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BBrowser Use vs Firecrawl
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Browser Use if…
- you're in its core audience: developers, ai agent builders
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Choose Firecrawl if…
- you're in its core audience: ai application developers, agent builders
Side by side
Feature Browser Use Firecrawl
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price—$16/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your contentYes—
Data retentionKept as long as necessary; ZDR projects on enterprise; personal data destroyed within 90 days of terminationKept until you request deletion in writing; no recurring deletion policy
Security and complianceSOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPRSOC 2 Type II
Updates, last 90 days314
GitHub stars119.3K—
Built-in proxies—
Markdown output—
Full-site crawl—
Login & 2FA—
Session replay—
MCP server—
PlatformsWeb, API, Self-hostedAPI, Web, Self-hosted
CategoryBrowser Agents & ScrapingBrowser Agents & Scraping
CompanyBrowser Use Inc.SideGuide Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Firecrawl
Based in—United States
Founded—2022
Part of——
Key features
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- Browser agents that complete web tasks
- Cloud browsers accessed through Playwright or Puppeteer over CDP
- CAPTCHA solving and anti-detect browsers
- Residential proxies or your own proxy
- MCP server and browsers for coding agents
- Open-source MIT library and Browser Harness
- BU 2.0 custom model API
- On-prem deployment option
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- 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
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Browser Use
Free credit$1 one-time
Cloud browsers$0.02/hour
Browser agentsModel cost + 20%
BU 2.0 model API$0.60 input / $3.50 output per 1M tokens
On-premCustom
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
Browser Use
- Core library is open source under the MIT license
- $1 free credit with no card required
- No subscription, and credits never expire
- Lists SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA compliance and zero data retention
- Usage-based billing makes costs harder to predict
- Free accounts are limited to 10 concurrent sessions
- Minimum top-up is $5
- On-prem pricing requires contacting sales
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
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Free, from $20/mo
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Cloud headless browsers and web APIs for developers building AI agents
Browser Agents & ScrapingFree planAPI
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SS
Free, from $29/mo
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Open-source AI browser automation for logins, forms and data extraction
Browser Agents & ScrapingFree planAPIOpen source
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