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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Bright Data vs Firecrawl

Web Unlocker vs Firecrawl for scraping & browser. Price: $1.5 per 1000 requests vs $0.83 per 1000 requests — edge Firecrawl Success: 98.44% vs 69% — edge Bright Data Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Web Unlocker compared with Firecrawl per decision axis
AxisWeb UnlockerFirecrawlEdge
Price$1.5 per 1000 requests$0.83 per 1000 requestsFirecrawl
Success98.44%69%Bright Data
LLM-ready—✓—
browser—✓—
Strengths & caveats
Bright DataHighest independently-measured success rate (98.44% in Scrape.do's benchmark of 11 providers) on heavily protected sites, with pay-per-success billing and the largest proxy network. Returns raw HTML, not LLM-ready markdown/JSON; the effective per-request price varies by plan and target (ScrapeCreators cites $0.75-$2.50/1000) and the success rate comes from a benchmark published by a competitor (Scrape.do).FirecrawlStrongest LLM-ready output (direct markdown/JSON with schema extraction), cheap per page ($0.00083/page on Standard) and 69% success in Scrapeway's August 2026 test — better than ScrapingBee (48%) in that same test. Lower reliability on heavily protected sites than the unblocking specialists; Stealth Mode and /extract can cost up to ~5 credits per request, sharply raising the effective price (the pricing page lists only the 1 credit/page base rate, so the stealth multiplier is not vendor-confirmed).
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