# Firecrawl (firecrawl.dev): agent-readiness 76/100, grade B

> Rank 30 of 1000 on Qomvia (rubric v2.3.0). Last scanned 2026-10-08T22:50:14.294Z. Page: https://qomvia.com/site/firecrawl-dev  JSON: https://qomvia.com/api/score/firecrawl-dev

## Summary
Category: Software and SaaS
{
  "known": true,
  "confidence": "high",
  "summary": "Firecrawl.dev is an open-source web data API designed for AI agents and LLM applications. It provides functionalities for searching, scraping, crawling, parsing, and interacting with web content at scale.",
  "offerings": [
    "Web Data API",
    "Web Search (full page content)",
    "Web Scrape (HTML/JS to Markdown/JSON)",
    "Site Crawl (depth-first traversal)",
    "Document Parse (PDFs, DOCX, etc.)",
    "Browser Automation (for dynamic pages)"
  ],
  "audience": "Developers, AI agents, and LLM applications building AI-powered solutions that require structured web data.",
  "geography": null,
  "strengths": [
    "Open-source nature",
    "Comprehensive web interaction capabilities (search, scrape, crawl, parse, interact)",
    "Designed for AI agents and LLM applications",
    "Transforms web data into AI-friendly formats",
    "Focus on being fast, reliable, and token-efficient"
  ],
  "unknowns": [
    "Specific pricing tiers beyond open-source base",
    "Detailed enterprise features or SLAs",
    "Exact founding date or company structure",
    "Specific adoption metrics or user base size",
    "Long-term development roadmap"
  ],
  "alternatives": [
    "brightdata.com",
    "oxylabs.io",
    "apify.com",
    "serpapi.com",
    "scrape-it.cloud"
  ],
  "business": "An open-source web data API provider for AI agents and LLM applications, offering tools to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with the web globally.",
  "competitors": [
    "apify.com",
    "serpapi.com",
    "scrapeghost.com",
    "browserless.io",
    "scrapingbee.com",
    "datafiniti.com",
    "webz.io"
  ]
}

## Score by group
- Machine access: 24/24
- Content legibility: 25/26
- Discovery surface: 15/20
- Identity & policy: 3/12
- Agent-facing performance: 6/8
- Agent protocols: 3/10
Failing checks:
- [blocker] The site does not say who it is
- [blocker] No API or feed to read
- [improvement] No stated policy for automated access
- [improvement] HTML payload size
- [improvement] No Markdown for agents

## Add-on packs
- E-commerce & product feeds: 20/100 (not part of the public score)

## AI mentions and rivals
Named in 2 AI assistant answers.
- apify.com: 87/100 https://qomvia.com/site/apify-com
- serpapi.com: not measured
- browserless.io: not measured

## Named for
- best tool to check if AI agents can read my website https://qomvia.com/answers/best-tool-to-check-if-ai-agents-can-read-my-website

## FAQ
Q: Is Firecrawl readable by AI agents?
A: Firecrawl (firecrawl.dev) scores 76 out of 100 for agent readiness, grade B, measured 2 days ago, on 08.10.2026. 1 of 3 agent classes we test can use the site, and 2 checks currently block agents outright.

Q: What stops agents from using firecrawl.dev?
A: The heaviest problems are: The site does not say who it is; No API or feed to read; No stated policy for automated access; HTML payload size; No Markdown for agents. Each one is scored from a public HTTP response, and the fix for each is listed in the signed-in report.

Q: How is the Firecrawl agent-readiness score calculated?
A: Qomvia fetches public pages of firecrawl.dev as an AI agent would and runs the core checks every site gets across 6 groups: Machine access, Content legibility, Discovery surface, Identity & policy, Agent-facing performance, Agent protocols. Checks are weighted by how much an agent loses when they fail, and the score is expressed out of 100. E-commerce & product feeds checks are scored separately (20/100) and do not affect the public score or rank.

Q: How often is this score updated?
A: Public scores are re-checked when the site is re-scanned; tracked domains are re-scanned weekly and their owners are alerted when a check regresses. This page shows the scan from 2 days ago, on 08.10.2026.

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