The Cost-Effective Alternative to Firecrawl

No monthly page limits

AlterLab charges per request with a dollar balance. Scrape as many or as few pages as you need — no monthly caps or overage fees.

Firecrawl-compatible endpoint

AlterLab offers a Firecrawl-compatible API endpoint. Point your existing code at AlterLab and it works immediately — no rewrite needed.

Deeper anti-bot handling

AlterLab automatically escalates through 5 protection tiers including residential proxies and full browser CAPTCHA solving for sites that block simple requests.

from firecrawl import FirecrawlApp

app = FirecrawlApp(api_key="YOUR_KEY")
result = app.scrape_url(
    "https://example.com",
    params={"formats": ["markdown"]}
)

from firecrawl import FirecrawlApp

# Just change the API URL — same SDK works
app = FirecrawlApp(
    api_key="YOUR_ALTERLAB_KEY",
    api_url="https://api.alterlab.io/firecrawl"
)
result = app.scrape_url(
    "https://example.com",
    params={"formats": ["markdown"]}
)