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.
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