Firecrawl vs Apify vs CometAPI vs Jina Reader

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

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Firecrawl
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Apify
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CometAPI
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Jina Reader
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool 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 Apify
apify.com
Apify is a web scraping and automation platform built around a marketplace of ready-to-run programs called Actors.
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Competitor CometAPI
cometapi.com
CometAPI functions as an aggregation layer that sits between your application and hundreds of AI model providers
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Competitor Jina Reader
jina.ai
Jina Reader converts a web page into clean, LLM-friendly Markdown.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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302.3Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▲ 9.9%
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6-month growth
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-16.5%
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Global rank web
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#157,147
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Avg. last 3 months
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295.7K
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Bounce rate lower is better
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46%
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Pages / visit
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2.9
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Visit duration
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38s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 69% · ● Referral 30%
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FirecrawlApifyCometAPIJina Reader
0208.6K417.2K625.8K834.4KCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3K100K1MCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KDec '25Jan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Free
Starting price
$16per month · free tier available
$19per month · free tier available
$4per month · free tier available
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Plans
Free FreeHobby $16/moStandard $83/moGrowth $333/mo+2 more
Free FreeStarter $19/moScale $199/moBusiness $999/mo+1 more
Free Trial FreePay-as-you-go Custom/usage-basedEnterprise Custom/mo
Free Tier FreePaid (Token-based) Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
TextWeb pages
ImagesText
DocumentsImagesWeb pages
Output
DataText
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ImagesTextVideo
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Business & MarketingDevelopment & CodeAI Lead GenerationAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI Document ExtractionAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
Web scraping
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Developer tools
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Webscraping
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Website crawling
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Web search
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LLM gateway
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Markdown conversion
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API integrations
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Instagram scraping
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Lead generation
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Maps data scraping
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OCR
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Social media scraping
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Text extraction
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Website interaction
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Website to JSON
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Agents
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Image generation
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Process automation
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RAG
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Video generation
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