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.