Hard facts side by side: free tiers, prices, limits, SDKs and privacy. Every value links to the official page it came from and is re-checked every week.
| Fact |  FirecrawlBuilding block |
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| Free tier | Yes 1,000 credits per month, no card required. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
| Starting price | $16/month Hobby plan, 5,000 credits/month, billed annually. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
| Rate limit | 10 requests/min Free plan scrape/map/search; crawl is 2/min, 2 concurrent requests. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
| Size limit | 10,000 pages per crawl Default crawl limit; larger crawls bounded by available credits. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
| Official SDKs | PythonJavaScript / TypeScriptGoJavaRustRuby.NETPHPSource, Sep 29, 2026 |
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| Open source | Yes Self-hostable under AGPL-3.0; SDKs are MIT licensed. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
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| EU hosting | No Privacy policy states servers and data are located in the United States. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
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| Compliance | SOC 2Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
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