Open-source alternatives to paid AI tools

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Open-source alternatives to Scraping APIs

Monthly price for Scraping APIs: Firecrawl $16/mo billed yearly (source) . Below: 3 open-source alternatives.

firecrawl/firecrawl

What it can do

Supercharge your AI agents with data from the web and beyond. Building the library for superintelligence. 🔥 (GitHub project description) source

What it can't do

TBD

Minimum hardware

TBD

Setup difficulty

TBD

Freshness

Stars
192,116
Last push
2026-10-16
Latest release
v2.11.0

Running cost (per month, roughly)

VPS: TBD — minimum RAM not verified

Local electricity: $ —/mo watts / 1000 × hours/day × 30 × 0.1831 $/kWh source

Fetched 2026-10-16 from the GitHub API.

Open on GitHub

unclecode/crawl4ai

What it can do

Open-source web crawler and scraper for LLMs and AI agents: any website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown. Run it yourself, or use Crawl4AI Cloud with one key. (GitHub project description) source

What it can't do

TBD

Minimum hardware

TBD

Setup difficulty

TBD

Freshness

not fetched yet

Running cost (per month, roughly)

VPS: TBD — minimum RAM not verified

Local electricity: $ —/mo watts / 1000 × hours/day × 30 × 0.1831 $/kWh source

Open on GitHub

getmaxun/maxun

What it can do

Turn any website into a structured API. Extract, automate, search and monitor the web. (GitHub project description) source

What it can't do

TBD

Minimum hardware

TBD

Setup difficulty

TBD

Freshness

Stars
17,873
Last push
2026-10-16
Latest release
v0.0.48

Running cost (per month, roughly)

VPS: TBD — minimum RAM not verified

Local electricity: $ —/mo watts / 1000 × hours/day × 30 × 0.1831 $/kWh source

Fetched 2026-10-16 from the GitHub API.

Open on GitHub

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