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Firecrawl vs OpenScience

Firecrawl leads on trust: 89.0/100 (Grade A) against 82.2/100 (Grade A), a 6.8-point gap. Firecrawl leads on maintenance and adoption.

A Firecrawl 89.0

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

firecrawl/firecrawl · #45 overall · #3 Research & Data · coverage B (3/5)

Choose Firecrawl if maintenance and adoption matter most.

+8.1Adoption: 1.6M weekly downloads against 227
+1.8Maintenance: last push today, against 2d ago

A OpenScience 82.2

The open-source AI workbench for scientific research

synthetic-sciences/openscience · #145 overall · #6 Research & Data · coverage B (3/5)

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

Where they differ

20.0

Safety / IntegrityFirecrawl +0.1

19.9

13.6

TransparencyOpenScience +0.3

13.9

20.0

MaintenanceFirecrawl +1.8

18.2

20.0

AdoptionFirecrawl +8.1

11.9

-2.6

Runtime calibrationOpenScience +2.9

+0.3

1 dimension identical: Identity 18.0 · Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Firecrawl and OpenScience, 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	Firecrawlfirecrawl/firecrawl	OpenSciencesynthetic-sciences/openscience
HVTrust score	89.0	82.2
Evidence grade	A	A
Coverage grade	B	B
Overall rank	#45	#145
Rank in Research & Data	#3	#6
GitHub stars	201.8k	4.4k
Last updated	today	2d ago
Build provenance	Yes	Yes
OSSF Scorecard	6.0 / 10	6.4 / 10
License	AGPL-3.0	Apache-2.0
Downloads	1.6M/wk	227/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	20.0	19.9
Identity & provenance / 18	18.0	18.0
Transparency / 17	13.6	13.9
Maintenance / 20	20.0	18.2
Adoption / 20	20.0	11.9
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server	—	Declared
External providers	7 — Anthropic, Firecrawl, Groq, …	7 — Anthropic, Cohere, DeepSeek, …
Requires API keys	Yes	No
Plugin surface	—	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 v4.4 →