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BBrowserbase vs Firecrawl
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Browserbase if…
- you're in its core audience: ai agent developers, software engineers
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Choose Firecrawl if…
- you want the lower entry price ($16/mo vs $20/mo)
- 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 Browserbase Firecrawl
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price$20/mo$16/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your contentNo—
Data retentionFree plan 7 days, paid 30 days; session recordings kept 30 daysKept until you request deletion in writing; no recurring deletion policy
Security and complianceHIPAASOC 2 Type II
Updates, last 90 days514
CAPTCHA solving—
Built-in proxies—
Structured JSON output—
Markdown output
Full-site crawl—
Session replay—
MCP server—
PlatformsWeb, APIAPI, Web, Self-hosted
CategoryBrowser Agents & ScrapingBrowser Agents & Scraping
CompanyBrowserbaseSideGuide Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Firecrawl
Based in—United States
Founded—2022
Part of——
Key features
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- Managed headless cloud browsers for AI agents
- Search API to find relevant websites from a query
- Fetch API converting URLs to HTML, JSON or Markdown
- Automatic captcha solving and stealth mode
- Built-in proxies with usage-based overage
- Session logs, live view and replay
- Functions runtime for deploying agents
- Model Gateway for LLM access
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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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Browserbase
Free$0/mo
Developer$20/mo
Startup$99/mo
ScaleCustom
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
Browserbase
- Free plan with 3 concurrent browsers and 1,000 Search/Fetch calls
- Paid plans start at $20/mo
- SOC-2 Type II infrastructure; HIPAA BAA on Scale
- Integrates with Stagehand, crewAI, Mastra, AI SDK and others
- Free plan limited to 1 browser hour and 15-minute sessions
- Captcha solving and stealth not on the free plan
- Advanced stealth and SSO only on custom-priced Scale plan
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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