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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Firecrawl vs Apify

Firecrawl vs Apify (Web Scraping platform) for scraping & browser. Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Firecrawl compared with Apify (Web Scraping platform) per decision axis
AxisFirecrawlApify (Web Scraping platform)Edge
Price$0.83 per 1000 requests$0.5 per 1000 requests*—
Success69%——
LLM-ready✓✓—
browser✓✓—

* token-/credit-priced — the headline understates real per-unit cost, so no price edge is awarded.

Strengths & caveats
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).ApifyBroadest platform: 61,000+ ready-made Actors, full browser automation (Playwright/Puppeteer) and LLM-ready crawlers (Website Content Crawler -> markdown); free tier with $5 credits/month. Price is Compute-Unit-/Actor-dependent and therefore unpredictable (~$0.20/1000 via HTTP up to $0.50-$5.00/1000 with a browser, plus separate proxy and data-transfer fees) — not comparable as a fixed per-request price; no independent aggregate success rate, as results vary per Actor.
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