Head to head
Bright Data Free Tier or Firecrawl Free?
Plans usable every month without paying, for a small workload of 1,000 plain pages. These are the two cheapest plans of different providers that meet every condition.
- 1,000 plain HTML pages a month
- Budget $0/month before tax
- Free every month
- Preferred: failed requests not billed
- Preferred: billed per successful request
- Preferred: target errors not billed
- Preferred: official mcp server
- Preferred: vendor-hosted remote mcp endpoint
- Preferred: zero data retention
- Preferred: soc 2 report
- Preferred: signed webhook endpoint
- Preferred: data processing agreement
Checked 2026-11-11 · All plans for this request
Monthly cost
| Plan | Monthly cost | Billing | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free TierBright Data | $0/month | free plan | Pricing pageWe may earn a commission if you buy through this link.Opens the provider's pricing page; choose this plan there or after signing up. |
| FreeFirecrawl | $0/month | free plan | Pricing pageOpens the provider's pricing page; choose this plan there or after signing up. |
Where they differ
Failed requests are not billed
- UnknownBright Data Free TierBlocked 403 billed not stated. Holds when no Custom Web Unlocker feature is enabled: "Unlike the regular Web Unlocker API billing logic, which only charges for successful requests, when any of the above Custom Web Unlocker API features are enabled, you'll be billed for 100% of the requests (both successful and failed).".
Pay only for success Set monthly spend limits Unlimited concurrency
brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker · checked 2026-09-28 - Not metFirecrawl FreeProvider failures billed: no, target errors billed: yes, blocked 403 billed: yes; needs blocked 403 billed: no, provider failures billed: no.
A scrape that returns no result is not charged. A page that responds with an error status such as 403 or 404 is still returned to you and costs 1 credit.
firecrawl.dev/pricing.md · checked 2026-11-11
Billed per successful request
- UnknownBright Data Free TierBlocked 403 billed not stated. Holds when no Custom Web Unlocker feature is enabled: "Unlike the regular Web Unlocker API billing logic, which only charges for successful requests, when any of the above Custom Web Unlocker API features are enabled, you'll be billed for 100% of the requests (both successful and failed).".
Pay only for success Set monthly spend limits Unlimited concurrency
brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker · checked 2026-09-28 - Not metFirecrawl FreeProvider failures billed: no, target errors billed: yes, blocked 403 billed: yes, flat unlimited: no; needs blocked 403 billed: no, flat unlimited: no, provider failures billed: no.
A scrape that returns no result is not charged. A page that responds with an error status such as 403 or 404 is still returned to you and costs 1 credit.
firecrawl.dev/pricing.md · checked 2026-11-11
Target error responses (e.g. 404) are not billed
- UnknownBright Data Free TierTarget errors billed not stated. Holds when no Custom Web Unlocker feature is enabled: "Unlike the regular Web Unlocker API billing logic, which only charges for successful requests, when any of the above Custom Web Unlocker API features are enabled, you'll be billed for 100% of the requests (both successful and failed).".
Pay only for success Set monthly spend limits Unlimited concurrency
brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker · checked 2026-09-28 - Not metFirecrawl FreeProvider failures billed: no, target errors billed: yes, blocked 403 billed: yes; needs target errors billed: no.
A scrape that returns no result is not charged. A page that responds with an error status such as 403 or 404 is still returned to you and costs 1 credit.
firecrawl.dev/pricing.md · checked 2026-11-11
Zero data retention
- UnknownBright Data Free TierNot stated on the official pages we checked.The official pages state no sentence for this.
- Not metFirecrawl FreeAvailability: enterprise only; needs availability: available.
Zero Data Retention | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Included
firecrawl.dev/pricing.md · checked 2026-11-11
Signed webhook endpoint
- UnknownBright Data Free TierNot stated on the official pages we checked.The official pages state no sentence for this.
- MetFirecrawl FreeSigned webhook endpoint: available.
| Signed webhook endpoints | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included |
firecrawl.dev/pricing.md · checked 2026-11-11
Data processing agreement
- UnknownBright Data Free TierNot stated on the official pages we checked.The official pages state no sentence for this.
- Not metFirecrawl FreeData processing agreement: not available.
| Data Processing Agreement | Not available | Not available | Standard | Standard | Standard | Custom |
firecrawl.dev/pricing.md · checked 2026-11-11
What is the same
Both meet: monthly_volume, monthly_budget, free_allowance, mcp_official, mcp_remote, soc2.