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Crawl4AI vs Firecrawl

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Crawl4AI and Firecrawl, two Research & Data projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.

Firecrawl leads on trust — 74.7/100 (Grade B) vs 68.5/100 (Grade B), a 6.2-point gap. Note: Firecrawl's evidence coverage is thinner (coverage B vs A) — its score rests on fewer independent signal types. Full breakdown below.
Signal Crawl4AIunclecode/crawl4ai Firecrawlfirecrawl/firecrawl
HVTrust score 68.5 74.7
Evidence grade B B
Coverage grade A B
Overall rank #122 #78
Rank in Research & Data #6 #4
GitHub stars 76.1k 161.0k
Last updated 5d ago today
Build provenance No No
OSSF Scorecard 5.2 / 10 5.9 / 10
License Apache-2.0 AGPL-3.0
Downloads 437k/wk 2.2M/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25 7.8 10.6
Identity & provenance / 18 10.8 10.8
Transparency / 17 12.9 13.5
Maintenance / 20 17.8 20.0
Adoption / 20 19.2 20.0
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server Declared
External providers 2 — OpenAI, Redis 5 — Anthropic, Firecrawl, OpenAI, …
Requires API keys Yes Yes
Plugin surface marketplace plugins
Provenance drift Match Match
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How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.2 →