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Firecrawl Alternative: Same API, 5.5x Faster, Self-Hostable. The migration takes 5 minutes. Here's why. CRW implements a Firecrawl-compatible API. Same endpoints, same response format. You change one line — the base URL — and everything works. Before: const client = new FirecrawlApp({ apiUrl: "https://api.firecrawl.dev" }) After: const client = new FirecrawlApp({ apiUrl: "http://localhost:3002" }) That's it. No SDK changes. No schema migration. No rewrite. But the numbers change dramatically: Latency: - Firecrawl: 4,600ms avg - CRW: 833ms avg (5.5x faster) RAM: - Firecrawl: ~500MB - CRW: 6.6MB (75x less) Content coverage: - Firecrawl: 77.2% - CRW: 92% Docker image: - Firecrawl: 2GB+ - CRW: 8MB Cold start: - CRW: 85ms Plus: - Fully open source (AGPL-3.0) - Self-hostable on any infrastructure - Built-in MCP server for AI agent integration - No API keys, no rate limits, no vendor lock-in If you're hitting Firecrawl's rate limits, paying for usage you could self-host, or need lower latency — the switch is one line of code. github.com/us/crw | fastcrw.com #FirecrawlAlternative #WebScraping #OpenSource #SelfHosted #DevTools

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