Overview
Firecrawl is a crawling and scraping API aimed at AI and large language model applications, returning pages as Markdown, HTML, screenshots or structured JSON. Its core repository is published under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0, with SDKs under the MIT licence, and the hosted cloud version includes features not present in the self-hosted edition.[15] The hosted service has a Free plan with 1,000 credits per month, Hobby at US$19 (5,000 credits), Standard at US$99 (100,000), Growth at US$399 (500,000) and Scale at US$749 (1,000,000) per month, with discounts of 16.7% to 20% for annual billing and custom Enterprise pricing.[14]
Firecrawl strengths and limitations
Strengths
- Output formatted for LLM ingestion
- Self-hostable open-source core
- Free monthly plan
Limitations
- AGPL licence imposes obligations on modified network deployments
- Some cloud features are absent from the self-hosted version
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