How zlurp compares to Firecrawl, Diffbot, and ScrapingBee for AI agent web scraping.
| Feature | zlurp | Firecrawl | Diffbot | ScrapingBee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No account required | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| No API key needed | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| x402 micropayments | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Agent can start at 3am | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Pay per request (no minimum) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Markdown output | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Article extraction mode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| JS rendering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| robots.txt compliant | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| OpenAPI spec | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| llms.txt | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Price per URL | $0.005 | ~$0.003–0.01 | ~$0.01–0.05 | ~$0.002–0.01 |
Every other scraping tool requires a human to create an account, enter a credit card, and generate an API key. An AI agent can't do any of that autonomously. zlurp uses x402 — any agent with a funded Base wallet can call it immediately at 3am without any human intervention.