Free
$0
Free
US$0. $5 of platform usage a month, no card.
API included
Plan details
Compute $0.20 per compute unit, 16 GB RAM, 5 concurrent runs (the limits docs say 25). Blocked, not billed, once the $5 is used, until the next cycle.
Comparison
Apify vs Firecrawl
Apify is a marketplace of 98,000+ ready-made scrapers, called Actors, plus the cloud that runs them, billed as prepaid platform usage from $19 a month. Firecrawl is one API that turns any URL or whole site into markdown or JSON, billed at 1 credit a page from $19 a month for 5,000 credits. Both have free plans with no card and official MCP servers.
Pick Apify if
- You need data from a specific site, such as LinkedIn, Instagram or Google Maps, and a ready-made Actor already…
- You want to run your own scraper code on hosted servers with proxies, storage and schedules included
Pick Firecrawl if
- You want any URL returned as clean markdown at 1 credit a page, or as LLM-extracted JSON for 4 credits more
- You need every URL on a site: map returns up to 100,000 URLs in one call
Apify
Scraping, Data platform
Firecrawl
Scraping, Research
At a glance
Apify
- From
- $19/moFree; Starter monthly, $17 annual
- Free plan
- Yes$5 usage/mo, no card
- Cost per unit
- $0.20 per computeunit, plus Actor fees
- MCP server
- Official
Firecrawl
- From
- $19/moFree; Hobby monthly, $16 annual
- Free plan
- Yes1,000 credits/mo, no card
- Cost per unit
- $3.801 credit/page, about /1,000 on Hobby
- MCP server
- Official
Where they differ
13 points side by side. Open a value for the full detail.
| What | Apify | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Free; Starter $19/mo monthly, $17 annualFree $0 a month with $5 of platform usage, no card. Starter $19 billed monthly or $17 a month billed annually; Scale $199 or $179; Business $999 or $899. Each paid plan's fee comes back as the same amount of prepaid usage. Verified 2026-10-25. | Free; Hobby $19/mo monthly, $16 annualFree $0 with 1,000 credits a month, no card. Hobby $19 billed monthly or $16 a month billed annually (5,000 credits); Standard $99 or $83 (100,000); Growth $399 or $333 (500,000); Scale $749 or $599 (1,000,000). Verified 2026-10-25. | |
| $0.20 per compute unit, plus Actor feesTwo layers. Platform usage: compute at $0.20 per compute unit (1 GB of RAM for 1 hour) on Free and Starter, $0.16 on Scale and $0.13 on Business, plus proxies and storage. Most Store Actors also charge per event, such as per result, at a price their developer sets on the Actor's page. | 1 credit/page, about $3.80/1,000 on Hobby1 credit per page for scrape and crawl, about $3.80 per 1,000 pages on Hobby and $0.99 on Standard (monthly billing). Search costs 2 credits per 10 results. Add-ons stack: JSON extraction +4 a page, PDF +1 a PDF page. LinkedIn profile and company URLs are answered by data providers at 5 to 40 credits each; x.com requests cost 30. | |
| Unused usage expires; overage invoicedUnused prepaid usage expires at the end of each billing cycle. Paid plans keep running past it, and the overage goes on the next invoice up to a usage limit you set. The Free plan is blocked until the next cycle. Upgrades are prorated. | Credits reset monthly; rollover only on Scale and EnterpriseCredits reset each month, also on annual plans. No rollover except Scale (one month) and Enterprise. Paid plans can add pay-as-you-go credits in $5 steps (1,000 credits on Hobby, 2,000 Standard, 2,500 Growth, 5,000 Scale) up to a monthly limit you set. Upgrades charge the full new price at once, with no proration. | |
| $5 usage/mo, no card$5 of platform usage a month, no card. In the app on 25 Oct 2026 it allowed 5 concurrent runs (the limits docs say 25) and 16 GB of RAM, and kept unnamed results for 7 days. | 1,000 credits/mo, no card1,000 credits a month, no card, every core endpoint, 2 concurrent browsers. There is no pay-as-you-go on Free, so requests return HTTP 402 once the credits are used. Search, scrape and parse also work with no key at all, capped per IP address per day. | |
| Bearer token or ?token= parameterA personal API token from Console > Settings > API & Integrations, sent as Authorization: Bearer (recommended) or as ?token= in the URL. A default token is created at signup and you can add more. | Bearer key with per-key spend limitsAn API key sent as Authorization: Bearer. Each key can carry its own credit spend limit per day, week or month. Locking a key to chosen endpoints and IP allowlists are Enterprise features. | |
| 250,000 requests/min; Free 5 concurrent runs250,000 requests a minute per user overall, and 60 requests a second per resource by default (up to 400 for starting runs and pushing results). Concurrent runs: Free 5, Starter 32, Scale 128, Business 256. Extra concurrent runs cost $5 each and extra RAM $1 per GB. | Free 2 browsers; up to 10,000 requests/minSet per team and shared by all keys. Concurrent browsers: Free 2, Hobby 5, Standard 25, Growth 50, Scale 100. Scrape, map and search: 10, 100, 500, 5,000 and 10,000 requests a minute; crawl and agent: 2, 20, 100, 1,000 and 2,000. Jobs above the browser limit wait in a queue. | |
YesOfficial hosted server at https://mcp.apify.com with OAuth sign-in (recommended) or a Bearer token. Agents can search the Store, read an Actor's details, run it and read the results. The docs-search tools work with no token. Full-permission Actors are excluded. | YesOfficial hosted server at https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp (API key) or /v2/mcp-oauth (browser sign-in). With no key it offers search, scrape and parse within daily limits. Its tool list on 25 Oct 2026 held 30 tools, including scrape, map, search, crawl, interact, parse and monitors. | |
| Actor output as JSON, CSV, XLSXWhatever the Actor outputs: items in a dataset you can download as JSON, JSONL, CSV, HTML, XLSX, XML or RSS, plus files in a key-value store. The fields differ from one Actor to the next. | Markdown, HTML, screenshots, LLM-extracted JSONPage content in the formats you ask for, such as markdown, HTML, raw HTML, links, screenshot, images, summary and JSON extracted by an LLM. Map returns a site's URL list: 5,000 by default, up to 100,000 per call. | |
| 98,000+ Actors in Apify StoreApify Store lists 98,000+ Actors, including scrapers for LinkedIn, Instagram and Google Maps. Anyone can publish an Actor, so most are built by independent developers. You can also run your own scraper code on the platform. | Fixed set of Firecrawl-run endpointsA fixed set of endpoints run by Firecrawl itself: scrape, crawl, map, search, batch scrape, extract, interact (a live browser), parse (files), monitor (change tracking) and agent (preview). | |
| Zapier, Make, n8n, LangChain, HubSpotDocumented integrations include Zapier, Make, n8n, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, HubSpot, Slack and Google Drive, plus coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor. | Python, Node, Go and more SDKs, CLISDKs for Python, Node, Go, Rust, Java,.NET, PHP, Ruby and Elixir, plus a CLI. Guides for n8n, Zapier and Make, and for LangChain and LlamaIndex. Also sold through AWS Marketplace and Google Cloud Marketplace. | |
| SOC 2 Type II, GDPR pageSOC 2 Type II; the report can be requested through its Trust Center. Publishes a GDPR information page. | SOC 2 Type II on every planSOC 2 Type II on every plan. A Data Processing Agreement on Standard and above. Zero data retention, SSO and static egress IPs on Enterprise. | |
| Run event webhooks, up to 100/userWebhooks on run events (created, succeeded, failed, aborted, timed out, resurrected), up to 100 per user, plus cron schedules. A synchronous run call waits up to 300 seconds; longer jobs run async. | Signed webhooks on async jobsSigned webhooks on crawl, batch scrape, agent and monitor events. Crawl and batch scrape run async and are billed as each page finishes. A crawl with no limit set can run to 10,000 pages. | |
| Ready-made site scrapers, own scraper codeScraping a specific site that has no API through a ready-made Actor, running your own scrapers without managing servers or proxies, and scheduled jobs that push results by webhook. | Any URL or site to markdown or JSONTurning any URL or whole site into clean markdown or JSON for an LLM, listing every URL on a site, and watching pages for changes, all on one credit price list. |
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Pricing, plan by plan
US dollars as each vendor's page showed them on 25 Oct 2026. One panel per tool; switch each between monthly and annual billing (an annual price is the monthly rate when you pay for the year up front).
Apify
6 plans · API reviewStarter
$19/mo
billed monthly
$17/mo
billed annually
US$19 billed monthly, or US$17 a month billed annually. $19 of platform usage a month, compute $0.20 per compute unit, 64 GB RAM, 32 concurrent runs, Bronze Store discount, chat support.
API included
Plan details
Overage billed on the next invoice.
Scale
$199/mo
billed monthly
$179/mo
billed annually
US$199 billed monthly, or US$179 a month billed annually. $199 of platform usage a month, compute $0.16 per compute unit, 256 GB RAM, 128 concurrent runs, Silver Store discount, priority chat support.
API included
Business
$999/mo
billed monthly
$899/mo
billed annually
US$999 billed monthly, or US$899 a month billed annually. $999 of platform usage a month, compute $0.13 per compute unit, 512 GB RAM, 256 concurrent runs, Gold Store discount, account manager.
API included
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Creator
$1/mo
billed monthly
$1/mo
monthly billing only
US$1 a month for people building and publishing their own Actors.
API included
Plan details
A one-time $500 of platform usage for the first 6 months; Store use limited to universal Actors.
Enterprise
Custom quote
Custom plan through sales: custom scraping solutions, SLAs.
API included
Plan details
Price on request.
Firecrawl
6 plans · API reviewFree
$0
Free
US$0. 1,000 credits a month (about 1,000 pages or 500 searches), no card, 2 concurrent browsers, no pay-as-you-go, no rollover.
API included
Hobby
$19/mo
billed monthly
$16/mo
billed annually
US$19 billed monthly, or US$16 a month billed annually (US$190 a year).
API included
Plan details
5,000 credits a month, 5 concurrent browsers. Pay-as-you-go 1,000 credits per $5.
Standard
$99/mo
billed monthly
$83/mo
billed annually
US$99 billed monthly, or US$83 a month billed annually (US$990 a year).
API included
Plan details
100,000 credits a month, 25 concurrent browsers, Data Processing Agreement. Pay-as-you-go 2,000 credits per $5.
Growth
$399/mo
billed monthly
$333/mo
billed annually
US$399 billed monthly, or US$333 a month billed annually (US$3,990 a year).
API included
Plan details
500,000 credits a month, 50 concurrent browsers, Slack support. Pay-as-you-go 2,500 credits per $5.
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Scale
$749/mo
billed monthly
$599/mo
billed annually
US$749 billed monthly, or US$599 a month billed annually (US$7,190 a year).
API included
Plan details
1,000,000 credits a month with one month of rollover, 100 concurrent browsers, invoiced billing. Pay-as-you-go 5,000 credits per $5.
Enterprise
Custom quote
Custom credits and concurrency, SLA, zero data retention, SSO.
API included
Plan details
Price on request.
Which one to pick
Choose Apify if
- You need data from a specific site, such as LinkedIn, Instagram or Google Maps, and a ready-made Actor already scrapes it.
- You want to run your own scraper code on hosted servers with proxies, storage and schedules included.
- You run long or scheduled jobs and want a webhook when each run finishes.
- You want an AI agent to pay per run with no account, through x402 or MPP.
Choose Firecrawl if
- You want any URL returned as clean markdown at 1 credit a page, or as LLM-extracted JSON for 4 credits more.
- You need every URL on a site: map returns up to 100,000 URLs in one call.
- You want to watch pages for changes with monitors that alert by webhook.
- You want an agent to search, scrape and parse with no key before you sign up.
If neither fits: If what you need is people or company records with emails, a contact data provider returns them directly, without scraping pages first.
Want us to build it for you?
Choosing between Apify and Firecrawl, or moving from one to the other? Tell us your setup. We will show you how we would run it, and what we would check first.
Questions people ask
Can Claude Code scrape LinkedIn?
Claude Code can reach both tools through their official MCP servers. On Apify, LinkedIn data comes from Store Actors built by independent developers, each priced on its own page. On Firecrawl, a LinkedIn profile or company URL is answered by data providers you choose in its settings, at 5 to 40 credits per URL, and a URL no provider has costs nothing.
Are Apify and Firecrawl free?
Both have a free plan with no card. Apify Free gives $5 of platform usage a month and blocks the account once it is used, until the next cycle. Firecrawl Free gives 1,000 credits a month, about 1,000 pages, and returns HTTP 402 once they are used. Neither free plan has pay-as-you-go.
How much does it cost to scrape 1,000 pages?
On Firecrawl it is 1,000 credits for plain pages: about $3.80 on Hobby and $0.99 on Standard at monthly prices, plus 4 credits a page for JSON extraction. On Apify it depends on the Actor: a pay-per-event Actor charges its listed price per result, while a pay-per-usage Actor bills compute at $0.20 per compute unit on Free and Starter. On 25 Oct 2026 a 1-page crawl with Website Content Crawler used $0.00038.
What happens when I run out of credits or usage?
On a paid Apify plan the platform keeps running and the overage goes on your next invoice, up to the usage limit you set. On a paid Firecrawl plan, pay-as-you-go adds credits in $5 steps up to your monthly limit; with it off, requests return HTTP 402. On either free plan, work stops until the next cycle.
Do unused credits roll over?
Apify's prepaid usage expires at the end of each billing cycle. Firecrawl's plan credits reset each month too, except on Scale, which carries them one month, and Enterprise. Firecrawl credits you buy yourself stay until you use them, unless you cancel.
Can an AI agent use them without an account?
Yes, in different ways. An agent with a crypto wallet can pay Apify through x402 or MPP at agi.apify.com and get a temporary token with a spend cap. Firecrawl's keyless mode allows search, scrape and parse with no key, capped per IP address per day.
Related
Read from apify.com/pricing.md, firecrawl.dev/pricing and each tool's API docs. Verified 25 Oct 2026.
