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Turn any web page into clean, ready-to-use data

Firecrawl reads websites for you. Give it a link and it hands back the page as clean text, or just the details you ask for, ready for spreadsheets, apps and AI tools.

1,000 free credits every month. Firecrawl’s free plan needs no credit card, and one credit reads about one page.

Over 1.25 million developers and 150,000+ companies build with it, by Firecrawl’s count.

Free plan · 1,000 credits a month

What is Firecrawl, in plain words?

Web pages are made for people to look at, with menus, pop-ups and ads around the part you need. Firecrawl is a service that reads pages for your software. You give it a link, and it hands back what the page says as clean text, or as just the details you asked for.

Think of it as a very fast research assistant that never gets tired of copying and pasting.

Scrape
Read one page and hand back its words, without the clutter.
Crawl
Read a whole website by following its links.
Search
Find pages about a topic, then read each one.

For a small business

  • Track supplier prices and competitors’ menus without copying them out.
  • Gather markets, events or grants from many sites into one spreadsheet.
  • Give your own chatbot or AI assistant everything on your website.
  • Get an email when a page you care about changes.

For software and AI

  • Give AI agents live web access through Firecrawl’s MCP server.
  • Feed knowledge bases with clean Markdown instead of raw HTML.
  • Turn product, listing or company pages into structured JSON.
  • Skip running your own browsers: Firecrawl renders JavaScript for you.

Firecrawl’s code is open source on GitHub, where it had about 195,000 stars when we checked in October 2026.

See a page turn into data

Pick a page someone might read for work, then choose what you want back. This is the shape of what Firecrawl returns.

1. Pick a page

Rosa’s Kitchen checks wholesale prices before quoting a party.

2. Choose what comes back
What comes backMarkdown · 1 credit
# This week’s prices

| Item | Price |
| --- | --- |
| Pork belly, per kg | $14.50 |
| Rice noodles (bihon), 5 kg | $22.00 |
| Calamansi, 1 kg | $9.80 |
For developers: the request
curl -X POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer fc-YOUR-API-KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://islandwholesale.example/weekly-prices",
    "formats": ["markdown"]
  }'

The pages and data are made up. Credits are what Firecrawl charges per page on its pricing page.

From one link to the whole web, on the free plan

Everything below works on Firecrawl’s free plan, paid for with its monthly credits. Here is what each step does and what it costs.

  1. Start with a free account

    Sign up and you get 1,000 credits every month, refreshed monthly, with no credit card. That is about 1,000 pages.

    Free plan · no credit card

    Free plan
    Credits this month1,000
    RefreshesEvery month
    Credit cardNot needed
  2. Give it a link

    Firecrawl opens the page like a browser, even ones built with JavaScript or saved as PDFs, and hands back clean text without the menus, banners and ads.

    Free plan · 1 credit a page

    Clean text backislandwholesale.example/weekly-prices
    # This week’s prices | Pork belly, per kg | $14.50 |
  3. Ask for just the details

    Describe what you want in plain words, such as item names and prices, and get them back as neat, structured data.

    Free plan · 5 credits a page

    Just the details
    “Each item, its unit and its price”
    { "name": "Pork belly", "unit": "kg", "price": 14.5 }
  4. Read a whole website

    Point it at a site and it follows the links for you, collecting every page instead of one at a time.

    Free plan · 1 credit a page

    Whole site
    /menuRead
    /party-traysRead
    /contactRead
  5. Search the web

    Ask a question and get the top results with each page’s full content, not just a list of links.

    Free plan · 2 credits per 10 results

    night markets taking stall bookings
    markets.exampleFull page text
    fairs.exampleFull page text
  6. Keep an eye on pages that change

    Schedule checks on a page, such as a supplier’s price list, and get an email or webhook when something changes.

    Free plan · 1 credit a page each check

    Page changed
    Pork belly, per kg$14.50
    Pork belly, per kg$15.20
    Emailed to you this morning
  7. Plug it into your tools

    Connect it to Zapier, Make or n8n without code, give AI assistants like Claude and Cursor web access through its MCP server, or call it from Python, Node and more.

    Free plan · on every plan

    Works with
    No codeZapier · Make · n8n
    AI assistantsClaude · Cursor (MCP)
    CodePython · Node · Go · more

AI tools are only as good as the data you feed them

Independent research on how quickly AI tools and agents are spreading, and how much of the working day still goes on finding information.

  • 84%

    of developers use or plan to use AI tools in their work, up from 76% a year earlier.

    Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025, 49,009 developers in 177 countries

  • 70%

    of developers who use AI agents say agents have cut the time they spend on specific tasks.

    Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025, developers who use AI agents

  • 40%

    of enterprise apps will include task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from less than 5% in 2025.

    Gartner, forecast, August 2025

  • 58%

    of the workday goes on “work about work”, such as searching for information and chasing updates, instead of skilled work.

    Asana Anatomy of Work Global Index 2023, 9,615 knowledge workers

How much research time does it give back?

Move the sliders to match your month. The maths is the pages you read by hand, times the share Firecrawl could read instead, times the minutes each takes, times what your hour is worth.

120
4 min
70%
$35
Firecrawl plan

Time back a month

5.6 hours

Worth, after the plan

$196

Over a year

$2,352

That is about 5.6 hours a month you don’t spend copying from web pages, worth $196. Reading 84 pages as clean text fits in the free plan’s 1,000 credits.

An estimate from the numbers you enter, not a forecast or a promise. It counts one credit per page read as clean text; asking for structured details costs five. Prices in US dollars as listed on firecrawl.dev in October 2026.

Free plan · 1,000 credits a monthFirecrawl

Start free with Firecrawl

Make an account and read your first pages free, with 1,000 credits every month and no credit card. When you need more, Hobby is $19 a month, or $16 billed yearly.

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