Firecrawl vs Reworkd
A side-by-side comparison of capabilities, autonomy, integrations, and pricing to help you choose.
Short answer: choose Firecrawl if you want web data api that turns sites into llm-ready data for ai agents (Supervised agent, freemium); choose Reworkd if you want ai web-scraping platform that generated self-healing scrapers (sunset 2025) (Supervised agent, subscription).
| Firecrawl | Reworkd | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Web data API that turns sites into LLM-ready data for AI agents | AI web-scraping platform that generated self-healing scrapers (sunset 2025) |
| Type | platform | platform |
| Autonomy | Supervised agent | Supervised agent |
| Pricing | freemium | subscription |
| Best for | developers, smb, enterprise | developers, smb, mid-market |
| Deployment | api, saas, self-hosted | saas |
| Modalities | api, text, browser | api, text, browser, code |
| Models | model-agnostic | gpt |
| Protocols | rest-api, mcp, function-calling | rest-api, function-calling |
| Integrations | LangChain, LlamaIndex, Zapier, Make, n8n, Dify | Playwright, Confluent / Apache Kafka |
| Capabilities | 4 documented | 4 documented |
Firecrawl
- +Single API that reliably handles JavaScript, crawling, proxies, and anti-bot so agents get clean web data
- +Open-source core with self-host option and broad framework, SDK, and MCP integrations
- +Prompt-driven /agent and /extract endpoints reduce per-site scraper maintenance
- -It is infrastructure, not a turnkey agent; you still build the application around it
- -Usage-based credits can add up at high crawl volumes
Reworkd
- +Code-generation approach avoided LLM hallucination by producing real, reviewable Playwright scrapers
- +Self-healing reduced the maintenance burden of brittle, per-site scrapers
- +Open-source AgentGPT brought a large developer community and remains usable
- -The commercial product was sunset on February 6, 2025; reworkd.ai is effectively inactive
- -Configurations were not portable, so migrating to another tool meant rebuilding extractors
Which should you choose?
Firecrawl is web data api that turns sites into llm-ready data for ai agents, best for developers, smb, enterprise. Reworkd is ai web-scraping platform that generated self-healing scrapers (sunset 2025), best for developers, smb, mid-market. The right choice depends on the autonomy level you want, your existing integrations, and your budget, all compared above.
This comparison is generated from the sourced Firecrawl and Reworkd profiles. Open either profile to review its evidence and last-reviewed date.