Is Firecrawl or Spider better?

Firecrawl leads on scraping a page to clean, LLM-ready content (9.81 vs 6.73). Both are available on one Auxiliar API key, so you can route each request to whichever scores higher.

Can I use both Firecrawl and Spider together?

Yes. Auxiliar is a gateway that resells both Firecrawl and Spider 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 Spider

The verdictFirecrawl leads on scraping a page to clean, LLM-ready content (9.81 vs 6.73).

Choosing between Firecrawl and Spider? 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 6.73). On the headline test (scraping a page to clean, LLM-ready content), Firecrawl scored 9.81/10 (anti-bot bypass 100%) versus 6.73/10 for Spider. 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	Spider	Winner
ScrapeAnti-bot bypass	9.81100% · #1/10	6.7350% · #9/10	Firecrawl
ScreenshotValid image	9.51.00 · #1/8	5.030.50 · #7/8	Firecrawl
Parse · PDF/docText accuracy	8.820.91 · #1/3	6.990.60 · #3/3	Firecrawl
CrawlCoverage	8.610.92 · #1/5	8.540.77 · #2/5	Firecrawl
Act · declarativeTask success	7.410.80 · #3/6	1.50.00 · #6/6	Firecrawl

Beyond the overlap

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

Firecrawl also does

Extract · AI/schema
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Act · NL-agent

Spider 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.

Spider — choose if

You want fast crawling, clean markdown and transparent per-page pricing (anti-multiplier).

Firecrawl — avoid if

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

Spider — avoid if

You need declarative actions (clicks no-op live) or forecastable usage-based billing.

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