BrowserAct vs Firecrawl vs Defapi vs Perplexity Sonar API

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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BrowserAct
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Firecrawl
Competitor 2
DDefapi
Competitor 3
Perplexity Sonar API
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool BrowserAct
browseract.com
BrowserAct is a no-code web scraping platform that builds a reusable scraper from one prompt.
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Competitor Firecrawl
firecrawl.dev
Firecrawl is a web data API that gives AI agents and applications clean content from the live web.
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Competitor DDefapi
defapi.org
You know how managing multiple AI provider integrations usually means maintaining separate codebases for each vendor
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Competitor Perplexity Sonar API
docs.perplexity.ai
Perplexity Sonar API is the developer platform behind Perplexity's real-time web research, exposed as a Router API, an Agent API, a Search API and an Embeddings API.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
163.5Kvisits/mo
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2.4Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 12.3%
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▼ 42.6%
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6-month growth
-5.0%
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-86.2%
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Global rank web
#275,930
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#4,650,820
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Avg. last 3 months
147.7K
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4.8K
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Bounce rate lower is better
42%
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36%
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Pages / visit
2.5
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1.4
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Visit duration
1m 07s
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7s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 76% · ● Referral 23%
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BrowserActFirecrawlDefapiPerplexity Sonar API
043K86.1K129.1K172.1KBrowserAct · 93.9KBrowserAct · 107.8KBrowserAct · 137.1KBrowserAct · 172.1KBrowserAct · 135.9KBrowserAct · 116.8KBrowserAct · 133.9KBrowserAct · 145.6KBrowserAct · 163.5KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4K1K10K100K1MBrowserAct · 93.9KBrowserAct · 107.8KBrowserAct · 137.1KBrowserAct · 172.1KBrowserAct · 135.9KBrowserAct · 116.8KBrowserAct · 133.9KBrowserAct · 145.6KBrowserAct · 163.5KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KDec '25Jan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
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Starting price
$16per month · free tier available
$16per month · free tier available
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Free tier
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API access
Plans
Free FreeBasic $16/moEssential $70/moAdvanced $120/mo
Free FreeHobby $16/moStandard $83/moGrowth $333/mo+2 more
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $1/$6/per requestClaude Sonnet 4.6 $1.5/$7.5/per requestClaude Opus 4.6 $2.5/$12.5/per requestSora 2 Stable $0.175+/per request+2 more
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
TextWeb pages
AudioImagesText
Text
Output
Data
DataText
AudioImagesText
Text
Skill level
Intermediate
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Web scraping
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Webscraping
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Website to JSON
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Developer tools
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API management
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Information retrieval
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No-code
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Web search summaries
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Development
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.