Pick Bright Data if
scraping teams who will start on a printed public tile (Unlocker Free tier from $1/1k, or Datacenter from $0.9/IP) while they open a first zone, then Residential at $2.5/GB when they need peer IPs.
Read the Bright Data pageBright Data vs Firecrawl
Our take
Pick Bright Data if scraping teams who will start on a printed public tile (Unlocker Free tier from $1/1k, or Datacenter from $0.9/IP) while they open a first zone, then Residential at $2.5/GB when they need peer IPs. Pick Firecrawl if developers who need markdown from a URL and will stay on Cloud or self-host. Skip Firecrawl if teams that want ranked neural search (Exa) or a hosted browser session grid
Best for
Bright Data A zone you start at a public $
Firecrawl Clean page contents for an agent
Free plan
Bright Data No free plan
Firecrawl $0 · 1,000 credits/month. 2 concurrent browsers. No card. No PAYG
Lowest paid
Bright Data Data Firehose $0.2
Firecrawl Hobby $16, monthly only
Next step up
Bright Data Datacenter proxies from $0.9
Firecrawl Standard $83/mo yearly
Runs where
Bright Data Hosted
Firecrawl Local or hosted
Watch out
Bright Data Free tier is Unlocker / SERP / Scraper APIs, not a $0 Datacenter zone
Firecrawl Hobby/Standard/Growth credits do not roll over
Last checked
Bright Data 2026-10-23 · brightdata.com/pricing
Firecrawl 2026-10-21 · firecrawl.dev/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Firecrawl if
developers who need markdown from a URL and will stay on Cloud or self-host.
Read the Firecrawl page