Firecrawl vs Tavily vs Defapi

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
Tavily
Competitor 2
DDefapi
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 Tavily
tavily.com
Tavily is a real-time search and web access API for AI agents.
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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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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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2.4Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 42.6%
6-month growth
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-86.2%
Global rank web
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#4,650,820
Avg. last 3 months
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4.8K
Bounce rate lower is better
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36%
Pages / visit
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1.4
Visit duration
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7s
Traffic sources
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FirecrawlTavilyDefapi
04.4K8.8K13.3K17.7KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4K1K10K100KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KDec '25Jan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Starting price
$16per month · free tier available
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Free trial
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API access
Plans
Free FreeHobby $16/moStandard $83/moGrowth $333/mo+2 more
Researcher FreePay As You Go $0.01Project Custom/moEnterprise Custom
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
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
TextWeb pages
AudioImagesText
Output
DataText
Text
AudioImagesText
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
6
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4
Webscraping
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Web scraping
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Website crawling
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Developer tools
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API integrations
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APIs
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API management
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Searching
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Website interaction
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Website to JSON
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API security
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Real time web analysis
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Text extraction
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