Is Firecrawl or Scrapfly better?

Firecrawl leads on scraping a page to clean, LLM-ready content (9.81 vs 9.48); Scrapfly leads on schema-driven AI extraction (8.96 vs 8.81). Both are available on one Auxiliar API key, so you can route each request to whichever scores higher.

Can I use both Firecrawl and Scrapfly together?

Yes. Auxiliar is a gateway that resells both Firecrawl and Scrapfly behind a single API key and one bill, so you can call either — or fall back between them — without separate accounts.

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Firecrawl vs Scrapfly

The verdictFirecrawl leads on scraping a page to clean, LLM-ready content (9.81 vs 9.48); Scrapfly leads on schema-driven AI extraction (8.96 vs 8.81).

Choosing between Firecrawl and Scrapfly? Both are scraping & crawling providers you can call through a single Auxiliar key, so the honest answer is usually “use whichever wins the job in front of you” — and with one key and one bill, you don’t have to commit to either.

We ran both on the identical curator-fleet corpus. Firecrawl leads on scraping a page to clean, LLM-ready content (9.81 vs 9.48); Scrapfly leads on schema-driven AI extraction (8.96 vs 8.81). On the headline test (scraping a page to clean, LLM-ready content), Firecrawl scored 9.81/10 (anti-bot bypass 100%) versus 9.48/10 for Scrapfly. The full measured breakdown is below.

Measured, side by side

Composite score /10 on each shared capability, from the Auxiliar curator fleet — same corpus for both.

Capability	Firecrawl	Scrapfly	Winner
ScrapeAnti-bot bypass	9.81100% · #1/10	9.48100% · #2/10	Firecrawl
ScreenshotValid image	9.51.00 · #1/8	8.561.00 · #4/8	Firecrawl
Extract · AI/schemaField accuracy	8.810.96 · #2/4	8.961.00 · #1/4	Scrapfly
Act · declarativeTask success	7.410.80 · #3/6	7.010.80 · #4/6	Firecrawl

Beyond the overlap

Capabilities each provider scored on that the other doesn't cover.

Firecrawl also does

Parse · PDF/doc
Crawl
Watch
Act · NL-agent

Scrapfly also does

Nothing extra in the tested set.

Firecrawl — choose if

You want the highest-quality scrape/markdown and a single surface for scrape, crawl, extract and screenshot.

Scrapfly — choose if

You want benchmark-leading anti-bot bypass plus the highest AI-extraction accuracy.

Firecrawl — avoid if

You're cost-sensitive on hard targets — stealth + JSON stack ~5–9× the base credit.

Scrapfly — avoid if

You need crawling or credit rollover — hard targets run ~30 cr/req.

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