Predictable Credit Pricing. Zero 2x Penalties.
Tavily bills advanced search at 2 credits and Firecrawl bills 2 credits per 10 search results (public list prices, verified 2026-10-14). Ristria includes BM25 passage extraction and hybrid ranking for 1 flat credit.
Free Sandbox
2.5x the free allowance of Tavily (1,000) and Firecrawl (1,000). No card required.
- All 12 MCP tools & REST endpoints
- 1 credit = 1 search with BM25 highlights
- Native PDF & /llms.txt extraction
Starter
5x more credits and 10x more searches than Firecrawl Hobby at the exact same $19 price.
- 25,000 monthly credits included
- Shared L1/L2 SerpCache (<5ms hits)
- Hybrid ranking + token budget packing
- Auto top-up at $1.00 / 1,000 extra credits
Team
MOST POPULARSame 100,000 credits as Firecrawl Standard ($99/mo) at half the price, and 14x cheaper than Exa.
- 100,000 monthly credits included
- Multi-provider web & news fast-path
- Headless rendering for JS SPAs
- Auto top-up at $0.65 / 1,000 extra credits
Scale
Built for high-concurrency agent fleets and production RAG pipelines.
- 400,000 monthly credits included
- 100 req/sec burst concurrency
- Dedicated capacity & priority SLA
- Auto top-up at $0.45 / 1,000 extra credits
Compare Real Monthly Spend Against Tavily, Exa & Firecrawl
Estimates use each vendor's public list prices, verified on 2026-10-14. Actual bills depend on plan, discounts and usage; check the vendors' pricing pages for current rates.
| PROVIDER | PLAN / RATE | CREDITS BILLED | MONTHLY TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ristria | Team Plan | 31,500 | $49.00 |
| Tavily | $0.008/cr PAYG (2x advanced) | 53,000 | $424.00 |
| Exa AI | $7/1k search + $12/1k deep | Usage-based | $186.00 |
| Firecrawl | Standard Plan (2 cr/search) | 58,000 | $99.00 |
How Credits Work Across Endpoints
Competitor columns reflect public pricing documentation as of 2026-10-14.
| ENDPOINT / MCP TOOL | MODE / SETTING | RISTRIA COST | TAVILY | FIRECRAWL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| POST /v1/search (or growth_search_cascade) | basic OR advanced with BM25 highlights | 1 credit | 1–2 credits (2x on advanced) | 2 credits per 10 results |
| POST /v1/extract (HTML, /llms.txt, PDF) | Single URL, including serverless PDF | 1 credit | 1–2 credits per 5 URLs | 1 credit per page |
| POST /v1/map (or growth_map) | /robots.txt + <sitemapindex> + link discovery | 1 credit (up to 50 URLs) | 1–2 credits per 10 URLs | 1 credit |
| POST /v1/similar (or growth_find_similar) | Seed profile + entity overlap + embeddings | 1 credit | Not supported | Not supported |
| growth_research (2-Hop Adaptive) | mini (3 queries) / pro (5 queries + 4 extracts) | 3 credits (mini) / 5 credits (pro) | 4 to 250 credits per call | Dynamic agent pricing |