Firecrawl trails Exa by just 1 point but costs nearly half as much
devdigest · x · 2026-08-19
According to Artificial Analysis data, Firecrawl trails Exa by only 1 point in overall performance but costs nearly half as much.
- Pareto Frontier: Parallel (Turbo/Advanced) and Firecrawl form the Pareto frontier for the Search Index vs. Cost per Task, representing the best blended cost-performance available today.
- Firecrawl: Scores 73 on the AA-Search Index with a total cost of $0.075 per task (search cost is only 40%). However, it has the slowest time per task on the board (55.0s).
- Parallel: Parallel (Advanced) achieves an Index of 75 at a 12% higher cost per task than Firecrawl, but reduces model inference costs due to superior search efficiency.
Related event: Artificial Analysis Launches Search Index Benchmark for Search APIs(5 posts)→
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