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Firecrawl vs Unstructured

Both are Grade A and 0.1 points apart, so choose on what you weigh most. Firecrawl leads on adoption; Unstructured leads on supply-chain integrity and transparency, and rests on broader evidence.

A Firecrawl 89.1

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

firecrawl/firecrawl · #38 overall · #2 Research & Data · coverage B (3/5)

Choose Firecrawl if adoption matters most.

+2.2Adoption: 2.9M weekly downloads against 581.8k

A Unstructured 89.2

Convert documents to structured data effortlessly. Unstructured is open-source ETL solution for transforming complex documents into clean, structured formats for language models. Visit our website to learn more about our enterprise grade Platform product for production grade workflows…

Unstructured-IO/unstructured · #36 overall · #1 Research & Data · coverage A (4/5)

Choose Unstructured if supply-chain integrity and transparency matter most.

+0.9Safety / Integrity: 100% of recent commits signed, against 98%
+0.5Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 6.7 against 6.1
A vs BEvidence coverage: 4 of 5 independent signal types, against 3

Where they differ

20.0

Safety / IntegrityUnstructured +0.9

20.9

13.7

TransparencyUnstructured +0.5

14.2

20.0

MaintenanceFirecrawl +0.3

19.7

20.0

AdoptionFirecrawl +2.2

17.8

-2.6

Runtime calibrationUnstructured +1.2

-1.4

1 dimension identical: Identity 18.0 · Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Firecrawl and Unstructured, 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	UnstructuredUnstructured-IO/unstructured
HVTrust score	89.1	89.2
Evidence grade	A	A
Coverage grade	B	A
Overall rank	#38	#36
Rank in Research & Data	#2	#1
GitHub stars	198.1k	15.7k
Last updated	today	1d ago
Build provenance	Yes	Yes
OSSF Scorecard	6.1 / 10	6.7 / 10
License	AGPL-3.0	Apache-2.0
Downloads	2.9M/wk	582k/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	20.0	20.9
Identity & provenance / 18	18.0	18.0
Transparency / 17	13.7	14.2
Maintenance / 20	20.0	19.7
Adoption / 20	20.0	17.8
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server	—	—
External providers	7 — Anthropic, Firecrawl, Groq, …	7 — Amazon Bedrock, Google Gemini, OpenAI, …
Requires API keys	Yes	No
Plugin surface	—	—
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 →