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Partner API

Bring Firecrawl to your users

Create Firecrawl accounts for your users from your own backend. Set up the Partner API or Gateway in the dashboard and get your key in minutes.

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Two setups
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One API, two ways to run it

Both setups provision accounts the same way. They differ in who pays for what your users do.

Partner API

Provision Firecrawl accounts for your users. Each account keeps its own Firecrawl plan and billing.

  • Your backend calls the Partner API and Firecrawl creates an account and API key for the user.
  • Each user starts on Firecrawl's Free plan and upgrades with Firecrawl directly, never through you.
  • You are never in the billing relationship.

Best for products that let users connect their own Firecrawl.

Gateway

Provision Firecrawl accounts for your users and fund their eligible usage from your organization's billing.

  • Accounts your integration creates are enrolled in Gateway, so their eligible usage bills to your organization.
  • A user's own credits are used first. Anything beyond that is billed to you.
  • You keep one funding relationship with Firecrawl instead of asking each user to pay.

Best for products where Firecrawl is a built-in capability you pay for.

You choose the setup when you create the integration and accept the agreement for that setup. This choice is not easy to change afterwards, so please review both options carefully before proceeding.

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Get started
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From sign-in to live integration

No application and no waiting. Any admin or member of an organization on Firecrawl can set this up.

How it works

  1. 1

    Sign in to the Firecrawl dashboard, or create an account, and open the Partner API page. If you are signed out, sign-in brings you straight back to it.

  2. 2

    Name your integration and choose Partner API or Gateway.

  3. 3

    Read and accept the agreement for that setup. Firecrawl records the exact text you accepted, together with the Data Processing Addendum it incorporates, and Settings shows when you accepted them.

  4. 4

    Copy your partner key. It is shown once, so store it in your backend's secrets.

  5. 5

    In your product, show each user Firecrawl's Terms of Service and acceptable use policy and get their acceptance. Then call the Partner API from your server to create their account and API key.

What you get

  • A partner key your backend uses to provision accounts, with more keys you can mint and rotate from Settings.
  • Accounts for your users. With the Partner API they behave like any other Firecrawl account; with Gateway they are API-only, with no dashboard login of their own.
  • A record in Settings of the agreement your organization accepted.
  • The same integration whether you run the Partner API or Gateway.
Ready to set it up?Sign in and you land on the Partner API page.
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FAQ
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Questions & answers

Everything you need to know about the Partner API and Gateway.
Setting up
Your users
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