Pick Firecrawl if
developers who need markdown from a URL and will stay on Cloud or self-host.
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Our take
Pick Firecrawl if developers who need markdown from a URL and will stay on Cloud or self-host. Pick Jina AI if rAG and agent teams who will burn the 10 million free tokens on Reader or jina-embeddings-v4, then top up $50 for 1 billion tokens — not a team looking for a $20 chat seat. Skip Firecrawl if teams that want ranked neural search (Exa) or a hosted browser session grid (Browserbase).
Best for
Firecrawl Clean page contents for an agent
Jina AI Retrieval quality you meter in prepaid tokens
Free plan
Firecrawl $0 · 1,000 credits/month. 2 concurrent browsers. No card. No PAYG
Jina AI No free plan
Lowest paid
Firecrawl Hobby $16, monthly only
Jina AI Prototype $50
Next step up
Firecrawl Standard $83/mo yearly
Jina AI Production $500
Coding agent
Firecrawl
Jina AI DeepSearch
Runs where
Firecrawl Local or hosted
Jina AI
Watch out
Firecrawl Hobby/Standard/Growth credits do not roll over
Jina AI Free 10M is non-commercial
Last checked
Firecrawl 2026-10-21 · firecrawl.dev/pricing
Jina AI 2026-10-22 · jina.ai/api-dashboard/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Jina AI if
rAG and agent teams who will burn the 10 million free tokens on Reader or jina-embeddings-v4, then top up $50 for 1 billion tokens — not a team looking for a $20 chat seat.
Read the Jina AI page