Firecrawl

one credit, one page, js included — and 170k stars behind it

$16 / month on Hobby#feeding-clean#llm-ready-pages-to-a-mod

the simplest honest pricing in the category and the largest open-source project in it — with a copyleft licence that will stop some teams cold.

Firecrawl prices the way you would design it if you were being straightforward: one credit is one page, javascript rendering is included rather than surcharged, and search costs two credits per ten results. no render multiplier, no proxy tier lottery, no site-complexity band. among vendors that can answer the anchor question at all, it is not the cheapest per thousand, and it is by a distance the easiest to forecast.

the output is the point. this is a content-extraction tool, not a proxy — it returns clean markdown built for a model to read, and it handles rotating proxies, rate limits and js-blocked content underneath without exposing any of that as a billing surface. for rag pipelines and agent tooling that is the correct shape of product, and it explains the adoption: 170,358 github stars and a push to the repo the day we checked.

the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.

category: web scraping apis
pricing: $16 / month on Hobby
website: firecrawl.dev

our verdict

the simplest honest pricing in the category and the largest open-source project in it — with a copyleft licence that will stop some teams cold.

we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.