Firecrawl turns websites into clean, AI-ready data for agents, RAG apps and research workflows.
What it does Search the web, scrape pages into Markdown/JSON, crawl sites, discover URLs, parse documents, monitor changes and interact with pages using prompts or code. Alexandria adds research, developer and government indexes plus data-provider connectors. Use its API, Python/Node SDKs, MCP or CLI for knowledge ingestion, lead enrichment and competitive research. Its open-source core is AGPL-3.0; cloud has extra features. Product · Code
Pricing — checked 22 October 2026 USD; free: 1,000 credits/month, no card. Monthly billing: Hobby $19/5k credits; Standard $99/100k; Growth $399/500k; Scale $749/1m. Annual totals: $190/$990/$3,990/$7,190 respectively; credits still refresh monthly. Enterprise is custom. Paid-plan top-ups cost $5 for 1k/2k/2.5k/5k credits respectively. Basic scrape/crawl: 1 credit/page; search: 2/10 results, plus scraping. JSON adds 4/page; PDF parsing adds 1/PDF page; Interact costs 2–7/browser minute. Other options/provider data cost extra; local taxes may apply. Set a top-up cap. Unused plan credits normally do not roll over; annual Scale gets one month. Purchased top-ups expire if the subscription is cancelled. Plans · Billing
Their story Built by Caleb Peffer, Eric Ciarla and Nicolas Silberstein Camara, the YC S22 team behind Mendable. Firecrawl emerged from their need for reliable web data for AI. A $14.5m Series A in August 2025 was followed by a $75m Series B led by Smash Capital in September 2026, alongside Alexandria. Team · Series A · Latest funding