Firecrawl vs Xata
AI-native web scraping + crawling API — LLM-ready data extraction
vs. Serverless Postgres with branching, zero-downtime schema changes + OpenAI embeddings
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
Xata
Free
$0. 15GB storage. 10 branches. Unlimited databases. Community support.
Free
Pro
$20/mo + usage. More compute, higher concurrency, priority support.
$20/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, dedicated support, VPC peering, SOC 2.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Firecrawl vs free on Xata.
| Metric | Firecrawl | Xata |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
Xata · 11 features
- Ask Xata (OpenAI) — Natural language Q&A over data.
- Branching — Copy-on-write DB branches.
- DB Metrics — Query perf + connection metrics.
- Migration GUI — Visual schema change workflow.
- pgroll Migrations — Zero-downtime schema evolution via views.
- PITR Backups — Point-in-time restore.
- PR Preview Environments — Branch-per-PR with CI integration.
- Search — Built-in full-text search indexing.
- Vanilla Postgres — Unmodified Postgres 15+.
- Vector Search — pgvector-based embeddings + Q&A.
- Xata Copilot — AI SQL + schema assistant.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Firecrawl | Xata |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Firecrawl CLI | pgroll CLI (OSS), xata CLI |
| SDK | firecrawl-go, firecrawl-js, firecrawl-py | @xata.io/client (TS), xata (Python) |
| REST | Firecrawl REST API | Xata REST API |
| MCP | Firecrawl MCP Server | — |
| OTHER | — | Direct Postgres (pgroll), Xata Dashboard |
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