C
CData enrichment, AI research agents and GTM workflows for sales and marketing teams
Free, from $54/mo
Bardeen vs Firecrawl
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
B
Choose Bardeen if…
- you want the lower entry price ($10/mo vs $16/mo)
- you're in its core audience: sdrs and account executives, revenue operations teams
F
Choose Firecrawl if…
- you need an API to build on
- you want open source you can self-host or audit
- you work on Self-hosted
- you're in its core audience: ai application developers, agent builders
Side by side
Feature Bardeen Firecrawl
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price$10/mo$16/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your contentNo—
Data retentionKept while you use Services or as needed; no 3rd-party API data retainedKept until you request deletion in writing; no recurring deletion policy
Security and complianceSOC 2 Type II, GDPRSOC 2 Type II
Updates, last 90 days—14
Phone numbers—
CRM sync—
MCP server—
PlatformsWebAPI, Web, Self-hosted
CategoryLead GenerationBrowser Agents & Scraping
CompanyBardeen, Inc.SideGuide Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Firecrawl
Based inUnited StatesUnited States
Founded—2022
Part of——
Key features
B Bardeen
- Agentic web scraper with custom or premium templates
- AI web search to research and generate leads
- Verified email and phone number enrichment
- AI lead scoring against your ideal customer profile
- Export to CSV, Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion
- Bardeen Agents that run lead sourcing and enrichment
F
- Scrape pages into clean Markdown or structured JSON
- Web search that returns full page content
- Crawl entire sites and map their URLs
- Parse PDF and DOCX documents
- Managed browser automation for dynamic pages
- Change monitoring with webhook, email or Slack alerts
- SDKs for Python, Node.js, Go and Rust, plus a CLI
- MCP server for Claude, Cursor and VS Code
Plans and prices
From each vendor's site. Prices change — confirm before buying.
Bardeen
FreeFree
Basic$10/mo
Premium$50/mo or $480/yr (save 20%)
EnterpriseCustom
Firecrawl
Free$0
Hobby$16/mo billed yearly ($19 monthly)
Standard$83/mo billed yearly ($99 monthly)
Growth$333/mo billed yearly ($399 monthly)
Scale$599/mo billed yearly ($749 monthly)
EnterpriseCustom
Strengths and limitations
Bardeen
- Always includes 100 free credits
- Paid plans start at $10/month
- Lists GDPR and SOC 2 Type II certifications
- Exports to Sheets, Airtable and Notion
- Unused credits expire at the end of each billing period
- Enrichment costs 3 credits per row
- Enterprise pricing requires contacting sales
- No public API mentioned
Firecrawl
- Free plan includes 1,000 credits a month with no card required
- Open-source code that can be self-hosted
- Official SDKs for Python, Node.js, Go and Rust
- Integrations with LangChain, LlamaIndex, n8n and Zapier
- Credit costs vary by endpoint, so usage is harder to estimate
- Free plan is limited to 2 concurrent requests
- Zero-data retention and SSO are Enterprise-only
More comparisons
Other options to consider
CC
Free, from $54/mo
C
Data enrichment, AI research agents and GTM workflows for sales and marketing teams
Lead GenerationFree planAPI
A
AA
Freemium
S
SS
Free, from $29/mo
S
Open-source AI browser automation for logins, forms and data extraction
Browser Agents & ScrapingFree planAPIOpen source
Z
ZNo-code workflow automation and AI agents across 9,000+ apps for businesses
Free, from $19.99/mo
Z
Free, from $19.99/mo
Z
No-code workflow automation and AI agents across 9,000+ apps for businesses
Workflow AutomationFree planAPI
N
NN
Freemium
N
Visual workflow automation and AI agent builder, cloud or self-hosted
Workflow AutomationFree plan
M
MLow-code cloud, desktop RPA and process mining automation for enterprises
From $15/mo
M
From $15/mo
M
Low-code cloud, desktop RPA and process mining automation for enterprises
Workflow Automation
Built from each vendor's public website; we haven't tested them hands-on. Editorial policy