What one team replaced Firecrawl with
1 team replaced Firecrawl. The typical team cut 70% of its bill. Each team's old bill, running cost and net saving.
$80 net saved per month
70%of the bill cut
Sep 2026running since
- Website
- firecrawl.dev
What they replaced Firecrawl with
Own scraper1 team · $80/mo saved · cut 70% of the bill
| Team and what they built | Since | Old bill | Running cost | Net saved | Bill cut |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nesan Selvanopen-web-search (own search and scraper) · Contabo Nesan Selvan's team used Firecrawl around the clock to check nutrition facts against the live web. He built his own search and scraping service that queries search results, fetches pages in Chrome and converts them to Markdown, runs it on a single Contabo VPS, and released it as open source. | Sep 2026 | $115/mo | $35/mo | $80/mo | 70% |