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Firecrawl

Web search, scrape, crawl and interact API that turns the web into clean context for AI agents.

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What Firecrawl does

Web search, scrape, crawl and interact API that turns the web into clean context for AI agents. APIs (/search, /scrape, /interact) that turn web pages into LLM-ready data and automate clicks, pagination and logins. Includes a free keyless tier for agents and Fireround, funding intelligence inside ChatGPT and Claude. Claims 1M+ developers; announced a $75M Series B.

Good for

  • Lead and competitor research agents
  • Scrape sites into knowledge bases
  • Monitor funding rounds and news (Fireround)
  • People Data: connect the Firecrawl connector in Claude or ChatGPT, ask for the marketing leads at 2-3 target companies (free Apollo previews), then pay for only the 2-3 work emails you actually need (~20-30 credits each) and check the credit balance afterwards

Try this in 10 minutes

  1. Lead and competitor research agents. Use the free plan: pick one real example from your own business and try just that.
  2. Scrape sites into knowledge bases. Put the result next to how you do it today. Is it faster, cheaper or better?
  3. Monitor funding rounds and news (Fireround). Note what you had to fix by hand before you'd show it to a customer.

Mini-tasks based on common small-business uses for this tool.

Honest take

Some claims not independently checked

  • Core building block for research/enrichment automations in n8n or Claude.
  • Monitoring and PDF parsing launches), 1 by co-founder @ericciarla, 1 workflow post using it.
  • 'Free' means it draws on the standard free plan's 1,000 monthly credits, shared with scraping and search, which covers only about 33 Apollo matches or 50 work emails.
  • You need a Firecrawl account linked through the connector (no API key or paid Firecrawl plan); whether your ChatGPT/Claude plan allows connectors depends on that plan.
  • Of the '10 providers', only three are commercial contact-data sources (Apollo, FullEnrich, Data Legion).
  • The rest are public records (NPI Registry, OpenSanctions, US House votes, US Senate financial disclosures, NJ licences, City of Seattle) plus Particle podcast data.
  • The '270M+ records' figure is from the launch post and didn't appear on the pages checked.
  • An org admin must accept provider terms (e.g.
  • FullEnrich) first, and FullEnrich bars marketing to personal emails.
  • UK caution: a named work email is still personal data under UK GDPR.
  • You need a lawful basis (usually legitimate interests, with an assessment), must tell people where you got their data within a month (Art. 14), and must honour objections.
  • Under PECR, unsolicited marketing email to corporate addresses is allowed without consent if you identify yourself and give an easy opt-out, but sole traders and some partnerships count as individuals and need prior consent.
  • Check against the TPS/CTPS before calling any mobile numbers you find.

What we couldn’t verify

  • People Data (20 Oct 2026) fact vs hype: Real and documented (changelog, Alexandria docs, billing docs, Claude people-search guide).

Our Hype or Fact? checks

Pricing

Free 1,000 credits/mo (no card); Hobby $16/mo billed yearly ($19 monthly, 5k credits); Standard $83/mo (100k); Growth $333/mo (500k); Scale $599/mo (1M); Enterprise custom; extra 1,000 credits per $5 on Hobby (cheaper per credit on higher tiers). Credits are shared across scrape (1/page), search (2 per 10 results) and Alexandria data tools. People Data costs (Oct 2026): Apollo people search free (masked previews); Apollo person match 30 credits per matched person; FullEnrich person lookup 5, work email 20 per email found, reverse email 20, mobile 175; Data Legion 10-80. So the free 1,000 credits buy about 33 Apollo matches, or 50 work emails, or 5 mobile numbers a month. Lookups that return nothing aren't charged.

Prices as listed by the maker when we last checked (2026-10-21); usually in US dollars. Check the website for current prices.

Latest update

  • 2026-10-20: Free People Data in Firecrawl Alexandria for ChatGPT & Claude: find, enrich and verify professional contacts (Apollo, FullEnrich, Data Legion plus public registers) via the Firecrawl API, MCP, CLI or ChatGPT/Claude connector, paid from the normal 1,000 free credits a month.

Is Firecrawl worth it? Quick answers

Is Firecrawl worth it?

Firecrawl is one of the tools we rate as essential to know about in the Data & scraping category. Core building block for research/enrichment automations in n8n or Claude. There is a free tier, so you can test it before paying. Some of the maker's claims have not been independently checked.

How much does Firecrawl cost?

Free 1,000 credits/mo (no card); Hobby $16/mo billed yearly ($19 monthly, 5k credits); Standard $83/mo (100k); Growth $333/mo (500k); Scale $599/mo (1M); Enterprise custom; extra 1,000 credits per $5 on Hobby (cheaper per credit on higher tiers). Credits are shared across scrape (1/page), search (2 per 10 results) and Alexandria data tools. People Data costs (Oct 2026): Apollo people search free (masked previews); Apollo person match 30 credits per matched person; FullEnrich person lookup 5, work email 20 per email found, reverse email 20, mobile 175; Data Legion 10-80. So the free 1,000 credits buy about 33 Apollo matches, or 50 work emails, or 5 mobile numbers a month. Lookups that return nothing aren't charged.

What is Firecrawl used for?

Web search, scrape, crawl and interact API that turns the web into clean context for AI agents. Typical uses: lead and competitor research agents; scrape sites into knowledge bases; monitor funding rounds and news (Fireround).