Turn any website into structured, ready-to-use data with one API call.
What is Firecrawl?
Firecrawl is developed by Mendable AI, a company focused on building practical AI infrastructure tools. The core technical architecture is a web crawling and data extraction platform designed to convert virtually any website, including those with dynamic JavaScript content, into clean, structured markdown or LLM-ready data. This is achieved through a combination of automated crawling, intelligent node detection, and a rendering engine that processes sites like a browser. Key capabilities include scalable crawling of entire domains, automatic extraction of main content while filtering out noise like navigation, and real-time data conversion via API. It primarily targets developers and businesses that need to integrate current web data into their AI applications, such as for building accurate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, knowledge bases, or AI agents. By seamlessly turning the live web into a usable data source, Firecrawl significantly streamlines the data pipeline for AI projects, eliminating the need for complex in-house scraping infrastructure.
Key Findings
- Website Crawling: Extracts structured data from any website automatically and reliably at scale.
- Content Indexing: Transforms crawled web pages into clean, searchable JSON data for immediate use.
- Real-time Monitoring: Continuously tracks website changes and updates your dataset with fresh information.
- Custom Extraction: Defines specific data points to capture using simple CSS or XPath selectors.
- API Integration: Connects seamlessly with your existing applications via a straightforward REST API.
- Bulk Processing: Handles large-scale crawling jobs efficiently across thousands of URLs concurrently.
- JavaScript Rendering: Accurately scrapes dynamic content from modern JavaScript-heavy websites and applications.
- Data Export: Delivers formatted data directly to your storage, databases, or preferred cloud services.
- Reliable Infrastructure: Ensures high uptime and consistent performance with managed, scalable cloud servers.
- Simple Pricing: Offers transparent, predictable plans based on usage with no hidden fees or surprises.
Who is it for?
Content Creator
- Competitive content analysis
- SEO content gap identification
- Trend research for ideation
- Auditing existing content
- Extracting data for case studies
Marketer
- Building a lead gen list
- Monitoring brand mentions
- Researching partnership prospects
- Event promotion analysis
- Landing page copy inspiration
Startup Founder
- Investor and market research
- Due diligence on vendors
- Tracking regulatory updates
- Curating a resource library
- Validating a product idea
Pricing
Free Plan @ $0/one-time
- 500 credits (one-time)
- Scrape 500 pages
- 2 concurrent requests
- Low rate limits
Hobby @ $16/mo
- 3,000 credits / month
- Scrape 3,000 pages
- 5 concurrent requests
- Basic support
- $9 per extra 1 k credits
Standard @ $83/mo
- 100,000 credits / month
- Scrape 100,000 pages
- 50 concurrent requests
- Standard support
- $47 per extra 35 k credits
Growth @ $333/mo
- 500,000 credits / month
- Scrape 500,000 pages
- 100 concurrent requests
- Priority support
- $177 per extra 175 k credits