14-source research with AI synthesis. Web scraping with auto JS rendering. Company enrichment from a domain. Structured data from 15 platforms. $0.0007 per page. No subscription. No tiers.
10 free requests. No card required. $0.0007 per page after that — drops at volume.
$ curl "https://api.faircompany.ai/v1/crawl/research" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \
-d '{"query": "open-source perplexity alternatives 2026"}'
{
"answer": "Several open-source projects offer Perplexity-style search...",
"sources": [
{ "url": "https://github.com/...", "title": "Perplexica", "rank": 1 },
{ "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/...", "title": "HN: Show", "rank": 2 }
],
"related_questions": [
"How does RRF ranking work?",
"Which models support citation grounding?"
],
"credits_used": 18
}$ curl "https://api.faircompany.ai/v1/crawl/web/scrape" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \
-d '{"url": "https://stripe.com/pricing", "render": "auto"}'
{
"url": "https://stripe.com/pricing",
"title": "Pricing & Fees | Stripe",
"markdown": "# Stripe Pricing\n\n## Integrated per-transaction...",
"method": "playwright",
"credits_used": 2
}$ curl "https://api.faircompany.ai/v1/crawl/enrich/company?domain=stripe.com" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..."
{
"domain": "stripe.com",
"name": "Stripe",
"founded_year": 2010,
"total_funding": "$8.7B",
"annual_revenue": "$14.4B",
"headcount": 8550,
"tech_stack": ["Ruby", "Go", "React", "AWS"],
"leadership": [{ "name": "Patrick Collison", "title": "CEO" }]
}$ curl "https://api.faircompany.ai/v1/crawl/youtube/channel?handle=mkbhd" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..."
{
"platform": "youtube",
"handle": "mkbhd",
"name": "Marques Brownlee",
"subscribers": 19800000,
"video_count": 1672,
"social_links": { "twitter": "@mkbhd", "instagram": "mkbhd" },
"credits_used": 1
}Most data tools do one thing. FairCrawl gives you research, scraping, enrichment, and platform data behind a single API key, a single credit pool, and a single price.
One query fans out across 14 sources — Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, GitHub, YouTube, Wikipedia, arXiv, StackOverflow, DuckDuckGo, Polymarket, the open web, and more. Reciprocal Rank Fusion ranks the results. Gemini synthesizes a grounded answer with inline citations and related questions.
Built for AI agents, RAG pipelines, and competitive intel. 11x cheaper than the Perplexity API. No $20/mo subscription bolted on top.
Point us at a URL. We try a fast static fetch first. If the page needs JavaScript, we escalate to a real Playwright browser automatically. If it needs a residential proxy, we escalate again. You only pay for the tier you actually used.
Returns clean markdown, structured HTML, and full-page screenshots. Login support via session cookies. No credit-pack accounting, no JS-rendered surcharges hidden in fine print.
Pass a domain. Get back a structured profile: founded year, total funding, annual revenue, headcount, leadership team, tech stack, social links, and contact emails with SMTP verification.
Built for sales, GTM, and lead qualification workflows that don't deserve a $15K/year ZoomInfo contract.
Profiles, posts, comments, search results, and engagement metrics from the platforms your users actually live on. No login farms, no per-platform vendor stack.
Platform coverage varies by endpoint. Reddit, Bluesky, YouTube, and Twitch are full-coverage. TikTok, Instagram, and LinkedIn are partial — see the endpoint matrix for what works on each.
Browse all platforms →Sign up. We give you 10 free requests. No card required.
Research, scrape, enrich, or platform — same auth, same JSON shape.
Minimum $5. Balance never expires. Pay only for what you used.
One bill, itemized per request. Light month? Small bill. No month? $0.
Your agent needs to read the web, search across sources, and pull structured context. FairCrawl is the data primitive — research for retrieval, scrape for tool-use, platform endpoints for grounded answers. One API key in your agent loop.
Pass a domain, get the company profile your CRM is missing — funding, revenue, tech stack, decision-makers. At ~$0.05 per company, you can enrich your entire pipeline for the price of one Clearbit seat-day.
Stop hand-trawling Reddit threads, HN comments, and product communities. One research call fans out across 14 sources, ranks the results, and synthesizes the answer with citations you can audit.
Pull engagement metrics, follower counts, and post data from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and the rest — all under one auth. No login farms, no stitched-together vendor stack.
Cost + 14% margin. That's the whole pricing model. Updated whenever upstream costs change.
We benchmark these monthly. If a competitor improves, we update the table.
| Firecrawl | Perplexity API | Apify | FairCrawl | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web scraping | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| JS rendering | ✓ (same price) | — | included in compute | included, auto-escalated |
| Browser actions (/interact) | ✓ | — | ✓ (custom actor) | ✓ |
| URL discovery (/map) | ✓ | — | — | ✓ (1.7× faster) |
| NL orchestration (/agent) | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Multi-source research + synthesis | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Company enrichment | — | — | actor marketplace | ✓ native |
| Platform scrapers (TikTok, IG, YT…) | — | — | actor marketplace | ✓ 15 native |
| Freshness tracking | — | — | — | ✓ unique |
| Per-page price (entry tier) | $0.0053 | n/a | ~$0.005–0.02 | $0.0007 |
| Per-page price (high volume) | $0.00067 | n/a | varies | $0.0007 |
| Minimum commitment | $16/mo | $20/mo seat | $49/mo | $0 |
| Credits expire | yes (monthly) | n/a | n/a | never |
| Free tier | 500 credits one-time | rate-limited | $5 free trial | 100 scrapes, no card |
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