Firecrawl vs Instructor

FeatureFirecrawlInstructor
CategoryData ToolsAI Development
PricingFree (open-source) + CloudFree (open-source)
GitHub Stars20,0009,000
PlatformsLinux, macOS, Docker, WebLinux, macOS, Windows
Features
  • βœ“ Web scraping
  • βœ“ Markdown conversion
  • βœ“ Crawling
  • βœ“ JavaScript rendering
  • βœ“ API
  • βœ“ Structured output
  • βœ“ Pydantic models
  • βœ“ Retry logic
  • βœ“ Streaming
  • βœ“ Multi-provider
Tags
scrapingwebmarkdownopen-source
structured-outputpydanticpythonopen-source