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Firecrawl Costs Too Much for Hobby RAG — Here's a $9 Alternative That Uses Your Real Browser
Firecrawl Extract is excellent — and at $188/mo for any real ingestion volume, it's also the wrong tool for solo RAG builders. The alternative is to flip the architecture: instead of paying a server to dodge anti-bot, use the browser you already have. Web2MD does extraction inside Chrome with your existing session, and it costs $9 flat.
2026-05-076 min read