# Firecrawl alternatives for AI agents Firecrawl alternatives for an AI agent: 4 of 7 Firecrawl jobs covered, 2 partly, each priced per call. See which jobs move to an agent and which stay. ## Live prices Prices read on 2026-11-04 from the live looot catalog. They change when a provider changes its price. | What Firecrawl does | Cheapest provider on looot | Price | |---|---|---| | Scrape a page to markdown | Jina AI | $0.0002 per call | | Extract a page into JSON | Diffbot | $0.001196 per call | | Search the web and read results | Firecrawl | $0.0010 per call | | List every URL on a site | Tavily Search and Extract API | $0.0008 per call | | Crawl a whole site | Firecrawl | $0.0050 per call | | Click and type in a browser | TinyFish Search API | $0.0160 per call | | Watch pages for changes | not on looot | no price | ## 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. Covered: scrape a page to markdown, extract a page into json, search the web and read results and list every url on a site. Partly covered: crawl a whole site and click and type in a browser. Not covered: watch pages for changes. For these, keep Firecrawl or use another tool beside looot. ## Other tools in the same job - ParseHub (/can-i-replace/parsehub): verdict kinda. - Browse AI (/can-i-replace/browse-ai): verdict kinda. - ScrapingBee (/can-i-replace/scrapingbee): verdict yes. - ScraperAPI (/can-i-replace/scraperapi): verdict yes. - Import.io (/can-i-replace/import-io): verdict kinda. - Octoparse (/can-i-replace/octoparse): verdict yes. ## Or let your agent do the Firecrawl jobs - Scrape a page to markdown: covered. Providers: jina, steel, context-dev, scrapegraphai. - Extract a page into JSON: covered. Providers: firecrawl, diffbot, brightdata, scrapegraphai. - Search the web and read results: covered. Providers: firecrawl, exa, tavily, jina. - List every URL on a site: covered. Providers: firecrawl, tavily, context-dev. - Crawl a whole site: partly covered. Providers: firecrawl. A crawl runs as a job: your agent starts it, then reads the pages in a second call. - Click and type in a browser: partly covered. Providers: tinyfish. Browser sessions run on a different provider, with its own inputs and output. - Watch pages for changes: not covered. Checking pages again and again needs scheduled runs, not available yet. ## 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. ## Agent 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. ## Firecrawl versus an agent running looot - What it is: A 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 compared: 7 jobs | 4 covered, 2 partly - Not covered: watch pages for changes | 1 job the agent cannot do through looot - How you use it: The Firecrawl app | A prompt to the agent you already use - Pick Firecrawl if: 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 pay: See Firecrawl for its own terms | Pay per call, with the price shown before each run - Last reviewed: 2026-11-03 | Prices read live from the catalog ## Why do people look for a Firecrawl alternative? 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. ## What is the best Firecrawl alternative for markdown? 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. ## What are the best Firecrawl alternatives? 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. ## Is there a Firecrawl alternative for AI agents? It depends on the job. An agent running looot gets a verdict of kinda for Firecrawl: 4 of 7 jobs covered, 2 partly. ## Is there a free Firecrawl alternative? 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 vs looot, which fits an agent? 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. ## Which Firecrawl jobs can an agent do with looot? 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. ## Which Firecrawl jobs can an agent not do? watch pages for changes. Keep Firecrawl for these, or use another tool beside looot. ## How do I replace Firecrawl with an agent? 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. ## How does looot price a Firecrawl alternative? 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. ## More - /can-i-replace/firecrawl - Category: Scraping and data - /alternatives ## Agent skill for this page https://looot.ai/alternatives/firecrawl/skill.md sets an agent up for exactly the jobs on this page, with the live price of each, and offers the page's starter task once the user has picked a job and seen the price. The line to give an agent is under "Give this to your agent" below. ## For agents ### Give this to your agent ```text set up looot for Firecrawl jobs - https://looot.ai/alternatives/firecrawl/skill.md ```