Firecrawl vs ScrapingBee

Firecrawl and ScrapingBee are both Scraping & Crawling APIs, compared here on pricing, compliance, capabilities, and developer experience from structured, cited data - not reviews or paid placement. Firecrawl starts lower at $16 per month vs $49 for ScrapingBee. Firecrawl offers a free tier while ScrapingBee does not, so Firecrawl is easier to trial before committing. Firecrawl supports webhooks for event-driven integration; the other does not document them. For coding-agent use, Firecrawl scores higher on agent-friendliness (65 vs 40).

Comparedby a transparent data-readiness score computed from each API's published, sourced fields. No reviews, no paid placement. How we rank.

Data last verified 2026-06-06, with every field cited on each profile.

Head-to-head, from published, cited fields (auto-generated; no paid placement)
Field	Firecrawl	ScrapingBee
Starting price	$16 month	$49 month
Pricing model	Subscription	Subscription
Free tier	✓	✗
Self-serve signup	✓	✓
SOC 2	Type II	Type II
HIPAA	·	·
GDPR	✓	✓
Webhooks	✓	✗
Sandbox	✗	✗
Documented actions	10	15

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