Firecrawl

Partial info

Turn websites into clean markdown for LLMs.

Firecrawl crawls and scrapes websites, rendering JavaScript and returning clean markdown or structured data ready for RAG. It offers an open-source core and a managed API with crawling at scale.

License

Open source (AGPL-3.0 (core); SDKs MIT)

Deployment

Self-hosted, Managed

Pricing

Open-source self-host; managed API has free and usage-based tiers.

SDKs / languages

Python, Node.js, Any (API)

Founded

2024

Strengths

Websites to clean markdown
Handles JS-rendered pages
Open-source + managed API

Limitations

Focused on web sources
AGPL license for the core

Alternatives

Docling

Open-source document parsing library for RAG.

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Data framework for RAG and agents over your data.

LlamaParse

High-fidelity parsing of complex PDFs for RAG.

Reducto

High-accuracy document parsing and extraction API.

Unstructured

Turn messy documents into clean, structured data for RAG.

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Facts verified 19 July 2026. Neutral summary, not an endorsement; verify current details with the vendor.