Firecrawl vs ElevenLabs
AI-native web scraping + crawling API — LLM-ready data extraction
vs. Best-in-class AI text-to-speech + voice cloning + Conversational AI
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
ElevenLabs
Free
10k credits/month. No voice cloning. Limited API.
Free
Starter
$6/mo. 30k credits. Instant voice cloning. Limited API.
$6/mo
Creator
$11/mo (first month 50% off). 121k credits. Professional cloning. Full API.
$11/mo
Pro
$99/mo. 600k credits. 44.1 kHz PCM API. Professional cloning.
$99/mo
Scale
$299/mo. 1.8M credits. 3 professional voice clones.
$299/mo
Business
$990/mo. 6M credits. 10 pro clones. Low-latency TTS API.
$990/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Unlimited pro clones + full access.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Firecrawl vs free on ElevenLabs.
| Metric | Firecrawl | ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
ElevenLabs · 13 features
- Conversational AI — Voice agents with LLM orchestration + tools.
- Dubbing Studio — Auto-dub video to target languages with lip-sync.
- Projects — Long-form narration workflow — books, podcasts.
- Realtime Streaming — Low-latency TTS streaming via WebSocket.
- Scribe (STT) — High-accuracy speech-to-text with speaker diarization.
- Sound Effects — AI-generated SFX from text prompts.
- Text to Sound — Generate music + sound from text.
- Text-to-Speech — Studio-quality TTS across 29 languages with emotion control.
- Voice Changer — Transform one voice into another preserving delivery.
- Voice Cloning — Instant (short sample) + Professional (30 min +) voice cloning.
- Voice Design — Design voices from text descriptions.
- Voice Library — 3,000+ community voices. License per-voice.
- Voiceover Studio — Multi-character voiceover timeline.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Firecrawl | ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Firecrawl CLI | — |
| SDK | firecrawl-go, firecrawl-js, firecrawl-py | elevenlabs (Node), elevenlabs (Python) |
| REST | Firecrawl REST API | ElevenLabs REST API |
| MCP | Firecrawl MCP Server | ElevenLabs MCP |
| OTHER | — | Webhooks, WebSocket Streaming |
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