Firecrawl gives new accounts a one-time signup credit rather than an ongoing free tier. The free plan includes access to 500 one-time credits for getting started, Scrape up to 500 pages on the free plan, and Use up to 2 concurrent requests on the free plan.
About
Firecrawl is a web data infrastructure platform that helps AI systems search, scrape, crawl, and interact with live websites. It turns messy, dynamic web content into clean, LLM-ready data through APIs, SDKs, and an MCP-compatible workflow.
The product is designed for developers and AI teams that need reliable access to web content at scale. It supports search results with full content, structured scraping outputs such as markdown, JSON, and screenshots, and interactive browser actions for pages that require clicks, navigation, or form input.
- Search the web and return relevant results with full-page content.
- Scrape websites into markdown, JSON, screenshots, and structured data.
- Interact with pages using actions such as click, scroll, type, wait, and press.
- Connect to AI agents and MCP clients with CLI and agent onboarding support.
- Use open-source and hosted infrastructure for reliable web extraction.
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable, but it is tightly capped at 1,000 credits a month, which maps to about 10% of the Hobby plan’s 5,000-page allowance. Since Hobby is $16/month and the free plan keeps the same core capabilities with lower limits and no card required, its practical value is about $1/month.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Access to 500 one-time credits for getting started.
- Scrape up to 500 pages on the free plan.
- Use up to 2 concurrent requests on the free plan.
- Benefit from low rate limits on the free plan.
See Firecrawl pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Hobby
- credits/month
- 5,000
- pages/month
- 5,000
- concurrent requests
- 5
- Scrape 5,000 pages
- 5 concurrent requests
- Basic support
Standard
- credits/month
- 100,000
- pages/month
- 100,000
- concurrent requests
- 50
- Scrape 100,000 pages
- 50 concurrent requests
- Standard support
Growth
- credits/month
- 500,000
- pages/month
- 500,000
- concurrent requests
- 100
- Scrape 500,000 pages
- 100 concurrent requests
- Priority support
Scale
- credits/month
- 1,000,000
- pages/month
- 1,000,000
- concurrent requests
- 150
- extra credits
- $397 per extra 350k credits
- 1,000,000 credits / month
- Scrape 1,000,000 pages
- 150 concurrent requests
- Priority support
- $397 per extra 350k credits
Enterprise
- credits
- Custom
- pages
- Unlimited
- concurrent requests
- Custom
- Custom credits
- Scrape unlimited pages
- Custom concurrent requests
- Dedicated support & SLA
- Bulk discounts
- Zero-data retention
- SSO & advanced security
Pricing extracted from Firecrawl's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Firecrawl free forever?
No. Firecrawl gives new accounts a one-time signup credit, spent at normal usage rates, then the account moves to pay-as-you-go.
Does Firecrawl require a credit card?
No. You can start on Firecrawl's free tier without entering card details.
What happens when you exceed Firecrawl's free tier?
Once the signup credit runs out the account moves to pay-as-you-go pricing. Firecrawl's cheapest published paid plan is Hobby at $16 / month.
What is Firecrawl's free tier worth?
Firecrawl's free tier is worth about $1.00 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 49/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
