Firecrawl records 1,828,239 monthly visits with -1.9% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. Outlier AI records 10,372,036 monthly visits with +7.6% growth and Paid pricing.
Web data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
Get paid to train the next generation of AI models
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | firecrawl.dev | outlier.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 1.83M (1,828,239) | 10.37M (10,372,036) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -35.65K (-1.9%) | +736.51K (+7.6%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (31.8%) | 🇺🇸 United States (21.6%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 740.26K | 5.82M |
| User Rating | 4.7 | 3.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Web data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
Multiple endpoints cover discovery, single-page extraction, whole-site crawling, and URL mapping from one API.
Returns Markdown, structured JSON, HTML, links, and screenshots while stripping navigation, ads, and footers to cut token usage.
After scraping, drive clicks, typing, scrolling, and navigation with prompts or code to reach data behind interaction.
Python and Node SDKs, REST API, CLI, and an MCP server let agents and IDEs connect in minutes.
Get paid to train the next generation of AI models
After skill screening, contributors are matched to projects that fit their domain, from coding and math to linguistics and medicine.
No minimum hours and fully remote work, so experts can fit tasks around study, research or a primary job.
Typical work includes writing hard prompts, producing grading rubrics, ranking competing answers and reviewing model reasoning.
Contributors are paid for approved work each week, with rewards that scale with the quality of their output.
Matches vetted domain experts with remote AI training and engineering roles using AI-driven vetting.
Matches vetted domain experts with remote AI training and engineering roles using AI-driven vetting.
SpecialistMassive marketplace of robust web scrapers and actors, but requires more configuration than Firecrawl's simple API.
SpecialistMassive marketplace of robust web scrapers and actors, but requires more configuration than Firecrawl's simple API.
Offers crowdsourced data collection and annotation services, operating on a broader task-based crowdsourcing model.
Offers crowdsourced data collection and annotation services, operating on a broader task-based crowdsourcing model.
Connects AI research labs with human subject matter experts for specialized evaluation and data annotation tasks.
Connects AI research labs with human subject matter experts for specialized evaluation and data annotation tasks.
Combines live web search and cloud browsers for agentic automation, but less specialized in clean markdown generation.
Optimized for semantic web search and AI agent retrieval, but less focused on full-site markdown crawling.
Bundles deep research agents and web search APIs, but less centered on raw site-to-markdown conversion.
Bundles deep research agents and web search APIs, but less centered on raw site-to-markdown conversion.
SpecialistEnterprise proxy infrastructure with powerful scraping tools, but significantly higher complexity and pricing for simple markdown conversion.
SpecialistEnterprise proxy infrastructure with powerful scraping tools, but significantly higher complexity and pricing for simple markdown conversion.
Established enterprise data annotation provider offering large-scale human validation and alignment services for AI models.
SpecialistHosts AI hackathons and community building events rather than freelance data annotation work.
SpecialistHosts AI hackathons and community building events rather than freelance data annotation work.
Provides excellent URL-to-Markdown document reading and neural search endpoints, but narrower full-site crawling depth.
Provides excellent URL-to-Markdown document reading and neural search endpoints, but narrower full-site crawling depth.
Provides enterprise-grade human data and RLHF evaluation, connecting expert annotators with leading AI labs.
Provides enterprise-grade human data and RLHF evaluation, connecting expert annotators with leading AI labs.
