Hand your AI app a web page as markdown instead of raw HTML. Firecrawl turns web pages into markdown or structured data for AI applications, through scrape, crawl, map, search and browser interaction endpoints. The Free plan gives 1,000 credits a month with no credit card, which the pricing page translates into 500 searches or 1,000 pages, 2 concurrent requests and a 10 per minute rate limit. A basic scrape, crawl or map costs 1 credit per page, search costs 2 credits per 10 results, and the JSON, Question and Highlight formats add 4 credits per page. Paid plans are Hobby at $16 a month billed annually for 5,000 credits, Standard at $83 for 100,000, Growth at $333 for 500,000 and Scale at $599 for 1,000,000. Credits on Hobby to Growth do not roll over.
Free tier quotas
Plan
Free, 1,000 credits a month
Credit card
Not required
Equivalent
500 searches or 1,000 pages scraped
Concurrency
2 concurrent requests
Rate limits
10 requests per minute on scrape, map and search; 2 per minute on crawl
Support
Community
Credit costs
Scrape, crawl and map 1 per page, search 2 per 10 results
Security
SOC 2 Type II, MFA, signed webhooks and PII redaction on every plan
Last sniffed Oct 24, 2026. Always confirm on the official pricing page.
👍 Good boy
+The credit rule is the same on every plan: 1 credit per page for scrape, crawl and map, 2 credits per 10 search results. You can price a job before you run it.
+The Free plan needs no credit card, and security features such as SOC 2 Type II, MFA, signed webhooks and PII redaction are listed on every plan, including Free.
+A scrape that returns no result is not charged, and the paper endpoints of its research index are free, according to the FAQ.
+Paid plans can turn on pay-as-you-go: extra credits are added in $5 increments up to a monthly limit you set, so a heavy day does not stop a pipeline.
+Output formats include markdown and JSON extraction, so scraped pages need less cleaning before they reach an LLM.
+The project has a large public following. A 2026 r/ProxyEngineering post titled for the repo hitting 121,000 GitHub stars shows an active user community.
+An agent onboarding file at a public URL lets AI agents sign up and get a key, and a keyless free tier is described for search, scrape and interact.
👎 Watch out
−A Reddit r/LocalLLaMA commenter wrote that the pricing is 'absolutely nuts' and that credits should roll over. Credits do not roll over on Hobby, Standard or Growth.
−Costs rise with features. JSON, Question and Highlight formats add 4 credits per page, so a structured scrape costs 5 credits and the free allowance covers only 200 pages.
−A page that returns an error status such as 403 or 404 is still returned and costs 1 credit, so blocked pages use up credits.
−Rate limits on Free are low at 10 requests per minute and 2 concurrent requests, and crawl is limited to 2 requests per minute.
−Pay-as-you-go needs a paid plan, and purchased credits expire if you cancel the subscription.
−Hobby's monthly price is $19 against $16 billed annually, so the headline price assumes a yearly commitment.
−Single sign-on, SCIM, zero data retention and a support SLA are limited to Enterprise.
The catch
The Free plan is 1,000 credits a month with no credit card. A basic scrape, crawl or map costs 1 credit per page and search costs 2 credits per 10 results. The JSON, Question and Highlight formats add 4 credits per page, so structured extraction costs 5 credits and the free plan covers about 200 such pages. Interact costs 2 credits per browser minute.
Paid plans billed yearly: Hobby $16 (5,000 credits, 5 concurrent, 100 per minute), Standard $83 (100,000, 25 concurrent, 500 per minute), Growth $333 (500,000, 50 concurrent, 5,000 per minute) and Scale $599 (1,000,000, 100 concurrent, 10,000 per minute). Hobby costs $19 a month on monthly billing. Pay-as-you-go adds credits in $5 increments and needs a paid plan. Credits roll over only on Scale (one month) and Enterprise.
A page that comes back as a 403 or 404 still costs 1 credit. The pricing page shows an effective date of September 4, 2026. The page does not say whether the Free plan may be used commercially, so that field is unknown. I did not read the repository license. Review evidence is Reddit threads read as search excerpts.
What’s included
✓Scrape to markdown or JSON
✓Crawl
✓Map
✓Search
✓Interact with browser sessions
✓Monitor pages for changes
✓Agent endpoint in preview
✓Pay-as-you-go credits
✓Signed webhooks
✓PII redaction
✓SOC 2 Type II
✓SSO and zero data retention on Enterprise
Free tier value
Generosity
B
Estimated value
1,000 credits a month; paid from $16 a month billed annually
Feature parity
Free uses the same endpoints with lower rate limits and concurrency.
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Paid plans
Hobby, $16 per month billed annually ($19 monthly)
5,000 credits, 5 concurrent requests, 100 per minute on scrape, map and search, basic support and 1,000 extra credits per $5.
Standard, $83 per month billed annually
100,000 credits, 25 concurrent requests, 500 per minute, standard support and 2,000 extra credits per $5.
Growth, $333 per month billed annually
500,000 credits, 50 concurrent requests, 5,000 per minute, priority support, Slack support and 2,500 extra credits per $5.
Scale, $599 per month billed annually
1,000,000 credits, 100 concurrent requests, 10,000 per minute, one month of credit rollover, invoiced billing and 5,000 extra credits per $5.
Enterprise, custom
Custom credits and concurrency, SSO, SCIM, zero data retention, static egress IPs, a support SLA and a dedicated account team.
Common questions
Is Firecrawl free?
Yes, up to a limit. Free gives 1,000 credits every month, which covers about 1,000 pages, and requires no card.
How many credits does a request cost?
Scrape, crawl, map and monitor cost 1 credit per page, search costs 2 credits per 10 results and interact costs 2 credits per browser minute. JSON, Question and Highlight formats add 4 credits per page.
Do credits roll over?
Not on Hobby, Standard or Growth. Scale carries unused credits for one month and Enterprise carries a custom amount.
Are failed requests charged?
A scrape that returns no result is not charged. A page that responds with an error status such as 403 or 404 is returned and costs 1 credit.
What is pay-as-you-go?
On paid plans, credits are added in $5 increments when you run out, up to a monthly limit you set. It is not available on Free.
Change history
Checked October 22, 2026
Pricing page shows Free at 1,000 credits and Hobby $16, Standard $83, Growth $333 and Scale $599 billed yearly, with an effective date of September 4, 2026. Reddit evidence is from search excerpts only.
