TinyFish returns 90% signal. Firecrawl returns 62%.
TinyFish returns clean, usable content from any page. Not chrome and ads. Search and Fetch are free.
How they compare.
Benchmarks, not adjectives.
Every number on this page comes from a reproducible test. Same inputs, every provider, scored the same way.
Search quality
A 250-question sample from OpenAI SimpleQA measured first-result correctness and end-to-end answer rate over the top 10 results.
Production latency
A 1,200-query latency sample compared p50, p99, worst-case timing, and request errors for synchronous search calls.
Fetch coverage
A 45-URL benchmark across common web pages and major news publishers measured usable content coverage and content-to-noise signal.
TinyFish fetch returns cleaner content than Firecrawl.
Every token your agent fetches lands in your LLM's context window. Junk tokens hit you twice: higher inference costs and degraded output quality because your agent is reasoning over page chrome instead of actual content.
TinyFish delivers 90% content. Firecrawl delivers 62%. That means nearly 40% of every page your agent processes is noise.
News is where it breaks.
Across 15 news articles from five publishers, Firecrawl returns usable content for only 4. The rest are blocked or return pages where less than 30% of the output is actual content.
TinyFish search beats Firecrawl on accuracy and speed.
Many teams use the same provider for search and fetch. If yours does, the quality gap is significant.
TinyFish adds the agent stack Firecrawl lacks.
Firecrawl's Interact endpoint handles basic click-and-fill on a single page. For anything more complex, you need a different tool. TinyFish was built for the workflows that come after reading.
Web Agent
Multi-page navigation, form filling, authentication through login walls, and structured JSON output. 89.9% on Mind2Web.
Stealth Browser
Raw CDP control with engine-level anti-bot protection. Not header spoofing: the kind of stealth that gets past protections Firecrawl's scraper cannot attempt.
Credential Vault
Secure authentication so your agent accesses gated content without exposing passwords.
Search and Fetch are free.
For agent workloads where most calls are search and fetch, TinyFish is dramatically cheaper because those calls are free.
Common questions.
On a 45-URL benchmark judged by Claude Sonnet 4, TinyFish returns 90.5% content vs Firecrawl's 61.7%. TinyFish also reaches 42/45 pages vs Firecrawl's 28/45.
On a 250-question sample from OpenAI's SimpleQA benchmark, TinyFish's first result is correct 49.2% of the time vs Firecrawl's 38.4%. TinyFish is also about 1.6x faster: 556ms vs 869ms at p50.
Firecrawl offers Interact for basic click-and-fill actions on a single page. TinyFish's Web Agent does multi-page navigation, form filling, authentication through login walls, and structured JSON output.
TinyFish Search and Fetch are free. Firecrawl charges credits for search, scrape, and crawl. For agent workloads where most calls are search and fetch, TinyFish is dramatically cheaper.
Usually one of two things: the publisher blocks it outright, or Firecrawl returns the page with the article buried inside navigation menus and ad placeholders. TinyFish renders the page in a real browser and strips the chrome.