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Scrapfly vs Firecrawl pricing and cost per 1,000 rendered and plain HTML pages

The short answer

Scrapfly is cheaper per page at almost every volume, and Firecrawl is easier to forecast. A plain HTML page costs 1 Scrapfly credit, $0.10 per 1,000 on the $100 Pro plan, against $0.83 on Firecrawl Standard billed yearly. A JavaScript-rendered page costs 6 Scrapfly credits, $0.60 per 1,000 on Pro, while Firecrawl still charges 1 credit because it renders every page. Firecrawl wins when the output must be markdown or JSON for a model with one fixed price per page. Scrapfly wins on defended targets, with residential proxies and an anti-bot Unblocker, but the Unblocker has no fixed rate. If the deliverable is typed records from whole public sites, ClawEngine crawls and extracts them from $99 a month for about 250,000 pages.

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Scrapfly and Firecrawl show up on the same shortlist because both take a URL, render it and return something a program can use, and both now sell to AI teams. They come from opposite directions. Scrapfly is scraping infrastructure: a request goes through a datacenter or residential proxy pool, a browser if you ask for one and an anti-bot layer called the Unblocker, and every one of those options changes the credit cost. Firecrawl is a crawler built for language models: it renders every page, strips the boilerplate and returns markdown, or JSON against a schema, at one credit a page.

That difference shapes both price lists. Scrapfly sells very large credit buckets, a million credits for $100, and multiplies them by what each request needs. Firecrawl sells smaller buckets at one credit a page and only multiplies when you ask for typed JSON. Every figure on this page was read on 19 October 2026 from the pricing pages and billing documentation both vendors publish, not from a review site, and the five workloads below are priced from those figures alone.

For the full ladder on either side, see our Firecrawl pricing breakdown and the Scrapfly pricing guide with credit costs per request. If a proxy API is the other half of your shortlist, Firecrawl vs ScraperAPI prices that pair the same way, and Scrapfly alternatives and Firecrawl alternatives list the rest of the field.

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CRAWL RENDER JS EXTRACT MARKDOWN JSON

Any URL in LLM-ready data out

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Why it works

Three questions that settle Scrapfly vs Firecrawl

Do your pages need a browser?

For server-rendered HTML Scrapfly is about eight times cheaper, $0.10 per 1,000 pages on Pro against $0.83 on Firecrawl Standard. Turn on rendering and Scrapfly bills 6 credits, $0.60 per 1,000, so the gap closes to roughly a quarter. Firecrawl renders every page at 1 credit, which matters only if you were planning to pay for plain fetches.

How much of the bill can you predict?

Firecrawl is one number: pages times one credit, or five with JSON. Scrapfly adds bandwidth on heavy pages, residential proxies at 25 credits and an Unblocker with no fixed rate, and overage on Pro costs $3.50 per 10,000 credits, three and a half times the plan rate. Use the cost estimate parameter Scrapfly offers on your real targets before you sign.

Who turns the page into data?

Both will hand you typed JSON. Scrapfly charges 5 credits for an LLM extraction on top of the fetch, so a rendered page with extraction is 11 credits, $1.10 per 1,000 on Pro. Firecrawl charges 5 credits all in, $4.15 per 1,000 on Standard. Scrapfly is cheaper here too, but documents over 500 KB pay the extraction price again per 500 KB.

What it handles

Any URL in, clean structured data out

Point ClawEngine at a public page and it crawls, renders the JavaScript and extracts clean markdown or typed JSON in one call. Define a schema for structured fields, and respect robots.txt and Terms of Service by default.

Compares prices read firsthand from both vendors
Shows how rendering narrows the price gap
Prices five real workloads on each vendor
Explains the Scrapfly overage and bandwidth rules
Compares failed-request billing on both sides
States plainly where ClawEngine loses

POST /v1/extract extraction result

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{
  "url": "https://example.com/products/atlas",
  "title": "Atlas Field Notebook",
  "markdown": "# Atlas Field Notebook\n\nDurable...",
  "data": {
    "name": "Atlas Field Notebook",
    "price": 24.00,
    "currency": "USD",
    "rating": 4.7
  },
  "links": [ "/products", "/cart" ],
  "metadata": { "rendered": true }
}

JS rendered · boilerplate stripped ✓ robots.txt respected

Head to head

Scrapfly vs Firecrawl side by side

Every Scrapfly and Firecrawl figure below was read from the vendor pricing page or billing documentation on 19 October 2026. ClawEngine is the third column, and it loses the defended-site row outright.

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What you are comparing	Scrapfly	Firecrawl	ClawEngine
What it is	Scraping platform with proxy pools, browser rendering, an anti-bot Unblocker, a crawler and a separate Extraction API	Scrape, crawl, map and search API that turns sites into markdown or JSON, open source under AGPL	One API that crawls, renders JavaScript and extracts typed fields in a single call
What the meter counts	Credits, multiplied by proxy pool, rendering, bandwidth and extraction	Credits. 1 per page with rendering included, JSON adds 4	Pages on a monthly plan. One page of allowance per page returned
Paid plans	Discovery $30 for 200,000 credits, Pro $100 for 1,000,000, Startup $250 for 2,500,000, Enterprise $500 for 5,500,000	Hobby $16, Standard $83, Growth $333 and Scale $599 billed yearly for 5,000 to 1,000,000 credits	$49 Hobby, $99 Startup, $399 Scale, $798 Enterprise a month
Free usage	Free plan with 1,000 credits, no card required	1,000 credits a month	No free plan
Cost per 1,000 plain HTML pages	1 credit a page. $0.15 on Discovery, $0.10 on Pro and Startup, about $0.09 on Enterprise	$3.20 on Hobby, $0.83 on Standard, $0.67 on Growth, $0.60 on Scale, all billed yearly	$0.98 on Hobby, $0.40 on Startup, $0.27 on Scale
Cost per 1,000 JavaScript-rendered pages	6 credits a page. $0.90 on Discovery, $0.60 on Pro and Startup, about $0.55 on Enterprise	The same $0.83 to $0.60. Rendering is not billed extra	The same per-page price. Rendering is not billed extra
Defended sites	Residential pool 25 credits, 30 with rendering. The Unblocker may upgrade the pool, so its cost is not fixed	Enhanced proxy is billed as a basic 1-credit request. No published bypass rate	Not supported. We do not defeat anti-bot systems
Output	Raw HTML by default, or clean HTML, markdown, text or JSON	Markdown, HTML, links, screenshots, and JSON against your schema	Markdown or typed JSON against your schema
Typed output against your schema	Extraction prompt or AI model adds 5 credits, a template 1. A rendered page with LLM extraction is 11 credits, $1.10 per 1,000 on Pro	JSON format adds 4 credits, 5 per page, about $4.15 per 1,000 on Standard yearly	From Startup, up to 900 model-mapped pages a month, 3,500 on Scale. Pages with schema.org data are mapped without the model
Whole-site crawl	Yes. Crawler API at the same per-page rates, 1 credit plain and 6 rendered	Yes. Crawl and map endpoints at 1 credit a page	Yes, from a start URL with a page limit you set
Concurrency	5, 20, 50 and 100 on Discovery, Pro, Startup and Enterprise	5, 25, 50 and 100 on Hobby, Standard, Growth and Scale	Managed for you per crawl job
What a failed request costs	Most 4xx and 5xx failures are free, but 400, 404, 410 and some others are billed, and the waiver stops if over 30 percent of an hour fails	A scrape with no result is free. A 403 or 404 page still costs 1 credit	A page we could not process is not counted against the allowance
Large pages and PDFs	Text over 1 MB and rendered pages over 3 MB pay bandwidth. A 5 MB PDF on datacenter is 120 credits	PDF parsing adds 1 credit per PDF page	HTML pages only. No PDF or document OCR
When the allowance runs out	Discovery stops at the quota. Pro and up continue at $3.50, $2.00 and $1.20 per 10,000 extra credits	Plan credits reset monthly. Extra credits are bought on top	A fixed monthly page allowance
Best for	High volumes of HTML and hard targets where you tune proxy and browser options per site	Known sites and docs turned into clean markdown or JSON for a model at a fixed price per page	Typed records from whole public sites at a flat per-page price

US list prices in USD. Scrapfly lists monthly prices and gives two months free on annual billing. Firecrawl shows yearly-billed prices on its pricing page, with Hobby at $19 billed monthly. Scrapfly figures come from scrapfly.io/pricing and its scrape, crawler and extraction billing docs, Firecrawl figures from firecrawl.dev/pricing and docs.firecrawl.dev/billing.

Why ClawEngine

One API that crawls, renders and extracts

Not a raw HTML dump, not a headless browser fleet to run, and not a brittle parser to maintain. One call crawls a public page, renders its JavaScript and returns clean markdown or typed JSON, built for RAG pipelines and AI agents.

LLM-ready output

Clean markdown or typed JSON with the boilerplate stripped, so the data drops straight into a vector store, a prompt or an agent without a cleanup step.

JavaScript rendered

Each page loads in a real browser environment before extraction, so single-page apps and client-rendered content come back complete, not as an empty shell.

Compliance-first

ClawEngine works on public, permitted data only. It respects robots.txt and site Terms of Service and honors crawl-delay, so responsible scraping is the default.

Code examples

The typed-records half of this job in one request

When the targets are public sites that do not fight back, there is no proxy pool to choose and no per-option credit math. One call crawls from the start URL, renders JavaScript, respects robots.txt and returns one typed record per page.

curl Crawl a documentation section and return typed records per page

curl https://clawengine.ai/v1/crawl \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLAWENGINE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://docs.example.com/api",
    "limit": 100,
    "render": true,
    "format": "structured",
    "schema": {
      "endpoint": "string",
      "method": "string",
      "description": "string",
      "parameters": "string"
    }
  }'

# The POST answers 202 with the crawl id. Read the pages when it completes:
curl https://clawengine.ai/v1/crawl/<id> \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLAWENGINE_API_KEY"

# No proxy pool, no render surcharge, one record per page in your schema.

Scrapfly vs Firecrawl, the questions buyers ask

Is Scrapfly better than Firecrawl?

For hard targets and plain HTML at volume, usually yes. Scrapfly gives you residential proxies, an anti-bot Unblocker and per-request control, and a plain page costs about an eighth of what Firecrawl charges. For AI pipelines that read known sites, Firecrawl is simpler: one credit a page, rendering included, and markdown or schema JSON in the same call with no per-option math.

Is Scrapfly cheaper than Firecrawl?

Per page, yes, at almost every volume. Plain HTML is $0.10 per 1,000 on Scrapfly Pro against $0.83 on Firecrawl Standard billed yearly, and rendered pages are $0.60 against $0.83. The exception is around 100,000 rendered pages a month, where Firecrawl Standard at $83 yearly beats Scrapfly Pro at $100. Residential proxies, bandwidth and Unblocker upgrades can erase the Scrapfly advantage on defended sites.

What is the difference between Scrapfly and Firecrawl?

Scrapfly is scraping infrastructure where you choose the proxy pool, browser and anti-bot settings per request, and each choice changes the credit cost. Firecrawl is a crawler built for language models that renders every page and returns markdown or JSON at one credit a page. Scrapfly is stronger on blocked sites. Firecrawl is stronger on clean output and a predictable bill.

How much does Scrapfly cost?

Scrapfly has a free plan with 1,000 credits, then Discovery at $30 a month for 200,000 credits, Pro at $100 for 1,000,000, Startup at $250 for 2,500,000 and Enterprise at $500 for 5,500,000, with custom plans above that. A plain request is 1 credit, rendering adds 5, a residential proxy is 25 and an LLM extraction adds 5. Annual billing gives two months free.

How much does Firecrawl cost?

Firecrawl has a free tier of 1,000 credits a month, then Hobby at $16 a month for 5,000 credits, Standard at $83 for 100,000, Growth at $333 for 500,000 and Scale at $599 for 1,000,000, all billed yearly. A page is 1 credit with rendering included, JSON output adds 4 credits and PDF parsing adds 1 per PDF page.

Does Scrapfly return markdown?

Yes. The Scrapfly scrape API takes a format parameter with raw, clean_html, json, markdown and text, and markdown and text accept options such as only_content and no_links. The default is raw HTML, so set the format explicitly. For typed fields rather than markdown, Scrapfly uses its Extraction API, which bills 5 credits for a prompt or AI model and 1 for a template.

Does Scrapfly charge for failed requests?

Mostly not. Responses with status 400 or higher are covered by its failed-scrape protection, except a listed set that includes 400, 401, 404 and 410, which are billed. If more than 30 percent of your traffic fails within an hour, the protection switches off and the failures are billed. Firecrawl bills a 403 or 404 page at 1 credit when it returns a document.

Which is better for scraping sites with Cloudflare, Scrapfly or Firecrawl?

Scrapfly, on the evidence each vendor publishes. It documents residential proxy pools and an Unblocker built for anti-bot systems, with cost reported in a response header so you can measure it. Firecrawl offers an enhanced proxy at no extra credit cost but publishes no bypass rate. Test a sample of your real targets on both before you commit to a plan.

Is there an alternative to Scrapfly and Firecrawl for typed data?

If the output you need is typed records from whole public sites, ClawEngine crawls, renders JavaScript and extracts to your schema in one call at a flat per-page price from $99 a month, with up to 900 model-mapped pages on Startup. It does not defeat anti-bot systems, so for defended targets Scrapfly is the honest answer.

Good questions

Questions about Scrapfly vs Firecrawl

On Scrapfly it is 600,000 credits at 6 a page, which fits the Pro plan at $100 a month for 1,000,000. On Firecrawl it is the Standard plan, $83 a month billed yearly or $99 monthly, because rendering is included. This is the one volume where the two are close, and Firecrawl is slightly cheaper on yearly billing.

Scrapfly bills 1 credit a page, so a million pages is exactly the Pro plan at $100 a month. Firecrawl needs the Scale plan at $599 a month billed yearly for 1,000,000 credits. Scrapfly is about six times cheaper on this workload, and the gap is the main reason teams with plain HTML at volume pick it.

Scrapfly needs 1,800,000 credits, which is the Startup plan at $250 for 2,500,000. Staying on Pro would cost $100 plus 800,000 overage credits at $3.50 per 10,000, $380 in total, so the upgrade is the cheaper move. Firecrawl needs Growth at $333 billed yearly for 500,000 credits. Scrapfly saves about $83 a month here.

On Scrapfly a rendered page with LLM extraction is 11 credits, 220,000 in total, one step past the 200,000 on Discovery, so it is Pro at $100. On Firecrawl it is 5 credits a page, 100,000 in total, Standard at $83 billed yearly. ClawEngine maps up to 900 pages a month with the model on Startup and 3,500 on Scale, so at 20,000 typed pages a month either vendor is the better fit unless your pages publish schema.org data.

At 30 credits a page that is 1,500,000 credits, which is the Startup plan at $250 a month. If the Unblocker upgrades the pool on some targets, the cost per page can rise further, so read the cost header on a sample first. Firecrawl bills these pages at 1 credit if it can fetch them, so the real test is the success rate on your own targets.

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