Vendors
Firecrawl, routed
through gottem.
Firecrawl turns pages into clean, LLM-ready markdown, and it is one of the best extraction layers in the catalogue for feeding scraped content straight into a RAG pipeline or an agent's context window. gottem routes it at the cheap end of the ladder, with a JS-rendering rung one tier up.
Firecrawl routes, what they cost.
Each row is a routable id in the engine. The price is what gottem bills per successful page on that route. That is gottem's price, not Firecrawl's list price. The full Cost Ladder has every vendor side by side.
| Route | Tier | Per page | Credits | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| firecrawl.scrape | T4 | $0.0010 | 10 cr | markdown extraction |
| firecrawl.scrape.js | T5 | $0.0050 | 50 cr | JS render |
When the ladder picks Firecrawl.
firecrawl.scrape shares the ladder's entry rung at $0.0010 a page, so when your request asks for markdown, Firecrawl is often the first vendor tried. If the page needs JavaScript, the ladder steps to firecrawl.scrape.js. If Firecrawl is blocked, the same request retries through a different vendor without your code seeing the failure.
Pin Firecrawl when you need it.
By default picks the route; pass force_provider when a workflow needs Firecrawl specifically, for parity testing, compliance, or vendor-native options via provider_options.
curl -sS https://api.gottem.dev/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $GOTTEM_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"url": "https://example.com",
"force_provider": "firecrawl.scrape"
}'Already pay Firecrawl directly?
Bring your own key. Add your Firecrawl credential once, AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest, and routes through your account instead of the pooled key. You pay Firecrawl directly; gottem charges a flat infrastructure fee per request, zero markup. See the pricing FAQ for how BYOK billing works.
Questions.
- Is gottem a Firecrawl alternative?
- No. gottem isn't a replacement for Firecrawl. It routes through Firecrawl alongside 13+ other scraping vendors and picks it whenever it's the best fit for the page. If you already use Firecrawl, gottem adds automatic failover, per-domain routing memory, and one response shape on top of it.
- What does Firecrawl cost per page through gottem?
- Firecrawl's routes run from $0.0010 to $0.0050 a page depending on the rung. Those are gottem's prices for a successful page. Failed attempts bill at the $0.000001 minimum, effectively free.
- Does gottem return Firecrawl's markdown format?
- Yes. When Firecrawl serves the page you get its markdown extraction in the same JSON shape every other vendor uses, and when another vendor serves it, gottem's transformation pipeline can still produce markdown, so your parser never changes.
- Can I bring my own Firecrawl key?
- Yes. Add it once, AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest, and gottem routes through your Firecrawl account: you pay Firecrawl directly and gottem charges a flat infrastructure fee per request, zero markup.