Firecrawl Alternative
HasData is the Firecrawl alternative for structured data: parsed JSON from 50+ named APIs and the protected sites Firecrawl blocks, like Instagram and Indeed, instead of page markdown you clean up yourself.
HasData vs Firecrawl
Both match on price, free tier, and JS rendering. HasData leads on named APIs, concurrency, and team access.
| Feature | HasData | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 1,000 credits 30-day trial, no card | 1,000 pages monthly, no rollover |
| Starting price | $49/mo 200k credits | $19/mo Hobby, 5k pages |
| Named/dedicated APIs | 50+ Amazon, SERP, Maps, Zillow… | No generic /scrape, /search, /crawl |
| Output | structured JSON + HTML, CSV, Markdown, Text | page markdown + HTML, JSON, screenshot, links |
| Structured extraction | Included JSON in every named API | /extract add-on separate token-based billing |
| Protected sites | handled Instagram, Indeed, Zillow in 1–2s | blocked social media unsupported, fail-fast on Cloudflare |
| Anti-bot cost | 15 credits residential, flat | 5× per page Stealth Mode multiplier |
| No-code scrapers | Yes templates + scheduled jobs | No API-only, no visual tool |
| Pay per success | Yes failed requests refunded | No failed multi-step runs still charge |
| Max concurrency | 1,500 | 100 Growth and Scale plans |
| MCP / AI agents | Yes MCP server + SDKs | Yes MCP-native |
| Support | Live chat, email, Discord | Basic to priority by plan tier |
The real cost per request
Firecrawl charges one credit per page, which keeps simple scraping cheap. The cost climbs through a 5× Stealth multiplier on protected sites and a separate billing plan for AI extraction.
| Configuration | HasData | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Static HTML datacenter proxy, no JS | $0.07–0.25 | $0.75–3.80 1 credit per page |
| Anti-bot page Cloudflare, Datadome | $1.12–3.68 residential, 15 cr | 5× per page Stealth Mode multiplier |
| Structured fields parsed JSON, not markdown | included in every named API | /extract add-on separate token-based plan |
| Web search results per query | $0.37–1.23 | $0.15–0.76 2 credits per 10 results |
| Failed requests blocks, broken runs | refunded pay per success | charged no refund on failed runs |
| Feature | HasData | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | $0 1,000 credits, 30-day trial | $0 1,000 pages/mo, no rollover |
| Structured data | Included parsed JSON from every API | 🔒 Add-on /extract token plan |
| No-code scrapers | Included from free tier | Not available API-only |
| Priority support | $99 ↑ Business | 🔒 $399 ↑ Growth |
Response time by site
Wall time to retrieve usable data per target, from live 2026 benchmarks. HasData named APIs return structured JSON. Firecrawl /scrape returns full-page markdown, and is blocked on Instagram and Indeed with no place data for Maps.
What developers actually say
The patterns G2, Capterra, and Trustpilot reviewers keep flagging in HasData and Firecrawl.
"HasData simplifies the complex task of extracting reliable data from the web. Their APIs handle all the technical challenges behind the scenes, delivering clean, structured data to our systems."
- –Blocks social media confirmed in testInstagram, TikTok, and YouTube return a not-supported error. Our Instagram runs came back 403.
- –Fail-fast on hard targets confirmed in testGives up on Cloudflare and other anti-bot stacks instead of retrying. Our Indeed runs were all blocked.
- –Dual billing on extraction dev reviewsStructured /extract runs on a separate token plan, so bills stack up at scale
- –Charged for failed runs dev reviewsFailed multi-step jobs are billed for compute, with no refund when a run breaks halfway
- –Structured JSON, not markdownNamed APIs return parsed fields like price, rating, and rank. No second LLM pass to clean up page markdown.
- –Protected sites includedInstagram, Indeed, and Zillow scrape in 1 to 2 seconds, with residential proxies and anti-bot built in.
- –One flat creditAnti-bot is 15 credits, not a 5× page multiplier, and structured extraction is included instead of a separate plan.
- –Pay only for successFailed and blocked requests are refunded. There is no charge for a run that returns nothing.
Built for production scraping, not toy demos
Production scraping needs more than an API, and HasData includes the full stack on every plan.
7 proxy providers, auto-routed
Residential, datacenter, and mobile proxies routed automatically by target. No manual pool management, no per-IP billing.
50+ named APIs return structured JSON
Google SERP, Amazon, Zillow, and 50+ more endpoints. Send a URL, get parsed JSON. No CSS selectors, no parser to maintain.
Every scrape saved automatically
Every scraping job is saved automatically, so nothing gets lost. Download results whenever you need them or pipe them straight into your pipeline via webhook.
Connects to Make, Zapier, n8n, MCP, CLI
Webhooks, scheduled jobs, AI agent workflows, and native integrations with the tools your team already uses.
REST API with SDKs for Python, Node.js, Go
Full API reference, SDK for three runtimes, pay-per-success billing. Start with a curl call, scale to production without changing the interface.
Up to 1,500 concurrent requests
Auto-scaling with no servers to manage and no queue to maintain. Public plans reach 1,500 concurrent requests, custom plans scale to 5,000 and beyond.
Flexible Pricing
Start for free. Scale as you grow.
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*Calls vary by tool: web scraping = 1 credit, JS rendering = 10, anti-bot = 15.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions from teams considering HasData for production scraping.
HasData gives a 30-day free trial with 1,000 credits and no card required, and active accounts keep getting 100 credits topped up each day whenever the balance falls below 100. Firecrawl's free plan gives 1,000 pages a month, and unused credits do not roll over.
Firecrawl turns a page into clean markdown for a language model to read. HasData returns structured JSON fields, like price, rating, and rank, from 50+ named APIs. With Firecrawl you scrape the page, then pull fields either through the /extract add-on, billed separately, or by parsing the markdown yourself. With HasData the fields come back parsed in the first response.
Not the hard ones. In our benchmark Firecrawl returned 403 on every Instagram run and was blocked by Cloudflare on every Indeed run, and it returns no place data for Google Maps. It also blocks social media targets by policy. HasData has dedicated APIs for Instagram, Indeed, and Maps that return structured data in 1 to 2 seconds.
Yes. For generic scraping the request shape is similar: send a URL, get content back. The difference is the response. Instead of markdown you receive structured JSON, so you drop the parsing or /extract step. For named targets like Amazon or Google, you call the dedicated API and get fields directly.
Firecrawl charges one credit per page, but protected sites need Stealth Mode, which costs 5 times more per page. HasData handles anti-bot at a flat 15 credits per request, with residential proxies included, and refunds requests that fail.
On HasData you don't pay for it. Failed and blocked requests are refunded, and the API retries on its own. Firecrawl bills compute for failed multi-step runs and does not refund a job that breaks partway through.
For turning documentation or articles into clean markdown to feed a model, Firecrawl is a strong fit and integrates well with MCP and agent stacks. HasData also exposes an MCP server, and it adds structured data and protected-site coverage, so it fits both the AI pipeline and production scraping of e-commerce, jobs, and social targets.
Yes. Share the website URL and the exact fields you need, and our team will scope and build the scraper. You get a first-party endpoint that returns structured data, with support behind it.
