Firecrawl vs Defapi vs SearchCans vs Apify

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
SearchCans
Competitor 3
Apify
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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
You know how managing multiple AI provider integrations usually means maintaining separate codebases for each vendor
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Competitor SearchCans
searchcans.com
SearchCans is a search and content-extraction API service for AI workflows.
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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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2.4Kvisits/mo
8.8Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▼ 42.6%
▼ 9.6%
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6-month growth
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-86.2%
+487.2%
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Global rank web
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#4,650,820
#2,433,686
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Avg. last 3 months
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4.8K
7.4K
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Bounce rate lower is better
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36%
40%
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Pages / visit
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1.4
1.5
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Visit duration
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7s
3s
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FirecrawlDefapiSearchCansApify
04.4K8.8K13.3K17.7KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KSearchCans · 1.7KSearchCans · 1.5KSearchCans · 2.5KSearchCans · 2.2KSearchCans · 3.8KSearchCans · 9.8KSearchCans · 8.8K1K10K100KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KSearchCans · 1.7KSearchCans · 1.5KSearchCans · 2.5KSearchCans · 2.2KSearchCans · 3.8KSearchCans · 9.8KSearchCans · 8.8KDec '25Jan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$16per month · free tier available
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$18per month · free tier available
$19per month · free tier available
Free tier
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API access
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
Standard $18Starter $99
Free FreeStarter $19/moScale $199/moBusiness $999/mo+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
Web pagesText
ImagesTextAudio
Web pagesTextDocuments
Web pagesText
Output
TextData
AudioImagesText
TextData
Data
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Business & MarketingDevelopment & CodeAI Lead GenerationAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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5
Web scraping
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Maps data scraping
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Social media scraping
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Lead generation
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