Firecrawl extract alternative
One row per company, at 5¢ to $1.
Firecrawl removes /extract, its endpoint for fields across many URLs, on December 10, 2026. Its JSON mode reads one URL per call at 5 credits a page, and /agent keeps results for 24 hours and stops at 2,500 credits by default.
SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Name the companies and fields in plain words, or send your list, and get one row per company with each value's source URL, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row.
New accounts get $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is up to 200 rows.
SpecStream and Firecrawl's extraction, side by side
| SpecStream | Firecrawl /extract, JSON mode and /agent | |
|---|---|---|
| What you send | The companies you want and the facts for each, in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet. Or a list you already hold | /extract: a list of URLs, wildcards such as example.com/* allowed, and a prompt or schema. JSON mode: one URL and a schema or prompt. /agent: a prompt, with URLs optional |
| What comes back | One structured row per company, with facts from many pages and sites joined into one record. Source URL and read time on every value | JSON in the shape of your schema. Firecrawl's docs say /extract results might differ across runs on very large or dynamic sites |
| How long it runs | Rows stay in your account and in the tools you send them to. A saved request reruns hourly to yearly | /extract is removed on Thursday, December 10, 2026, 15:00 UTC. /agent results stay on the API for 24 hours after the job ends |
| The unit you pay for | A delivered row: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 by how much the row needs, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. The same rate on every plan | Credits. JSON mode is 5 credits a page, 1 for the scrape and 4 for the JSON format. /extract bills tokens, 15 to a credit. /agent gives 5 free runs a day, then dynamic pricing |
| The price to start | $10 of credit on sign-up, no card. 1,000 companies with up to 5 facts each cost $50 | Hobby: $19 a month for 5,000 credits, which is 1,000 pages in JSON mode. Standard: $99 a month for 100,000 credits |
| The cost cap before a run | The most the run can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it, and there are no automatic overages | /agent stops at maxCredits, 2,500 by default. A run that reaches it returns no data, and its partial can be missing rows or fields |
| What failed or empty work costs | Nothing. A row that fails a condition, a duplicate and a run that finds nothing are not charged | A failed scrape bills 0 credits. Each page read in JSON mode bills 5 |
| A list you already have | Import a CSV, Excel file, Google Sheet or Airtable base of up to 20,000 rows. SpecStream fills in or checks each row and matches it to one identity, with any namesakes shown alongside their evidence. Import is free. A row that matches pays its rate, and a row that does not costs 5¢ | /extract takes your URLs. From December 10, Firecrawl's docs send wildcard, multi-page and web-search extracts to /v2/agent |
Why Firecrawl extract users move to SpecStream
One row per company, from every page that holds its facts
Firecrawl's JSON mode is for one URL and the fields on that single page, and its docs send everything beyond one URL to /agent. A company's facts sit on its own site, a register, the press and its job pages. SpecStream searches the live web for every company that meets your conditions, reads each page and joins what it finds into one record per company. Each value carries the URL of the page it was read on and the time it was read, and a company that fails a condition is not delivered.
Priced per delivered row, and quoted before the run
A row costs 5¢ with up to 5 facts, 15¢ with up to 15 facts and one related list such as a company's jobs, and $1 for a deep row with no limit. An email adds 5¢ and a phone 15¢. 1,000 companies with 5 facts each cost $50, and the quote shows that maximum before anything runs. Duplicates, rows that fail a condition and a run that finds nothing are not charged. The rates are on pricing.
What to move before December 10, 2026
Firecrawl's own docs move single-page extracts to /v2/scrape with a JSON format and wildcard, multi-page or web-search extracts to /v2/agent. On SpecStream each kind of call has its place. Fields across many companies, with or without a list of URLs, go to Deep Search as one request. Pages your code parses itself go to the Extract API at $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and a page with no text is not charged. Your v1 scrape, search, map and crawl calls keep their shape at the Firecrawl v1 compatible address.
The rows stay 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 (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢) and an unchanged row costs 1¢, so rechecking 1,000 rows that did not change costs $10. Changes arrive by signed webhook or through the API, and in Sheets, HubSpot, Salesforce or Slack with no code. Rows you already own are never charged again.
The most accurate web search API, in the same account
The Search API answers one question from the live web from $1 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results. It scores a 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. The Extract API reads pages for $0.80 per 1,000 and scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Scores and method are on benchmarks.
Other Firecrawl extract alternatives
SpecStream
The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words, through the API or MCP, returns every company that meets your conditions as a typed row with the facts you named, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.
Parallel FindAll
An API that returns matches for a query. Every run has a fixed cost of $0.10 to $10.00 by generator, plus $0.00 to $1.00 per match, and a cancelled run is charged for the work completed. On SpecStream a run has no fee of its own, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing.
Exa Websets
A list building and enrichment API billed in Websets credits, which are separate from Exa's Search API credits. The Free plan caps a webset at 25 verified results, and the API requires a paid Websets plan. On SpecStream the same key calls Deep Search from the first $10 of credit, with no plan to buy first.
How SpecStream scores
The same numbers as the benchmarks page, from the official tasks and scorers.
| SpecStream |  Parallel |  Exa |  Tavily |  Perplexity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web researchWideSearch, GPT-5.6 Luna | 60.9 | 45.5 | 53.0 | 47.9 | 47.0 |
| Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Luna | 96 | 94 | 91 | 94 | 94 |
| Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Sol | 99 | 97 | 91 | 92 | 95 |
How to switch from Firecrawl /extract
1. Write the companies and the facts you want in plain words, in place of the urls and schema you send to /extract today. Put the conditions in the same sentence: the country, the size, what the company sells.
2. Send it from code. This call spends nothing: the 402 reply shows how SpecStream read the request, the columns and the most it can cost.
curl -i https://api.specstream.ai/v1/agent/lists \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"request": "B2B software companies in Germany with 50 to 500 employees, with the website, headcount, the last funding round and the head of engineering", "count": 25}'3. Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet, or in USDC on Base, Arbitrum or Polygon, and you pay for the rows found. On an account, your agent uses the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp and your team uses the workspace, from the same balance. A list of companies you already hold goes in as an import of up to 20,000 rows.
Frequently asked questions
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When does Firecrawl remove /extract?
/v2/scrape with a JSON format, and wildcard, multi-page or web-search extracts to /v2/agent.How much does Firecrawl JSON extraction cost?
/extract bills tokens at 15 tokens a credit.What is the best Firecrawl extract alternative?
Can I still start from a list of URLs or companies?
Does SpecStream answer Firecrawl v1 calls?
https://api.specstream.ai/firecrawl and keep your v1 paths. A search of up to 10 results costs $0.001 and a page $0.0008. The details are on Firecrawl v1 compatible.Does SpecStream have an API?
https://api.specstream.ai/mcp.Sources
SpecStream wrote this page. Each Firecrawl, Parallel and Exa figure comes from that company's own page.
- SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
- SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 12, 2026
- SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 12, 2026
- Firecrawl: Extractdocs.firecrawl.dev/features/extract, read Nov 12, 2026
- Firecrawl: JSON modedocs.firecrawl.dev/features/llm-extract, read Nov 12, 2026
- Firecrawl: Agentdocs.firecrawl.dev/features/agent, read Nov 12, 2026
- Firecrawl: choosing the data extractordocs.firecrawl.dev/developer-guides/usage-guides/choosing-the-data-extractor, read Nov 12, 2026
- Firecrawl pricingfirecrawl.dev/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
- Parallel pricingdocs.parallel.ai/getting-started/pricing.md, read Nov 12, 2026
- Parallel FindAll generator pricingdocs.parallel.ai/findall-api/core-concepts/findall-generator-pricing.md, read Nov 12, 2026
- Exa Websets overviewexa.ai/docs/reference/websets-overview, read Nov 12, 2026
- Exa Websets FAQexa.ai/docs/websets/faq.md, read Nov 12, 2026