Firecrawl vs FourA: what 1,000 fetched pages cost

FourA's Developer plan costs $0.10 per 1,000 plain page fetches versus $3.80 per 1,000 on Firecrawl's Hobby plan, according to pricing pages read on 17 September 2026 and 10 September 2026 respectively. FourA charges $29 a month, or $239 a year, for 300,000 credits at 1 credit per plain fetch, while Firecrawl's Hobby plan is $19 a month, or $16 billed annually, for 5,000 credits at 1 credit per page. The comparison narrows at annual higher tiers to roughly twelve times — $0.83 per 1,000 pages on Firecrawl Standard versus $0.07 on FourA Developer — and FourA also bills only successful fetches, whereas Firecrawl bills a credit for error pages such as 403 or 404 effective 4 September 2026.

What 1,000 fetched pages cost on Firecrawl and FourA $3.80 against $0.10. That's what a thousand plain page fetches cost on Firecrawl's entry plan and on FourA's, from Firecrawl's pricing page as of 10 September 2026 and ours as of 17 September 2026. If your targets are documents listing pages, search results, JSON endpoints , that ratio is most of the decision. What FourA charges to fetch a page A plain fetch through Single is 1 credit. Switch the unblocker on and it's 2. Send it through Proxy Finder and it's 2. The credit table https://foura.ai/docs/api/response-headers is public, and every response carries an X-FourA-Credits header with what that call spent, so you read the meter as you go instead of rebuilding it from an invoice. Developer is $29 a month, or $239 for the year, for 300,000 credits, as of 17 September 2026 on foura.ai/prices https://foura.ai/prices . At a credit a page that's 300,000 fetches, so $0.10 per 1,000. Run every one of them with the unblocker and it's 150,000 pages at $0.19 per 1,000. Push the stubborn ones through Proxy Finder at 2 credits and the same $29 still covers 150,000, at $0.19 per 1,000. What Firecrawl charges for the same page A credit a page, on every plan. Firecrawl's pricing page https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing is direct about it: one credit is one page on a basic scrape, crawl or map, and the rate table doesn't shift between tiers. Search costs 2 credits per 10 results, and the JSON, Question and Highlight formats add 4 credits a page. Hobby is $19 a month, or $16 billed annually, for 5,000 credits and 5 concurrent requests, read on September 10, 2026. That works out to $3.80 per 1,000 pages. Standard, the next one up, lists 100,000 credits at $83 a month billed annually. | | Firecrawl Hobby | FourA Developer | |---|---|---| | Monthly price | $19 | $29 | | Credits | 5,000 | 300,000 | | Plain page | 1 credit | 1 credit | | Per 1,000 pages | $3.80 | $0.10 | | Concurrent | 5 | 30 | Why FourA comes out ahead here Same unit, same job, and 30 concurrent requests against 5. But the entry plans flatter us, so take the annual rates instead: a year of Standard is $83 a month for 100,000 credits, which is $0.83 per 1,000 pages, and a year of Developer is $239 for 3,600,000 credits, which is $0.07. The gap narrows from roughly thirty-eight times to roughly twelve, at the tier you'd actually land on. Twelve times is still the difference between a line item and a budget. Firecrawl gets two things right that are worth saying out loud. It publishes one rate table that holds on every plan, which is rarer than it ought to be, and its Markdown output arrives ready for a model with no parsing step in between. Its free tier refreshes monthly with no card, and SOC 2 Type II, MFA and signed webhooks sit on every plan including that one. Run the same request on FourA Pull a week of your own logs and count two things: pages you fetched, and pages that genuinely needed a browser to render. Multiply the first by $0.0038 and then by $0.0001, and the difference between those two figures is the line item you're deciding. The second count is the one that moves the arithmetic, so measure it before you take anyone's per-page number, ours included. Frequently asked What does an error page cost on each side? Firecrawl returns a page carrying a status such as 403 or 404 and bills it a credit, effective 4 September 2026. On FourA only a success is billed https://foura.ai/docs/api/outcomes , and you get to say what success means, which we wrote up in Validate Rules Now Decide What Counts as Success https://foura.ai/blog/validate-decides-success . How far does each free plan go? Firecrawl's free plan is 1,000 credits a month, no card, 2 concurrent requests. FourA's is 3,000 credits, with Browser, CAPTCHA solving and the unblocker switched on from the start. So go run it rather than trusting anyone's arithmetic, ours very much included: create a free account at auth.foura.ai/signup https://auth.foura.ai/signup , send 100 of your own URLs through Single, and add up the X-FourA-Credits headers that come back.