FirecrawlvsPortkey

Full side-by-side comparison — features, pricing, platforms, and which one wins in 2026.

Firecrawl

Data & ETL

Turn websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data

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Portkey

LLM APIs & Inference

AI gateway for reliable and fast LLM applications

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FeatureFirecrawlPortkey
CategoryData & ETLLLM APIs & Inference
PricingFree (open-source) + CloudFree + Pro plans
GitHub Stars
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20k
6k
PlatformsLinux, macOS, Docker, WebWeb, Docker
Key Features
  • ✓ Web scraping
  • ✓ Markdown conversion
  • ✓ Crawling
  • ✓ JavaScript rendering
  • ✓ API
  • ✓ AI gateway
  • ✓ Fallbacks
  • ✓ Load balancing
  • ✓ Caching
  • ✓ Observability
Pros
  • + LLM-optimized output
  • + Handles JavaScript sites
  • + Clean markdown conversion
  • + API + self-hosted options
  • + Fast crawling
  • + Automatic fallbacks
  • + Load balancing
  • + Request caching
  • + Observability built-in
  • + Open-source gateway
Cons
  • − Cloud pricing per page
  • − Self-hosted needs resources
  • − Some sites block crawlers
  • − Rate limiting on free tier
  • − Added infrastructure layer
  • − Learning curve
  • − Some features need Pro
  • − Latency overhead
Tags
scrapingwebmarkdownopen-source
gatewayreliabilityobservabilityapi

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