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Deploy Firecrawl hosting and run the scrape and crawl API on your own server. xCloud brings up the pinned Firecrawl 2.11.1 image with its headless Chromium service, a private Postgres queue database, Redis and RabbitMQ, generates the API key, mounts persistent volumes and publishes one HTTPS endpoint that rejects every request without the key — ready for your RAG and agent pipelines in minutes.

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  • No technical skills needed
  • No lock-in, cancel anytime

What is Firecrawl?

Firecrawl is an open-source API that scrapes and crawls websites and returns clean Markdown or structured data for LLM pipelines. Give it a URL and it returns the page as Markdown, HTML, links or a screenshot; give it a site and a page limit and it crawls it for you.

This template runs the self-hosted API with a headless-browser service and its queue databases behind one HTTPS endpoint protected by an API key. Upstream also offers Firecrawl as a hosted service; features such as Fire-engine anti-bot scraping and account credits are not part of the self-hosted image.

From Sign-Up to a Live Scraping API In Just 3 Easy Steps

A self-hosted Firecrawl normally means an API container, a browser service, a queue database, Redis, RabbitMQ, something to check API keys, a domain and a certificate before the first scrape. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

  1. Step 01

    Sign Up

    Create your xCloud account and pick Firecrawl from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in.

  2. Step 02

    We Deploy It For You

    One click. We bring up the Firecrawl 2.11.1 API with its Playwright browser service, a private Postgres queue database, Redis and RabbitMQ, none of them published to the internet. A Caddy gateway checks the API key, the firecrawl_postgres and firecrawl_redis volumes are mounted, the credentials are generated, and everything is published over HTTPS on your domain.

  3. Step 03

    Save The Key And Scrape

    Copy the API key from the installation credentials, allow 2 to 4 minutes for the first start, then check /v0/health/liveness. Send POST /v2/scrape with the header Authorization: Bearer followed by your key and a JSON body such as {"url": "https://example.com"}.

Everything Firecrawl Does, On Your Own Server

The Firecrawl API runs here behind a key check, with the browser and queue services it needs already wired up.

  • Scrape A URL To Markdown

    POST /v2/scrape turns a page into clean Markdown, HTML, links or a screenshot, ready to hand to an LLM.

  • Crawl A Whole Site

    POST /v2/crawl with a page limit starts a crawl job, and GET /v2/crawl/<id> reads the results back by crawl id.

  • JavaScript Pages Rendered

    A bundled headless Chromium service renders JavaScript-heavy pages before they are converted.

  • Every Request Needs The Key

    Firecrawl has no user system, so a gateway answers 401 to any request without Authorization: Bearer and your generated API key. Your endpoint is not an open scraping proxy.

  • Queue Board Behind A Secret Path

    A Bull queue dashboard sits under a secret /admin path whose key is generated at install, so you can watch and clean jobs.

  • Jobs Survive A Restart

    Crawl jobs and results live in the firecrawl_postgres volume; in QA a finished crawl was still readable after all containers were restarted.

Everything You Need To Run Your Scraping API 24/7

Managed hosting for Firecrawl, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

  • Firecrawl 2.11.1 deployed instantly
  • Official image pinned by digest
  • API key and passwords generated for you
  • Kept behind xCloud nginx
  • Free SSL certificate
  • Server backups and snapshots
  • Server security updates included
  • 30+ server locations
  • Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Firecrawl

  • Feed RAG pipelines

    Turn documentation sites and web pages into clean Markdown for your retrieval index, without paying per-page cloud credits.

  • Give agents a web tool

    Point your agent or the official SDKs at your own domain so page fetching runs on a server you control.

  • Crawl a site into a dataset

    Start a crawl with a page limit, then read every page back by crawl id when it completes.

  • Read JavaScript-heavy pages

    Render pages that only exist after scripts run through the bundled headless Chromium service.

Firecrawl vs Alternatives

Firecrawl cloud
Upstream's hosted service for the same API. Self-hosting trades its account credits and Fire-engine for a server you own; those two are not in the self-hosted image.
Crawl4AI
Another open-source crawler that turns pages into Markdown for LLMs, with a REST API. xCloud has a OneClick template for it too.
Browserless
Headless Chromium as a service you drive with Puppeteer or Playwright, rather than a Markdown-returning scrape and crawl API.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Firecrawl hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 16 GB

Most popular

The entry rung for Firecrawl, with headroom above its 4 GB baseline.

$59.99per month

  • 16 GB RAM
  • 6 vCPU cores
  • 200 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
  • Unlimited
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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Firecrawl itself is licensed by its maintainers under AGPL-3.0.

Docker hosting

Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Firecrawl on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

Free

Start your journey without cost.

$0forever

  • 1 server
  • 10 sites
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Starter

Most popular

Your rate with 2–5 servers connected.

$5per server / month

  • 2–5 servers
  • Unlimited sites
  • All features included
  • Bring any VPS provider
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Professional

The same platform, discounted at 6–10 servers.

$4per server / month

  • 6–10 servers
  • Unlimited sites
  • All features included
  • Bring any VPS provider
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Agency

The same platform, discounted at 11+ servers.

$3per server / month

  • 11+ servers
  • Unlimited sites
  • All features included
  • Bring any VPS provider
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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

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Firecrawl on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How do I sign in?

There is no login page. Firecrawl has no user system, so you send the generated API key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header. The key is shown in the protected installation credentials.

What happens to requests without the API key?

A Caddy gateway in front of the API answers 401 to any request without Authorization: Bearer and the API key. Health checks and the secret-path queue board do not need the header.

What runs alongside the Firecrawl API?

A Playwright headless Chromium service, a Postgres queue database, Redis, RabbitMQ and the key-checking gateway. Only the HTTPS endpoint is reachable; the API, browser, database, Redis and RabbitMQ services have no published ports.

Do the official SDKs work?

Yes. Point the SDK's API URL at your domain and pass the generated key as the API key.

Why does the API take a few minutes to answer after install?

The first start initialises the database and boots about a dozen worker processes and a headless browser. Allow 2 to 4 minutes, then open /v0/health/liveness on your domain.

Does AI extraction work out of the box?

No. JSON format and /extract need your own OpenAI-compatible or Ollama endpoint added in the Environment editor.

Does /search work?

It scrapes Google unless you point it at a SearXNG instance with the SEARXNG_ENDPOINT setting. Google scraping may be rate-limited or blocked.

What is missing compared with Firecrawl's hosted service?

Fire-engine anti-bot scraping, account credits and the Supabase-backed features are not part of the self-hosted image.

How do I keep the API key safe or rotate it?

Keep it private: whoever holds it can scrape and crawl through your server and spend any LLM key you add later. To rotate it, change GATEWAY_API_KEY in the Environment editor, Save & Redeploy, then update your clients.

What should I back up?

The firecrawl_postgres volume (queue database: jobs and crawl results) and the firecrawl_redis volume (rate-limit and crawl state), together. Keep the generated credentials private.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Data on the two named volumes. In QA, after all containers were restarted, a finished crawl was still returned with all of its pages and new scrapes worked.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Firecrawl?

No. The template pins Firecrawl 2.11.1 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the readable tag and digest together on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 16 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 2 CPU cores, 4096 MB of RAM and 10 GB of disk; measured use in QA was about 2.7 GiB idle and 2.9 GiB after a scrape and a crawl. This page sells the 16 GB tier because a 4 GB baseline leaves little headroom on a 6 GB server, and large concurrent crawls benefit from more memory.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Firecrawl?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Firecrawl project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Firecrawl project, which is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.

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