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Web data API that turns websites into clean, LLM-ready markdown, JSON, and search results.

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Pricing

Freemium

Category

AI Agents

Company

SideGuide Technologies (formerly Mendable)

Founded

2024

Free tier includes 1,000 pages/month. Paid plans: Hobby $16/mo (5,000 pages), Standard $83/mo (100,000 pages), Growth $333/mo (500,000 pages), Scale $599/mo (1M credits), Enterprise custom; prices are annual-billing equivalents.

Pricing verified Jul 2026

Who It's For
AI engineers building agents and RAG pipelinesDevelopers needing web data without maintaining scrapersData teams doing large-scale extractionStartups shipping AI features on live web data
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CompanySideGuide Technologies (formerly Mendable)
Founded2024
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About Firecrawl

Firecrawl is a web crawling, scraping, and search API built for AI applications. It converts URLs to clean markdown, HTML, screenshots, or structured JSON via a single API call, handling JavaScript rendering and proxies automatically. The project is open source with a large community, and the hosted version adds an interact mode for operating pages and an MCP server for agent integrations.

Key Features

  • Scrape, crawl, map, search, and interact endpoints
  • LLM-ready markdown and structured JSON output
  • Automatic JavaScript rendering and smart wait
  • Official MCP server and CLI for agent setup
  • SDKs for Python, Node, Go, Rust, Java, and Elixir
  • Open-source core with hosted enterprise options

Pros & Cons

Pros

+ Open source core with very large community adoption

+ Clean markdown output reduces token usage for LLMs

+ Handles JS-heavy pages without configuration

+ Official MCP server and multi-language SDKs

Cons

- Credit system makes costs hard to predict at scale

- No pay-per-use option; credits mostly do not roll over

- Advanced features consume extra credits per call

Use Cases

Feeding web pages into RAG pipelines as clean markdownPowering deep-research agents with search and scrapeCrawling entire sites for structured data extractionLead enrichment and competitive intelligenceGiving coding agents web access via MCP

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