Firecrawl CLI pricing snapshot
The Firecrawl CLI installs with npx firecrawl-cli@latest init; you pay for the Firecrawl account behind it. Credits are spent per API request at the same rates on every plan, from one shared balance. Prices are in USD, effective September 4, 2026.
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| Plan | Price | Credits per month | Concurrent browsers | Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Free | $0/month | 1,000 credits, refreshed monthly, no credit card required | 2 | Community |
Hobby | $19/month billed monthly, $16/month billed annually | 5,000 credits (2,500 searches or 5,000 pages scraped) | 5 | Basic |
Standard | $99/month billed monthly, $83/month billed annually | 100,000 credits (50,000 searches or 100,000 pages scraped) | 25 | Standard |
Growth | $399/month billed monthly, $333/month billed annually | 500,000 credits (250,000 searches or 500,000 pages scraped) | 50 | Priority |
Scale | $749/month billed monthly, $599/month billed annually | 1,000,000 credits (500,000 searches or 1,000,000 pages scraped) | 100 | Priority |
Enterprise | Custom pricing | Custom | Custom | Dedicated support & SLA |
Which plan fits
Evaluating, or an occasional agent: Free, no card needed. Without an API key, Firecrawl's onboarding skill describes a keyless free tier for search, scrape and interact.
Scheduled scrapes and small crawls: Hobby or Standard, where concurrent browsers and per-minute limits, not unit price, decide throughput.
Agent fleets and production pipelines: Growth or Scale. Among self-serve plans, only Scale carries unused credits into the next month and can be billed by invoice; Enterprise also does both, on custom terms.
Billing details
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| Detail | What applies |
|---|---|
Pay-as-you-go top-ups | $5 adds 1,000 credits on Hobby, 2,000 Standard, 2,500 Growth, 5,000 Scale. |
Monthly limit | A multiple of $5 in Billing settings caps monthly spend; 0 turns pay-as-you-go off and blank means no limit. Credits you buy yourself don't count. |
Credit rollover | Scale carries unused credits one month and Enterprise a custom amount; Hobby, Standard and Growth credits do not roll over. Credits you buy stay until used and expire if you cancel. |
Annual saving | 16.7% on Hobby, Standard and Growth, 20% on Scale, against twelve monthly payments. |
Invoicing and manual credits | Scale and Enterprise can pay by invoice against a signed order form; Hobby through Scale can load credits manually and set a spend limit, custom on Enterprise. |
Requests per minute | Per endpoint: 10 Free, 100 Hobby, 500 Standard, 5,000 Growth, 10,000 Scale. Crawl, which batch scrape shares: 2, 20, 100, 1,000, 2,000. |
Enterprise-only controls | SSO, automatic provisioning, zero-data retention on approved use cases, key restrictions and IP allowlisting; the account team switches IP restrictions on per organization, at no credit charge. |
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What each operation costs
Each operation bills in its own unit, so your mix matters more than the tier. When a paid plan runs out, Firecrawl adds credits in $5 increments up to your monthly limit.
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| Operation | Credit cost |
|---|---|
Scrape, Crawl | 1 credit per page |
Map | 1 credit per call (Firecrawl's credits table: 1 per page) |
Search | 2 credits per 10 results |
Interact | 2 credits per browser minute |
Monitor | 1 credit per page per check |
JSON, Question, Highlight formats | On Scrape and Crawl, 4 credits per page on top of the page credit |
Monitor deterministic-extraction engine | Flat 7 credits per page per check, instead of the Monitor rate |
Agent | In preview: 5 free runs a day, then dynamic pricing |
Firecrawl Research Index paper endpoints | Free across every category, including AI/ML and life sciences |
Failed requests | A scrape returning no result is not charged; a 403 or 404 page is still returned and costs 1 credit |
What drives the bill
The CLI installs skills into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other detected agents, so one agent session can run many commands;
firecrawl --statusshows remaining credits and concurrency.Extraction formats and Monitor checks are charged per page, so a wide crawl with JSON extraction or a frequent monitor is where credits go.
A custom API URL (
--api-urlorFIRECRAWL_API_URL) skips Firecrawl authentication, so cost moves to the infrastructure you run.
Easy to miss
Retries can charge again: a replayed Alexandria request with the same request ID returns the stored result, failures included; a new ID runs and bills afresh.
Alexandria session feedback refunds 1 credit per submission, up to 10 credits per website and 100 per team each UTC day, if sent within 20 minutes of the team's last Alexandria search, discovery or execution.
A provider returning THIRD_PARTY_DATA_TERMS_REQUIRED stops until an organization admin accepts its terms in the dashboard (the CLI cannot); the rerun costs normal credits.
Our take
If your work is page-shaped, size monthly credits, concurrent browsers and per-minute limits to your peak run, then set a pay-as-you-go limit. A higher plan does not change the credits each operation costs; it buys more credits, browsers and rate-limit headroom. Enterprise is the plan for SSO, zero-data retention, key restrictions or IP allowlisting, whatever your volume.