Firehose v5 — smart web extraction for AI agents. Start free, scale with an API key. Pay with Lightning.
| Feature | Free | Paid | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily requests | 100 | 10,000 | Unlimited |
| Smart extraction | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Batch URLs | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| JS rendering | No | Yes | Yes |
| Auto JS fallback | No | Yes | Yes |
| Recursive crawl | 5 pages | 50 pages | 200 pages |
| Sitemap discovery | No | Yes | Yes |
| robots.txt | No | Yes | Yes |
| JSON-LD / microdata | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Metadata + language | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Authentication | None (IP) | X-API-Key | X-API-Key |
| SLA | Best effort | Best effort | 99.9% |
3 steps. No account, no credit card. Just Lightning.
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| Firehose v5 | Firecrawl | Jina Reader | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 100/day | 500 credits | Limited |
| Paid tier | ~$0.005/req | $0.004/page | $0.02/page |
| JS rendering | Yes (paid) | Yes | Yes |
| Recursive crawl | Yes | Yes | No |
| Structured data | Yes (free) | No | No |
| Privacy | No logs, no tracking | Cloud-hosted | Cloud-hosted |
| Payment | Lightning (instant) | Credit card | Credit card |
| Vendor lock-in | None | Proprietary | Proprietary |