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Firecrawl or Stophy? Pick by how much you scrape

Both turn a URL into markdown for your agent. Firecrawl sells a monthly plan. Stophy charges $0.0015 a page and has no plan. That difference decides most cases.

Pick Firecrawl if

  • You scrape more than about 66,000 pages a month. Firecrawl Standard is $99 for 100,000 pages, about $0.001 each. Stophy is $0.0015, or $0.0008 when you top up $500 at a time.
  • You crawl big sites. A Firecrawl crawl reads up to 10,000 pages by default. Stophy stops at 1,000.
  • You want any page in your own JSON schema. Firecrawl does it for 4 more credits a page.
  • You need more than 600 calls a minute. Firecrawl Scale takes 10,000 scrapes a minute.
  • You scrape a little every month, for free. Firecrawl gives 1,000 credits every month. Stophy gives $5 once.

Pick Stophy if

  • Your volume changes month to month. You top up from $10 and your balance never expires. Firecrawl credits don't roll over, except for one month on Scale.
  • Your agent reads sites, not just pages. 136 endpoints return Reddit, YouTube, Amazon, Google Maps, LinkedIn and more as named fields.
  • It searches a lot. Search is $0.0015 per 10 results. Firecrawl charges 2 credits per 10, which is $0.0076 on Hobby.
  • Pages fail. A page Stophy can't read costs nothing. Firecrawl charges 1 credit for a page that answers 403 or 404.

Stophy charges $0.003 for pages that take more work to load and $0.0075 for the hardest ones, so check your sites before you compare.

Try it with no key

Terminal
curl -X POST https://api.stophy.dev/v1/web/scrape \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'

You get the page as markdown, free, up to 50 calls a day. New accounts start with $5.

Switch your calls

FirecrawlStophy
/v2/scrapeweb.scrape
/v2/crawlweb.crawl
/v2/mapweb.map
/v2/searchweb.search

Checked November 2, 2026 on firecrawl.dev/pricing, docs.firecrawl.dev/features/crawl, docs.firecrawl.dev/rate-limits.

Questions and answers.

Start with $5 in free calls.

No card. A call that fails or finds nothing costs nothing.