Open Source vs Cloud

Understand the differences between Firecrawl’s open-source and cloud offerings

Firecrawl is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license. To deliver the best possible product, we also offer a hosted cloud version at firecrawl.dev with additional features and managed infrastructure.

Feature comparison

The open-source version includes the core scraping and crawling engine. Firecrawl Cloud adds infrastructure-level capabilities, a management dashboard, and enterprise features on top of everything in the open-source edition.

Feature	Open Source	Cloud
Scrape	✔	✔
Crawl	✔	✔
Map	✔	✔
Search	✔	✔
Batch scrape	✔	✔
Extract	✔	✔
JSON mode	✔	✔
LLM-ready formats	✔	✔
Change tracking	✔	✔
SDKs	✔	✔
Agent	✘	✔
Browser sandbox	✘	✔
Actions	✘	✔
Enhanced proxies	✘	✔
Proxy rotations	✘	✔
Dashboard	✘	✔
Enterprise features	✘	✔

Why both?

The cloud solution allows us to continuously innovate and maintain a high-quality, sustainable service for all users. Revenue from Firecrawl Cloud funds ongoing development of the open-source project.

• Open source — Run Firecrawl on your own infrastructure with full control over the core scraping engine. See Running locally and Self-hosting.
• Cloud — Get started immediately with a managed service that includes enhanced proxies, a usage dashboard, and enterprise features. Sign up at firecrawl.dev.