Firecrawl alternatives, sorted by what you actually need.
Most "alternatives" lists are six scrapers in a trench coat. The useful question is whether you need a scraper at all - so we split them by job, and told you when to just stay on Firecrawl.
There are two kinds of "Firecrawl alternative": another scraper that does the same job slightly differently, or a different kind of API entirely because scraping was never the right tool. Work out which you are before you migrate anything.
Pick the right tool
They solve different problems. The honest fork, so you don't waste an afternoon.
Use MiroMiro if…
The people who genuinely need to leave are usually the ones who discovered a scraper cannot give them what they came for - the page's design. That is a different category, and it is at the bottom of this list.
- Your agent needs to BUILD UI that matches a reference, not summarize it
- You need design tokens, SVGs, fonts, or component code from a live page
- You tried a scraper and realized markdown could not answer your question
Use Firecrawl if…
If Firecrawl is working and you are only shopping on price, the honest answer is usually: stay. It is well built, well priced, and switching scrapers to save $10/mo is rarely worth the engineering hours.
- You need clean text or markdown from many pages (stay on Firecrawl, or try Jina Reader free)
- You need to crawl and map entire sites
- You need bespoke scraping logic (Apify) or real browser interaction (Browserless)
MiroMiro vs Firecrawl
| Feature | MiroMiro | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
Firecrawl Stay here if content is the product. | Clean markdown, site crawling, cheap. The default for LLM text. | |
Apify Best when you need bespoke scraping logic. | Actor marketplace, most flexible, most complex. | |
ScrapingBee Interest declining sharply year-on-year. | Simple proxy + render API. | |
Browserless Right call when you must drive interactions, not just read. | Raw headless-browser control. | |
Jina Reader If price is your only issue, start here. | Free, no account, URL-prefix → clean text. | |
MiroMiro Not a scraper. The alternative when text was never the answer. | Design tokens, assets, section → component code |
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
Across the scraper category the pricing is broadly comparable, and Firecrawl sits at the cheap end for LLM-shaped text extraction. If price is your only complaint, Jina Reader is free and will probably do. MiroMiro is not competing on cost-per-page, because it is not selling pages - it sells resolved design.
Firecrawl pricing verified 2026-07-14. Check their site for current rates.
First: are you sure you need an alternative?
Firecrawl is good at what it does. If your complaint is the $16 → $83 gap between Hobby and Standard, or a specific crawl failing on a JS-heavy site, those are usually solvable without a migration. The teams who genuinely should move are the ones whose actual requirement turned out to be something a scraper structurally cannot deliver.
The scraper alternatives
Apify is the most capable general platform - an entire actor marketplace, far more flexible, correspondingly more complex, and priced accordingly. ScrapingBee is a straightforward proxy-and-render API, simpler than Firecrawl but less LLM-oriented, and its search interest has fallen sharply over the past year. Browserless gives you raw headless-browser control, which is the right answer when you need to drive real interactions rather than just read a page. Jina Reader is the minimal option - a URL prefix that returns clean text, free, with no account, and it covers a surprising share of what people use Firecrawl for.
The category most people actually want
A large share of Firecrawl searchers are trying to make an AI agent rebuild a page. Every scraper on this list will hand that agent text, and the agent will then invent the colors, spacing and layout - because nothing gave it those. Design extraction resolves the live CSS cascade and returns the real tokens, the assets, and the section as working code. If your job is "make my agent build UI that matches this reference," no scraper is the alternative you want.
Common questions
What is the best Firecrawl alternative?
It depends on the job, and anyone who answers without asking is selling you something. For cheap clean text, Jina Reader is free and excellent. For flexible bespoke scraping, Apify. For real browser control, Browserless. But if you are trying to get a page's DESIGN - its tokens, assets, or code - none of those are alternatives, because none of them do that. That is design extraction, which is what MiroMiro does.
Is there a free Firecrawl alternative?
Jina Reader is free with no account - you prefix a URL and get clean text back. Firecrawl's own free tier (1,000 credits/mo) is also genuinely usable. MiroMiro's free tier is 100 credits/month with no card, though it is solving a different problem.
Why would I not just use a scraper?
Because a scraper returns what the page says, and if your goal is rebuilding the page, you need what it looks like. Markdown does not contain the spacing scale, the resolved colors, the gradients, or the component structure. Feeding it to a coding agent means the agent guesses at all of those - which is exactly why AI-generated UI so often "looks nothing like" the reference.
See it in action
Extract a design and see exactly what you get - before you write a line of code.
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