CrawlHQ vs. Firecrawl
Both do scrape + extract. CrawlHQ adds search, change monitoring, breach detection, and INR pricing. Here's the full picture.
- ✓ INR billing, no FX markup
- ✓ Scrape + Search + Extract + Watch
- ✓ 500 free credits, no card required
- ✓ No annual contract
- ✗ USD billing (FX conversion cost)
- ✗ Scrape + Extract only
- ✗ No search, monitoring, or breach
- ✗ Monthly subscription model
Feature Comparison
| Feature | CrawlHQ | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Raw HTML scraping | ✓ | ✓ |
| JavaScript rendering (Playwright) | ✓ | ✓ |
| HTML → Markdown conversion | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured JSON extraction (schema-defined) | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF extraction | ✓ | ✓ |
| Web search (multi-engine) | ✓ | — |
| Change detection & webhooks | ✓ | — |
| Credential & breach monitoring | Soon | — |
| Dark web / Tor crawling | Soon | — |
| Video & audio transcription | Soon | — |
| Domain enrichment (emails, tech stack) | Soon | — |
| INR billing (no conversion fees) | ✓ | — |
| India-hosted infrastructure | ✓ | — |
| No annual contract required | ✓ | — |
| Source attribution on every data point | ✓ | ✓ |
Where Firecrawl is strong
Firecrawl does scraping and extraction well. Their open-source roots give it a strong developer community, and their LLM-powered extraction is solid. If you're US-based and only need scrape + extract, Firecrawl is a reasonable choice.
Where CrawlHQ wins for Indian teams
CrawlHQ adds search, change monitoring, breach detection, and INR billing to the same foundation. For teams building full data pipelines — not just one-off extractions — CrawlHQ is a single API key instead of five vendor relationships. And ₹0.40/credit vs. $333/month is a real difference for Indian startups.
Stop Prompting. Start Building.
AI search tools give you probable answers. CrawlHQ gives you deterministic, auditable, structured web intelligence — in your database, on your schedule, under your control.