Firecrawl

What it is

Firecrawl supplies web data for AI. Give it a link and it returns the page as clean markdown, structured JSON or a screenshot; it can also search the web and crawl whole sites, and its /agent endpoint searches for and collects data on its own from a request and a schema. The code is open source. It works with n8n, Zapier and Lovable, so you can use it without programming, but you need an API key. The free plan gives 1,000 credits a month (1 credit is one page); paid plans start at $19 a month.

Who it is for

Professions we suggest this tool for:

• 🧩AI engineer

Price

Freemium

Plans change; current prices are on the official page: firecrawl.dev

Where the course teaches it

• ★MCPs: expanding what Claude Code can do
• ★MCP Pricing & Token Economics: free vs paid servers, the real cost of integrations
• ★AI competitive intelligence: automatic market monitoring with Claude
• ★Product and Business Atlas: MCP Connector Catalog, Professions and Product Ideas

Alternatives

• 🧭Exa · Search built for AI agents that finds results by meaning, used through an API with free monthly credits.
• 🟧n8n · An open-source (fair-code) automation builder that you can host yourself.
• 🔍Perplexity · AI search with sources: answers with links, Deep Research and the Comet browser.

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