Firecrawl vs Instructor

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