Apify vs Firecrawl
At 100,000 JavaScript pages a month: Apify no public price, Firecrawl $114.00. One side has no complete public price for this job, so no saving can be stated.
Apify checked Oct 9, 2026 · Firecrawl checked Oct 12, 2026
Both bills at the same volume · required
100,000 pages per month. The verdict above follows your volume; the write-up below uses 100,000 pages per month.
Apify
Firecrawl
The difference
Charge by charge
| Charge | Apify | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Plain pages, per 1,000 | not published | $1.14 |
| JavaScript pages, per 1,000 | not published | $1.14 |
| Sites that block bots, per 1,000 | not published | not published |
| Failed requests billed | not published | yes |
| Past the plan's allowance | no plan covers this job | $5.00 per 2,000 more |
| Paying yearly | no yearly price | saves 16% |
| Concurrent requests on this plan | not published | 25 |
| Free tier | size not published, renewal not published | 1,000 credits a month, no card |
Choose Apify when
- no published charge favours it for this job; weigh what it offers beyond price
Choose Firecrawl when
- no published charge favours it for this job; weigh what it offers beyond price
How the Apify bill adds up
- Base rateNot publishedNo matching published billing rule
- × JavaScript renderingNot publishedSee the stated assumption in the calculation
- × Premium proxyNot requiredNot part of this workload
- ÷ Success rate0.95Failure billing is not published; this is an assumption
- = per 1,000 pages keptTotal unknownNo public price for this job: Actor prices, RAM-hours, storage, transfer and proxy usage cannot be calculated from this page-count workload.
Credits and multipliers
JavaScript rendering
Billed failures
Success rate
Concurrency
Free tier
Renews monthly How the Firecrawl bill adds up
- Base rate1 creditper page
- → JavaScript rendering1 creditper page; replaces the base rate
- × Premium proxyNot required
- ÷ Success rate0.9595% expected to succeed
- = Billed units per page you keep1.0526 creditsFrom this bill’s calculation
- = per 1,000 pages kept$1.14Standard, billed monthly
Credits and multipliersJavaScript renderingBilled failuresSuccess rateConcurrencyFree tierRenews monthly Both bills, step by step
Apify
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Successes you want
100,000 pages
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
- ÷ 0.95
Attempts you are billed for
105,263 requests
Failure billing is not published, so this assumes all 105,263 attempts are billed.
- ∅
Cash per month
No public price for this job
See the note above.
Bars share one linear scale across the 2 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.
Firecrawl
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Successes you want
100,000 pages
- ÷ 0.95
Attempts you are billed for
105,263 requests
Firecrawl bills failed fetches, so a 5% failure rate is billed work.
- × 1
What the meter counts
105,263 credits
One attempt is one billed unit for this workload.
- =
Cash per month
$114.00 /mo
Standard: the cheapest way to buy this volume, not just the first plan big enough.
Bars share one linear scale across the 3 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length.
Both ladders share one linear scale, topping out at 105,263 counted units, so a longer bar means more billed work rather than a different drawing.
These figures are for one stated workload: 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages a month at a 95% success rate. Change the volume above and both bills, the verdict and the curve follow it.
Decision boundary: Firecrawl charges a fixed 1 credit for each page it scrapes, crawls or maps, and returns it as markdown, HTML or JSON, so a crawl of 100,000 pages has a price before it starts. Apify charges for the computing time an Actor uses, at $0.13 to $0.20 per compute unit (one GB of memory for one hour), so the same crawl costs whatever the chosen Actor takes to run it. For feeding pages to a language model at a known price per page, Firecrawl is the simpler buy; for site-specific scrapers, scheduled jobs and storage on one platform, Apify is. (Firecrawl pricing, checked Oct 11, 2026; Apify pricing, checked Oct 12, 2026)
Billing models side by side
Firecrawl sells credits by the month: Hobby is $19 for 5,000, Standard $99 for 100,000, Growth $399 for 500,000 and Scale $749 for 1,000,000, with 5 to 100 requests at once, and paying yearly lowers each. JSON output adds 4 credits a page. Past the allowance, extra credits are bought in $5 packs. A page that comes back with an error status such as 403 or 404 still costs its credit. The free plan gives 1,000 credits every month with no card. (Firecrawl pricing, checked Oct 11, 2026)
Apify’s plans are prepaid usage: $5 a month free, then $19, $199 or $999 a month to spend on Actors and platform services, with usage past that added to the next invoice. Compute is $0.20 per unit on Free and Starter, falling to $0.13 on Business; residential proxies are $7 to $8 per GB, and Actors in its Store can carry their own price set by their authors. Unused prepaid usage expires each month. (Apify pricing, checked Oct 12, 2026)
What each provides that the other does not
Firecrawl is built around clean output for AI: markdown by default, JSON to a schema, a crawl endpoint that follows a site’s links, search, and a browser for pages that need actions, all priced in the same credits. Apify is a general platform: ready-made Actors for many sites, your own code run on its servers, schedules, datasets and storage, and integrations around them. Measure an Apify Actor’s compute on a few hundred of your pages before comparing; Firecrawl’s price for the same pages is in the table above. (Firecrawl pricing, checked Oct 11, 2026; Apify pricing, checked Oct 12, 2026)