> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://firecrawl-claude-docs-safe-mode-page.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Safe Mode

> Keep your organization in Firecrawl's strictest compliance posture. Firecrawl honors each site's rules, never scrapes behind a login, and identifies itself as automated. Enforced server-side.

Safe Mode keeps your organization in Firecrawl's strictest compliance posture. Turn it on when your legal, security, or compliance policy requires a conservative scraping posture on every request. It applies to every API key and every endpoint in your organization.

<Note>
  Safe Mode is an enterprise feature and is gated per organization. Firecrawl turns it on for your organization. Contact your Firecrawl account team or [support@firecrawl.com](mailto:support@firecrawl.com) to have it enabled.
</Note>

## What changes

* **Basic proxies only.** Firecrawl does not use enhanced or mobile proxies.
* **No logins.** Firecrawl never scrapes behind a login and never uses credentials.
* **robots.txt is honored** on every request.
* **Site rules are respected.** Firecrawl does not work around a site's restrictions, and the browser identifies itself as automated.
* **Optional cache-only mode.** Firecrawl serves only cached pages and never contacts the target website.

## Configuring Safe Mode

Team admins turn off individual controls and manage an allowlist of domains in [Enterprise Controls → Safe Mode](https://www.firecrawl.dev/app/enterprise-controls?tab=safe-mode) in the dashboard.

A request that Safe Mode does not allow returns a `403` with the error code `SAFE_MODE_BLOCKED`.