits per 10 results; JSON/Question/Highlight formats +4 credits per page. Error pages (403/404) still cost 1 credit. Pricing effective 2026-09-04. |
From the official pricing page, checked Oct 9, 2026. Prices change: confirm before you buy.
Use it from an agent
| MCP server | Official: firecrawl-mcp |
|---|---|
| npm | npm install @mendable/firecrawl-js |
| PyPI | pip install firecrawl-py |
| GitHub | firecrawl/firecrawl · 190K stars · last push Oct 9, 2026 |
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