Firecrawl
The context API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥
Our verdict
A well-maintained, widely adopted project. This assessment is derived from GitHub's own repository metrics on 2026-08-24, not from hands-on testing.
Firecrawl bills itself as the context API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥, and it is written in TypeScript. It has 171,814 stars and 171 contributors, and it was pushed to within the last few weeks. It is AGPL licensed, which is the detail to check first if you plan to build something commercial on top of it. The most recent tagged release is v2.11.0, from 2026-06-19. Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-08-26 and refresh daily.
Reviewed by AI Review Rating from GitHub API data How we score
Repository
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Language
- TypeScript
- Last push
- 2026-08-24
Releases
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v2.11.0Firecrawl v2.11.0 -
v2.10Firecrawl v2.10 -
v2.9.0v2.9.0 -
v2.8.0v2.8.0 -
v2.7.0v2.7.0 -
v2.6.0v2.6.0
What it does well
- Markdown-first output built for LLMs
- Self-hostable under AGPL-3.0
- Handles JS-rendered pages
- Structured extraction with schemas
Pros and cons
Pros
Cons
Pricing
| Tier | Monthly | Includes | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 1,000 credits, no card | |
| Hobby | $16 | Side projects | |
| Standard our pick | $83 | Billed yearly | |
| Growth | $333 | High volume | |
| Enterprise | Custom | Contact sales |
Trends
Price points are recorded when a price moves, not on a schedule, so a flat run means the price held. Release cadence comes from GitHub releases. A series appears only once we have watched it for long enough to have more than one observation.
Changelog
On video
What users actually say
- Firecrawl for AI agents: skills vs MCP servers for web … Reddit · 2026
- Build Competitor Alternatives Pages by Scraping Landing Pages with Firecrawl MCP, prompt included. Reddit · N/A
- Lessons from building a grant search engine with Firecrawl, Pinecone, and LLM agents Reddit · N/A
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Side by side
| Tool | Our score | From | Free tier | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firecrawl this page | 7.7 | $16 | Yes | Developers building RAG pipelines and research agents | |
| 🥇CrawlRaven | 8 | - | Yes | ||
| 🥈Crawl4AI | 7.7 | - | - | ||
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| Reworkd | 7.4 | - | Yes | ||
| Lightpanda | 7.3 | - | Yes | ||
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Questions
Can I self-host it?
Yes. The repository is AGPL-3.0 licensed, so self-hosting is supported. Note the AGPL obligations if you build a hosted service on it.
Is there a free tier?
Yes, 1,000 credits with no card required.