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How we review

Firecrawl or Ploi?

Price, integrations and Netherlands check side by side.

Firecrawl

for freelancers and SMEs and large companies

Open-source API that scrapes, crawls and searches websites and gives your AI agent the content as Markdown or JSON.

Free plan
1 of 3 NL check
Ploi

for freelancers and SMEs

Server management for web developers, with installation, deployments, SSL and monitoring on your own VPS.

Free plan, paid from €8 /month
2 of 3 NL check

The differences

  • Ploi stores your data in the EU, Firecrawl does not.
  • Ploi is a Dutch company, Firecrawl is not.
  • Only Firecrawl integrates with LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents SDK, n8n, Make, Zapier, Claude Code, Cursor and MCP.
  • Only Ploi integrates with DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr, AWS EC2, UpCloud, Scaleway and Linode.

Side by side

Firecrawl compared with Ploi
FirecrawlPloi
PriceFree planFree plan, paid from €8/month
Data in the EU✕ No✓ Yes
Data processing agreement✓ YesUnknown
Company in the Netherlands✕ No✓ Yes
IntegrationsLangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents SDK, n8n, Make, Zapier, Claude Code, Cursor, MCPDigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr, AWS EC2, UpCloud, Scaleway, Linode
Free trialNone5 days
Stackwijs verdictNo verdict yetNo verdict yet
User reviewsNo reviews yetNo reviews yet
For whomfreelancers, SMEs, large companiesfreelancers, SMEs

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Firecrawl or Ploi: questions

What is the difference between Firecrawl and Ploi?

Ploi stores your data in the EU, Firecrawl does not. Ploi is a Dutch company, Firecrawl is not. Only Firecrawl integrates with LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents SDK, n8n, Make, Zapier, Claude Code, Cursor and MCP. Only Ploi integrates with DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr, AWS EC2, UpCloud, Scaleway and Linode.

Which one do you choose?

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Firecrawl

Open-source API that scrapes, crawls and searches websites and gives your AI agent the content as Markdown or JSON.

Suits developers who want web pages as clean Markdown or JSON in their AI agent or app, with a free start.

Price
Free plan
Try it
Free plan
NL check
1 of 3
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Ploi

Server management for web developers, with installation, deployments, SSL and monitoring on your own VPS.

Suits web developers who want to manage their own VPS without configuring everything themselves, especially for Laravel and PHP sites.

Price
Free plan, paid from €8 /month
Try it
5 days free
NL check
2 of 3

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