# v2.5.0 - The World's Best Web Data API

We now have the highest quality and most comprehensive web data available

- Published: October 25, 2025

![v2.5.0 Launch](/images/v25.png)

Today, we're excited to announce Firecrawl v2.5, which delivers the **highest quality** and **most comprehensive** web data API available. This release represents a significant leap forward in web data extraction, powered by two major infrastructure improvements: our new Semantic Index and a completely custom browser stack.

See the benchmarks below:

![Benchmarks](/images/benchmark.png)

We've open-sourced these benchmarks! Check out [scrape-evals](https://www.firecrawl.dev/blog/introducing-scrape-evals), our reproducible framework for testing web scraping engines on 1,000 real URLs.

### Highlights

* **Open-Source Scrape-Evals Benchmark**\
  We've released [scrape-evals](https://www.firecrawl.dev/blog/introducing-scrape-evals), an open-source benchmark testing 13 web scraping engines on 1,000 real URLs for coverage and quality.

* **Full-Page, High-Quality Extraction**\
  Improved browser stack ensures complete and consistent data from any type of website.

* **Semantic Index for Faster Results**\
  Retrieve either fresh data or a previously indexed snapshot with faster speeds and increased coverage.

* **5x Cheaper Search & New Credit Packs**\
  Search is now 5x cheaper and now every plan has an auto-recharge credit pack sized to match your scale.

* **Smarter Concurrency & Crawl Architecture**\
  New crawling system improves throughput, reliability, and queue fairness across large workloads.

* **Excel (.xlsx) Scraping Support**\
  Extract clean data directly from spreadsheets or csv files.

### Get Started with Firecrawl v2.5

Firecrawl v2.5 is available now for all users - no code changes required. You can start experiencing the improved quality and coverage today:

* Experiment in our interactive [playground](https://www.firecrawl.dev/playground)
* Review the complete [documentation](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/)
* [Sign up](/signup) to integrate Firecrawl into your applications

We're excited to see what you build with the world's most reliable web data API.

Read more about it in our blog post [here](/blog/the-worlds-best-web-data-api-v25.md) and view the full changelog [here](https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl/releases/tag/v2.5.0)

_Canonical HTML: https://www.firecrawl.dev/changelog/v25_

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- [Newer entry: v2.6.0 available now](/changelog/v26.md)
- [Older entry: v2.4.0 is live now](/changelog/v24.md)