Firecrawl vs LangSearch

SpecialistMassive marketplace of robust web scrapers and actors, but requires more configuration than Firecrawl's simple API.

One API key for agent-grade web search, fetch, browsing and automation

Web search API and crawler built for AI agents

Bundles deep research agents and web search APIs, but less centered on raw site-to-markdown conversion.

Search and inference APIs that give AI models real-time web data

SpecialistEnterprise proxy infrastructure with powerful scraping tools, but significantly higher complexity and pricing for simple markdown conversion.

AI search and retrieval platform for modern apps and commerce

The managed vector database and knowledge engine for production AI

Search foundation built from embeddings, rerankers, and reader APIs

SpecialistCloud browsers for AI agents, scraping, and automation that won't get blocked

Independent web search and agent grounding API built on the Ahrefs index

Free / Open-sourceLightning-fast search engine you can self-host or run in the cloud