Scrapfly vs Firecrawl on price
Across 16 workloads (10,000 to 1,000,000 successful pages a month, four kinds of page), Scrapfly is cheaper in 6, Firecrawl in 5; 5 need a custom plan on one of them. By page kind: plain HTML, Scrapfly at every volume; JavaScript rendering, Scrapfly at most volumes; premium proxies, Firecrawl at most volumes; JavaScript + premium proxies, Firecrawl at most volumes.
What one page costs in credits
| Page kind | Scrapfly | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Plain HTML | 1 credit | 1 credit |
| JavaScript rendering | 6 credits | 1 credit |
| Premium proxies | 25 credits | 1 credit |
| JavaScript + premium proxies | 30 credits | 1 credit |
Plain HTML
| Pages a month | Scrapfly | Firecrawl | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $30 Discovery | $99 Standard | $3 vs $9.90 |
| 50,000 | $30 Discovery | $99 Standard | $0.60 vs $1.98 |
| 250,000 | $100 Pro | $399 Growth | $0.40 vs $1.60 |
| 1,000,000 | $100 Pro | $749 Scale | $0.10 vs $0.75 |
JavaScript rendering
| Pages a month | Scrapfly | Firecrawl | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $30 Discovery | $99 Standard | $3 vs $9.90 |
| 50,000 | $100 Pro | $99 Standard | $2 vs $1.98 |
| 250,000 | $250 Startup | $399 Growth | $1 vs $1.60 |
| 1,000,000 | Custom | $749 Scale | – vs $0.75 |
Premium proxies
| Pages a month | Scrapfly | Firecrawl | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $100 Pro | $99 Standard | $10 vs $9.90 |
| 50,000 | $250 Startup | $99 Standard | $5 vs $1.98 |
| 250,000 | Custom | $399 Growth | – vs $1.60 |
| 1,000,000 | Custom | $749 Scale | – vs $0.75 |
JavaScript + premium proxies
| Pages a month | Scrapfly | Firecrawl | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $100 Pro | $99 Standard | $10 vs $9.90 |
| 50,000 | $250 Startup | $99 Standard | $5 vs $1.98 |
| 250,000 | Custom | $399 Growth | – vs $1.60 |
| 1,000,000 | Custom | $749 Scale | – vs $0.75 |
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 6 times a plain page on Scrapfly; on Firecrawl it costs the same as a plain page. A protected page (JavaScript and premium proxies) costs 30 times a plain page on Scrapfly; on Firecrawl it costs the same as a plain page.
- The gap is widest at 1,000,000 plain HTML pages a month: Scrapfly costs $100, 87% less than Firecrawl at $749.
- Per 1,000 plain pages, the price falls with volume: Scrapfly from $3 at 10,000 pages to $0.10 at 1,000,000; Firecrawl from $9.90 at 10,000 pages to $0.75 at 1,000,000.
- The cheapest way in is $30 a month (Discovery) on Scrapfly and $19 a month (Hobby) on Firecrawl.
- Billed yearly, at 250,000 plain pages a month: Scrapfly lists no yearly price; Firecrawl drops from $399 to $333 a month (17% off).
Worth knowing
- Scrapfly: JavaScript costs 6 credits per Scrapfly's billing docs; its pricing page says 5. We use the higher figure.
- Firecrawl: 1 credit per page; Firecrawl lists no JavaScript or proxy surcharge.
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 .