Firecrawl vs ScraperAPI on price
Across 16 workloads (10,000 to 1,000,000 successful pages a month, four kinds of page), Firecrawl is cheaper in 7, ScraperAPI in 8; 1 needs a custom plan on one of them. By page kind: plain HTML, ScraperAPI at every volume; JavaScript rendering, it depends on volume; premium proxies, it depends on volume; JavaScript + premium proxies, Firecrawl at most volumes.
What one page costs in credits
| Page kind | Firecrawl | ScraperAPI |
|---|---|---|
| Plain HTML | 1 credits | 1 credits |
| JavaScript rendering | 1 credits | 10 credits |
| Premium proxies | 1 credits | 10 credits |
| JavaScript + premium proxies | 1 credits | 25 credits |
Plain HTML
| Pages a month | Firecrawl | ScraperAPI | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $99 Standard | $49 Hobby | $9.90 vs $4.90 |
| 50,000 | $99 Standard | $49 Hobby | $1.98 vs $0.98 |
| 250,000 | $399 Growth | $149 Startup | $1.60 vs $0.60 |
| 1,000,000 | $749 Scale | $149 Startup | $0.75 vs $0.15 |
JavaScript rendering
| Pages a month | Firecrawl | ScraperAPI | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $99 Standard | $49 Hobby | $9.90 vs $4.90 |
| 50,000 | $99 Standard | $149 Startup | $1.98 vs $2.98 |
| 250,000 | $399 Growth | $299 Business | $1.60 vs $1.20 |
| 1,000,000 | $749 Scale | $975 Professional | $0.75 vs $0.97 |
Premium proxies
| Pages a month | Firecrawl | ScraperAPI | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $99 Standard | $49 Hobby | $9.90 vs $4.90 |
| 50,000 | $99 Standard | $149 Startup | $1.98 vs $2.98 |
| 250,000 | $399 Growth | $299 Business | $1.60 vs $1.20 |
| 1,000,000 | $749 Scale | $975 Professional | $0.75 vs $0.97 |
JavaScript + premium proxies
| Pages a month | Firecrawl | ScraperAPI | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $99 Standard | $149 Startup | $9.90 vs $14.90 |
| 50,000 | $99 Standard | $299 Business | $1.98 vs $5.98 |
| 250,000 | $399 Growth | $975 Professional | $1.60 vs $3.90 |
| 1,000,000 | $749 Scale | Custom | $0.75 vs – |
Cheapest published plan a month with monthly billing; bold marks the cheaper. "Custom" means the volume needs more than the largest published plan.
What the numbers say
- A page that needs JavaScript rendering costs the same as a plain page on Firecrawl; on ScraperAPI it costs 10 times a plain page. A protected page (JavaScript and premium proxies) costs the same as a plain page on Firecrawl; on ScraperAPI it costs 25 times a plain page.
- The gap is widest at 1,000,000 plain HTML pages a month: ScraperAPI costs $149, 80% less than Firecrawl at $749.
- Per 1,000 plain pages, the price falls with volume: Firecrawl from $9.90 at 10,000 pages to $0.75 at 1,000,000; ScraperAPI from $4.90 at 10,000 pages to $0.15 at 1,000,000.
- The cheapest way in is $19 a month (Hobby) on Firecrawl and $49 a month (Hobby) on ScraperAPI.
- Billed yearly, at 250,000 plain pages a month: Firecrawl drops from $399 to $333 a month (17% off); ScraperAPI drops from $149 to $134.10 a month (10% off).
Worth knowing
- Firecrawl: 1 credit per page; Firecrawl lists no JavaScript or proxy surcharge.
- ScraperAPI: No surcharges beyond the credit multipliers above.
Price your own volume on all 10 APIs, or compare every API's credit multipliers.
Prices checked against each platform's own pricing page on .