Head-to-Head Comparison · 2026

Firecrawl vs ScrapeGraphAI: Head-to-Head Comparison (2026)

Firecrawl or ScrapeGraphAI for web scraping in 2026? Compare throughput, anti-bot success, real pricing and the best proxies to pair with each — with a clear

Verdict

Firecrawl gives you the page as reliable Markdown and leaves structuring to you. ScrapeGraphAI turns a prompt into structured JSON without selectors, which is unbeatable for long-tail sites and expensive for high-volume, stable ones.

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My IP Address

See the exact IP your proxy is currently exiting from.

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IP & ASN Lookup

Resolve any IP to country, ASN, ISP and abuse contact.

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Check whether WebRTC is leaking your real IP behind SOCKS5.

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Proxy URL Parser

Decode socks5:// URLs into host, port, and credentials.

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