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DeerFlow vs Firecrawl

Firecrawl leads on trust: 89.1/100 (Grade A) against 67.2/100 (Grade B), a 21.9-point gap. Firecrawl leads on provenance and adoption, and rests on broader evidence.

B DeerFlow 67.2

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

bytedance/deer-flow · #443 overall · #8 Research & Data · coverage C (2/5)

DeerFlow doesn't lead on any scored dimension in this pair.

A Firecrawl 89.1

Supercharge your AI agents with data from the web and beyond. Building the library for superintelligence. 🔥

firecrawl/firecrawl · #37 overall · #2 Research & Data · coverage B (3/5)

Choose Firecrawl if provenance and adoption matter most.

+8.2Adoption: 198k GitHub stars against 84.9k
+7.2Identity / Provenance: package provenance attested, against none
+6.9Safety / Integrity: package provenance attested, against none
B vs CEvidence coverage: 3 of 5 independent signal types, against 2

Where they differ

13.1

Safety / IntegrityFirecrawl +6.9

20.0

10.8

Identity / ProvenanceFirecrawl +7.2

18.0

14.0

TransparencyDeerFlow +0.3

13.7

19.9

MaintenanceFirecrawl +0.1

20.0

11.8

AdoptionFirecrawl +8.2

20.0

-2.4

Runtime calibrationDeerFlow +0.2

-2.6

Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of DeerFlow 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.

Full evidence

Signal	DeerFlowbytedance/deer-flow	Firecrawlfirecrawl/firecrawl
HVTrust score	67.2	89.1
Evidence grade	B	A
Coverage grade	C	B
Overall rank	#443	#37
Rank in Research & Data	#8	#2
GitHub stars	84.9k	198.0k
Last updated	1d ago	today
Build provenance	No	Yes
OSSF Scorecard	6.5 / 10	6.1 / 10
License	MIT	AGPL-3.0
Downloads	—	2.9M/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	13.1	20.0
Identity & provenance / 18	10.8	18.0
Transparency / 17	14.0	13.7
Maintenance / 20	19.9	20.0
Adoption / 20	11.8	20.0
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server	Implemented	—
External providers	6 — E2B, OpenAI, OpenRouter, …	7 — Anthropic, Firecrawl, Groq, …
Requires API keys	Yes	Yes
Plugin surface	extensions	—
Provenance drift	—	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 v4.4 →