Firecrawl (self-hosted) vs Firecrawl Cloud

Side by side, as alternatives to Firecrawl Cloud. Rows that differ are highlighted; the strongest value in a row is marked. Unknown means no source yet.

Also replaces Firecrawl Cloud: + Scrapling + Crawl4AI + Camoufox

Firecrawl (self-hosted)firecrawl/firecrawl

Firecrawl Cloudpaid product

Cost and coverage

Price

$0 software; you run it

Free plan (1,000 credits a month, no card); Hobby $19/month billed monthly or $16/month billed annually; Standard, Growth, Scale and Enterprise tiers above source ↗

Crawl a site to Markdown

Partly

Yes

Scrape pages (JS-heavy and bot-protected)

Partly

Yes

Structured data extraction

Partly

Yes

Web search with page content

Partly

Yes

Jobs covered

4 of 4 jobs

All 4

Popularity and activity (from GitHub)

Stars

193,501

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Gain this week

Unknown

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Signal

Building history

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Commits / 4 wk

209

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Latest release

v2.11.0 · 2026-06-19

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Commits / 12 wk

540

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People committing / 12 mo

53+

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Issues opened / closed, 30 days

32 / 18

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Facts, with sources on each project page

Runs on my machine?

Yes, self-hosted with Docker Compose (API on port 3002)

Hosted by the vendor

Code licence

AGPL-3.0 (copyleft); SDKs and some UI components MIT

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Model weights licence

No separate model weights; LLM features use the provider you connect

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Commercial use

Yes, under AGPL-3.0 copyleft terms (offer source of modified versions run as a network service)

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Paid services needed?

None required for scrape, crawl, map and search; LLM extraction can use Ollama or a paid API

Subscription

Hardware

No minimum host size published; needs Docker capacity for several services

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Operating systems

Self-hosting explicitly requires Docker Engine or Docker Desktop and Compose v2, but does not publish a Windows/macOS/Linux host test matrix or native-build support statement

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Setup effort

Medium, Docker Compose stack of several services; production needs your own auth, TLS and persistence

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Stars over time

Switch to Growth % to compare projects of different sizes fairly.

Firecrawl (self-hosted)

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Tracked daily since 15 Oct 2026. Dashed history: estimated from public records of when people starred the repo. Lines connect observations only; gaps contain no measured points.

Notes for a video or post

A plain summary with today's date and a link to the sources. Check each project page before you publish.

Firecrawl (self-hosted) (as alternatives to Firecrawl Cloud)
Figures from RepoQuarry, 21 Oct 2026. Sources: https://repoquarry.dev/compare?ids=firecrawl&product=firecrawl-cloud

Firecrawl Cloud: Free plan (1,000 credits a month, no card); Hobby $19/month billed monthly or $16/month billed annually; Standard, Growth, Scale and Enterprise tiers above
Firecrawl (self-hosted): free software; does 4 of 4 Firecrawl Cloud jobs

- Firecrawl (self-hosted): 193,501 GitHub stars, 540 commits in 12 weeks, licence AGPL-3.0 (copyleft); SDKs and some UI components MIT

Stars show popularity, not quality. Check each project page before publishing.

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Numbers: GitHub, fetched nightly. Facts: read from each project's own documentation, with the source on its page. How we check. firecrawl/firecrawl ↗

Firecrawl (self-hosted) vs Firecrawl Cloud

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