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Firecrawl

Web scraping and crawling API built specifically for LLM consumption. Turns any URL into clean markdown or structured data, handling JavaScript rendering, pagination, and anti-bot measures automatically. The most popular open source web-to-LLM pipeline with 123K GitHub stars, used by agent frameworks as the default scraping tool. Open-source with a hosted SaaS option.

Web scrape/crawl/search API that returns LLM-ready data (markdown/JSON/structured). Self-hostable OSS + managed cloud (firecrawl.dev). v2.10 released 15 May 2026; verified live on GitHub June 2026. Copyright Sideguide Technologies Inc.

Openness

4 high confidence

4.0

license: AGPL-3.0(OSI, self-host core)
source: public
managed-cloud: firecrawl.dev with 'additional features' beyond OSS = open-core split
core-gated: gated

AGPL-3.0 OSI core is fully open, but the managed cloud carries features beyond the OSS build, making this open-core rather than pure open_source.

https://github.com/mendableai/firecrawl/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-06-04
AGPL-3.0 license text, Sideguide Technologies Inc.
https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing recorded 2026-06-04
6 paid managed-cloud tiers (Free/Hobby/Standard/Growth/Scale/Enterprise)

Adoption

3 low confidence

3.0

No verified download/API-volume or customer count disclosed on repo or pricing page; only ~129k GitHub stars available as an honest signal. Capped at level 3 per stars_fallback rule. Widely integrated as an agent scrape tool (LangChain, etc.) but no primary usage figure found this run.

https://github.com/mendableai/firecrawl recorded 2026-06-04
~129k GitHub stars, v2.10 (15 May 2026)

Capability

4 medium confidence

4.0

Broad scrape/browse feature coverage (the recipe's search/scrape dimensions: coverage, freshness, structured output, rate limits), among the most capable open scrape tools; not a 5 (no benchmark, and frontier reserved for category-definers).

https://github.com/mendableai/firecrawl recorded 2026-06-04
feature list: search/scrape/crawl/map/agent/batch, LLM-ready output formats

Unchanged since 2026-07-30 (last edited, not re-checked)