Firecrawl alternatives
10 tools that do a similar job to Firecrawl in data & research.
Alternatives listed
10
Free options
None
Open source
None
The alternatives
Apify
Free plan
Marketplace of ready-made scrapers plus a platform to run them.
Jina AI
Free plan
Embeddings, rerankers and a URL-to-markdown reader endpoint.
Tavily
Free plan
Search API that returns answers agents can use directly.
Browse AI
Free plan
Point at a page, get a monitored scraper without code.
Exa
Free plan
Search API built for agents rather than for humans.
Connected Papers
Free plan
Visual graph of what a paper cites and what cites it.
Consensus
Free plan
Search engine that answers from peer-reviewed studies.
Deepnote
Free plan
Collaborative notebooks with an AI analyst alongside the cells.
Elicit
Free plan
Literature review across research papers, with extracted findings.
Hex
Free plan
Notebooks that publish as dashboards, with AI-written SQL.
Side by side
| Tool | Pricing | What it's for |
|---|---|---|
| Firecrawl (current) | Free plan | Turns any website into clean markdown your model can read. |
| Apify | Free plan | Marketplace of ready-made scrapers plus a platform to run them. |
| Jina AI | Free plan | Embeddings, rerankers and a URL-to-markdown reader endpoint. |
| Tavily | Free plan | Search API that returns answers agents can use directly. |
| Browse AI | Free plan | Point at a page, get a monitored scraper without code. |
| Exa | Free plan | Search API built for agents rather than for humans. |
| Connected Papers | Free plan | Visual graph of what a paper cites and what cites it. |
| Consensus | Free plan | Search engine that answers from peer-reviewed studies. |
| Deepnote | Free plan | Collaborative notebooks with an AI analyst alongside the cells. |
| Elicit | Free plan | Literature review across research papers, with extracted findings. |
| Hex | Free plan | Notebooks that publish as dashboards, with AI-written SQL. |
Head to head
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