Firecrawl alternatives
6 rag tools in the same lane as Firecrawl, ranked by editorial score.
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ScrapeGraphAI
Agents · Multi-model (LLM, unspecified)
8.4
LLM-driven web scraping API that turns natural-language prompts into structured JSON.
Freemium· Free 500 credits; Starter $20/mo, Growth $100/mo, Pro $500/mo, Enterprise customweb-scrapingdata-extraction
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Tavily
RAG · GPT-4
One secure API for real-time web access for AI agents
Freemium· Researcher: Free · Pay As You Go: $0.008 · Project: $01234567890123456789 · Enterprise: CustomRAG chatbot groundingAutonomous research agents
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Exa
RAG · Proprietary neural + keyword search
8.0
Web search API built for AI agents, with structured outputs and token-efficient highlights.
Freemium· Free Tier: Free · Search: $7/1k requests · Agent: $0.012–$1.00/run · Contents: $1/1k pages per content type · Deep Search: $12–15/1k requestsagent-web-searchrag-retrieval
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aiPDF
RAG
6.8
Chat-with-your-documents app that ingests PDFs, EPUBs, web pages and YouTube videos with cited answers.
Freemium· Playful: Free · Dynamic: $9/month · Flagship: $19/monthdocument-chatpdf-summarization
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ChatPDF
RAG · GPT-4o / GPT-4o-mini
6.8
Conversational Q&A over PDFs and other documents with citation-backed answers.
Freemium· Basic: $10 · Pro: $20 · Enterprise: Contact salespdf-qadocument-summarization
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Humata.ai
RAG · Multi-model
7.8
Chat-with-your-documents RAG tool with citation-backed answers across uploaded PDFs and files.
Freemium· Free: $0 · Expert: $9.99 · Team: $49 / user · Enterprise: customdocument-qaresearch-summarization