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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Firecrawl vs ScrapingBee

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

Head to head
Firecrawl compared with ScrapingBee per decision axis
AxisFirecrawlScrapingBeeEdge
Price$0.83 per 1000 requests$0.099 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).ScrapingBeeCheapest base rate in the field ($0.099/1000 base requests on Startup) and offers AI extraction; simple API with good docs. JS rendering is on by default and costs 5 credits (premium proxy 10, premium+JS 25, stealth proxy 75), so real cost is far higher — hence not comparable; success rate is heavily disputed between benchmarks (84.47% at Proxyway 2025 vs 48% at Scrapeway August 2026), so left null.
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