Firecrawl vs Sanity

AI-native web scraping + crawling API — LLM-ready data extraction
vs. Structured content platform — headless CMS with real-time + GROQ

Firecrawl website ↗Sanity website ↗

Pricing tiers

Firecrawl

Free

500 credits one-time. 2 concurrent requests. For exploration.

Free

Self-Hosted (OSS)

AGPL-3.0 licensed. Run on your own infra.

$0 base (usage-based)

Hobby

$19/month ($16 annual). 3,000 credits/month. 5 concurrent.

$19/mo

Standard

$99/month ($83 annual). 100,000 credits. 50 concurrent. Most popular.

$99/mo

Growth

$399/month ($333 annual). 500,000 credits. 100 concurrent.

$399/mo

Enterprise

Custom. Dedicated support + SLA, bulk discounts, zero-data retention, SSO, advanced security.

Custom

Firecrawl website ↗

Sanity

Free

20 seats. 2 public datasets. 10K documents. 250K API req + 1M CDN req/month. Content Agent + live preview + visual editing.

Free

Growth

$15 per seat/month. 50 seats. 2 datasets (public or private). 25K docs. Same API limits + pay-as-you-go overages.

$15/mo

Enterprise

Custom. SAML SSO, Media Library, dedicated support, 99.99% SLA.

Custom

Sanity website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Firecrawl vs free on Sanity.

Metric	Firecrawl	Sanity
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Firecrawl · 16 features

Batch Scrape — Scrape many URLs in parallel.
Crawl — Crawl an entire site following links. Returns all pages.
Custom Headers/Cookies — Scrape behind login via headers.
Deep Research (beta) — AI agent that autonomously researches a query across many sites.
Extract (AI) — Structured extraction with a JSON schema → Firecrawl runs LLM for you.
JavaScript Rendering — Headless browser handles SPAs, React/Vue sites.
LLM-Ready Markdown — Cleaned + normalized Markdown optimized for LLM ingestion.
Map — Fast — returns all URLs on a site without fetching content.
MCP Server — Official MCP for Claude / Cursor / Agents.
Open Source (AGPL) — Self-host the entire stack via Docker.
PDF Parsing — Extract text from PDFs.
Residential Proxies — Bypass anti-bot + geoblocks (paid).
Scrape — Single URL → clean markdown/JSON/HTML.
Screenshots — Visual screenshot alongside content.
Search (beta) — Google-like search API returning results + content.
Structured Output — Extract to JSON schema via LLM.

Sanity · 16 features

Agent Context — Expose your content schema + docs to LLM agents.
Content Agent (AI) — AI assistant inside Studio for generation + translation.
Content History — Every change versioned. Rollback + diff.
Content Lake — Distributed real-time DB for structured content. Multi-region replicas.
Datasets — Logical content partitions (stage/prod/etc.). Easy cloning.
GROQ — Graph-Relational Object Queries — JSON-native query language.
Image CDN — Smart transforms (crop, format, quality) via URL params.
Internationalization — Multiple locales per document with native i18n plugins.
Live Previews — Draft previews with stega-encoded content.
Media Library (Ent) — Org-wide media with DAM features.
Portable Text — Structured rich text format (JSON). Portable across channels.
Real-Time Collaboration — Live presence + collaborative editing.
Sanity Studio — Open-source React editor — customize with your own components + workflow.
Scheduled Publishing — Schedule content to publish at a future date.
Visual Editing — Click-to-edit inline on your Next.js/etc. website.
Webhooks — Events on create/update/delete with GROQ filter.

Developer interfaces

Kind	Firecrawl	Sanity
CLI	Firecrawl CLI	Sanity CLI
SDK	firecrawl-go, firecrawl-js, firecrawl-py	@sanity/client, sanity-python, @sanity/ui + next-sanity
REST	Firecrawl REST API	Image CDN, Sanity HTTP API
MCP	Firecrawl MCP Server	Sanity MCP
OTHER	—	GROQ Query Language, Webhooks

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