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AI Tool Comparison

Apify vs Firecrawl

A side-by-side breakdown to help you pick the right tool for your workflow.

Review Score assesses product quality; Fit Score is specific to a use case. Limited reviews do not establish overall product quality. How reviews work.

Apify logo

Apify

Pull structured data from any website using 30,000+ ready-made scrapers and managed proxies, without running your own servers. Now has an MCP server so agents can invoke Actors directly.

Automation
freemium
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Firecrawl logo

Firecrawl

Convert websites into clean markdown or structured data through a purpose-built scraping API for AI applications, with a credit-based subscription and self-hosted open-source option.

Developer Tools
freemium
Not yet reviewedVisit site Tool details →

Bottom Line

Catalog updated: August 2026

Apify (Automation) and Firecrawl (Developer Tools) come from different corners of the market, so this usually comes down to which job you're actually hiring a tool for, not a head-to-head on the same task.

Choose Apify if…

Best for teams that need to extract data from websites at scale without building and maintaining scrapers in-house, and its edge is a marketplace of 1,000+ pre-built scrapers covering common targets like Amazon listings and LinkedIn data. The most complete scraping infrastructure available, costs add up fast at high usage volume. Lean toward Firecrawl instead if handles JavaScript rendering, pagination, and link discovery automatically, no scraper configuration required matters more for your use case.

Choose Firecrawl if…

Best for developers who need an entire website converted to clean markdown for an LLM or RAG pipeline, and its edge is handles JavaScript rendering, pagination, and link discovery automatically, no scraper configuration required. The simplest reliable way to turn a website into LLM-ready content, usage-based pricing means costs scale with crawl size. Lean toward Apify instead if a marketplace of 1,000+ pre-built scrapers covering common targets like Amazon listings and LinkedIn data matters more for your use case.

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AttributeApifyFirecrawl
CategoryAutomationDeveloper Tools
Pricingfreemiumfreemium
Pricing DetailFree $0 ($5 monthly usage) / Starter $19/month (includes $19 prepaid usage) / Excess usage and Actor-specific charges applyFree / $19/mo Hobby / $99/mo Standard
TWF Review ScoreNot yet reviewedNot yet reviewed

Key Features

Apify

  • 2,000+ pre-built scrapers (Actors)
  • AI web scraping from natural language
  • Proxy management
  • Scheduled runs
  • API and webhooks

Firecrawl

  • Crawl and scrape via API
  • LLM-ready markdown/JSON
  • Handles JS and anti-bot
  • Structured extraction

Pros

Apify

  • •Largest library of pre-built scrapers anywhere
  • •AI can scrape any site without code
  • •Reliable proxy rotation
  • •Excellent for large-scale data collection

Firecrawl

  • •Reliable managed scraping
  • •Great LLM output
  • •Simple API

Cons

Apify

  • Can get expensive for high usage
  • Some sites actively block scraping
  • Setup complexity for custom scrapers

Firecrawl

  • Usage-based costs
  • Rate limits on free tier

Explore Tool Details

Apify Details →Firecrawl Details →

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