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Research & Data Agents · Head-to-head

Consensus vs firecrawl

Consensus and firecrawl are both research & data agents. Consensus is AI search engine over 200M+ scientific papers, while firecrawl is the API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. Here's an independent, side-by-side look at how they compare — and which fits.

Consensus

Agent· Freemium

AI search engine over 200M+ scientific papers.

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firecrawl

Infrastructure· Open source

The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale.

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Side by side

SpecConsensusfirecrawl
TypeAgentInfrastructure
ModelCommercialOpen source
PricingFreemiumOpen source
GitHub stars143,326
LanguageTypeScript
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Last activityJul 2026

Choose Consensus if

you want a managed, commercially-supported product.

Choose firecrawl if

Feeding agents clean web data: crawl, scrape, and convert to markdown via API..

About Consensus

AI search engine over 200M+ scientific papers.

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About firecrawl

The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale.

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