Crawl any URL and get clean content as Markdown, HTML, or plain text - with JS rendering, screenshots, and geo-targeting. Compared, side by side, with Firecrawl, ScrapingBee, Apify, and Jina Reader.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Crawleo | Firecrawl | ScrapingBee | Apify | Jina Reader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 500 credits/mo | 1,000 credits/mo | 1,000-credit trial | $5/mo usage | Free, rate-limited |
| Cost model | 1 credit HTTP / 10 JS | Credits per page | 1-75 credits/request | Usage-based | Free / token-priced |
| JavaScript rendering | |||||
| Markdown output | |||||
| Enhanced HTML output | |||||
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| Screenshot capture | |||||
| Built-in web search | Google only | Via actors | |||
| Native MCP support | |||||
| Zero data retention | All plans | Enterprise only | Not by default | Not by default | Not by default |
Verified May 2026. Crawleo prices are plan-based; competitor figures are examples from each provider's published pricing and docs, and change often - check the linked pricing pages for current rates.
Head to head
Honest strengths on both sides, so you can pick what fits your use case.
Pick Crawleo for cost-effective crawling at scale with privacy by default. Pick Firecrawl if you need schema-based extraction or self-hosting.
Pick Crawleo for AI and RAG pipelines that need clean, LLM-ready output. Pick ScrapingBee for heavy anti-bot scraping and proxy control.
Pick Crawleo for straightforward crawling with AI-ready output. Pick Apify for complex, multi-step scraping workflows with scheduling.
Pick Crawleo for production crawling at scale with geo-targeting and format control. Pick Jina for quick prototyping with its URL-prefix approach.
Why Crawleo
1 credit per HTTP crawl, 10 with JS rendering. 500 free credits a month, then predictable pricing.
Markdown, enhanced HTML, raw HTML, and plain text - request any combination in a single call.
Crawl SPAs and AJAX-heavy pages with render_js. You only pay the higher rate when you need it.
Crawl from any country with a simple ISO alpha-2 code, so you see what local users see.
We don't train AI on your data, and we don't sell it - on every plan, not just Enterprise.
One vendor, one API key. Search the web, then crawl the results for full page content.
Quick start
One API call. Four output formats. No complex configuration.
curl -X GET \"https://api.crawleo.dev/crawl?urls=https://example.com&render_js=false&markdown=true&enhanced_html=true" \-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \-H "Accept: application/json"
FAQ
Simple credit-based pricing. HTTP crawling costs 1 credit per URL. Browser rendering (render_js=true) costs 10 credits per URL. No hidden fees. The Free plan includes 500 credits a month.
No card required. Crawl your first URL in a couple of minutes.