What Firecrawl Alexandria does better
One Firecrawl key reaches SEC data and other data sources together, so an AI agent can pull a filing and something beside it in one place. Its SEC tool carries the text of filing sections such as Risk Factors and MD&A, and it answers for any company on EDGAR by its CIK.
Why XBRL facts as filed are not finished statements
But a figure as filed carries each company's own label. Alexandria's own listing for Fiscal.ai sets out the difference in two lines: the as-reported income statement gives line items exactly as the company disclosed them, under its own labels, while the standardized one maps them onto a common schema so the figures line up across companies.
So on Alexandria, standardized statements come from Fiscal.ai beside SEC EDGAR, and a standardized income statement there is listed at 15 credits a call, three times the price of an SEC call. Comparing ten companies on revenue, margins and cash flow means a statement call for each company before the comparison can start.
What SN Data returns instead
SN Data does the lining up before you ask. Every covered company's income statement, balance sheet and cash flow comes in the same named lines, by year from fiscal 2007 and by quarter from 2008, with the as-reported lines beside them and each period linked to the 10-K or 10-Q it came from. The 145 ratios are worked out the same way for every company, so a margin at one company means the same thing at the next.
The filings around the numbers are cleaned the same way. Form 4 trades are sorted into open-market purchases, sales, sales under a Rule 10b5-1 plan and pay taken in stock; each Form 144 notice is matched to the Form 4 sale that followed it; 13F holdings show what each fund opened, added, trimmed and sold. House trades and FINRA short interest sit in the same record.
A free key reads the last 5 fiscal years of all of it. The full record, back to fiscal 2007, comes with a plan.
What each costs per 1,000 calls
Alexandria charges by the call. At 5 credits, Hobby's 5,000 credits buy about 1,000 SEC calls a month for $19, Standard's 100,000 credits about 20,000 calls for $99, and Scale's 1,000,000 credits about 200,000 calls for $749, all billed monthly. Those credits are shared with every other Firecrawl tool, so a page scraped or a search run draws on the same balance.
SN Data charges a flat monthly price. Individual is $19 a month with no per-call charge, at up to 300 calls a minute, for your own research; Professional, at $49 a month, covers use at work and 1,000 calls a minute. A free account's key answers 250 calls a day, and a repeat call that finds nothing changed, sent with its ETag, does not count against the day.
Using both in one AI assistant
Both speak MCP, the standard way an AI assistant connects to a data source, so one assistant can hold both at once: Alexandria for filing text and its other sources, and SN Data for the statements, ratios and insider records that need to line up company against company. Our setup guide is on the AI connector page.
So the choice depends on what your sheet or your agent needs to receive. Alexandria brings back the filing as the company sent it, and SN Data brings back the numbers from that filing already lined up against every other company, back to fiscal 2007.