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Firecrawl

★ 30k

Turns any website into clean LLM-ready markdown with crawling, scraping, and extraction APIs.

Firecrawl does the job of Apify, self-hosted. It is AGPL-licensed, so a hosted fork has to publish its changes, and setting it up is an afternoon, not a weekend. Apify bills $49 for it. 30k stars on GitHub.

Open-source replacement for Apify.

Licence
AGPL-3.0
Self-hosting
Medium
The paid one costs
$49
GitHub stars
30k
view the code →official site →

Is it actually a replacement?

We have written a verdict on what it replaces — what you lose, and why people still pay:

How Firecrawl runs

Where it runs

Firecrawl runs on your server.

What setup takes

not verified by us yet — check the repo README.

Firecrawl questions

Is Firecrawl open source?

Yes — it is released under AGPL-3.0.

Can Firecrawl replace Apify?

Our verdict on Apify is YES. n8n (130k stars), Agent Reach (73k stars), Firecrawl (30k stars) are mature open-source replacements for Apify — self-host in one command and stop paying $29/mo.

Can I self-host Firecrawl?

Yes — we rate it medium to self-host, and it runs on your server.

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