Honest pricing comparison
Your Firecrawl plan gets you 3,000 pages ≈ 428.
Firecrawl uses credit multipliers. JSON extraction costs +4, premium proxy +4, PDF parsing +1. A single complex page burns up to 9 credits. ArrowCrawl charges 1 credit per request, period.
Firecrawl Hobbyincumbent
$16/mo
3,000 credits
Up to 9 credits per page in practice
- JS rendering1×
- JSON extraction+4×
- Premium proxy+4×
- PDF parsing+1×
- Worst-case 1 page10 credits
- Real pages with JSON+proxy≈ 333
How many real pages does your Firecrawl plan deliver?
Most users hit at least JSON extraction (+4×) and premium proxy (+4×) on protected sites. That makes a single page cost 9 credits.
Firecrawl Hobby
$16/mo · 3,000 credits
333 pages
with JSON + premium proxy
Firecrawl Standard
$83/mo · 100,000 credits
11,111 pages
with JSON + premium proxy
ArrowCrawl Starter
$15/mo · 10,000 credits
10,000 pages
any feature, all included
Calculation assumes 9-credit pages on Firecrawl (JS render + JSON + premium proxy). Drop the multipliers and Firecrawl's effective rate ranges between $0.005 and $0.027 per page depending on feature mix.
What ArrowCrawl does not do
Honesty cuts both ways. Here's where Firecrawl is currently ahead.
- Firecrawl has more SEO-style structured outputs (search, changes feed, deep crawl). We're shipping these incrementally.
- Firecrawl ships with a larger pre-built integrations catalog. We ship a smaller, sharper set focused on commerce + AI agents.
- Cloudflare-protected sites at scale still need premium proxies. We help you BYO instead of bundling them.