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Comparison

firecrawl vs Unstructured

On the evidence we track, Unstructured leads this comparison with a composite score of 84/100. 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 formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
firecrawl64
★Unstructured84
Score
Vioscale score
firecrawl64 / 100medium · 69%
Unstructured84 / 100medium · 55%
Pricing
Free tier
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✓
Model
firecrawlfreemium
Unstructuredfreemium
Price level
firecrawllow
Unstructuredlow
Starting price
firecrawl–
Unstructured$0.03
Transparent
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✓
Integrations
Count
firecrawl6
Unstructured40
Security
Gdpr
firecrawl–
Unstructured✓
Hipaa
firecrawl–
Unstructured✓
Iso27001
firecrawl–
Unstructured✓
Soc2
firecrawl✓
Unstructured✓
Vulnerabilities
Adoption
Dependent repos
firecrawl0
Unstructured–
Github stars
firecrawl172,732
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
Unstructured–

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

Firecrawl extracts clean, structured web content in various formats, automatically handles JavaScript rendering and dynamic page structures, and supports use cases from research and data extraction to competitive intelligence and content monitoring.

Independently observed

Unstructured

Leader

Unstructured provides enterprise-grade data preprocessing and ETL capabilities that convert messy, unstructured documents (PDFs, images, tables, etc.) into machine-readable formats optimized for language models and AI workflows. It handles data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and embedding across multiple sources and destinations with built-in security and compliance.

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 $445/moSubscriptionFree tier

Free tier with 1,000 credits/month. Paid plans from Hobby to Enterprise with annual billing. Credits consumed per request: Scrape/Crawl/Map/Monitor = 1 credit/page; Search = 2 credits/10 results; Interact = 2 credits/browser minute.

  • FreeFree
    • Scrape 1,000 pages
    • 2 concurrent requests
    • Low rate limits
  • Hobby5,000 credits/month, billed annually (saves £28)
    • Scrape 5,000 pages
    • 5 concurrent requests
    • Basic support
  • Standard100,000 credits/month, billed annually (saves £147)
    • Scrape 100,000 pages
    • 50 concurrent requests
    • Standard support
  • Growth500,000 credits/month, billed annually (saves £593)
    • Scrape 500,000 pages
    • 100 concurrent requests
    • Priority support
  • Scale£445/month, billed annually (saves £1,337)
    • Scrape 1,000,000 pages
    • 150 concurrent requests
    • Priority support
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Scrape unlimited pages
    • Custom concurrent requests
    • Dedicated support & SLA
    • Bulk discounts
    • Zero-data retention
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

Unstructured

Leader
from $0.03/pageHybridFree tier

Free tier with 15,000 pages/month. Pay-as-you-go at $0.03/page with $3,000 monthly cap. Custom enterprise pricing available.

  • FreeFree
    • All features included
  • Pay-As-You-Go$0.03/page after 15,000 free pages; bill capped at $3,000/month
    • All features included
  • BusinessContact sales
    • Multi-user accounts
    • Dedicated Instance or VPC
    • Full data isolation
    • 24/7 technical support
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✓
On-premise
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
44 total - 42 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
  • +18 more
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.