Loops vs Firecrawl
Email marketing for SaaS — loops, transactional, campaigns in one
vs. AI-native web scraping + crawling API — LLM-ready data extraction
Pricing tiers
Loops
Free
1,000 subscribed contacts. 4,000 sends/month. All features. Loops footer on emails.
Free
Paid — 1.5k
1,500 contacts. Unlimited sends. No footer.
$15/mo
Paid — 5k
5,000 contacts. Unlimited sends.
$49/mo
Paid — 10k
10,000 contacts.
$99/mo
Paid — 25k
25,000 contacts.
$199/mo
Paid — 50k
50,000 contacts.
$349/mo
Custom
>100k contacts — contact sales.
Custom
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
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Loops vs free on Firecrawl.
| Metric | Loops | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Loops · 12 features
- API Keys — Scoped keys for testing vs production.
- Audiences (Segments) — Filter contacts by properties + event behavior.
- Campaign Analytics — Open/click/unsubscribe rates, heatmaps, A/B significance.
- Campaigns — One-off broadcasts to audience segments. Schedule + A/B test subject.
- Contacts — Contact records with custom properties (strings, numbers, booleans, dates).
- Email Editor — Visual block-based + Markdown + HTML modes.
- Events — Send events to trigger loops/journeys or filter audiences.
- Loops (Automations) — Event-triggered automation flows with delays + conditions.
- Mailing Lists — Opt-in lists with subscribe/unsubscribe preferences per list.
- Template Library — Pre-built templates for SaaS use cases (onboarding, digest, launch).
- Transactional API — Send transactional emails (receipts, password resets) via /transactional endpoin…
- Webhooks — Subscribe to contact/event changes.
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.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Loops | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | Firecrawl CLI |
| SDK | @loops/loops, loops-py | firecrawl-go, firecrawl-js, firecrawl-py |
| REST | Loops REST API | Firecrawl REST API |
| MCP | — | Firecrawl MCP Server |
| OTHER | Webhooks | — |
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