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Firecrawl vs OpenScience

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.

OpenScience leads on trust — 78.7/100 (Grade B) vs 74.1/100 (Grade B), a 4.6-point gap. Full breakdown below.
Signal Firecrawlfirecrawl/firecrawl OpenSciencesynthetic-sciences/openscience
HVTrust score 74.1 78.7
Evidence grade B B
Coverage grade B B
Overall rank #103 #74
Rank in Research & Data #5 #4
GitHub stars 168.2k 3.2k
Last updated 1d ago 1d ago
Build provenance No Yes
OSSF Scorecard 5.7 / 10 4.7 / 10
License AGPL-3.0 Apache-2.0
Downloads 2.2M/wk 3k/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25 10.4 15.9
Identity & provenance / 18 10.8 18.0
Transparency / 17 13.3 12.5
Maintenance / 20 19.9 19.9
Adoption / 20 20.0 13.0
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server Declared
External providers 7 — Anthropic, Firecrawl, Groq, … 7 — Anthropic, Cohere, Google Gemini, …
Requires API keys Yes Yes
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 v4.3 →