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Median token reduction
94%
35,980 fewer input tokens on a typical page
$ saved per 10,000 scrapes
$1,079
On Claude Sonnet 4.6 ($3/M input)
Hobby breakeven
176 scrapes
Just 3.5% of the credits in a $19/mo plan
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The comparison
What your LLM actually needs vs what raw HTML sends
On a typical page, Firecrawl strips 93% of the bytes and gives your model only the content it can reason about.
Raw HTMLvia fetch(url)
38,381 tokensFirecrawl markdownvia /v2/scrape
2,788 tokensYou stop sending your model 35,593 tokens of nav, ads, scripts, and footers.
−93%
Firecrawl is a cost a discount on your LLM bill that happens to also fix all the annoying parts of web scraping — while delivering the highest content quality.
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Dollar savings by model
What that looks like on your bill.
Pure savings on input-token cost. Output stays the same.
| Model | $/M input | Saved / scrape | Saved / 10k | Saved / 100k |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Claude Opus 4.7Popular Anthropic | $5.00 | $0.1799 | $1,799 | $17,990 |
GPT-5.5 OpenAI | $5.00 | $0.1780 | $1,780 | $17,801 |
Claude Sonnet 4.6Popular Anthropic | $3.00 | $0.1079 | $1,079 | $10,794 |
GPT-5.4Popular OpenAI | $2.50 | $0.0890 | $890 | $8,901 |
Gemini 2.5 Pro Google | $1.25 | $0.0450 | $450 | $4,498 |
Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic | $1.00 | $0.0360 | $360 | $3,598 |
GPT-5.4 mini OpenAI | $0.75 | $0.0267 | $267 | $2,670 |
Gemini 2.5 Flash Google | $0.30 | $0.0108 | $108 | $1,079 |
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Breakeven calculator
How fast does Firecrawl pay you back?
Pick a plan and a model.
$ saved / scrape
$0.1079
per page
Breakeven
176
scrapes
$ saved at full plan
$540
5,000 credits
ROI
28.4×
+$521 net
0 scrapes5,000 scrapes (full plan)
pure savings →
176 scrapes to break even
3.5% of plan credits
Hobby at $19/mo on Claude Sonnet 4.6 covers itself after 176 scrapes. Use the rest of the plan and you save $540 — a 28.4× return.