What Firecrawl does well
Firecrawl earned its position by making LLM-ready markdown extraction simple and reliable. Their crawl-to-markdown pipeline is excellent, and they were early to recognize that AI engineers need a different shape of web data than traditional scrapers produced. If your use case is exclusively markdown for RAG or training, Firecrawl serves it well.
Where Ollagraph goes further
- Built-in intelligence layer. Ollagraph returns DNS, WHOIS, SSL, GeoIP/ASN, tech-stack, contacts, and email verification in the same API. Firecrawl focuses on scrape and crawl — for the intelligence layer you'd add a second vendor.
- Vertical actors. Amazon, Zillow, and Google Maps return structured JSON in clean schemas. Firecrawl returns generic scrape results you parse yourself for these sites.
- Browser automation. Persistent stealth sessions plus natural-language actions (goto / act / observe / extract) drive multi-step flows behind logins. Firecrawl is scrape-API-focused.
- One bill, one token. Scrape + intelligence + actors + automation are all credit-metered through one key, and failed calls auto-refund.
Side by side
| Feature | Firecrawl | Ollagraph |
|---|---|---|
| Clean markdown output for LLMs | Native, excellent | Native |
| Full-site crawler with webhook | Yes | Yes |
| Structured data (JSON-LD / OpenGraph / microdata) | Partial | Native |
| Domain intelligence (DNS / WHOIS / SSL) | Not offered | Included |
| Email verification | Not offered | Included |
| Vertical actors (Amazon, Zillow, Maps) | Generic scrape | Dedicated extractors |
| Browser automation (sessions + NL actions) | Limited | Included |
| MCP server | Yes | Included |
| JavaScript eval + action macros | Limited | Native |
| Pricing | Per-credit | Per-credit · PAYG from $5 · refund on failure |
| Free to start | Free tier | 1,000 credits |
Who each is best for
Choose Firecrawl if: Teams whose use case is exclusively markdown extraction for LLM training or RAG, and who do not need intelligence, vertical actors, or browser automation from the same vendor.
Choose Ollagraph if: Teams who need clean markdown plus intelligence, plus vertical actors, plus browser automation — behind one key and one bill. Especially AI teams whose agents also need to enrich the domains they scrape.