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Side-by-side comparisons of web access and scraping APIs, kept current by the String team.

Best Firecrawl alternatives: six options compared (2026)

The best Firecrawl alternatives in 2026, compared on the open Web Data Frontier Benchmark (99 targets, August 11, 2026 run) and on prices checked against each vendor's own pages, anchored at the plan closest to $100 a month: String, Crawl4AI, Apify, Bright Data, ScraperAPI, and Zyte.

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