Comparison

Firecrawl vs Apify

Firecrawl and Apify both land on Depends.

Firecrawl

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy it if your team builds AI agents and needs clean, structured web data through an API.

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Apify

Depends

Confidence: High

Buy if your team needs recurring web data, lead gen, or scraping APIs feeding apps or AI agents.

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Firecrawl versus Apify
Compare	Firecrawl	Apify
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	AI agent developers	Lead-gen and sales data teams
Who it's not for	Anyone needing social media platform data	One-off scrapes . a freelancer or free tool is cheaper
Privacy	Multiple SSRF vulnerabilities disclosed; one 2026 CVE reported unpatched.^⁹	SOC 2 Type II compliant with a public trust center, but 2026 CVEs and a reported email-data breach exist.
Support quality	Discord community; users praise fast shipping	No supporting evidence found
Public sentiment	Early adopters praise shipping speed and AI-readiness, but independent review coverage is very thin.^¹	Users rate Apify very highly, with pricing surprises the most common complaint.¹³
Biggest gotcha	SSRF CVEs (CVE-2024-56800, CVE-2026-72904); a 2026 CVE reported unpatched . vet before production.¹⁰	Usage-based billing can balloon: one developer reported a bill 5x higher than expected¹⁵

Pick Firecrawl when

AI agent developers
RAG and LLM pipelines
Large-scale crawling via API
No-code automators via n8n

When Firecrawl is not a fit

Anyone needing social media platform data
Security-strict enterprises uneasy with SSRF history
Non-technical users wanting point-and-click scraping
One-off scrapers . overkill; a simple scraper or script suffices

Pick Apify when

Lead-gen and sales data teams
Developers automating web scraping
AI teams feeding agents real-time data
Price and competitor monitoring

When Apify is not a fit

One-off scrapes . a freelancer or free tool is cheaper
Non-technical teams wanting plug-and-play simplicity
Anyone who hates variable usage-based bills
Small teams with a single simple automation

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Firecrawl pricing pagefirecrawl.dev
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Firecrawl homepagefirecrawl.dev
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CVE-2026-72904: Firecrawl SSRF Vulnerabilitysentinelone.com
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I Wired Firecrawl into Claude via MCP . Honest Breakdownpub.towardsai.net
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Firecrawl Announces $14.5M Series Abenzinga.com
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Apify on Trustpilot . 4.8/5 Excellenttrustpilot.com
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My Apify Bill Was 5x Higher Than Expected (DEV Community)dev.to
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Confusion on Apify Pricing (Reddit)reddit.com
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