--- title: "Firecrawl API: pricing, rate limits & MCP | ONEGTMLAB" description: "Firecrawl API: Credit-based API that turns any URL or whole site into LLM-ready markdown/JSON: scrape, crawl, map, search, browser interact, file parse…" canonical: https://www.onegtmlab.dev/tool-directory/research-and-scraping/firecrawl --- # Firecrawl API: pricing, rate limits & MCP | ONEGTMLAB [](/) [ Book a call ](/book) ![](/_astro/firecrawl.BlOy6k5j_JfvHo.webp) API review # Firecrawl API review Credit-based API that turns any URL or whole site into LLM-ready markdown/JSON: scrape, crawl, map, search, browser interact, file parse, monitors, plus a growing data-provider marketplace (Alexandria). Best for full-site URL inventories. Verified 25 Oct 2026 · 57 endpoints listed · Official MCP server [ See pricing ](#pricing)[ Firecrawl API docs ](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-introduction) At a glance Category Scraping, Research, Enrichment Pricing model Credits Free tier 1,000 credits/month, no card, no rollover, no pay-as-you-go Entry price $16/mo, billed annually Hobby Auth API key Official MCP Yes Best for Full-site URL inventories [firecrawl.dev ↗](https://www.firecrawl.dev)[Pricing page ↗](https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing) ## What a call costs The actions you pay for, as Firecrawl prices them in credits. Action Cost Per Scrape / crawl page 1 credit page PDF parsing +1 credit PDF page JSON (LLM extraction), question/query, highlights, audio, video, PII redaction, prompt-injection check +4 credits each page Zero Data Retention +1 credit page Enhanced proxy +0 (1 credit total) page Map 1 credit (per call per billing doc; pricing HTML table says per page; measured per call) call Search 2 credits 10 results Interact 2 credits (7 with prompt) browser minute Show all 14 priced actionsHide the rest Action Cost Per Monitor 1 credit (+1 per changed page judged; flat 7 for JSON/deterministic-extraction monitors) page per check Threat protection scan 2 credits URL LinkedIn profile/company (provider-routed) FullEnrich 5 / Data Legion base 10 / Apollo 30 / Data Legion premium 40 credits URL X.com post/profile (Grok API) 30 credits (34 with JSON) request Agent (preview) 5 free runs/day, then dynamic run Research Index papers free call ## Pricing, plan by plan US dollars, as Firecrawl's pricing page shows them on 25 Oct 2026. Monthly and annual billing are shown apart. Free tier 1,000 credits/month, no card, no rollover, no pay-as-you-go; keyless tier capped per IP per day ### Free $0 Free 1,000 credits/month (~1,000 pages or 500 searches) API includedPlan details No PAYGO: 402 when exhausted ### Hobby $19/mo billed monthly $16/mo billed annually 5,000 credits/month API includedPlan details PAYGO 1,000 credits per $5 ### Standard $99/mo billed monthly $83/mo billed annually 100,000 credits/month API includedPlan details PAYGO 2,000 credits per $5 ### Growth $399/mo billed monthly $333/mo billed annually 500,000 credits/month API includedPlan details PAYGO 2,500 credits per $5 ### Scale $749/mo billed monthly $599/mo billed annually 1,000,000 credits/month (1-month rollover) API includedPlan details PAYGO 5,000 credits per $5 ### Enterprise Custom quote Custom credits, ZDR, SSO, SLA, 2-month rollover on annual API includedPlan details Custom Annual billing totals: Hobby $190/yr, Standard $990/yr, Growth $3,990/yr, Scale $7,190/yr (page shows rounded $16/$83/$333/$599 per month). Pay-as-you-go needs a paid plan: $5 increments of 1,000 (Hobby) / 2,000 (Standard) / 2,500 (Growth) / 5,000 (Scale) credits up to a monthly limit you set; bought credits do not expire. 403/404 pages still cost 1 credit (effective 2026-09-04). Prices in USD (page shows a USD selector; no INR shown from our IP). ## Rate limits Per team (shared across keys). Limit Free Hobby Standard Growth Scale Keyless Limit 2 concurrent browsers; /scrape,/map,/search 10/min; /crawl,/agent 2/min; 50,000 max queued 5 browsers; 100/min; 20/min; 50,000 queued 25 browsers; 500/min; 100/min; 50,000 queued 50 browsers; 5,000/min; 1,000/min; 100,000 queued 100 browsers; 10,000/min; 2,000/min; 200,000+ queued Search, Scrape, Parse (+Interact via SDK/CLI); daily request and credit caps per IP (numbers not published) More on limitsLess Two limits: requests/min per endpoint and concurrent browsers (the real bottleneck). Queue waits count against request timeout; queued jobs time out after 48h. Status endpoints (/crawl/status, /agent/status) have far higher limits (Free 500 up to Scale 500,000/min). /interact Free 2 / Hobby 20 / Standard 100 / Growth 1,000 / Scale 1,500 per min; /interact/{id}/execute 10/100/500/5,000/7,500. Docs disagree on whether batch scrape shares the /crawl or the /scrape limit. No rate-limit headers were returned in our live scrape (only X-Response-Time). ## How to get an API key Firecrawl uses API key. The steps below follow Firecrawl's own docs. 1. Create a Firecrawl account. The Free plan includes API access. 2. Sign up at [firecrawl.dev](https://www.firecrawl.dev) (free, no card); keyless mode for Search/Scrape/Parse/Interact capped per IP per day 3. Send it with every request: header: Authorization: Bearer fc-. 4. Make a first call: Scrape one URL to markdown/HTML/JSON/screenshot etc.; optional actions and LLM extraction. Keep the key in an environment variable, never in the command. ``` curl -X POST "https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{}' ``` ## Where the docs live What Where Documentation [docs.firecrawl.dev](https://docs.firecrawl.dev) API reference [docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-introduction](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-introduction) OpenAPI spec [docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-openapi.json](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-openapi.json) llms.txt [docs.firecrawl.dev/llms.txt](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/llms.txt) Changelog [firecrawl.dev/changelog](https://www.firecrawl.dev/changelog) Base URL `https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2` MCP server `https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp` SDKs Python (firecrawl / firecrawl-py), Node (firecrawl), Go, Rust, Java, Elixir, .NET, PHP, Ruby, CLI ## Strengths and limits ### Where it fits - Full-site URL inventories (/map up to 100,000 URLs for 1 credit) - Crawling/scraping company websites to clean markdown for LLM qualification - Batch scraping thousands of homepages with webhooks - JS-heavy pages needing actions or a live browser (/interact) - Change monitoring of pricing/careers pages (/monitor) ### Where it falls short - Cheap LinkedIn data (LinkedIn URLs are routed to Apollo/Data Legion/FullEnrich at 5-40 credits each) - Raw X/Twitter data at scale (Grok-processed, 30 credits per request) - Free-tier production work (no pay-as-you-go, hard 402 at 1,000 credits) ### Worth knowing - Monitors that use JSON / deterministic extraction bill a flat 7 credits per page per check, not 1; judged changed pages add +1. Sources: [firecrawl.dev/pricing](https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing); [docs.firecrawl.dev/features/monitor](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/monitor) - Pages that return 403/404 are still charged 1 credit; only a scrape with no document is free; check metadata.statusCode and stop retrying blocked URLs. - Format surcharges stack: JSON + PII redaction = 9 credits per page. - LinkedIn /in/ and /company/ URLs are silently routed to Apollo / Data Legion / FullEnrich and cost 5-40 credits, not 1. - x.com URLs go through xAI Grok: 30 credits per request and AI-processed output, not raw HTML. 7 moreShow fewer - Conflict in vendor docs: the pricing page HTML (table 'Map 1 / page', 'credit unit = 1 page on scrape, crawl or map') and its FAQ say per page, while the pricing markdown table and billing doc say '1 credit per call'. Our measurement supports per call. Re-checked 2026-10-25. - Map: v2 default limit is 5,000, maximum 100,000 (OpenAPI); our rule is always send limit 100000. - Crawl with no limit defaults to 10,000 pages; credits are billed as pages finish, so cost can appear minutes or hours later. - Free plan has no pay-as-you-go: hard 402 at 1,000 credits. Plan credits do not roll over except Scale (1 month) and annual Enterprise (2 months). - Upgrades charge the full new price immediately with no proration and reset the billing cycle. - Changed since our 16 Aug 2026 notes: enhanced proxy was 5 credits, now +0 (1 credit); Standard concurrency was 50 browsers, now 25; Growth 100 -> 50. - Concurrency, not RPM, is the bottleneck; queue time counts against the request timeout. ### Our take We use Firecrawl for full URL inventories of websites and to scrape a company's homepage when its LinkedIn description is not enough to qualify the company. A map call costs 1 credit however many URLs it returns (24,797 URLs for 1 credit on one site), and the default limit of 100 silently truncates the list, so we always send the maximum limit of 100,000. Before a large scrape we test the proxy mode on 5 pages first; on one job that cut the credit estimate from 24,270 to 8,542, since the enhanced proxy costs 5 credits a page against 1 for basic. ## Who should use it Use Firecrawl for Full-site URL inventories (/map up to 100,000 URLs for 1 credit) Look elsewhere for Cheap LinkedIn data (LinkedIn URLs are routed to Apollo/Data Legion/FullEnrich at 5-40 credits each) ## If Firecrawl is not the answer Other Research and scraping tools in this directory, each with its own review. [ ![](/_astro/apify.BGdNuL2e.svg) Apify Research and scraping Free planOfficial MCP Best for scraping sites that have no API via pay-per-result Store Actors. Apify API review →](/tool-directory/research-and-scraping/apify)[ ![](/_astro/brightdata.D3o9R6mQ_Z2nLIVf.webp) Bright Data Research and scraping From $499/moOfficial MCP Best for structured records from big platforms via maintained Scraper APIs, pay only per delivered record. Bright Data API review →](/tool-directory/research-and-scraping/brightdata) ## Before you build Four things to settle first, each read off Firecrawl's own pages. - **Confirm the API is on your plan**The Free plan includes API access. Free tier: 1,000 credits/month, no card, no rollover, no pay-as-you-go. - **Keep the key out of your code**API key. It is sent as: header: Authorization: Bearer fc-. - **Design around the rate limit**Per team (shared across keys). - **Know the catch before you scale**Monitors that use JSON / deterministic extraction bill a flat 7 credits per page per check, not 1; judged changed pages add +1. Sources: [firecrawl.dev/pricing](https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing); [docs.firecrawl.dev/features/monitor](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/monitor) ## Want us to build it for you? Tell us what you want Firecrawl to do in your stack. We will show you how we would wire it into your data, outbound or CRM, and what we would check first. [ Book a call ](/book)[ See case studies ](/case-studies) Read from [firecrawl.dev/pricing](https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing), [docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-introduction](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-introduction) and [docs.firecrawl.dev/rate-limits](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/rate-limits). Verified 25 Oct 2026. All 57 endpointsFor developers: method, path, what it does and what it costs. **Base URL:** `https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2` **Bulk and async:** POST /batch/scrape (async, webhook), /crawl with limit up to 10,000 default; billing is asynchronous as pages complete **Webhooks:** Yes: crawl, batch scrape, agent and monitor webhooks (started/page/completed/failed events), signed endpoints Filter endpoints 57 endpoints Method Path What it does Cost POST `/scrape` Scrape one URL to markdown/HTML/JSON/screenshot etc.; optional actions and LLM extraction 1 credit/page; +1/PDF page; +4 json, question/query, highlights, audio, video, redactPII, checkPromptInjection, lockdown hit; +1 ZDR; enhanced proxy +0; LinkedIn profile/company URLs billed at provider rates (5-40 credits); x.com URLs 30 credits GETasync `/scrape/{jobId}` Status of a scrape job Not stated POST `/scrape/{jobId}/interact` Interact with the browser session of a scrape job 2 credits/browser minute (7 with prompt), 1-minute minimum DELETE `/scrape/{jobId}/interact` Stop the interactive browser session Not stated POST `/parse` Upload and parse a file (PDF, Word, spreadsheet) to markdown/JSON 1 credit/page + format surcharges GET `/parse/formats` List supported parse formats free POSTasync `/batch/scrape` Scrape many URLs asynchronously (webhook optional) scrape cost per page, billed as each page completes GETasync `/batch/scrape/{id}` Batch scrape status/results free (polling not charged) DELETE `/batch/scrape/{id}` Cancel batch scrape Not stated GET `/batch/scrape/{id}/errors` Batch scrape errors Not stated POSTasync `/crawl` Crawl a site by following links 1 credit/page + scrape option surcharges; default limit 10,000 pages GETasync `/crawl/{id}` Crawl status/results free DELETE `/crawl/{id}` Cancel crawl Not stated GET `/crawl/{id}/errors` Crawl errors Not stated POST `/crawl/params-preview` Preview crawl params from a natural-language prompt Not stated GET `/crawl/active` List active crawls for the team Not stated POST `/map` List a site's URLs without scraping 1 credit per call per billing doc and the pricing markdown; the pricing HTML table now says '1 / page'. Our measurement: 2,836 URLs = 1 credit, so per call. limit default 5,000, max 100,000. Sources: [docs.firecrawl.dev/billing](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/billing); [firecrawl.dev/pricing](https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing) POSTasync `/extract` LLM structured extraction across pages Dynamic; shares /agent rate limit GETasync `/extract/{id}` Extract job status Not stated POSTasync `/agent` Start autonomous agent data-extraction task (preview) 5 free runs/day, then dynamic credits by agent tokens GET `/agent` List agent runs Not stated GETasync `/agent/{jobId}` Agent job status Not stated DELETE `/agent/{jobId}` Cancel agent job Not stated GET `/agent/{jobId}/trace` Agent execution trace Not stated GET `/agent/{jobId}/snapshots/{snapshotId}` Agent output snapshot Not stated POST `/search` Web search, optionally scraping results 2 credits per 10 results (rounded up per 10) + scrape cost per scraped result POST `/search/{jobId}/feedback` Feedback on a search job Not stated GET `/search/research/papers` Search Research Index papers free GET `/search/research/papers/{id}` Inspect or read a paper free GET `/search/research/papers/{id}/similar` Related papers free GET `/search/developer` Search the Developer Index (GET) Not stated POST `/search/developer` Search the Developer Index Not stated GET `/search/gov` Search the Government & Legal Index (GET) Not stated POST `/search/gov` Search the Government & Legal Index Not stated POST `/interact` Create a browser sandbox session 2 credits/browser minute code-only, 7 with prompt, +2 for ZDR GET `/interact` List interact sessions Not stated POST `/interact/{sessionId}/execute` Execute code in a session Not stated DELETE `/interact/{sessionId}` Delete a session Not stated POST `/monitor` Create a page/site/web monitor with webhook alerts 1 credit per page per check (base scrape/crawl); judging adds +1 credit per changed page judged; JSON / deterministic-extraction monitors bill a flat 7 credits per page per check instead (pricing page HTML). 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