Pick Firecrawl if
developers who need markdown from a URL and will stay on Cloud or self-host.
Read the Firecrawl pageFirecrawl vs ScrapingBee
Our take
Pick Firecrawl if developers who need markdown from a URL and will stay on Cloud or self-host. Pick ScrapingBee if developers who will spend the 1,000 signup credits (no card) on a first Request Builder, then Hobby at $19/month (75,000 credits, 25 concurrent) when the trial is gone — not Freelance $49 unless they need 250,000 credits. Skip Firecrawl if teams that want ranked neural search (Exa) or a hosted browser
Best for
Firecrawl Clean page contents for an agent
ScrapingBee An HTML request you configure at a public $
Free plan
Firecrawl $0 · 1,000 credits/month. 2 concurrent browsers. No card. No PAYG
ScrapingBee $0 · $49/month. 250,000 credits. 50 concurrent
Lowest paid
Firecrawl Hobby $16, monthly only
ScrapingBee Hobby $19/mo
Next step up
Firecrawl Standard $83/mo yearly
ScrapingBee Startup $99/mo
Runs where
Firecrawl Local or hosted
ScrapingBee Hosted
Watch out
Firecrawl Hobby/Standard/Growth credits do not roll over
ScrapingBee No ongoing Free tile on the pricing page
Last checked
Firecrawl 2026-10-21 · firecrawl.dev/pricing
ScrapingBee 2026-10-23 · scrapingbee.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick ScrapingBee if
developers who will spend the 1,000 signup credits (no card) on a first Request Builder, then Hobby at $19/month (75,000 credits, 25 concurrent) when the trial is gone — not Freelance $49 unless they need 250,000 credits.
Read the ScrapingBee page