Comparison

Grabber vs Firecrawl

Firecrawl is a web data platform with crawling, search and LLM extraction, sold as monthly plans. Grabber does one thing, one page per request, and you pay per page with no plan.

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At a glance

	Grabber	Firecrawl
How you pay	Prepaid credit, from $5. No plans	Monthly credit plans: Hobby $19 for 5,000 credits, Standard $99 for 100,000
Pay without a subscription	Yes: it is the only way to pay	No. Extra credit needs a paid plan
A static page	$0.001	1 credit: about $0.0038 on Hobby, $0.00099 on Standard
A JavaScript page	$0.005 with js_render=true	1 credit: rendering is included
Failed requests	Never charged. A page that loads with a 404 or 500 status is charged	Not charged when there is no result. A page with a 403 or 404 status costs 1 credit
Unused credit	Valid for 365 days	Monthly credits do not roll over on Hobby, Standard and Growth
Free tier	$1 at signup, about 1,000 pages, no card	1,000 credits a month, no card
Formats	Markdown, HTML, text, links, raw body, page metadata	Markdown, HTML, raw HTML, links, screenshots, summaries, JSON extraction
MCP server	Yes, remote	Yes, remote and local
Rate limit	60 requests a minute per key	100 scrapes a minute on Hobby

Checked on October 27, 2026 against Firecrawl's own pricing page and docs. Prices change, so check the sources below before you decide.

What it costs

Example	Grabber	Firecrawl
1,000 pages a month	$1	$0 on the free plan
10,000 pages a month	$10	$44: Hobby plus 5,000 credits of top-ups
100,000 pages a month	$100	$99: Standard

Monthly billing. Firecrawl renders JavaScript at no extra cost; Grabber charges $0.005 for a rendered page.

When Firecrawl is the better choice

You need to crawl or map whole sites, search the web, or extract JSON with an LLM. Grabber loads one page per request and does none of these.
Most of your pages need JavaScript. Firecrawl includes rendering in its 1 credit, and Grabber charges $0.005 for a rendered page.
You fetch 100,000 pages or more every month. A plan you use in full costs the same or less per page.
You need screenshots, proxies in a given country, or actions on the page.

When Grabber is the better choice

Your volume changes from month to month. Grabber credit lasts 365 days, so a quiet month costs nothing and nothing expires at renewal.
You want to pay without a plan. On Firecrawl, extra credit needs a paid plan; on Grabber, prepaid credit is the only plan.
You fetch up to tens of thousands of pages a month: 10,000 pages cost $10 on Grabber and $44 on Firecrawl Hobby with top-ups.
You want an API an agent can learn in one read: one endpoint and five parameters.

Switching from Firecrawl

Firecrawl's /scrape takes a JSON body. Grabber takes query parameters on GET /fetch.

Firecrawl	Grabber
`formats: ["markdown"]`	`formats=markdown`
`formats: ["html"]`	`formats=html`
`formats: ["links"]`	`formats=links`
Metadata in every response	`includeMetadata=true`
Rendering, built in	`js_render=true`, when a page needs it

Questions

Something else? The docs cover every parameter and error, and you can reach us from the dashboard.

Is Grabber cheaper than Firecrawl?

Up to about 100,000 static pages a month, yes: 10,000 pages cost $10 on Grabber and $44 on Firecrawl Hobby with top-ups. Above that, a Firecrawl plan you use in full costs the same or less, and Firecrawl does not charge extra for JavaScript rendering.

Does Grabber crawl websites like Firecrawl?

No. Grabber fetches one page per request. To crawl, ask for formats=links and fetch the links you want next.

Do both have an MCP server?

Yes. Firecrawl has remote and local servers. Grabber has a remote server at mcp.grabber.sh with a fetch_page tool.