Rate Limits

Rate limits for different pricing plans and API requests

Concurrent Browser Limits

Concurrent browsers represent how many web pages Firecrawl can process for you at the same time. Your plan determines how many of these jobs can run simultaneously - if you exceed this limit, additional jobs will wait in a queue until resources become available.

Current Plans

Plan	Concurrent Browsers
Free	2
Hobby	5
Standard	50
Growth	100
Scale / Enterprise	150+

If you require higher concurrency limits, please contact us at [e-mail] to discuss custom plans.

Extract Plans (Legacy)

Plan	Concurrent Browsers
Free	2
Starter	50
Explorer	100
Pro	200

API Rate Limits

Rate limits are measured in requests per minute and are primarily in place to prevent abuse. When configured correctly, your real bottleneck will be concurrent browsers.

Current Plans

Plan	/scrape	/map	/crawl	/search	/extract	/crawl/status	/extract/status
Free	10	10	1	5	10	1500	500
Hobby	100	100	15	50	100	1500	25000
Standard	500	500	50	250	500	1500	25000
Growth	5000	5000	250	2500	1000	1500	25000

These rate limits are enforced to ensure fair usage and availability of the API for all users. If you require higher limits, please contact us at [e-mail] to discuss custom plans.

Handling Rate Limit Errors

When you exceed your rate limit, the API returns a 429 (Too Many Requests) response. To handle this gracefully:

1. Implement retry logic - Automatically retry failed requests
2. Use exponential backoff - Gradually increase delays between retries to avoid overwhelming the API
3. Monitor your usage - Stay within your plan’s limits

See Error Handling and Retries for detailed code examples showing how to implement retry logic with exponential backoff in Node.js and Python.

Batch Endpoints

Batch endpoints follow the /crawl rate limits.

FIRE-1 Agent

Requests involving the FIRE-1 agent requests have separate rate limits that are counted independently for each endpoint:

Endpoint	Rate Limit (requests/min)
/scrape	10
/extract	10

Extract Plans (Legacy)

Plan	/extract (requests/min)	/extract/status (requests/min)
Starter	100	25000
Explorer	500	25000
Pro	1000	25000