Firecrawl
Web search and scraping API that turns websites into clean, AI-ready text or JSON for agents, so an AI assistant can read supplier sites, bid boards or product pages. Open source and self-hostable.
Research notes
How we research- Official site loadsChecked Oct 26, 2026: firecrawl.dev
- Pricing checked on the vendor siteSource: https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing
- Free / DIY pathFree cloud tier with 1,000 credits a month and no card, or self-host the open-source repo (AGPL-3.0)
Listed because it fits the Agent Tools category. Listings are free; sponsored placements, if any, are labeled and never change rankings.
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