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.
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.
This week’s prices
- Pork belly, per kg$14.50
- Rice noodles (bihon), 5 kg$22.00
- Calamansi, 1 kg$9.80
# 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.
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 planCredits this month1,000RefreshesEvery monthCredit cardNot neededGive 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 |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 }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/contactReadSearch 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 bookingsmarkets.exampleFull page textfairs.exampleFull page textKeep 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 changedPork belly, per kg$14.50Pork belly, per kg$15.20Emailed to you this morningPlug 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 withNo codeZapier · Make · n8nAI 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.
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.
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.
Kislap is a Firecrawl affiliate and may earn a commission if you sign up through this link. The businesses shown on this page are illustrations.