Firecrawl gives your agent the text. MiroMiro gives it the design.
Both point at a URL. One returns the words on the page; the other returns the colors, fonts, spacing, assets and the actual component code. Which one you want depends entirely on what your agent is about to build.
Firecrawl is a scraper: it extracts content. MiroMiro is a design-extraction API: it resolves the live CSS cascade and returns design tokens, assets and component code. They solve different problems, and most teams that "switch" are really discovering they needed the second one.
Pick the right tool
They solve different problems. The honest fork, so you don't waste an afternoon.
Use MiroMiro if…
You need the DESIGN of a page - its real color tokens, typefaces, spacing scale, SVGs, or a section rebuilt as Tailwind/React/Vue. A markdown dump cannot give you that, no matter how clean it is.
- You are building an AI agent that writes UI and needs ground truth instead of a screenshot to guess from
- You want a reference site's real design tokens to seed a theme or check your design system for drift
- You need a specific section rebuilt as a clean Tailwind, React or Vue component
- You need the actual SVGs, images or fonts off a page - not a list of URLs
Use Firecrawl if…
You need to crawl a whole site, or turn arbitrary pages into clean markdown/text to feed a RAG pipeline. Firecrawl is genuinely excellent at this and it is not what MiroMiro does. If that is your job, stop reading and use Firecrawl.
- You are crawling entire sites and need every page as clean markdown
- You are building a RAG pipeline and the CONTENT is the product
- You need high-volume, low-cost text extraction and design is irrelevant
- You need site mapping, or scheduled monitoring of page content changes
What each one hands your agent
stripe.com
# Financial infrastructure to grow your revenue
Join the millions of companies that use Stripe to
accept payments online and in person...
[Start now](https://dashboard.stripe.com/register)<section class="relative w-full bg-[#0a2540] py-24">
<h1 class="text-5xl font-semibold text-white
tracking-[-0.02em] leading-[1.08]">…</h1>
<a class="rounded-full bg-[#635bff] px-6 py-3">…</a>
</section>
tokens: { colors: ["#0a2540", "#635bff"],
fontFamilies: ["Sohne"] }Same URL, same hero section. One output is what the page said. The other is what the page IS. Neither is wrong - they answer different questions.
MiroMiro vs Firecrawl
| Feature | MiroMiro | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
Whole-site crawling Firecrawl crawls and maps entire sites. MiroMiro is per-URL, per-section - deliberately. | ||
Page → clean markdown Their core product, and they do it well. | ||
Resolved CSS cascade Specificity, media queries and nested var() resolved to computed values - the hard part. | ||
Design tokens (color/font/spacing/motion) Not just the palette: the spacing scale, gradients, easings and weights too. | ||
Section → component code /v1/code returns a self-contained component, not a description of one. | Tailwind, HTML+CSS, JSX, Vue | |
SVG / image / font extraction We return the actual assets, deduped - not just URLs found in the HTML. | Links only | |
JS-rendered pages | ||
MCP server for coding agents Both expose native tools your agent can call directly. | ||
Free tier Theirs is more generous in raw count; a credit buys a different thing on each side. | 100 credits, no card | 1,000 credits |
Side by side
MiroMiro
- Free€0100 credits/mo · no card
- Developer€19/mo5,000 credits · 60 req/min
- Growth€79/mo30,000 credits · 120 req/min
- Scale€199/mo200,000 credits · 300 req/min
- BusinessCustomVolume pricing
Firecrawl
- Free$01,000 credits/mo · 2 concurrent
- Hobby$16/mo5,000 pages · 5 concurrent
- Standard$83/mo100,000 pages · 50 concurrent
- Growth$333/mo500,000 pages · 100 concurrent
- Scale$599/mo1,000,000 pages · 150 concurrent
Firecrawl is cheap, and we are not going to pretend otherwise: $16/mo for 5,000 pages is excellent value for bulk text extraction, and at high crawl volumes nothing here competes. But the two are not priced for the same job. A MiroMiro credit buys a resolved CSS cascade, not a page of text - assets cost 1 credit, design tokens 10, a full brand profile 15, and a section compiled to component code 25. If you only ever need markdown, Firecrawl is both cheaper and better. If you need design, Firecrawl at any price returns nothing you can use.
Firecrawl pricing verified 2026-07-14. Check their site for current rates.
Why developers look for a Firecrawl alternative
Almost nobody leaves Firecrawl because it scrapes badly - it does not. They leave because they pointed it at a page hoping to rebuild that page, and got back markdown. Markdown tells your agent what the hero SAID. It cannot tell it that the heading was 56px Söhne at #0a2540 on a 4px spacing grid, that the CTA used a specific gradient, or that the section was a three-column grid at 1024px. So the agent guesses, and the UI it writes looks nothing like the reference.
Text extraction and design extraction are different problems
A scraper reads the DOM and the text within it. Design extraction has to resolve the actual CSS cascade - specificity, media queries, nested custom properties, inherited resets - to work out the computed value of every property as the browser would render it. That is a different engine. MiroMiro runs it, then emits the result as design tokens, downloadable assets, or a self-contained component in Tailwind, HTML+CSS, JSX or Vue.
What this means for an AI coding agent
If your agent is answering questions about content, feed it Firecrawl. If your agent is writing UI, feed it design. Handing Cursor or Claude Code a markdown blob and asking it to "match this site" produces hallucinated spacing and invented colors. Handing it the real tokens and the real component produces code that actually matches - because it is not guessing.
Common questions
Is MiroMiro a drop-in replacement for Firecrawl?
No, and we would rather say so plainly. Firecrawl crawls sites and returns markdown; MiroMiro extracts design from a URL and returns tokens, assets and component code. If your pipeline depends on crawling many pages for their text, MiroMiro will not replace it. Many teams run both: Firecrawl for content, MiroMiro for design.
Can Firecrawl give me a website's colors and fonts?
Not usefully. Firecrawl can return raw HTML, so a color hex may appear somewhere in a style attribute or class name - but resolving which colors and fonts a page ACTUALLY renders means computing the CSS cascade: specificity, media queries, inherited resets, nested custom properties. That is the engine MiroMiro is built around, and it is why /v1/extract returns a real token set rather than a string search.
Which is cheaper?
Firecrawl, for text. $16/mo gets you 5,000 pages of markdown and that is hard to beat. But the outputs are not comparable: 5,000 markdown pages and 5,000 MiroMiro credits buy completely different things. Compare on what you actually need, not on the number.
Can I use both?
Yes, and plenty of teams do. Firecrawl feeds your agent what a page says; MiroMiro feeds it what the page looks like. They compose cleanly - different endpoints, different jobs.
Does MiroMiro have an MCP server?
Yes. Your coding agent can call the extraction tools natively, so you can say "match stripe.com's brand" in Cursor or Claude Code and the agent pulls the real palette, fonts and logo instead of inventing them.
See it in action
Extract a design and see exactly what you get - before you write a line of code.
100 free credits every month. No credit card.