Firecrawl
The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥
Firecrawl scores 7.9/10 (Strong) in Crawl & Search.
Language TypeScript License AGPL-3.0 Stars 144k★ Type service Self-host Yes Repo firecrawl/firecrawl Homepage https://firecrawl.dev
Quality
Strong 7.9
Adoption 79
Activity 87
Maturity 92
Community 73
Capability 16
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Overall 7.9/10
value = 7.9/10
score = value
Adoption 8.1/10
value = 78.9/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Activity 8.8/10
value = 86.6/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Maturity 9.3/10
value = 91.9/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Community 7.6/10
value = 73.4/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Capability 2.4/10
value = 16/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Key metrics
143.7k★ GitHub stars
669/90d Recent commits
11 devs/90d Recent contributors
16 pages/s Crawl throughput (corpus avg, third-party-of-rival benchmark) spider.cloud benchmark (run by competitor Spider) over 1,000 URLs: Firecrawl 16 pages/s corpus average, 95.3% success rate, recall@5 89.0%. Competitor-run benchmark - flagged. Source: https://spider.cloud/blog/firecrawl-vs-crawl4ai-vs-spider-honest-benchmark
2.2y Project age
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Labels
- Copyleft
AGPL-3.0
GPL/AGPL-class license — derivative or networked use may require you to open-source your own code.
- Self-hosted
Self-hosted
You deploy and operate it yourself; there is no hosted option here.
- Managed option
Managed option
Available as a hosted/managed service in addition to self-hosting.
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