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Firecrawl

The context API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥

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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.

The context API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥. The project is written primarily in TypeScript, released under AGPL-3.0, and has 171,814 stars and 9,509 forks on GitHub. 171 contributors have committed to it, and the most recent push was 2026-08-24. The latest tagged release is v2.11.0 (2026-06-19). Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-08-24 and are refreshed daily; the score below weighs adoption, maintenance, release discipline, contributor breadth, licence clarity and issue hygiene.

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171.8kStars

9.5kForks

441Watching

171Contributors

553Open issues

Licence: AGPL-3.0
Language: TypeScript
Last push: 2026-08-24

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Releases

v2.11.0 2026-06-19 Firecrawl v2.11.0
v2.10 2026-05-15 Firecrawl v2.10
v2.9.0 2026-04-10 v2.9.0
v2.8.0 2026-02-03 v2.8.0
v2.7.0 2025-12-05 v2.7.0
v2.6.0 2025-11-14 v2.6.0

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

Pricingverified 24 Aug 2026

Tier	Monthly	Includes
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

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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.

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