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Firecrawl Gives AI Agents the Web.

Firecrawl is the context API for AI agents: one API key covers /search, /scrape, /crawl, /map, /interact and /agent, and every response comes back as clean Markdown or structured JSON. ScrapeBadger offers a single-URL scraping API plus dedicated scraper APIs that return JSON for a set list of sites. If your AI agent needs to search the open web, read whole sites, or pull data from official providers through Firecrawl Alexandria, Firecrawl covers that in one place.

Yes. Firecrawl returns clean Markdown on every scrape by default, and structured JSON when you pass a schema or prompt (+4 credits per page). Navigation, ads and footers are stripped, and across 200 real URLs that Markdown used over 90% fewer input tokens than raw HTML, so the output goes straight into a prompt or a vector store. ScrapeBadger's web scraping API returns HTML by default, with Markdown, plain text and screenshots available through its format parameter.

Firecrawl charges 1 credit per standard scrape, with JavaScript rendering included, and Standard covers 100,000 credits at $99/month billed monthly, or $83/month billed annually. ScrapeBadger also uses credits, shared across all of its APIs, but a web scrape costs its engine price plus a tier surcharge: its docs list 3 credits for a plain page and 7 for a JavaScript-rendered one, with higher tiers and AI extraction adding more. Its dedicated scraper APIs each have their own per-request price.

Yes. Firecrawl is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can run it on your own infrastructure for full control over data and compliance. ScrapeBadger's scraping platform is a hosted service; its open-source code covers its SDKs, MCP server and n8n node.

You can try Firecrawl without an API key through keyless access, capped per IP address per day: point an MCP client at the keyless Firecrawl MCP server or run npx firecrawl-cli@latest. A free account with an API key adds 1,000 credits a month, SDKs for Python, Node.js, Go, Rust and Java, and the full REST API. ScrapeBadger gives new accounts 1,000 free credits and offers SDKs in 12 languages.

Yes. Firecrawl /crawl follows links across a site and returns every page as Markdown, and Firecrawl /map lists a site's URLs in one call, so you can pick pages before you scrape them. ScrapeBadger's web scraping API works one URL per request, so discovering and queuing the pages of a site is left to your own code.

Yes. Firecrawl /search runs a web search and can return the full Markdown of each result in the same request, which suits AI agents that need sources, not just links. ScrapeBadger's search engine scrapers return result lists as JSON, so reading each result page takes a separate scrape request.

Firecrawl Alexandria gives AI agents 400+ data providers as tools inside a search call: with a Firecrawl API key on a team with Firecrawl Alexandria enabled, add alexandria to the search sources and the response lists matching tools next to the web results. They include official APIs such as SEC EDGAR, FRED and the World Bank, licensed publishers such as Fiscal.ai and Benzinga, and Firecrawl's Research, Developer and Government & Legal indexes. Finding a tool is free and running one is billed at the price the tool lists, from the same Firecrawl credits. ScrapeBadger's dedicated APIs scrape a fixed list of sites and return each site's own JSON schema.

Firecrawl is built for RAG and AI agents: /crawl turns a whole docs site or knowledge base into Markdown ready for chunking and embedding, and JSON extraction works on any URL with a schema or a natural-language prompt. ScrapeBadger can return Markdown and run AI extraction on single pages, but crawling a source and keeping it fresh needs extra code around it.

Swap your ScrapeBadger API key for a Firecrawl one and map each call to its Firecrawl endpoint. A web scrape request becomes a Firecrawl /scrape call, which returns Markdown without a format flag or a choice of engine. Browser steps written as js_scenario move to Firecrawl /interact, search engine scraper calls move to Firecrawl /search, and loops over lists of URLs can become a single Firecrawl /crawl or /map call.

Yes. Firecrawl is SOC 2 Type II compliant, and the annual renewal audit is in progress. Enterprise plans add zero data retention on Firecrawl's side for /scrape and /interact. For /search, ZDR comes in a Firecrawl-side mode and an end-to-end mode where the upstream search provider also retains nothing, and Firecrawl Alexandria tools aren't available in ZDR mode. Enterprise plans also include a DPA, SAML SSO with SCIM, and US data processing, which may help meet a security review's data-handling requirements. 67% of Fortune 100 companies use Firecrawl. ScrapeBadger publishes a DPA and offers SSO for its dashboard.