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BFirecrawl vs Skyvern
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Firecrawl if…
- you want the lower entry price ($16/mo vs $29/mo)
- you're in its core audience: ai application developers, agent builders
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Choose Skyvern if…
- you're in its core audience: developers, operations teams
Side by side
Feature Firecrawl Skyvern
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price$16/mo$29/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your content—Yes
Data retentionKept until you request deletion in writing; no recurring deletion policy—
Security and complianceSOC 2 Type IISOC 2 Type II, HIPAA
Updates, last 90 days14—
CAPTCHA solving—
Built-in proxies—
Structured JSON output—
Markdown output—
Full-site crawl—
Login & 2FA—
Session replay—
MCP server
No-code integrations—
PlatformsAPI, Web, Self-hostedWeb, API, Self-hosted
CategoryBrowser Agents & ScrapingBrowser Agents & Scraping
CompanySideGuide Technologies, Inc. d/b/a FirecrawlIkonomos Inc.
Based inUnited StatesUnited States
Founded2022—
Part of——
Key features
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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
S Skyvern
- Vision and LLM-based website navigation without selectors
- Built-in CAPTCHA solving
- 2FA and TOTP login support
- Proxies with country, state or zip targeting
- Data extraction to JSON or CSV schemas
- Document download, parsing and routing
- Python and TypeScript SDKs, MCP support
- Integrations with Zapier, Make, Clay, n8n, Workato
Plans and prices
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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
Skyvern
Free$0
Hobby$29/mo
Pro$149/mo
EnterpriseCustom
Strengths and limitations
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
Skyvern
- Open source and self-hostable via Docker
- Free plan with 5,000 credits, no credit card required
- CAPTCHA and 2FA handling built in
- SDKs for Python and TypeScript
- Free plan limited to 1 concurrent run
- 2FA/TOTP and residential proxies require the $149 Pro plan
- HIPAA compliance and SOC-2 report only on Enterprise
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