# Can I replace Firecrawl with an AI agent?

A web data API that scrapes, crawls, maps and searches the web and returns pages as markdown or JSON for LLMs. Partly. looot covers some of the jobs and not others.

## What Firecrawl does and what looot covers

- 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: partial. 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: partial. 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.

## 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.

## Can an AI agent replace Firecrawl?

Partly. An agent running looot can do some of what Firecrawl does through catalog endpoints, and the page marks the jobs it cannot do.

## Is there a free Firecrawl alternative?

looot has no monthly seat. You pay per call to the provider you pick, and the catalog shows each endpoint's price before you run it. Whether that comes out cheaper than Firecrawl depends on your volume.

## What does Firecrawl cost?

List prices change, so check Firecrawl's own pricing page. This page does not repeat them. The looot side is read live from the catalog on the web version of this page.

## What is a good Firecrawl alternative for an AI agent?

An agent with a looot connection can call the providers behind Firecrawl's data jobs directly. The providers used here are jina, steel, context-dev, scrapegraphai, firecrawl, diffbot, brightdata, exa, tavily, tinyfish.

## Which Firecrawl features does looot not cover?

Not covered: watch pages for changes. Keep Firecrawl for those, or use another tool beside looot.

## How do I replace Firecrawl with looot?

Paste the agent prompt on this page into your coding agent. It sets up looot, finds the endpoints for each job and runs them. You can edit the prompt to match your own inputs.

## Do I need a Firecrawl account to use looot?

No. looot calls its own providers and does not connect to your Firecrawl account. Your existing Firecrawl data stays where it is.

## Can I still call Firecrawl through looot?

Yes. Firecrawl's scrape, crawl, map, search and extract endpoints are in the looot catalog, paid per call from one balance. For plain page to markdown, your agent can also pick Jina, Steel or Context.dev for the same job.

## Related apps

- /can-i-replace/apify
- /can-i-replace/scrapingbee
- /can-i-replace/scraperapi

## Last reviewed

2026-11-03. Live prices are on the web page, read from the catalog.

## Agent skill for this page

https://looot.ai/can-i-replace/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/can-i-replace/firecrawl/skill.md
```