Scraping API PricesFirecrawl vs ScrapeGraphAI
The current volume and workload boundaries between Firecrawl and ScrapeGraphAI.
Firecrawl
ScrapeGraphAI
The difference
Both paths, one ruler
Firecrawl
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
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
$399.00 /mo
Growth. Cheapest of every eligible purchase option, not the first plan that fits.
Bars share one linear scale across the 3 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.
ScrapeGraphAI
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
ScrapeGraphAI bills failed fetches, so a 5% failure rate is billed work.
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Cash per month
Not comparable here
no published rate for request.basic
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.
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. This site has not computed a crossover volume for this pair, and does not claim one. Move the volume on either product page to see where the answer moves.
Decision boundary: for one-credit page scrapes, Firecrawl has the lower computed bill through 5,000 pages, ScrapeGraphAI from 5,001 through 10,000, Firecrawl from 10,001 through 500,000, and ScrapeGraphAI from 500,001 through 832,999. The bills tie at 833,000 when ScrapeGraphAI overage is included, then Firecrawl is lower from 833,001 through its 1,000,000-credit public allowance. (Firecrawl pricing, ScrapeGraphAI pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026)
The workload can reverse that page boundary. Both vendors publish five-credit structured extraction, but their search meters are not equivalent: Firecrawl lists two credits for up to ten search results, while ScrapeGraphAI lists two credits per result without a prompt and five per result with a prompt. Firecrawl also bills browser interaction by minute, while ScrapeGraphAI bills crawl startup, each page’s selected format, monitors, detected changes, and optional stealth. (Firecrawl pricing, Firecrawl extraction guide, ScrapeGraphAI pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026)
Billing models side by side
Firecrawl sells monthly credit allowances. Scrape and crawl pages normally cost one credit, search uses a result-bundle meter, JSON extraction uses a fixed page meter in the selected guide, premium proxy uses a replacement meter, and browser sessions add credits per minute. Interact sessions remain billable until stopped or expired. Plan credits normally do not roll over, with stated exceptions for auto-recharge and some custom annual credits. (Firecrawl pricing, Firecrawl browser guide, Firecrawl interact guide, retrieved July 26, 2026)
ScrapeGraphAI also sells monthly credits, with published overage rates and non-expiring top-up packs. Markdown conversion costs one credit, screenshots two, structured extraction five, and search is billed per result. A crawl adds a startup charge plus the chosen output cost for each page. Monitoring bills each tick and adds credits when a change is detected, while stealth adds another meter. (ScrapeGraphAI pricing, ScrapeGraphAI pricing explanation, retrieved July 26, 2026)
Firecrawl says it does not charge Firecrawl-side failures but does charge when a fetched target returns a 4xx or 5xx response. ScrapeGraphAI’s public pricing page does not state whether failed scrapes, blocked pages, or empty extraction results consume credits. Keep failure volume as an unknown in the ScrapeGraphAI scenario. (Firecrawl pricing, ScrapeGraphAI pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026)
What each provides that the other does not
Firecrawl is the only one of this pair whose reviewed pricing model includes a separately metered browser sandbox and interact mode. It also publishes a premium-proxy replacement meter and an explicit rule for target 4xx and 5xx billing. (Firecrawl browser guide, Firecrawl interact guide, Firecrawl pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026)
ScrapeGraphAI is the only one of this pair whose reviewed public table includes screenshot, branding, monitor-tick, detected-change, crawl-startup, and non-expiring top-up meters. It also publishes subscription overage rates, which creates the 833,000-page tie. (ScrapeGraphAI pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026)
Who should pick which
Pick Firecrawl in its current lower page bands, for search workloads needing bundles of results, or when browser interaction is part of the same account model. Pick ScrapeGraphAI in its narrow low-volume band, its 500,001-to-832,999 band, or when screenshots and monitoring are first-class billable operations. For five-credit extraction, divide the page boundaries by five; for search, rebuild them from results rather than queries. (Firecrawl pricing, ScrapeGraphAI pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026)
The unresolved items are Firecrawl’s variable token-based Extract details and fixed Agent cost, plus ScrapeGraphAI’s failure billing and crawl combination rules. Those unknowns can dominate an agentic or monitoring workload, so the one-credit page boundary should not be reused for those modes. (Firecrawl extraction guide, Firecrawl pricing, ScrapeGraphAI pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026)