Firecrawl vs Anthropic Claude API vs Apify

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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Anthropic Claude API
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Apify
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Firecrawl: Olostep93% Context.dev91% Jina Reader89% SearchCans88% BrowserAct82% Axiom.ai80% Canopy API78% Browse AI77%
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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 Anthropic Claude API
anthropic.com
Build on Claude's capabilities
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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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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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13.8Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▼ 39.4%
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6-month growth
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-43.4%
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Global rank web
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#3,345
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Avg. last 3 months
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25.7M
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Bounce rate lower is better
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67%
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Pages / visit
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1.8
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Visit duration
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1m 35s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 81% · ● Referral 16%
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FirecrawlAnthropic Claude APIApify
010.1M20.2M30.4M40.5MAnthropic Claude API · 9.9MAnthropic Claude API · 9.4MAnthropic Claude API · 9.5MAnthropic Claude API · 16.1MAnthropic Claude API · 24.4MAnthropic Claude API · 25.9MAnthropic Claude API · 22.4MAnthropic Claude API · 40.5MAnthropic Claude API · 22.8MAnthropic Claude API · 13.8M1M10M100MAnthropic Claude API · 9.9MAnthropic Claude API · 9.4MAnthropic Claude API · 9.5MAnthropic Claude API · 16.1MAnthropic Claude API · 24.4MAnthropic Claude API · 25.9MAnthropic Claude API · 22.4MAnthropic Claude API · 40.5MAnthropic Claude API · 22.8MAnthropic Claude API · 13.8MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$16per month · free tier available
$17per month · free tier available
$19per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Free FreeHobby $16/moStandard $83/moGrowth $333/mo+2 more
Plan $17.0 $17/moPlan $20.0 $20/moPlan $25.0 $25/moPlan $100.0 $100/mo+2 more
Free FreeStarter $19/moScale $199/moBusiness $999/mo+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
CodeDocumentsImagesText
TextWeb pages
Output
DataText
CodeText
Data
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Business & MarketingDevelopment & CodeAI Lead GenerationAI 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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Webscraping
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Website crawling
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Large language models
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Coding
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Instagram scraping
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Lead generation
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Maps data scraping
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Social media scraping
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Web search
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Website interaction
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Website to JSON
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Agents
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Developer tools
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Development
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Process automation
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