Firecrawl vs Defapi vs Exa vs Thunderbit

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

Your tool
Firecrawl
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Competitor 1
DDefapi
Competitor 2
Exa
Competitor 3
Thunderbit
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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 DDefapi
defapi.org
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Competitor Exa
exa.ai
Search built for AI
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Competitor Thunderbit
thunderbit.com
Thunderbit is an AI web scraper that turns any webpage into a spreadsheet without code.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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2.4Kvisits/mo
930.8Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▼ 42.6%
▲ 9.9%
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6-month growth
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-86.2%
+16.3%
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Global rank web
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#4,650,820
#55,392
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Avg. last 3 months
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4.8K
844.7K
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Bounce rate lower is better
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36%
38%
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Pages / visit
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1.4
4.3
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Visit duration
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7s
3m 23s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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FirecrawlDefapiExaThunderbit
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8K1K10K100K1M10MDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Free
Starting price
$16per month · free tier available
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Free tier
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Plans
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
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
AudioImagesText
TextWeb pages
Web pages
Output
DataText
AudioImagesText
DataText
Data
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Business & MarketingDevelopment & CodeAI Lead GenerationAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Web scraping
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Website crawling
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AI search
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Lead generation
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Search engine
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Webscraping
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API management
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Price monitoring
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Real estate listings
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Research
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Text to spreadsheet conversion
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Website interaction
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Website to JSON
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API security
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Competitive analysis
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Customer feedback analysis
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Developer tools
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Development
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Maps data scraping
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Price tracking
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SEO analysis
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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.