- Starting price
- $5per 1,000 prepaid
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Website
- firehose.com
About Firehose
Firehose is a real-time web data streaming API that lets you define rules and receive instant SSE updates when matching pages are crawled. It serves product, marketing, and security teams who monitor news, brands, and competitors, helping them surface relevant signals as they occur.
Key Features
Firehose delivers real-time signals through server-sent events, letting you set up rules and stream only what’s relevant. It’s built for teams that need precise, immediate visibility into online activity:
Real-time Streaming
Server-sent events deliver data the moment it happens. No polling required.
Powerful Filtering
Create rules using Lucene syntax with Boolean operators and wildcards; you can filter by title, domain, language, and more.
Simple API
RESTful endpoints for managing rules; SSE for streaming; straightforward integration into existing tooling.
Let AI set it up for you
Create a key, install the Firehose skill in your AI assistant, and share your key to set up taps, rules, and streaming from a single prompt.
Summary
Best for product marketing, brand monitoring, and competitive intelligence teams needing real-time alerts.
Pricing
View pricingPlans and prices as listed on firehose.com as of Sep 22, 2026.
Free
$0 / forever
- 1 monitor(tap)
- Unlimited rules per monitor
- 200 matches/ mo
- Save matches
- 5 watched pages
- 3 hours fastest check
- 1,000 checks/ mo
API-only tier: pay-as-you-go
$5 per 1,000 / prepaid
- Taps are unlimited
- Manage taps and rules over the API
- Stream matches in real time
Starter
$39 / month
- 5 monitors(taps)
- Unlimited rules per monitor
- 2,000 matches/ mo
- Save matches
- 50 watched pages
- 10 min fastest check
- 25,000 checks/ mo
Advanced
$89 / month
- 25 monitors(taps)
- Unlimited rules per monitor
- 10,000 matches/ mo
- Save matches
- 250 watched pages
- 5 min fastest check
- 75,000 checks/ mo
Business
$299 / month
- 100 monitors(taps)
- Unlimited rules per monitor
- 40,000 matches/ mo
- Save matches
- 1,000 watched pages
- 5 min fastest check
- 200,000 checks/ mo
