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Firecrawl alternatives for AI agents

looot is a pay-per-call alternative to Firecrawl for AI agents. One API key and one balance reach the data providers behind 4 of 7 Firecrawl jobs. There is no subscription, and every call shows its price before it runs. Agents in Claude, Cursor, Codex and ChatGPT call it through MCP.

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set up looot for Firecrawl jobs - https://looot.ai/alternatives/firecrawl/skill.md

Alternatives for AI agents

The honest answer

A web data API that scrapes, crawls, maps and searches the web and returns pages as markdown or JSON for LLMs. For an AI agent running looot, the verdict on Firecrawl is kinda. 4 of the 7 jobs we compared are covered and 2 more partly.

Kinda

4 covered, 2 partly, 1 not covered

See the full Firecrawl coverage page

Covered 4

  • Scrape a page to markdown
  • Extract a page into JSON
  • Search the web and read results
  • List every URL on a site

Partly covered 2

  • Crawl a whole site
  • Click and type in a browser

Not covered 1

  • Watch pages for changes

For these, keep Firecrawl or use another tool beside looot.

Updated

Scraping and data

What other tools do the same job as Firecrawl?

These tools sit in the same category, ordered by how many jobs they share with Firecrawl.

Jobs

Which Firecrawl jobs can an agent do?

An agent can do 4 of 7 Firecrawl jobs through looot today, with the live price of each below.

Firecrawl alternative for pages to markdown

Most Firecrawl calls are one job: a URL in, clean markdown out for a model. Your agent runs that job, web.scrape.markdown, through looot on the provider it picks, and runs a second provider on the pages the first one misses.

Firecrawl's crawl, map, search and extract endpoints are in the catalog too, so you can keep Firecrawl for a full site crawl and pay for each call without a credit plan.

Prompt

How do I replace Firecrawl with my agent?

Paste this prompt into the agent you already use. It asks for the job, shows the price, then runs it.

Prompt to replace Firecrawl
Use looot to turn the URLs I give you into clean markdown, then extract the title, price and main text of each page as a table. If you have not yet, set up https://looot.ai/skill.md first. Then search the looot catalog for each step, check the price of each endpoint before you call it, run the cheapest one that fits, and show me the results as a table.

Side by side

How does Firecrawl compare with an agent running looot?

Firecrawl is an app you work in. An agent running looot is a prompt that calls data providers and pays per call.

Firecrawl logoFirecrawlAgent running looot
What it isA web data API that scrapes, crawls, maps and searches the web and returns pages as markdown or JSON for LLMs.Your own agent calling looot endpoints and writing the result where you ask.
Jobs compared7 jobsYes. 4 covered, 2 partly
Not coveredwatch pages for changesGap. 1 job the agent cannot do through looot
How you use itThe Firecrawl appA prompt to the agent you already use
Pick Firecrawl ifYes. You need watch pages for changes, or you would rather click through its own app than prompt an agent.You want an agent to run the job and pay per call, with no plan to manage.
How you paySee Firecrawl for its own termsYes. Pay per call, with the price shown before each run
Last reviewed2026-11-03Prices read live from the catalog

What do people ask about Firecrawl alternatives?

Credits and billing rules. Firecrawl sells monthly credit plans, unused credits roll over only on its Scale and Enterprise plans, pay as you go is for paid plans only, and a page that answers with an error status such as 403 or 404 still costs a credit (https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing, read 2026-11-03). Some teams also want a second scraper for the pages one provider cannot read.

For one page to markdown, try two providers on your own URLs: Jina, Steel and Context.dev all return markdown through looot, at the live price in the jobs list. For a page into JSON fields, Diffbot, Bright Data and ScrapeGraphAI answer the same job as Firecrawl's extract.

Tools in the same category include ParseHub, Browse AI, ScrapingBee, ScraperAPI, Import.io and Octoparse. We do not rank them as best. Pick by the jobs you need done, and compare the jobs listed on this page.

It depends on the job. An agent running looot gets a verdict of kinda for Firecrawl: 4 of 7 jobs covered, 2 partly.

looot is not free. It is pay per call, and each endpoint shows its price before the run, so you can see what a Firecrawl job costs before you start. We do not state what Firecrawl costs.

Firecrawl is an app you open and use. looot is a catalog of endpoints your own agent calls. Firecrawl vs looot comes down to whether you want an app or an agent doing the jobs, and whether the jobs you need are in the covered list.

scrape a page to markdown, extract a page into json, search the web and read results, list every url on a site, crawl a whole site and click and type in a browser. Coverage is checked against the live catalog, so a job drops to not covered when no priced endpoint exists.

watch pages for changes. Keep Firecrawl for these, or use another tool beside looot.

Set up looot from https://looot.ai/skill.md, then paste the prompt on this page into the agent you already use. Edit it to match your own inputs.

looot charges per call. The jobs above show the cheapest live price for each, read from the catalog. When no priced endpoint exists the page says price on request.

Where do I go next from Firecrawl?

Read the job-by-job verdict, then check the tools closest to Firecrawl.

Updated 2026-11-03. Prices on this page are read from the looot public catalog.

For agents
app
Firecrawl
verdict
kinda
other tool
ParseHub, /can-i-replace/parsehub
other tool
Browse AI, /can-i-replace/browse-ai
other tool
ScrapingBee, /can-i-replace/scrapingbee
other tool
ScraperAPI, /can-i-replace/scraperapi
other tool
Import.io, /can-i-replace/import-io
other tool
Octoparse, /can-i-replace/octoparse
coverage
/can-i-replace/firecrawl
setup
https://looot.ai/alternatives/firecrawl/skill.md
llms.txt
https://looot.ai/llms.txt
updated
2026-11-03
markdown /alternatives/firecrawl.md

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