Firecrawl vs LiteLLM
Firecrawl (Firecrawl) and LiteLLM (BerriAI) side by side on public data, as of Oct 9, 2026.
LiteLLM has 8.5x the weekly package downloads of Firecrawl (23.1M against 2.7M). Firecrawl has 3.1x the GitHub stars of LiteLLM (190K against 60.4K).
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Firecrawl | LiteLLM |
|---|---|---|
| Gid Score | 63 | 73 |
| Overall rank | #14 | #8 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 2.7M | 23.1M |
| Downloads, 7-day change | down 3.5% | up 1.8% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | down 5.6% | — |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 190K | 60.4K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 12 | 37 |
| Latest stable release | 2.11.0 · 3mo ago | 1.104.2 · yesterday |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 0 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free + $16/mo | Free (OSS) |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT (enterprise features under a separate licence) |
| First released | — | — |
| Interfaces | REST API, Python SDK, TypeScript SDK, MCP server | Python library, Proxy server, REST API |
| Models |
Trends
Firecrawl
Turns websites into clean Markdown or structured data for AI agents: scrape, crawl, map and search the web through one API.
Pricing: Free plan with 1,000 credits a month. Hobby is $16 a month (5,000 credits) and Standard $83 a month (100,000 credits), billed yearly. Self-hosting the open-source version is free.
Latest release 2.11.0:
- Firecrawl Research Index — Added a specialized index for agentic AI/ML research: search across 3M+ arXiv papers and the GitHub code behind them (issues, merged PRs, and READMEs, refreshed daily),…
- Keyless access for core endpoints — Use /scrape, /search, /interact, and /parse without an API key from official MCP, CLI, and SDK clients.
- Automatic PII redaction — Added a redactPII option that strips personal and sensitive data like names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, and secrets out of scraped content before it's returned.
- deterministicJson format — Added a format that returns structured JSON without running an LLM on every request. Firecrawl generates a reusable extractor for your schema and caches it per site, so…
LiteLLM
An AI gateway and Python SDK that calls 100+ model APIs through one OpenAI-style interface, with spend tracking, budgets, rate limits, fallbacks, guardrails and logging.
Pricing: The SDK and proxy are open source and free. An enterprise edition with SSO, audit logs and support is sold separately.
Latest release 1.104.2:
- The cosign claims were validated
- The signatures were verified against the specified public key
- feat(decisions): backport /v1/systemone, OpenAI-format /v1/decisions and the OpenAI Decisions provider to stable/1.104.x for v1.104.2 (#44236, #45184,