Project comparison

firecrawl vs Deer Flow

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

Deer Flow

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

Best matched with other agent tools.

77.6K

Stars

+10.7K

Weekly

90/100

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

Deer Flow has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 90/100. 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.

Signal	firecrawl	Deer Flow
Evidence status	Verified snapshot· 2026-10-04 09:19 UTC	Basic listing· 2026-10-04 09:18 UTC
GitHub stars	188.4K	77.6K
Weekly growth	+36.0K	+10.7K
Health score	Strong80/100	Strong90/100
Contributors	161	324
Commits per week	49.8	60.8
Open issues	437	973
Language	TypeScript	Python
License	AGPL-3.0	MIT
Last commit	2026-10-03 18:46 UTC	2026-07-22 13:31 UTC
Last release	v2.11.0	v2.0.0

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