Firecrawl is the context API for AI agents and a data extraction platform for live web content. It helps developers and AI teams search the live web, scrape pages into clean Markdown or structured data, and interact with dynamic sites so agents can work with current web context.
Search finds fresh, relevant sources and can return excerpts or full pages in the same call. Scrape turns a URL into clean Markdown, JSON, a grounded answer, or exact highlights, with headers, footers, and ads removed. Interact drives a real browser for clicks, forms, logins, infinite scroll, and other pages that only load after user actions.
Firecrawl is also building Alexandria, the knowledge library for superintelligence. Through the same API, MCP server, or CLI, agents can find and query 100+ data providers and specialized indexes alongside the live web, including Firecrawl's Research, Developer, and Government indexes. Firecrawl pays official data providers such as Wikimedia Enterprise for access, so the people who maintain knowledge share in the value AI agents get from it.
Firecrawl also includes:
- Parse: convert PDFs, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files into Markdown or JSON
- Crawl: collect content from a full site or section for RAG, knowledge bases, or research
- Map: discover the structure of a site
- Agent: gather structured data wherever it lives on the web
- Monitor: watch pages, whole sites, or new web search results for changes
Teams use Firecrawl through the API and SDKs, or connect it to agent workflows with MCP, the CLI, Skills, and integrations such as ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex, n8n, Zapier, Lovable, and Replit. Agents can also start keyless: Search, Scrape, and Parse work without an account or API key, within daily limits. Output is built for AI agent loops and RAG pipelines, including token-efficient Markdown and schema-based JSON. It is designed for JavaScript-heavy pages, SPAs, and other live sites that need rendering or user actions.
Who uses Firecrawl: AI agent builders, RAG and knowledge-base teams, researchers, and growth or ops teams that need live web context in production workflows.
Common uses include AI research agents, RAG and knowledge-base ingestion, lead enrichment, competitive monitoring, market research, dataset collection, KYC and KYB enrichment, and converting web pages and documents into LLM-ready context.
Firecrawl is open source with more than 190,000 GitHub stars, and more than 1.5 million users build with it, including teams at Zapier, Replit, Lovable, and Gamma. Use it in the cloud or self-host it. A free plan includes 1,000 credits per month with no credit card. Paid plans add credits, concurrency, and support, and Firecrawl is also available on AWS Marketplace and Google Cloud Marketplace. Enterprise plans can include zero data retention, SSO and SCIM, and dedicated support. Firecrawl is SOC 2 Type II.
Average Rating: 4.6/5.0
Total Reviews: 8
How Do G2 Users Rate Firecrawl?
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Has the product been a good partner in doing business?: 8.3/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
Who Is the Company Behind Firecrawl?
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Seller: Firecrawl
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Company Website:
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Year Founded: 2024
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HQ Location: San Francisco, US
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Twitter: @firecrawl
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LinkedIn® Page: www.linkedin.com
54 employees on LinkedIn®