Firecrawl CLI gives agents the complete web data toolkit for scraping, searching, and browsing. Try it now →
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Why Firecrawl
See why teams choose
Firecrawl over Scrape.do.
When comparing Firecrawl vs Scrape.do, the difference comes down to getting clean data out of the box instead of raw HTML you still have to parse.
apple.com
Endpoint
Scrape
Status
Success
Started
Mar 16, 2026
2:51 PM
Formats
Markdown
JSON
Clean, reliable data for AI pipelines
Turn any URL into clean, structured data that your AI agents and apps can use.
See use casesScrape
Search
Crawl
Agent
Browse
The complete web data toolkit
Search, scrape, browse, and more with a single API. No stitching tools together.
See docsfirecrawl/firecrawlPublic
Turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data.
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TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
licenseAGPL-3.0
downloads18M
contributors136
Open source and self-hostable
Full control over your data, compliance, and infrastructure with 90k+ GitHub stars.
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Benchmarks
Firecrawl leads on extraction quality.
And so much more.
Coverage
0%
success rate
Quality
0.000
F1 score for accuracy
Recall
0.000
content recall rate
Speed
0ms
P95 latency
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Firecrawl vs. Scrape.do
Firecrawl is purpose-built for
AI agents and developers.
The best Scrape.do alternative is one that delivers LLM-ready output, a unified API, and an open-source foundation you can trust.
Firecrawl
JS / React rendering
Live browser rendering at no extra cost, every plan
Supported via render=true parameter (5x credit cost)
Multiple output formats
Markdown, HTML, JSON, screenshots, links, and more
HTML by default; markdown via output parameter
Batch processing
High-volume requests with automatic rate limiting
Async API for bulk job processing
LLM-ready output by default
Clean markdown and structured JSON, no post-processing
Returns raw HTML by default; markdown requires extra parameter
Web search + content extraction
Search the web and scrape results in one API call
No search endpoint; scraping only
AI agent for autonomous research
Describe what you need, no URLs required
No agent capability
Cloud browser sandbox
Managed browser with code execution, live view, and CDP access
Scraping Browser listed as "Coming Soon"
Official SDKs + AI integrations
Python, Node.js, Java SDKs plus MCP, LangChain, LlamaIndex
HTTP API code samples only; no official SDKs or AI integrations
Open source + self-hostable
Full control for compliance, data residency, and infrastructure
Proprietary; no self-hosting option
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Customer Testimonials
“Firecrawl allows our customers to pull the web information they need directly in our product.”
Andrew Gardner
Sr. Engineer
“If your agent or LLM needs web content, Firecrawl delivers the best-formatted results.”
Zhen Li
Staff AI Engineer
“What makes Firecrawl essential is how it turns messy web data into clean, AI-ready content.”
Steven Tey
Founder & CEO
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FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Firecrawl returns clean markdown and structured JSON out of the box with no post-processing. Scrape.do returns raw HTML by default. You can get markdown via their output=md parameter, but there is no built-in LLM-powered extraction or schema-based JSON output.
Firecrawl uses credit-based pricing starting at 1 credit per page, with plans from $16/month for 3,000 credits. Scrape.do starts at $29/month for 250,000 credits, but JS rendering costs 5x and residential proxies cost 10x, so effective costs depend heavily on your use case.
Firecrawl goes further. One API call crawls thousands of pages with automatic sitemap discovery, depth control, and regex filtering. Scrape.do has no crawl endpoint. You would need to build your own link-following logic and manage URL queues yourself.
Yes. Firecrawl is fully open source under the AGPL-3.0 license and can be self-hosted for complete control over your data, compliance, and infrastructure. Scrape.do is proprietary with no self-hosting option.
Yes. Firecrawl's agent endpoint lets you describe what data you need in plain language without specifying URLs. The agent autonomously searches, navigates, and extracts structured data. Scrape.do does not offer any agent or autonomous research capability.
Most developers are productive in minutes. Firecrawl offers official SDKs for Python, Node.js, and Java, plus integrations with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and an MCP server for AI tools. Scrape.do provides HTTP API code samples but no official SDK packages or AI framework integrations.
Firecrawl is purpose-built for AI pipelines. It returns clean markdown ready for chunking and embedding, with structured extraction via natural language prompts or JSON Schema. Scrape.do can output markdown via a parameter, but you would need to handle structured extraction, schema mapping, and pipeline integration yourself.
Replace your Scrape.do API calls with Firecrawl's /scrape endpoint. You will get clean markdown instead of raw HTML, eliminating your parsing layer. Firecrawl's SDKs make the swap a few lines of code. If you built custom crawling logic on top of Scrape.do, Firecrawl's /crawl endpoint replaces all of it with a single call.
Yes. Firecrawl is SOC 2 Type II compliant with GDPR compliance and DPA available. Enterprise plans include zero data retention and 99.9% SLA. You can self-host for air-gapped environments or use the managed cloud. Over 500,000 developers and 80,000+ companies use Firecrawl.
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