How much does Firecrawl cost?
Paid plans start at
$16/mo billed yearly
or $19/mo billed monthly
- Free plan
- Yes
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
Read from www.firecrawl.dev/pricing on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from
In your favor
- Free plan. 1,000 credits every month, refreshed monthly, no credit card required; 2 concurrent requests. Paid plans needed for more credits or pay-as-you-go.
Watch out for
- Extra usage is billed. Pay-as-you-go adds credits when balance runs out, capped by a monthly limit you set (or off); paid plans only
- Going over the Hobby allowance costs $5 per per 1,000 extra credits. Included: 5000 credits.
- No refunds on a long commitment. No refunds; cancel anytime, no further charges after current billing period
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Start for free, Subscribe, Contact sales, Get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup, no credit card needed for free tier "Start getting web context for free and scale seamlessly as your project expands. No credit card needed."
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Scale checks out instantly; Enterprise requires contacting sales "Scale checks out instantly, no sales call needed."
- Support
- Community (Free), Basic (Hobby), Standard, Priority (Growth, Scale), Dedicated (Enterprise) "Support tier | Community | Basic | Standard | Priority | Priority | Dedicated |"
- Support
- Slack support on Growth, Scale, Enterprise "Slack supportYou get a shared Slack channel with our team."
What Firecrawl does
Firecrawl turns web pages into LLM-ready markdown, JSON and screenshots through an API, SDKs, MCP server and CLI, and also offers search, browser interaction, document parsing and an Alexandria data library. It is open source and sold on credit-based plans with a monthly free allowance.
- Good for
- Developers and AI teams building agents, RAG pipelines, research tools, lead enrichment and chat products that need live web data.
- Channels
- REST API, Python SDK, Node.js SDK, CLI, MCP server, Playground, AWS Marketplace, Google Cloud Marketplace
- Main product
- Web data API (search, scrape, crawl, interact)
- Also includes
- Search, Scrape, Crawl, Map, Interact (browser actions), Agent
- Connects to
- Zapier, Lovable, Replit, Botpress, Vercel eve, Google Cloud (Gemini, ADK), ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, AWS Marketplace
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- AI/LLM data extraction
Describe what data you need in natural language and get back structured results — from any page, at any scale.
- Natural-language extraction prompts
Describe what data you need in natural language and get back structured results — from any page, at any scale.
- JavaScript rendering
JavaScript rendering, smart wait, media parsing, search, actions, and more.
- Anti-bot and CAPTCHA bypassNot stated
- Rotating proxies includedNot stated
- LLM-ready markdown output
Get llm-ready data from websites. Markdown, JSON, screenshot, etc.
- Scheduling and change monitoring
Monitor | 1/ page / check
- No-code visual interfaceNot stated
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in AI web scraping tools. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II compliant | "SOC 2 Type II compliant, with our annual renewal audit in progress."enterprise |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | CCPA rights available to California residents | "The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides California residents specific rights to restrict, access, and delete their collected information."privacy |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Enterprise | "SAML or OIDC single sign-on with Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace, and more, plus SCIM directory sync."enterprise |
| Trust center | https://trust.firecrawl.dev | "[Visit the Trust Center →](https://trust.firecrawl.dev)"enterprise |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Plan/month | $0 | – | 1000 credits | – | "1,000 credits / month" |
| Hobby/month | $19 | $16per month | 5000 credits | $5/per 1,000 extra credits | "Hobby: $19/month billed monthly, or $16/month billed annually, for 5,000 credits per month" "$16 /month Billed yearly" |
| Standard/month | $99 | $83per month | 100000 credits | $5/per 2,000 extra credits | "Standard: $99/month billed monthly ($83/month billed annually), 100,000 credits/month" "ing /pricing.md 100,000 credits/month 1k free 5k hobby 100k standard 500k growth 1m scale " |
| Growth/month | $399 | $333per month | 500000 credits | $5/per 2,500 extra credits | "Growth: $399/month billed monthly ($333/month billed annually), 500,000 credits/month" "urrent requests standard support 2,000 extra credits per $5 growth built for high volume a" |
| Scale/month | $749 | $599per month | 1e+06 credits | $5/per 5,000 extra credits | "Scale: $749/month billed monthly ($599/month billed annually), 1,000,000 credits/month" "$599/month Billed yearly" |
| Enterprise | Quote | – | – | – | "Enterprise: custom pricing, credits and concurrency." |
Free plan: 1,000 credits every month, refreshed monthly, no credit card required; 2 concurrent requests. Paid plans needed for more credits or pay-as-you-go.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Pay-as-you-go credits added in 5 USD increments "We add credits in 5 USD increments, up to a monthly limit you set. Paid plans only."
- Billed beyond usage
- Pay-as-you-go adds credits when balance runs out, capped by a monthly limit you set (or off); paid plans only "We add credits to your account when your balance runs out, so your requests keep working. It is for paid plans only."
- Contract
- Enterprise agreements with custom terms; self-serve plans monthly or annual "Custom credit volumes and annual terms, or buy through AWS or Google Cloud Marketplace and pay on your cloud bill."
- Refunds
- No refunds; cancel anytime, no further charges after current billing period "We do not provide refunds for any reason on our Services."
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- SideGuide Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Firecrawl
- Address
- San Francisco
- Online since
- Apr 8, 2024 Domain registration date
- Ships updates
- 4 in the last 12 months Last on May 26, 2026, from their changelog
- Founder
- Caleb Peffer, Co-Founder & CEO
- Founder
- Eric Ciarla, Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer
- Founder
- Nicolas Silberstein Camara, Co-Founder & CTO
- Funding
- $75M Series B "Introducing [Alexandria](https://www.firecrawl.dev/alexandria?utm_source=firecrawl-web&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=alexandria-launch) and our $75M Series B."
- Funding
- $16.2M total funding (earlier rounds), Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners "$16.2M in total funding."
- Customers
- "150,000+ companies; 67% of the Fortune 100" their claim
- Backing
- "Y Combinator (YC S22), Nexus Venture Partners, Zapier" their words
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Questions
Is Firecrawl free?
Yes. 1,000 credits every month, refreshed monthly, no credit card required; 2 concurrent requests. Paid plans needed for more credits or pay-as-you-go. Paid plans start at $19/month.
How much does Firecrawl cost?
Paid plans start at $16 per month billed yearly, or $19 billed monthly.