Pick Firecrawl if
developers who need markdown from a URL and will stay on Cloud or self-host.
Read the Firecrawl pageFirecrawl vs Tavily
Our take
Pick Firecrawl if developers who need markdown from a URL and will stay on Cloud or self-host. Pick Tavily if agent builders who want hosted web search without running a crawler. Skip Firecrawl if teams that want ranked neural search (Exa) or a hosted browser session grid (Browserbase). Skip Tavily if teams that need a neural search index with contents in one call (Exa) or a scrape-to-markdown playground (Firecrawl).
Best for
Firecrawl Clean page contents for an agent
Tavily One credit-metered call that returns LLM-ready results
Free plan
Firecrawl $0 · 1,000 credits/month. 2 concurrent browsers. No card. No PAYG
Tavily $0 · 1,000 credits/month. No card
Lowest paid
Firecrawl Hobby $16, monthly only
Tavily Pay as you go $0.008
Next step up
Firecrawl Standard $83/mo yearly
Tavily Project $30
Coding agent
Firecrawl
Tavily Codex
Runs where
Firecrawl Local or hosted
Tavily
Watch out
Firecrawl Hobby/Standard/Growth credits do not roll over
Tavily Credits reset monthly
Last checked
Firecrawl 2026-10-21 · firecrawl.dev/pricing
Tavily 2026-10-21 · tavily.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Tavily if
agent builders who want hosted web search without running a crawler.
Read the Tavily page