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for freelancers and SMEs and large companies
Open-source API that scrapes, crawls and searches websites and gives your AI agent the content as Markdown or JSON.
Free planfor freelancers and SMEs and large companies
Open-source vector database from Amsterdam for search and RAG in your own AI app, also as a managed cloud.
Free plan| Firecrawl | Weaviate | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free plan | Free plan |
| Data in the EU | ✕ No | ✓ Yes |
| Data processing agreement | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Company in the Netherlands | ✕ No | ✓ Yes |
| Integrations | LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents SDK, n8n, Make, Zapier, Claude Code, Cursor, MCP | AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, Databricks |
| Free trial | None | None |
| Stackwijs verdict | No verdict yet | No verdict yet |
| User reviews | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| For whom | freelancers, SMEs, large companies | freelancers, SMEs, large companies |
Facts checked on the vendors' websites.
Weaviate stores your data in the EU, Firecrawl does not. Weaviate is a Dutch company, Firecrawl is not. Only Firecrawl integrates with LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents SDK, n8n, Make, Zapier, Claude Code, Cursor and MCP. Only Weaviate integrates with AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Snowflake and Databricks.
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Open-source API that scrapes, crawls and searches websites and gives your AI agent the content as Markdown or JSON.
Suits developers who want web pages as clean Markdown or JSON in their AI agent or app, with a free start.
On the Firecrawl website · partner link
Open-source vector database from Amsterdam for search and RAG in your own AI app, also as a managed cloud.
Suits developers building semantic search or RAG into their own app who want a vector database they can also host themselves.
On the Weaviate website
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We get a fee if you take out a subscription through us. That does not change our verdict.
