Firecrawl Alternative for Web and Video Data
Firecrawl is excellent for web-only scraping. Choose Supadata when your AI app also needs what's said in YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook videos, with one API key and one bill.
✔️ Scrape, map and crawl websites to clean Markdown
✔️ Video transcripts and video analysis on the same key
✔️ Drop-in migration: same three endpoints, Markdown out
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Supadata vs. Firecrawl at a Glance
Both APIs turn web pages into LLM-ready Markdown. The difference is scope: Firecrawl goes deeper on the web (structured JSON extraction, browser actions, larger free tier), while Supadata covers the web and video platforms. Comparison as of October 2026, based on each vendor’s public pricing and docs:
| Supadata | Firecrawl | |
|---|---|---|
| Scrape a page to Markdown | ✅ 1 credit | ✅ 1 credit |
| Map all URLs on a site | ✅ 1 credit per map | ✅ |
| Crawl a site | ✅ up to 5,000 pages/job, 1 credit per page (Pro and above) | ✅ 1 credit per page |
| JavaScript rendering | ✅ | ✅ |
| Structured JSON from web pages | — | ✅ (+4 credits per page) |
| YouTube transcripts | ✅ with AI fallback when captions are missing | Audio file only (+4 credits) |
| TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook transcripts | ✅ | — |
| Structured data from videos | ✅ prompt or JSON schema | — |
| Free tier | 100 requests/month | 1,000 credits/month |
| Entry paid plan | $5/month (300 credits, annual) · $17/month (3,000 credits) | $16/month (5,000 credits, annual) |
| Mid-volume price | $47/month for 30,000 credits | $83/month for 100,000 credits (annual) |
| MCP server, Python & JS SDKs | ✅ | ✅ |
| No-code (Make, Zapier, n8n) | ✅ | ✅ |
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Firecrawl Pricing vs. Supadata Pricing
Both charge 1 credit per scraped page, so the cost per 1,000 pages comes down to the plan. Monthly prices as of October 2026:
| Plan | Credits / month | Price | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firecrawl Free | 1,000 | $0 | — |
| Firecrawl Hobby (annual) | 5,000 | $16 | $3.20 |
| Firecrawl Standard (annual) | 100,000 | $83 | $0.83 |
| Supadata Free | 100 | $0 | — |
| Supadata Pro | 3,000 | $17 | $5.67 |
| Supadata Mega | 30,000 | $47 | $1.57 |
| Supadata Giga | 300,000 | $297 | $0.99 |
For web pages alone, Firecrawl is cheaper. Supadata credits also cover video transcripts and video analysis, so if you’d otherwise pay for Firecrawl plus a transcription service, one Supadata plan can cost less. See Supadata pricing.
When to Choose Supadata
- Your sources include video. Docs with YouTube tutorials, product pages with demo videos, creator and social content. Supadata scrapes the page and transcribes the videos with the same key, so there’s no second vendor for speech-to-text.
- You’re already using Supadata for transcripts. Web scraping runs on the same credits, SDK and dashboard.
- You want simple, flat pricing. Every scraped or crawled page is 1 credit, and a whole-site map is 1 credit.
- Your agents need both. One MCP server gives Claude or Cursor web scrape, map and crawl tools alongside transcript and video tools.
When Firecrawl Is the Better Fit
- Web-only scraping at high volume. Firecrawl costs less per page on its larger plans.
- Schema-based extraction from web pages. Firecrawl’s JSON mode returns structured fields from a page; Supadata’s web endpoints return Markdown, metadata and links. (Supadata’s schema extraction works on videos.)
- Browser actions. Clicking, scrolling or filling forms before scraping is a Firecrawl feature Supadata doesn’t offer.
- Self-hosting. Firecrawl is open source; Supadata is a hosted API only.
Migrating from Firecrawl
Supadata’s web endpoints map one to one to Firecrawl’s: scrape → /v1/web/scrape, map → /v1/web/map, crawl → /v1/web/crawl. Both return Markdown, so most migrations only change the client call and the API key.
from firecrawl import Firecrawl
firecrawl = Firecrawl(api_key="fc-YOUR-API-KEY")
doc = firecrawl.scrape("https://example.com/blog/post", formats=["markdown"])
print(doc.markdown)See the Web Scraping API for map and crawl examples, or the web scraping docs for every parameter.
FAQs
Is Supadata cheaper than Firecrawl?
Not for web-only scraping at high volume: Firecrawl costs less per page on its larger plans and has a bigger free tier. Supadata is the better deal when you also need video transcripts or video analysis, because both run on one plan and one API key.
Can I migrate from Firecrawl to Supadata?
Yes. Firecrawl scrape, map and crawl calls map one to one to Supadata /v1/web/scrape, /v1/web/map and /v1/web/crawl. Both return Markdown, so most migrations only change the client call and the API key.
Does Supadata support structured JSON extraction from web pages?
Not from web pages today; the web endpoints return Markdown, metadata and links. Structured JSON extraction is available for videos through /v1/extract. If you need schema-based extraction from web pages, Firecrawl is the better fit.
Can Firecrawl get YouTube transcripts?
Firecrawl can return the audio of a YouTube video, but not a transcript, so you need a separate speech-to-text step. Supadata returns the transcript of YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X and Facebook videos directly, with AI transcription when a video has no captions.
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