treg vs Alexandria: the short answer
Both give an agent data from many providers through one key. treg is like OpenRouter for tools: one API key and one balance for many paid APIs. treg is a catalog of commercial data APIs (SEO, enrichment, social, ads, generation), billed per call from a prepaid balance at 0% markup, with your own keys and connected accounts behind the same token. Alexandria, part of Firecrawl, mixes the live web, Firecrawl's own indexes and official providers in one search, with deep public-records coverage, paid in Firecrawl credits from a plan. A team can use both, and Firecrawl's own tools are in the treg catalog too.
Which one fits
Different tools fit different jobs. Here is when each one is the better choice.
Choose Alexandria if
- You need public records: regulators, registries, procurement and government sources.
- You want one query that mixes live web results with structured provider tools.
- Your coding agent needs Firecrawl's index of papers, READMEs, issues and docs.
- You already use Firecrawl, or need SOC 2 Type II and cloud-marketplace billing.
Choose treg if
- You need SEO metrics, backlinks, people and company enrichment, social or ad-library data.
- You want to pay per call from a prepaid balance at the provider's rate, with no monthly plan.
- You want your own provider keys used first, with those calls never metered.
- Your agent works in your own Google Analytics, Search Console, Meta Ads or LinkedIn accounts.
- You want the provider's own response, with every field it returns.
treg vs Alexandria, side by side
Each Alexandria cell restates Firecrawl Alexandria's own public pages on 3 November 2026. "Not published" means those pages say nothing about it, not that the feature does not exist.
| Feature | treg | Alexandria |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | ||
| How you pay | A prepaid team balance. Each catalog call is billed at the provider's own rate. No subscription and no seats. | Firecrawl credits from a monthly plan: free, $19, $99, $399 or $749 a month, or Enterprise. Pay-as-you-go top-ups on paid plans. |
| Free start | $1.00 of credit, once per new verified account. No card. | Free plan: 1,000 credits a month, no card. Alexandria needs an account. |
| Fees | 0% markup, a commitment in the terms. No top-up fee. Calls on your own keys, tools and connected accounts are never metered, except X through treg's own X app, which X bills per use. | Tools run at their listed price in credits. A markup is not published. Credits roll over only on Scale and Enterprise. |
| What your agent can use | ||
| Size, in their words | 4,100+ tools across 126 providers, plus the tools your team registers. | 430 providers and 2,462 capabilities, plus 113M+ indexed sources. |
| Paid data with no account at the vendor | Yes: SEO and SERP data, backlinks, people and company enrichment, social profiles and posts, ad libraries, web search and scraping, image, video and voice generation. | Public records and government (the largest group), company, retail, finance, real estate, health, research, places and more, plus the live web. |
| Your own accounts | Google Analytics, Search Console, Google Ads, Business Profile, Tag Manager, Meta Ads, TikTok Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Pinterest Ads, Snapchat Ads, YouTube, LinkedIn, Slack, X, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook Pages. | Not published |
| Actions (writes) | Writes in your connected accounts (ad changes, Slack messages, social posts) and any API or CLI your team registers. No triggers or scheduled workflows: the agent runs the steps. | Not published. The documented examples are data reads. |
| What a call returns | The provider's own answer, unchanged. Routed tools add a small wrapper and say so. | Structured results through Firecrawl's search and scrape endpoints. |
| How your agent connects | ||
| MCP | A remote MCP server with OAuth or a token header, for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others. | A remote MCP server (OAuth or API key), a local MCP server, and a plugin for ChatGPT and Codex. |
| API, CLI and SDKs | An HTTP API (method, path, query and body reach the provider unchanged), a CLI and an agent skill. No SDKs. | A REST API, JavaScript and Python SDKs, and a CLI. |
| Bring your own keys | Yes, on every account. Your team's key always wins and is never metered. | Not published |
| Open source and self-host | Code on GitHub under Apache 2.0 with added terms. You can self-host for your own team; offering it as a hosted service to others needs permission. | Firecrawl's core is AGPL-3.0 and can be self-hosted. Whether Alexandria works on a self-hosted install is not published. |
| Control | ||
| Price before the call | Yes. Each tool's rate, with its source and the date it was checked. | Yes: free discovery shows each tool's inputs, response shape and price. |
| Spend limits | A team daily spend cap, a per-call cost ceiling, per-member daily call caps and daily budgets per tagged customer (advisory). No per-key hourly or lifetime caps. | A monthly pay-as-you-go limit. Per-key endpoint limits on Enterprise. |
| Call records | An audit log of calls with their cost, and every charge in the balance ledger. | Not published for Alexandria. |
| Team | Teams with owner, admin, member and viewer roles, and tool access per member. | Teams and org admins. SSO and SCIM on Enterprise. |
treg's catalog size is read live from the catalog. Prices change; check each product's own pricing page before you decide.
0% additional fee.
provider rate + $0.000 markup = your priceThe trade-off
What each one does better
Where Alexandria does best
- 01
Public records. Hundreds of official regulators, registries and government sources, plus free Research and Government indexes.
- 02
Web and tools in one query. A search can return web pages and provider tools together, and falls back to search and scraping when no provider fits.
- 03
Its own indexes. 113M+ indexed papers, READMEs, issues and docs, useful for coding agents.
- 04
Licensed sources. Providers are paid under agreement, with terms an admin accepts for the whole organization.
- 05
A mature platform. SOC 2 Type II, SDKs, a CLI, local and remote MCP, and a ChatGPT and Codex plugin.
Where treg is the better choice
- 01
Pay per call, with no plan. treg bills each call from a prepaid balance at the provider's rate, with 0% markup in its terms and no top-up fee. Alexandria uses Firecrawl credits from a monthly plan.
- 02
Commercial GTM and SEO data. Keyword volume, backlinks, SERPs, work emails and phones, social profiles and ad libraries, from many vendors.
- 03
Your keys and accounts. Your own provider keys always win and are never metered, and your connected Google Analytics, Search Console, Meta Ads, LinkedIn and Slack accounts sit behind the same token, also never metered.
- 04
The provider's own answer. treg relays the provider's response unchanged, so every field it returns reaches your agent.
- 05
Spend controls for the team. A team daily spend cap, a per-call cost ceiling and per-member daily call caps, with each tool's rate, source and checked date shown before the call.
Not either-or
Using Alexandria and treg together
Firecrawl's scrape, crawl and search tools are in the treg catalog too, billed per call on treg's Firecrawl account. A team can use Alexandria for public records and research, and treg for SEO, enrichment, social and ads.
Firecrawl is in the treg catalog too: see every Firecrawl tool on treg, with its price.
Give your agent
every tool in the catalog.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a Firecrawl Alexandria alternative for AI agents?
It depends on the data. treg is a Firecrawl Alexandria alternative for commercial data: SEO and SERP data, backlinks, people and company enrichment, social profiles and ad libraries. Firecrawl Alexandria has deep public-records coverage, so a team can use Firecrawl Alexandria and treg side by side.
How much does Firecrawl Alexandria cost?
Firecrawl Alexandria pricing depends on the Firecrawl plan: tools run at their listed price in Firecrawl credits. The free plan gives 1,000 credits a month with no card, and paid plans cost $19, $99, $399 or $749 a month. Credits roll over only on Scale and Enterprise.
Can I self-host Firecrawl Alexandria?
It depends on the part. Firecrawl's core is AGPL-3.0 and can be self-hosted, but Firecrawl does not publish whether Firecrawl Alexandria runs on a self-hosted install. treg's code is on GitHub under Apache 2.0 with added terms, and you can self-host treg for your own team.
Firecrawl Alexandria vs treg: what is the difference?
The main difference is the answer. Firecrawl Alexandria returns structured results through Firecrawl's search and scrape endpoints, mixing the live web, Firecrawl's own indexes and official providers in one query. treg relays each provider's own answer unchanged, so every field the provider returns reaches the agent.
Can I use Firecrawl Alexandria and treg together?
Yes. Firecrawl's scrape, crawl and search tools are in the treg catalog too, billed per call on treg's Firecrawl account. A team can use Firecrawl Alexandria for public records and research, and treg for SEO, enrichment, social and ads.
How does treg pricing work compared with Firecrawl Alexandria?
treg has no plan: a prepaid team balance pays each call at the provider's rate, with 0% markup in its terms and no top-up fee. treg gives $1.00 of credit once per new verified account, with no card. Firecrawl Alexandria uses Firecrawl credits from a monthly plan.
Can I use my own API keys with treg?
Yes. treg accepts your team's keys on every account: your own key for a provider always wins over treg's, and those calls are never metered. Firecrawl does not publish whether Firecrawl Alexandria takes your own provider keys.
Sources and method
- Alexandriahttps://firecrawl.dev/alexandria
- Alexandria docshttps://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/alexandria
- Firecrawl pricinghttps://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing
- Alexandria in ChatGPT and Codexhttps://www.firecrawl.dev/blog/alexandria-chatgpt-codex
- Firecrawl on GitHubhttps://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl
We read these pages on 3 November 2026. treg's own facts come from its pricing, terms and code. We left out what we could not check, and we do not guess why a product works the way it does.
Something wrong or out of date? Write to jason@treg.to and we will fix it.
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