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Firecrawl vs Kadoa

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Free plan
Firecrawl has one; Kadoa prices on request
Public API
Both have one
Best fit
Firecrawl: Developers feeding site content into RAG or agent pipelines · Kadoa: Hedge funds and quant teams tracking alternative data from many changing sources
Trust score
About even — Firecrawl 89, Kadoa 87
Status
Both up at our last check — Firecrawl Oct 2, 2026, Kadoa Sep 6, 2026

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

FirecrawlWeb data API that searches, scrapes, crawls and interacts with sites, returning clean Markdown or JSON for LLM pipelines.KadoaAgent-built web scrapers that self-heal and feed finance data warehouses

Side by side

FactFirecrawlKadoa
CategoryWeb Scraping & Data ExtractionWeb Scraping & Data Extraction
Pricing modelFreemiumContact
Starts at$16/mo—
Public APIYesYes
Trust score89 / 10087 / 100
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CompanySideGuide Technologies, Inc. (d/b/a Firecrawl)Kadoa
Launched20242023
Last verifiedOct 2, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Firecrawl

Firecrawl is a sensible default when an agent or RAG pipeline needs readable page content and you would rather not run proxies and headless browsers yourself. The credit model is simple to reason about for plain scrapes, but extra formats and browser sessions cost more credits than the headline page count suggests.

Pros

  • One API covers search, scrape, crawl, map and page interaction
  • Free tier renews every month and needs no card
  • Open-source core with SDKs, an MCP server and a CLI for agent tools
  • Failed scrapes that return nothing are not charged

Cons

  • JSON, question and highlight formats add 4 credits per page, so structured extraction costs several times a plain scrape
  • Pages that return an error status such as 403 or 404 still cost a credit
  • Headline plan prices are annual; paying monthly is higher

Kadoa

Buy it if broken scrapers are costing an investment team real money and self-healing plus audit trails justify enterprise pricing. Solo developers and growth marketers should use Firecrawl or Apify, because Kadoa has repositioned away from them.

Pros

  • Self-healing workflows address the actual failure mode of scraping, which is source drift
  • Native delivery to S3, Snowflake and BigQuery instead of CSV downloads
  • SOC 2 certification and MCP support signal serious enterprise readiness

Cons

  • No published pricing at any tier, so evaluation means a sales call
  • The finance-first repositioning narrows fit for ecommerce or marketing scraping
  • Consumption billing makes costs hard to forecast on volatile sources

Which one fits

Choose Firecrawl if you need

  • Developers feeding site content into RAG or agent pipelines
  • Teams that want a hosted scraper but keep the option to self-host the open-source core
  • Prototypes that fit inside the free monthly credits

Choose Kadoa if you need

  • Hedge funds and quant teams tracking alternative data from many changing sources
  • Analysts who need a dataset without asking engineering for a scraper
  • Compliance-sensitive pipelines where each field must trace back to a source

Firecrawl vs Kadoa: the questions people ask

Is Firecrawl cheaper than Kadoa?

Firecrawl starts at $16/mo; Kadoa prices on request, so a quote is the only way to compare.

Does Firecrawl or Kadoa have a free tier?

Firecrawl has a free tier; Kadoa prices on request.

Which has a public API, Firecrawl or Kadoa?

Both ship a public API, so either can be built on; the fact table above shows the platforms each one runs on.

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