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firecrawl vs crawl4ai

Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.

firecrawl

Supercharge your AI agents with data from the web and beyond. Building the library for superintelligence. 🔥

Best matched with other agent tools.

188.4K
Stars
+36.0K
Weekly
80/100
Health
crawl4ai

Open-source web crawler and scraper for LLMs and AI agents: any website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown. Run it yourself, or use Crawl4AI Cloud with one key.

Best matched with other agent tools.

84.7K
Stars
0
Weekly
66/100
Health

Quick Take

Adoption

firecrawl has the larger GitHub footprint with 188.4K stars.

Momentum

firecrawl is currently growing faster at +36.0K stars this week.

Maintenance

firecrawl has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 80/100. This is not a security or fit verdict.

Side-by-side evidence

Use these signals to narrow your choice, then confirm setup, license, and fit upstream.

Signalfirecrawlcrawl4ai
Evidence statusVerified snapshot· 2026-10-04 09:19 UTCVerified snapshot· 2026-10-04 09:19 UTC
GitHub stars188.4K84.7K
Weekly growth+36.0K0
Health scoreStrong80/100Healthy66/100
Contributors16195
Commits per week49.810.6
Open issues437226
LanguageTypeScriptPython
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Last commit2026-10-03 18:46 UTC2026-09-25 06:37 UTC
Last releasev2.11.0v0.9.4

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