Firecrawl vs Exa vs CometAPI

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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Competitor 1
Exa
Competitor 2
CometAPI
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Firecrawl: Olostep92% SearchCans91% Context.dev88% Jina Reader85% BrowserAct85% Apify82% Axiom.ai80% Browse AI79%
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3 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 Exa
exa.ai
Search built for AI
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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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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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930.8Kvisits/mo
302.3Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 9.9%
▲ 9.9%
6-month growth
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+16.3%
-16.5%
Global rank web
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#55,392
#157,147
Avg. last 3 months
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844.7K
295.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
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38%
46%
Pages / visit
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4.3
2.9
Visit duration
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3m 23s
38s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
● Direct 69% · ● Referral 30%
FirecrawlExaCometAPI
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3K100K1M10MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$16per month · free tier available
Free tier
$4per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
Plans
Free FreeHobby $16/moStandard $83/moGrowth $333/mo+2 more
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
Free Trial FreePay-as-you-go Custom/usage-basedEnterprise Custom/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
TextWeb pages
ImagesText
Output
DataText
DataText
ImagesTextVideo
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
6
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6
APIs
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Website crawling
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Web scraping
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Developer tools
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AI search
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LLM gateway
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Search engine
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Webscraping
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API integrations
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Research
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Website interaction
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Website to JSON
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Development
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Image generation
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Video generation
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Prompts
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