Firecrawl
Checked on 17 Oct 2026Free tier: Free plan: 1,000 credits/month, no card.
- Auth: API key (Bearer)
- Serving public users: Yes.
- Source: www.firecrawl.dev
Free web scraping & browser APIs (2026)
Scraping, crawling and headless-browser APIs with free credits. 6 providers, each with the free-tier text from its official pricing page and the date we checked it.
6 free web scraping & browser APIs compared
ScrapingBee
Checked on 17 Oct 2026Free tier: 1,000 free API credits at signup, no credit card.
- Auth: API key (query param)
- Serving public users: Yes.
- Note: One-time trial credits.
- Source: www.scrapingbee.com
Browserbase
Checked on 17 Oct 2026Free tier: Free plan $0/mo: 3 concurrent browsers, 1 browser hour, 3 agent runs, 1,000 search calls, 1,000 fetch calls, 15 min/session, $5 in model tokens.
- Auth: API key (X-BB-API-Key)
- Serving public users: Yes.
- Source: www.browserbase.com
Apify
Checked on 17 Oct 2026Free tier: Free plan $0: $5/month to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors; $0.2 per compute unit; no credit card.
- Auth: API token (Bearer)
- Serving public users: Yes.
- Source: apify.com
ScraperAPI
Checked on 17 Oct 2026Free tier: 7-day trial with 5,000 API credits, no credit card (trial, not a permanent free tier).
- Auth: API key (query param)
- Serving public users: Trial only.
- Source: www.scraperapi.com
Steel
Checked on 17 Oct 2026Free tier: Launch plan $0/month + usage: $30 of credits one time, 10 concurrent browser sessions, sessions up to 15 minutes.
- Auth: API key (steel-api-key header)
- Serving public users: Yes.
- Note: Open-source browser also self-hostable.
- Source: steel.dev
Each free tier was read from the provider’s official pricing or limits page on 17 Oct 2026 and is linked as the source. Anything the page does not state is written as unknown. Free tiers change often, so confirm before you build on one.