Firecrawl
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Rate limit1,000 credits/month free; keyless tier available.
Documentation: docs.firecrawl.dev ยท Checked Sep 18, 2026
About
Firecrawl scrapes pages, crawls sites, and returns structured markdown or JSON tuned for LLM pipelines, with an official MCP server so Claude and Cursor can use it directly. The free plan includes 1,000 credits a month with no card required, plus a keyless rate-limited tier with no signup.
Details
Free to start. You may need a free key, but no credit card.
Auth: Free key (no card)
Rate limit: 1,000 credits/month free; keyless tier available.
Verified: 2026-09-18
Best for: developer
Setup
- Sign up at firecrawl.dev and copy your API key.
- POST a URL to /v1/scrape for markdown, or /v1/crawl for whole sites.
- Pipe the structured output straight into your agent pipeline.
Example
POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1/scrape --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"Use cases
- Web scraping for agents
- Site crawling
- Structured page extraction