The best Firecrawl
alternatives.
When you need more than clean Markdown from public pages. The tools that reach protected and dynamic sites, and return structured data.
Five ways to get the real data.
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Zenrows
Live extraction from any URL, including protected and dynamic pages, with fetch, extract, and browser sessions as one toolkit. The page, the structured data, and the results, in real time.
Best for · production web data, end to end
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Scrapfly
A scraping API with anti-bot bypass, JavaScript rendering, and extraction.
Best for · a focused scraping API
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ScraperAPI
A straightforward scraping API with proxy rotation and rendering.
Best for · simple, high-volume scraping
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Apify
A marketplace of pre-built Actors for popular targets.
Best for · ready-made scrapers for known sites
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Diffbot
AI extraction that turns pages into structured entities and a knowledge graph.
Best for · entity extraction at scale
Switching from Firecrawl.
Firecrawl charges one credit per scrape and returns clean Markdown, with add-ons for structured JSON and PDFs, and caching on by default. Fetch maps to /scrape one to one.
- Protected and dynamic pages included
- Extract adds no extra credits
- Every response fetched live, not cached
# before: Firecrawl
curl -X POST "https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://example.com", "formats": ["markdown"]}'
# after: Zenrows
curl "https://api.zenrows.com/v1/?apikey=KEY\
&url=https://example.com&mode=auto&response_type=markdown"How we ranked them.
Reach
Any URL including protected and dynamic pages, or only some targets.
Anti-bot
Bypass built in, or your problem to solve.
Output
Structured data and full pages, or raw HTML.
Scope
One primitive, or a full web-data toolkit.