Firecrawl vs Exa vs Defapi vs BrowserAct

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
Exa
Competitor 2
DDefapi
Competitor 3
BrowserAct
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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 Exa
exa.ai
Search built for AI
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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 BrowserAct
browseract.com
BrowserAct is a no-code web scraping platform that builds a reusable scraper from one prompt.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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930.8Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
163.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 9.9%
▼ 42.6%
▲ 12.3%
6-month growth
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+16.3%
-86.2%
-5.0%
Global rank web
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#55,392
#4,650,820
#275,930
Avg. last 3 months
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844.7K
4.8K
147.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
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38%
36%
42%
Pages / visit
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4.3
1.4
2.5
Visit duration
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3m 23s
7s
1m 07s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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● Direct 76% · ● Referral 23%
FirecrawlExaDefapiBrowserAct
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KBrowserAct · 93.9KBrowserAct · 107.8KBrowserAct · 137.1KBrowserAct · 172.1KBrowserAct · 135.9KBrowserAct · 116.8KBrowserAct · 133.9KBrowserAct · 145.6KBrowserAct · 163.5K1K10K100K1M10MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KBrowserAct · 93.9KBrowserAct · 107.8KBrowserAct · 137.1KBrowserAct · 172.1KBrowserAct · 135.9KBrowserAct · 116.8KBrowserAct · 133.9KBrowserAct · 145.6KBrowserAct · 163.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
$16per month · free tier available
Free tier
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$16per month · free tier available
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Plans
Free FreeHobby $16/moStandard $83/moGrowth $333/mo+2 more
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
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
Free FreeBasic $16/moEssential $70/moAdvanced $120/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
Web pagesText
TextWeb pages
AudioImagesText
Web pagesText
Output
TextData
TextData
AudioImagesText
Data
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Intermediate
Categories
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
2
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Website crawling
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Development
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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.