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Tavily vs Firecrawl

Side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, and ratings

Tavily
Tavily

Real-time web search API for AI agents — fast, structured, secure.

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Firecrawl
Firecrawl

API for AI agents to search, scrape, and interact with web content.

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Pricing
Freemium
Freemium
Plans
$0/mo
$0.008/credit
Custom
Custom
$0/mo
$16/mo (billed yearly)
$83/mo (billed yearly)
$333/mo (billed yearly)
$599/mo (billed yearly)
Custom
Popularity
5.9k views
5.9k views
Skill Level
Advanced
Intermediate
API Available
Platforms
API
APICLI
Categories
⚙️ Developer Infrastructure
⚙️ Developer Infrastructure
Features
Real-time web search API for agents
Content extraction and cleaning
Web crawling at scale
/research endpoint with state-of-the-art benchmarks
Dynamic filtering — model programs own search filters via Bash/Python
180 ms p50 median latency on /search
Intelligent caching and indexing
300M+ monthly request capacity
99.99% uptime SLA
Built-in PII, prompt injection, and malicious source filters
Drop-in integration with OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq
x402: pay-per-query with USDC wallet on Base
Integration with Arcade.dev, LangChain, MCP Marketplace
Structured, chunked output for LLM ingestion
Developer-friendly API with comprehensive docs
Web search with full content extraction
Scrape to markdown, JSON, or screenshot
Interact with pages (click, type, navigate)
Autonomous agent data gathering
Smart wait for dynamic content
Media parsing (PDF, DOCX, etc.)
Token-efficient output (93% fewer tokens)
Live mode for fresh data
Web index for fast retrieval
JavaScript rendering
MCP client integration
CLI for agent setup
Open source codebase
Research Index for AI/ML papers
Keyless access (1000 free credits/mo)
Integrations
OpenAI
Anthropic
Groq
x402
Arcade.dev
LangChain
MCP Marketplace
Databricks
IBM WatsonX
JetBrains Junie
Nebius
Peerbound
Hermes Agent
SimpleQA
Base
Claude
Cursor
Windsurf
Gemini
MCP client
OpenRouter
Vercel Marketplace
Python SDK
Node.js SDK
Go SDK
Ruby SDK
PHP SDK
.NET SDK
cURL
CLI