TinyFish90.5%
Firecrawl61.7%
Still paying Firecrawl for 38% junk?
TinyFish returns 90% usable content per page. Firecrawl returns 62%. Switch and save up to 30%.
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Capabilities
How we compare
TinyFish93%
Firecrawl62%
TinyFish15/15
Firecrawl4/15
TinyFish86.7%
Firecrawl19.3%
Same inputs, both tools, scored the same way.
| Capability | TinyFish | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Median signal ratio | ✓90.5% | 61.7% |
| Fetch coverage | ✓93% | 62% |
| News publishers | ✓15/15 | 4/15 |
| Single-article signal | ✓86.7% | 19.3% |
| TinySearch | ✓Free | Credit-based |
| TinyFetch | ✓Free | Credit-based |
| TinyAgent | ✓Available | Interact |
| TinyBrowser | ✓Available | — |
| TinyVault | ✓Available | — |
How we tested
Benchmarks, not adjectives.
Every number on this page comes from a reproducible test. Same inputs, every provider, scored the same way.
01
Search quality
We ran 250 questions from OpenAI's SimpleQA benchmark and checked whether the first result was correct, and whether the top ten answered the question at all.
02
Production latency
We timed 1,200 production search queries and compared typical speed, worst-case speed, and how many requests failed.
03
Fetch coverage
We fetched the same 45 URLs, everyday pages and major news sites, with both tools and measured how much usable content came back.
TinyFetch
TinyFetch returns cleaner content than Firecrawl.
Everything your agent fetches goes straight into its context window. Junk costs you twice: you pay for the extra tokens, and your agent wastes its reasoning on menus and ads instead of the content.
TinyFish coverage
93%
42 / 45 URLs returned usable content
+31 points
Firecrawl coverage
62%
28 / 45 URLs · fails on 17
Median signal ratio · 45-URL benchmark
TinyFish delivers 90% content. Firecrawl delivers 62%. That means nearly 40% of every page your agent processes is noise.
TinyFish
90.5%
Firecrawl
61.7%
Article signal
Content ratio — what your agent actually gets
TinyFish
86.7%
Clean article text, ready for an LLM
Firecrawl
19.3%
Article buried in 36x more navigation, ads, and page chrome
News is where it breaks.
Across 15 news articles from five publishers, Firecrawl returns usable content for only 4. The rest are blocked or return pages where less than 30% of the output is actual content.
TinyFish15/15
Firecrawl4/15
TinySearch
TinySearch beats Firecrawl on accuracy and speed.
Plenty of teams use one provider for both search and fetch. If that's you, this gap applies to your search results too.
SimpleQA · 250 questions
Top-result accuracy · Snippet@1
TinyFish
49.2%
Firecrawl
38.4%
+10.8 ptsTinyFish leads top-result accuracy: 49.2% vs 38.4%.
SimpleQA · 250 questions
End-to-end answer rate · E2E@10
TinyFish
86.8%
Firecrawl
80.0%
+6.8 ptsTinyFish answers 86.8% end-to-end vs 80.0%.
1,200-query production latency sample · lower is better
p50 latency
TinyFish
556 ms
Firecrawl
869 ms
p99 latency
TinyFish
1,347 ms
Firecrawl
2,127 ms
0 vs 2 errorsTinyFish logged 0 errors across 1,200 queries; Firecrawl logged 2.
The full stack
TinyFish adds the agent stack Firecrawl lacks.
Firecrawl’s Interact can click and fill on a single page. TinyFish was built for everything that comes after reading a page.
TinyAgent
Navigates across pages, fills forms, logs in through auth walls, and returns structured JSON. Scores 89.9% on Mind2Web.
✓ TinyFishFirecrawl: Interact: basic click/fill
TinyBrowser
Full browser control with anti-bot protection built into the engine itself, not spoofed headers.
✓ TinyFishFirecrawl: Not available
TinyVault
Your agent gets through gated content without your passwords ever being exposed.
✓ TinyFishFirecrawl: Not available
Pricing
TinySearch and TinyFetch are free.
| TinyFish | Firecrawl | |
|---|---|---|
| TinySearch | Free | Credit-based |
| TinyFetch | Free | Credit-based |
| TinyAgent | $0.016 / stepLLM included | — |
| TinyBrowser | $0.002 / min | — |
| Free tier | $8 in Wallet funds + free TinySearch & TinyFetch | 1,000 pages |
Most of what an agent does is search and fetch. On TinyFish, both are free.
Independent check: on the Artificial Analysis Search Index (Aug 31, 2026), one full search task costs $0.035 on TinyFish and $0.075 on Firecrawl, model cost included.
TinyFish$0
vsFirecrawlCredit-based
Overage
Your bill should not punish your growth.
On Firecrawl, every search and every fetch is a credit, and when credits run out your card is charged $5 at a time. On TinyFish, TinySearch and TinyFetch stay free at any volume.
Firecrawl, at your limit
Every search and fetch draws down credits.
Run out, and your card is charged $5 at a time.
TinyFish, at any volume
TinySearch:free
TinyFetch:free
The bill grows because your business grew. Never faster.
The hidden costs
The bill is the least of it.
01
Your engineers babysit a router.
Someone on your team wrote the glue code that stitches your vendors together. Maintaining it is now part of their job, and that job never ends.
02
There's no one place to look.
Your spend sits in one dashboard, your failures in another, your volume in a third. Three tabs across three companies, and no single picture of what your stack is actually doing.
Co-founder, Top GEO and Agent Experience (AX) Company
we hit our limit mid month and firecrawl auto upgraded us to the next plan. nobody clicked anything, the bill just went up
Founder, AI Identity Intelligence Company
we ended up building our own router to juggle vendors and now maintaining it is basically someone’s part time job
Founder and CEO, Agent-Led Growth Infrastructure Company
I have three dashboards open just to see what we spent, what failed, and how much we ran. three tabs, three companies
One platform
And when you're here, everything else is too.
Every TinyFish product on one key, one credit pool, one dashboard. You still decide which tool handles what. That call was always yours.
Today
Firecrawl?
Vendor 2$
Vendor 3$
Your agent stack
Multiple bills. One of them you can’t predict.
With TinyFish
TinyFish$
Your agent stack
One bill. One number you already know.
Migration
Frictionless migration, while your team keeps shipping.
For most teams the move is quick and easy. If you’re worried about older functionality or bandwidth, we put an engineer on your account until you’re live.
One service at a time. TinyFetch first.
Endpoint-by-endpoint API map. No hard cutover.
An engineer on your account until you're live.
FAQ
Common questions.
On a 45-URL benchmark judged by Claude Sonnet 4, TinyFish returned 90.5% usable content against Firecrawl's 61.7%, and reached 42 of the 45 pages against Firecrawl's 28.
On 250 SimpleQA questions, TinyFish's first result was correct 49.2% of the time against Firecrawl's 38.4%, and it was about 1.6x faster at typical speeds.
Interact clicks and fills on one page. TinyAgent navigates across pages, fills forms, logs in, and returns structured JSON.
TinySearch and TinyFetch are free. Firecrawl charges credits for both, so agent workloads cost much less here.
Either the publisher blocks it outright, or the article comes back buried in navigation and ads. TinyFish renders the real page in a browser and strips everything but the content.