⚡ VERIFIABLE PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

Sample Outputs & Live Extraction Benchmarks

Inspect live extraction results across 210+ top global domains or test any custom URL in our free evaluation sandbox. All performance metrics are backed by reproducible test scripts and public datasets in this repository.

342 ms
p50 Static Latency (Verified)
-83.2%
Avg Token Reduction (cl100k)
210+ Sites
Sample Domain Outputs
91.8%
Multi-WAF Stealth Rate (98.4% Turnstile)
🔬 AUDITED BENCHMARK PROTOCOL v2.4 Engine Standard

Transparent Benchmark Methodology & Test Environment

📅 Audit Cycle: Q3/Q4 2026 | Automated 24h Soak Profiling
🎯 Sample Dataset & URL Diversity
210+ curated real-world domains spanning news (TechCrunch, Guardian), heavy JS SPAs (React, Next.js, Vue), e-commerce tables, and documentation portals.
⏱️ Latency & Network Profile
p50 latency (342ms) measures static HTTP to semantic Fit-Markdown extraction across 20 iterations. Headless Chromium rendering p50 is 1.84s under residential stealth IP pool.
📉 Token Reduction Formula
Formula: ((Raw_Tokens - Fit_Tokens) / Raw_Tokens) * 100 calculated using OpenAI cl100k_base tokenizer. Average: 83.2% (range: 62.1% on clean text up to 98.7% on ad-heavy media).
🛡️ WAF & Anti-Bot Breakdown
Cloudflare Turnstile pass rate: 98.4%. Multi-WAF (Akamai, DataDome, PerimeterX) combined: 91.8%. Direct datacenter without proxy: 80.0%.
# Reproduce the benchmark suite locally with Python & PyTest:
python benchmarks/run_benchmarks.py --urls=200 --concurrency=10 --tokenizer=cl100k
📂 View Raw Data (raw_data.json) ↗
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UNRESTRICTED EVALUATION 100% FREE VECTORS NO REGISTRATION 72H DOWNLOAD RETENTION

Welcome to FlyCrawl Benchmark Sandbox: Zero KYC, Free Crawl & Free Vector Embeddings!

⏳ Notice: Extracted markdown files and vector outputs are preserved for download for 72 hours before automatic cleanup.

We believe in transparency. To see the true power of FlyCrawl before creating an account, you can crawl any of the 210+ top global websites below or enter any URL in the sandbox. In addition to clean Fit-Markdown, 3072-dimensional Vector Embeddings are generated 100% FREE so you can inspect the exact vector quality for Pinecone, Qdrant, and your RAG pipelines!

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FlyCrawl vs. Global Scraping Giants: The Honest Data

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⚡ Median Latency (P50)

Average processing time per HTML/JS page (Lower is faster)

🏆 4.5x Faster
FlyCrawl (.NET 10 Async) 342 ms
Jina Reader (Proxy) 680 ms
Crawl4AI (Python) 820 ms
Firecrawl (Node.js/BullMQ) 1,250 ms
Apify (Puppeteer Actors) 1,400 ms
📊 P90 Latency: FlyCrawl 680ms | Firecrawl 3,900ms | Apify 4,600ms

🧠 Token Bloat per 1,000 Words

Tokens ingested by LLM (Lower = Saves 60-90% API billing)

✨ 83.2% Cleaned
FlyCrawl Fit-Markdown 1,180 tokens
Jina Reader Markdown 2,320 tokens
Firecrawl Default Markdown 2,480 tokens
Raw Uncleaned HTML 18,500 tokens
💡 Saves ~$650/month in OpenAI GPT-4o input costs per 100k pages crawled.

🛡️ Anti-Bot & Challenge Resilience

Observed extraction success rate on protected sites with residential proxy & browser emulation

🛡️ ~91% - 93% Realistic Success
FlyCrawl (Smart Residential + Fingerprint) 91.8%
Apify Stealth 89.4%
Firecrawl Enterprise 87.5%
Crawl4AI Local 78.0%
Jina Reader Cloud 72.0%
🔒 Honest Policy: No crawler guarantees 100% bypass against dynamic WAFs. If a page fails or gets blocked, exactly 0 credits are deducted.

💰 Total Cost per 100k Pages

Pay-as-you-go extraction price with residential proxy included

💎 88% Cheaper
FlyCrawl ($0.66 Pro / $0.40 Scale) $40.00 - $66.00
Jina Reader ($0.001/page) $100.00
Firecrawl Standard ($0.0016/page) $160.00
Apify Actors ($0.0025 + compute) $250.00
🪙 Pay easily with USDT (TRC20/TON), TRX or corporate invoices. No credit card block.

🔬 Scientific Benchmark Methodology & Test Protocol (2026)

RFC-Compliant Audit

All benchmark tests were conducted across a standardized sample of 500 diverse public URLs (E-commerce, Single Page Applications, Cloudflare Turnstile protected portals, News websites, and Scientific grant databases). Measurements were executed with warm connection pools from both US-East (Northern Virginia) and EU-Central (Frankfurt) edge clusters. Every single test is reproducible via our public benchmark studio.

🌐 500 Diverse Targets

E-commerce, SPAs, Cloudflare WAF, News, Wikipedia, NIH Grants.

⚡ Warm Pool Concurrency

Measured with 50 parallel concurrent workers on C# .NET 10 Async runtime.

🛡️ Stealth Turnstile Solver

Automated token solving without headless browser footprint.

🎯 100% Reproducible

Test any custom domain right now in our live Sandbox below.

Architectural Metric FlyCrawl flycrawl.net Firecrawl firecrawl.dev Crawl4ai Open-source Jina Reader r.jina.ai Apify Actor Cloud
Median Latency (P50/P90)
Average speed for 100 HTML pages
 ⚡ 342ms / 680ms
Fast Static (Stealth JS: ~1.84s)
 2,100ms / 4,800ms 1,850ms / 3,900ms 890ms / 2,200ms 4,200ms / 9,500ms
Multi-Page Token Bloat
Repetitive boilerplates in multi-page crawls
 0% (Deduplicated) 42% Token Waste 38% Token Waste 29% Token Waste 55% Token Waste
Anti-Bot & WAF Bypass Rate
Cloudflare Turnstile, DataDome, Akamai
 🛡️ 98.4% 88.2% 65.0% 72.1% 84.5%
Zero-LLM Structured Extraction
Schema.org, JSON-LD, Microdata
 ✅ $0 Auto (Built-in) ⚠️ Costs LLM Tokens ⚠️ Python Scripting ❌ Not Supported ⚠️ Requires Actor
Built-in Vector Embeddings
1536/3072-dim vectors for Pinecone/Qdrant
 ✅ Native Included ($0) ❌ External Pipeline ❌ External Pipeline ⚠️ Separate Jina API ❌ External Pipeline
Price per 100,000 Pages
Pay-as-you-go commercial rate
 💎 $66.00 (Pro) / $40.00 (Scale)
💎 Credits NEVER Expire
 $83.00 - $99.00 / mo
Credits expire monthly
 Self-Hosted / Cloud $0.02 / 1M Tokens $49.00 - $499.00 (Compute)
Global & Web3 Billing
Zero KYC, USDT, TON, TRX, Local
 🌐 USDT, TON, TRX & Web3 Cards Stripe Cards Only Self-Managed Stripe Only Credit Card Only

Crawl Volume & LLM Model Parameters

Adjust the slider to your expected workload to view instant financial savings.

Monthly Scraped Pages: 100,000 pages/mo
10K 250K 500K 1M Pages
Target AI / LLM Model:
💡 Why Do You Save So Much?
1) FlyCrawl deduplicates repeating navbars/footers (-42% fewer input tokens sent to OpenAI/Claude). 2) Scraper API base fee is $0.66/1k pages (FlyCrawl Pro $79/120k) vs Firecrawl's $0.99/1k static and $4.95/1k for JS rendering. 3) Zero credits deducted for failed or blocked targets.
💰 TOTAL NET ESTIMATED SAVINGS
$787
Saved every single month with FlyCrawl
Annualized Run-Rate Savings: $9,444
LLM Context Token Savings: $378
Scraper API Bill Savings: $410
Wasted Tokens Eliminated: 151.2M tokens
Firecrawl Total Bill: $1,500 FlyCrawl Bill: $713
🔥 Firecrawl Raw Output
11,450 tokens
✨ FlyCrawl Ultra Fit-Markdown
6,180 tokens (-46%)

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