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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Firecrawl vs Browserbase

Firecrawl vs Browserbase for scraping & browser. Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Firecrawl compared with Browserbase per decision axis
AxisFirecrawlBrowserbaseEdge
Price$0.83 per 1000 requests$0.05 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).BrowserbasePure cloud-browser infrastructure built for AI agents: full programmable browser automation (Playwright/Puppeteer/CDP), per-hour billing and 25 concurrent browsers from $20/month (100 concurrent on the $99 Startup plan). No ready-made unblocking/anti-bot layer or LLM-ready extraction (raw browser output); billing per browser-hour ($0.10-$0.12/hour) + proxy per GB does not convert to per-request — the $0.05/1000 is a rough light estimate and therefore not comparable; no independent success benchmark.
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