# Firecrawl Alexandria alternative: one request, rows from every source Compared on Nov 12, 2026. The page: https://specstream.ai/firecrawl-alexandria-alternative Firecrawl Alexandria puts 502 data providers and Firecrawl's own indexes behind one Firecrawl account. Your agent finds a tool, reads its inputs and price, then runs it. Discovery is free, and each tool bills the credits it lists. SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Your agent asks for the data in plain words, sees the most it can cost, and gets rows that meet every condition, with the source URL and read time on every value. [Get an API key](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-firecrawl-alexandria-alternative&utm_source=alternatives-md&utm_campaign=firecrawl-alexandria&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fagents%3Ftab%3Dkeys) New accounts get $10 of credit, no card. ## SpecStream and Firecrawl Alexandria side by side | | SpecStream | Firecrawl Alexandria | |---|---|---| | What the agent sends | The data it needs in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet. SpecStream decides where to look | A provider, a capability and that tool's inputs, under `alexandria` in a scrape call | | Where the data comes from | The live web, plus 38,142 ready lists from the records we hold (Nov 10, 2026), such as Form D filers since 2023 and nearly 2 million US nonprofits | 502 providers, plus Firecrawl's Government and Research indexes | | People and company data | Any row can carry a person's email for 5¢ more or a phone for 15¢ more. Import a list of up to 20,000 rows and each one is filled in or checked | Apollo, FullEnrich and Data Legion for people search, work email lookup and company enrichment. 1,000 free credits a month of people data through the Firecrawl plugin | | Funding and filings | Form D filers at [specstream.ai/data/form-d](https://specstream.ai/data/form-d?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=firecrawl-alexandria), and weekly signals for US funding rounds, layoffs and new executives | Fireround, Firecrawl's own funding data provider, and SEC filings from 8,000+ public companies | | The price | 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, the same on every plan. The most a run can cost is quoted before it runs | Each tool's own listed credits. Firecrawl paid plans start at $19 a month for 5,000 credits | | Terms to accept | None per source. One account and one balance | Some providers need an org admin to review and accept their terms first | | Where it runs | MCP at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp` in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other clients, the REST API, and a purchase with no account, by card or in USDC | Firecrawl's plugin, MCP server, CLI and API, with a Firecrawl account | ## Why Alexandria users move to SpecStream ### One request in place of a tool hunt On Alexandria your agent searches for tools, reads each tool's inputs and price, calls one provider at a time and joins the answers itself. On SpecStream the request is the whole job: "US developer tool companies that announced a seed or Series A round this month, with the amount, the lead investor and a founder with a work email". SpecStream reads it back as conditions and facts you can edit, then joins facts from many sites into one record per company. ### One price before the run, not one per tool Each Alexandria tool bills its own listed credits, so the cost of a list depends on which tools the agent picks and how often it calls them. SpecStream quotes the most a run can cost before it starts: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. Duplicates, rows you already own and rows a page contradicts are not charged, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing. ### The source on every value Every value in a SpecStream row carries the URL of the page it was read on and the time it was read, and each condition of the request shows the page that states it. Your agent can hand row 147 to a person who opens the page and checks it. ### Data we already hold On November 10, 2026 the catalog at [specstream.ai/data/lists](https://specstream.ai/data/lists?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=firecrawl-alexandria) held 38,142 lists in 9 families, 1,695 of them with a monthly feed. A list costs 5¢ a row for the first 2,000 rows and 1¢ a row after, $5 minimum. Funding rounds, layoffs and new executives arrive weekly at [specstream.ai/signals](https://specstream.ai/signals?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=firecrawl-alexandria). ### Kept up to date Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, a changed or new row costs half its rate and an unchanged row 1¢, and new matches arrive in Slack, email, a sheet, a CRM or a signed webhook. ## Other Firecrawl Alexandria alternatives ### Exa Connect Data providers inside Exa's Agent, each provider call billed on top of the run. Exa's own contact enrichment is $0.02 an email and $0.07 a phone number. On SpecStream an email adds 5¢ and a phone 15¢ to a row that already meets every condition you wrote. ### Parallel FindAll Finds entities that match a query, with a fixed cost plus a cost per match: $0.25 a run and $0.03 a match on the base generator. SpecStream has no fee per run, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing. ### Firecrawl search and scrape Firecrawl's own web search costs 2 credits per 10 results, and your code reads the pages and builds the records. SpecStream answers that search for $1 per 1,000 through its [Firecrawl route](https://specstream.ai/migrate/firecrawl?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=firecrawl-alexandria), and builds the records itself when you ask for rows. ## How to switch from Firecrawl Alexandria Connect your agent to `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp` with OAuth or an API key: [Claude](https://specstream.ai/docs/mcp/claude?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=firecrawl-alexandria), [ChatGPT](https://specstream.ai/docs/mcp/chatgpt?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=firecrawl-alexandria) and [other clients](https://specstream.ai/docs/mcp?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=firecrawl-alexandria). Then ask for the data in place of naming a provider and a tool. ``` # Before: one Alexandria tool, called by provider and capability curl https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"alexandria": {"provider": "particle", "capability": "podcasts/episodes/search", "options": {"semantic_search": "AI agents", "limit": 2}}}' # After: the data in plain words. This call spends nothing curl -i https://api.specstream.ai/v1/agent/lists \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"request": "US developer tool companies that announced a seed or Series A round this month, with the amount, the lead investor and a founder with a work email", "count": 25}' ``` The `402` reply shows how SpecStream read the request, the columns and the most it can cost. Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet or in USDC, and you pay for the rows found. See [agent payments](https://specstream.ai/docs/agent-payments?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=firecrawl-alexandria). On an account, your agent uses the MCP tools `compile`, `quote_capacity_work` and `authorize_capacity_work`, and nothing runs until you approve the quote. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card: up to 200 rows at 5¢. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is Firecrawl Alexandria? A library of 502 data providers and Firecrawl's own indexes that agents reach through a Firecrawl account. An agent finds a tool, reads its inputs and price, and runs it. Discovery is free, and each tool bills the credits it lists. ### How much does Firecrawl Alexandria cost? Finding tools costs nothing, and each call bills the credits its tool lists. The Government and Research index tools are free, and Firecrawl paid plans start at $19 a month for 5,000 credits. ### What is the best Firecrawl Alexandria alternative? SpecStream. Your agent asks for the data in plain words, sees the most the run can cost, and gets rows that meet every condition, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, with the source URL and read time on every value. ### Does SpecStream find work emails and phones? Yes. A row that carries a person's email costs 5¢ more, and a phone 15¢ more. You pay for them only on rows that are delivered. ### Does SpecStream work in Claude and ChatGPT? Yes, through its MCP server at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp` with OAuth or an API key. Connecting is free on every plan. ### Can I list my data on SpecStream like an Alexandria provider? No. SpecStream reads the live web and the public records it holds, and has no provider program. ## Sources SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page. - [SpecStream pricing](https://specstream.ai/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [SpecStream for agents](https://specstream.ai/agents.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [SpecStream data lists](https://specstream.ai/data/lists), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Firecrawl Alexandria](https://www.firecrawl.dev/alexandria.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Firecrawl Alexandria docs](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/alexandria.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Firecrawl changelog](https://www.firecrawl.dev/changelog.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Introducing Alexandria](https://www.firecrawl.dev/changelog/introducing-alexandria-series-b.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Firecrawl pricing](https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Exa pricing](https://exa.ai/docs/admin/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Parallel API pricing](https://docs.parallel.ai/getting-started/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026