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Markitdown vs Firecrawl
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
Markitdown
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
122.7K
Stars
0
Weekly
40/100
Health
Firecrawl
🔥 The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web for AI
118.4K
Stars
0
Weekly
62/100
Health
Quick Take
Adoption
Markitdown has the larger GitHub footprint with 122.7K stars.
Momentum
Markitdown is currently growing faster at 0 stars this week.
Maintenance
Firecrawl has the stronger health score at 62/100.
Side-by-side Metrics
| Signal | Markitdown | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 122.7K | 118.4K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | 0 |
| Health score | 40 | 62 |
| Contributors | 79 | 151 |
| Commits per week | 0.7 | 41.8 |
| Open issues | 636 | 312 |
| Language | Python | TypeScript |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Last commit | 21d ago | 1d ago |
| Last release | v0.1.5 | v2.9.0 |
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