Firecrawl review
Hands-on test in progress
A web scraping API for developers. Its change tracking format compares a page with your last scrape, and its monitoring feature runs those checks on a schedule. We review change tracking and monitoring.
Hands-on test in progress. We are paying for one month of Firecrawl and testing it on our standard set of pages. This page has no score, pros, cons or verdict yet. Those will be added with real screenshots when the test is done. Until then, everything below comes from Firecrawl's official site.
Key facts
- Lowest paid price
- $19/mo (or $16/mo billed yearly)
- Free plan
- Yes: 1,000 credits a month
- Fastest check listed
- Every 5 minutes (scheduled monitoring)
- AI filtering
- Yes: optional plain-language goal; an AI judge alerts only on meaningful changes
- Bot detection handling
- All requests go through proxies; auto mode retries with enhanced proxies when basic ones fail
- Integrations
- Webhook, Email, Slack, API
- Platforms
- API with Python and Node.js SDKs.
- Website
- https://www.firecrawl.dev/
AI filtering, bot detection and integrations checked on Nov 3, 2026. Sources: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/monitoring, https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/proxies
Pricing
- Free: 1,000 credits a month, no credit card.
- Hobby: $19/mo monthly or $16/mo billed yearly, 5,000 credits a month.
- Standard: $99/mo monthly or $83/mo billed yearly, 100,000 credits.
- Growth: $399/mo monthly or $333/mo billed yearly, 500,000 credits.
- Scale: $749/mo monthly or $599/mo billed yearly, 1,000,000 credits. Enterprise: custom.
- Monitor costs 1 credit per page per check. Monitor's deterministic extraction engine costs 7 credits per page per check.
Free plan or trial
Free tier with no credit card.
Key features
- Change tracking format on /scrape, /crawl and /batch/scrape returns new, same, changed or removed.
- Two diff modes: git-diff for line changes and JSON for field-level changes (JSON mode costs 5 credits per page).
- Snapshots are stored and do not expire, per the docs.
- Scheduled monitoring down to a 5 minute interval, with webhook, email or Slack notifications.
- Compares markdown content, so it is a text diff, not a visual one.
Hands-on results
Coming after the test month. We will report alert speed, accuracy and noise, how changes are shown (visual or text), and value for money, with screenshots. See how we test.
Facts checked on Nov 3, 2026. Source: https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing and https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/change-tracking. Vendors change prices often, so check their site before you buy.