Pick Firecrawl if
developers who need markdown from a URL and will stay on Cloud or self-host.
Read the Firecrawl pageFirecrawl vs Unstructured
Our take
Pick Firecrawl if developers who need markdown from a URL and will stay on Cloud or self-host. Pick Unstructured if rAG teams who will burn the 10,000 free pages and then pay $0.015/page, 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
Unstructured Turn files into RAG-ready JSON at scale
Free plan
Firecrawl $0 · 1,000 credits/month. 2 concurrent browsers. No card. No PAYG
Unstructured $0 · you host it
Lowest paid
Firecrawl Hobby $16, monthly only
Unstructured Pay-as-you-go $0.015
Next step up
Firecrawl Standard $83/mo yearly
Unstructured
Runs where
Firecrawl Local or hosted
Unstructured
Watch out
Firecrawl Hobby/Standard/Growth credits do not roll over
Unstructured $0.015/page after 10k
Last checked
Firecrawl 2026-10-21 · firecrawl.dev/pricing
Unstructured 2026-10-22 · unstructured.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Unstructured if
rAG teams who will burn the 10,000 free pages and then pay $0.015/page, not a team looking for a $20 chat seat.
Read the Unstructured page