Firecrawl
Firecrawl scores 78/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a public API exists with documentation; usage-based / per-token pricing is published; a free entry path exists.
Firecrawl pricing
Free
Free
Hobby
$16/mo
flatStandard
$83/mo
flatGrowth
$333/mo
flatScale
$599/mo
flatEnterprise
Contact sales
How Firecrawl scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing visibility
15 / 15
Self-serve checkout
15 / 15
Public API + docs
16 / 20
Usage-based / metered pricing
13 / 20
Free entry path
7 / 7
No sales call required
7 / 7
Card / wallet / x402 payment
5 / 6
Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)
0 / 10
Total
78 / 100
What it actually costs at typical scale
Free tier, 500 pages scraped
$0/mo
Hobby tier, 4,000 pages scraped
$16/mo
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Can create account
Can enter payment method
Can upgrade plan
Can buy more usage
Can cancel online
Payment methods
Human approval recommended
Pricing transparency
full
Purchase motion
self_serve
Demo required
Quote required
Annual commit required
Auto-renewal mentioned
Cancellation policy visible
Refund policy visible
Invoice payment available
Purchase orders supported
MSA required
DPA available
Security review required
Trial
Available, no card
API & developer surface
API-first product
Public API docs
Sandbox present
Webhooks
MCP mentioned
Rate limits
Free: low; Hobby: 5 concurrent; Standard: 50; Growth: 100; Scale: 150
Trust & compliance
Certifications
SSO / SAML
RBAC
Unknown
Audit logs
Unknown
Data residency
Positioning & ecosystem
“Flexible pricing”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Firecrawl?
Discover price
https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing — six tier cards plus per-endpoint credit tableSelect a plan
Free / Hobby / Standard / Growth / Scale / Enterprise distinguishablePay per task
1 credit per page scrape; explicit overage packsAvoid a sales call
Four paid tiers self-serve via StripeAPI docs without auth
https://docs.firecrawl.dev — publicEstimate cost upfront
Per-endpoint credit cost table on /pricingPros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-03. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- Per-unit billing is published, so an agent can budget for a single task before committing.
- API documentation is reachable without a login — discovery and integration can happen in one session.
- Per-unit rate is concrete enough that an agent can model expected spend before issuing a request.
- Some tiers are sales-led; the highest-capacity surfaces are not self-serve.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How Firecrawl could lift its score
Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Flexible pricingFlexible pricing — High-volume plans for teams that need more power and dedicated support. Get access to higher rate limits, more concurrent browsers, and priority support. |
| tier_count | 4 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 0 |
| free_tier | false |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 0 |
| sales_only_tiers | 1 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://docs.firecrawl.dev/introduction |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
| per_unit_classification | null |
| usage_headline_present | false |
| custom_tier_present | true |
| agent_friendly | {"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":true,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false} |
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78
/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Data Scraping APIs
Not advertised
4
No
Free
0 / 1
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Tier-based subscription
Firecrawl pricing starts at $0/mo for the Free plan; paid plans from $16/mo (Hobby) up to $599/mo (Scale). Billed annually by default.
Free plan (Free)
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.ai-pricing.json
agents.txt
llms.txt
sitemap.xml
MCP Server Card
Agent Skills
x402 / MPP
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92
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90
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84
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78
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61
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61
Browserless
60
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14
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