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Firecrawl

Turn any website into clean, LLM-ready data — scrape, crawl, search.

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Data OpsSearch
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Open core
Hosting
Hybrid
Platforms
APIWeb
Models
Model-agnostic
Verified
Jun 6, 2026

A web data API for AI — scrape, crawl, map, and search pages into clean markdown or structured JSON, handling proxies, anti-bot, and JS rendering for you. Open-source core (AGPL) plus a hosted service; a default web-ingestion layer for agents and RAG pipelines.

Capabilities 3

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Web scraping (primary capability)
  • Unified search (secondary capability)
  • Structured extraction (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Clean markdown / structured JSON output
  • Manages proxies and JS rendering for you
  • AGPL core, self-hostable
  • Scrape, crawl, map, search in one API
  • AGPL license constrains redistribution
  • Hosted usage priced by credits
  • Heavy sites can still need tuning

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