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Comparison

firecrawl vs Unstructured

On the evidence we track, Unstructured leads this comparison with a composite score of 75/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

firecrawl full profile →Unstructured full profile →
Machine formatsMarkdownJSONGraphQLMarkdown is open. JSON and GraphQL need a free key.
firecrawl61
★Unstructured75
Score
vioscaleAI score
firecrawl61 / 100medium · 62%
Unstructured75 / 100medium · 53%
Pricing
Free tier
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✓
Model
firecrawlfreemium
Unstructuredfreemium
Price level
firecrawllow
Unstructuredlow
Starting price
firecrawl$1
Unstructured$0.01
Transparent
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✓
Integrations
Count
firecrawl4
Unstructured40
Security
Certifications
firecrawl–
UnstructuredSOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001
Gdpr
firecrawl–
Unstructured✓
Hipaa
firecrawl–
Unstructured✓
Iso27001
firecrawl–
Unstructured✓
Soc2
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✓
Vulnerabilities
Adoption
Dependent repos
firecrawl0
Unstructured–
Github stars
firecrawl191,380
Unstructured–
Activity
Commits last 30d
firecrawl100
Unstructured–
Release
Cadence days
firecrawl15
Unstructured–
History
firecrawl20 items
Unstructured–
License
Spdx
firecrawlAGPL-3.0
Unstructured–
Language
Primary
firecrawlTypeScript
Unstructured–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
firecrawl8 items
Unstructured7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for ai data extraction agents. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Architecture model
firecrawlManaged cloud API
UnstructuredManaged cloud API
PDF and multimodal image OCR parsing
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✓
Web scraping to markdown or json
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✓
Tabular layout preservation for complex tables
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✓
Strict json schema forcing and validation
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✗
Fine tuned document layout analysis models
firecrawl-
Unstructured✓
Native chunking and vectorization for rag
firecrawl-
Unstructured✓
Javascript rendering for spa web scraping
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✗
Human in the loop hitl confidence review queue
firecrawl-
Unstructured✗
Zero data retention privacy guarantees
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✓
SOC2 type ii
firecrawl-
Unstructured✓
Mit or apache permissive oss license
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✓
Pricing model
firecrawlPay per page API
UnstructuredPay per page API

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

firecrawl

An API service that enables AI agents to search, scrape, and interact with web pages, returning clean structured data in multiple formats with automatic JavaScript rendering and complex content handling.

Independently observed

Unstructured

Leader

A platform that processes PDFs, scans, images, and other document formats using AI to extract and organize their content into structured formats for language models. Offers open-source libraries and a metered-usage cloud API.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

firecrawl

from $1/pageUsage-basedFree tier

Usage-based: 1 credit per page for scraping/crawling/mapping/monitoring, 2 credits per 10 search results, 2 credits per browser minute for interact. Agent preview with 5 free daily runs. Advanced features cost additional credits.

  • Scale1 credit per page
as of verify ↗

Unstructured

Leader
from $0.01/pageHybridFree tier

$0.015/page. 10,000 free pages.

  • Usage-based$0.015/page after 10,000 free pages
    • OCR
    • Parsing
    • Partitioning
    • VLM enrichment
    • Chunking
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✓
CLI
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✓
Self-hosted
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (2)
  • Cursor
  • Codex

firecrawl

7 total - 5 not shared
  • MCP
  • Claude
  • Windsurf
  • Claude Code
  • OpenCode
Independently observed

Unstructured

Leader
45 total - 43 not shared
  • Airtable
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Google Drive
  • Jira
  • PostgreSQL
  • S3
  • Salesforce
  • SFTP
  • Slack
  • Snowflake
  • SQLite
  • Zendesk
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Astra DB
  • DuckDB
  • Elasticsearch
  • IBM Milvus
  • IBM watsonx.data
  • Weaviate
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Google Gemini
  • AWS Bedrock
  • +19 more
Independently observed
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Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.