Exa vs Firecrawl
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Exa
Web search, contents and research API built for AI agents
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Firecrawl
Turns websites into LLM-ready Markdown and data for AI agents
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.7 / 10 | 8.1 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Usage_based | Freemium |
| Free tier | $10 of credit every month plus a $10 onboarding bonus, no payment method required; 10 search queries per second | 1,000 credits/month (about 1,000 pages or 500 searches), 2 concurrent browsers, no card; Agent preview 5 free runs/day |
| Paid from | $4 per 1,000 requests (Instant search), pay as you go with no subscription | From $19/mo (Hobby, monthly) or $16/mo billed annually for 5,000 credits |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 |
| Maker | — | Independent (SideGuide Technologies, Inc.) |
| Verdict | Exa is one of the strongest options for giving agents web access: its own index rather than a wrapper, latency options from sub-200ms Instant search to multi-minute Agent runs, and structured, cited output. Named custome... |
Firecrawl is one of the most popular ways to feed live web content into AI agents and retrieval pipelines: reliable scraping of difficult pages, whole-site crawls, search with content, and now multi-site research and lic... |
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