Firecrawl records 1,828,239 monthly visits with -1.9% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. SmartProxy records 217 monthly visits with -99.2% growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing.
Web data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
AI-ready residential proxies and web data at scale
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | firecrawl.dev | smartproxy.org |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Free Trial, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 1.83M (1,828,239) | 217 (217) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -35.65K (-1.9%) | -27.7K (-99.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (31.8%) | 🇨🇭 Switzerland (57.3%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 740.26K | 95 |
| User Rating | 4.7 | 4.4 |
| 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.
AI-ready residential proxies and web data at scale
Route requests through real residential IPs with smart rotation and free geolocation for higher scraping success rates.
Choose unlimited residential traffic, static residential, long-acting ISP, or static datacenter proxies depending on your workflow.
Dedicated scrapers and APIs for web data collection, plus integration guides for AI and automation platforms.
Target locations at country, state and city level, with detailed per-country pools such as Brazil, India, the US, Turkey and Mexico.
Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
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.
Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
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.
SpecialistCloud browsers for AI agents, scraping, and automation that won't get blocked
SpecialistCloud browsers for AI agents, scraping, and automation that won't get blocked
Agentic, no-code web scraping that turns any URL into clean structured data
Agentic, no-code web scraping that turns any URL into clean structured data
SpecialistProxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines
SpecialistProxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines
No-code AI web scraping that builds, runs, and repairs its own bots
No-code AI web scraping that builds, runs, and repairs its own bots
Free / Open-sourceUses natural language prompts for extraction with open-source flexibility, but less optimized for massive enterprise crawling.
Free / Open-sourceUses natural language prompts for extraction with open-source flexibility, but less optimized for massive enterprise crawling.
SpecialistHigh-precision document parsing and structured extraction API
SpecialistHigh-precision document parsing and structured extraction API
