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Firecrawl

RecommendedFree planAPI9/10 overall

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Pricing

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Official pricing pageLast checked 2026-09-06

How we rated it

Product quality9/10Editorial assessmentValue for money8/10Editorial assessmentEase of use6/10Editorial assessmentAutomation9/10Editorial assessmentIntegrations9/10Editorial assessmentReliability7/10Editorial assessmentBeginner friendly3/10Editorial assessment

What it is

Turns websites into clean text for language models: crawls a site, strips the navigation and scripts, and returns markdown, handling JavaScript-rendered pages.

Who it is for

Developers feeding web content to a model — research tools, retrieval systems, anything that needs a page as text rather than as HTML.

Where it is strongest

Taking documentation or a knowledge base and getting usable text out, without writing a parser per site.

Where it falls short

Priced per page, which adds up on a large crawl. Sites with aggressive bot protection still fail. And scraping raises terms-of-service questions that are yours, not theirs.

Our verdict

Recommended for the job it does, which otherwise eats days. Check what the source site permits before you crawl it at volume.

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