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Firecrawl vs OpenScience

Firecrawl leads on trust: 88.0/100 (Grade A) against 82.4/100 (Grade A), a 5.6-point gap. Firecrawl leads on adoption and supply-chain integrity.

A Firecrawl 88.0

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

Choose Firecrawl if adoption and supply-chain integrity matter most.

+6.4Adoption: 1.4M weekly downloads against 5.7k
+1.7Safety / Integrity: 85% of recent commits signed, against 59%

A OpenScience 82.4

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synthetic-sciences/openscience · #119 overall · #5 Research & Data · coverage B (3/5)

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

Where they differ

19.0

Safety / IntegrityFirecrawl +1.7

17.3

13.4

TransparencyFirecrawl +0.2

13.2

20.0

AdoptionFirecrawl +6.4

13.6

-2.4

Runtime calibrationOpenScience +2.7

+0.3

2 dimensions identical: Identity 18.0 · Maintenance 20.0 · 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	88.0	82.4
Evidence grade	A	A
Coverage grade	B	B
Overall rank	#37	#119
Rank in Research & Data	#2	#5
GitHub stars	187.2k	3.9k
Last updated	today	today
Build provenance	Yes	Yes
OSSF Scorecard	5.8 / 10	5.5 / 10
License	AGPL-3.0	Apache-2.0
Downloads	1.4M/wk	6k/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	19.0	17.3
Identity & provenance / 18	18.0	18.0
Transparency / 17	13.4	13.2
Maintenance / 20	20.0	20.0
Adoption / 20	20.0	13.6
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 →