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agent-desktop vs Firecrawl

Compare agent-desktop and Firecrawl - features, pricing, and which is better for your workflow.

What is agent-desktop?

Free Apache-2.0 CLI from Vercel Labs. Coding agents read and operate desktop apps through the OS accessibility tree.

Price: Free

  • CLI and C library for macOS, Windows, and Linux
  • JSON snapshot with refs, then act and snapshot again
  • Headless by default, no pixel matching
  • Optional cursor per agent on macOS, Windows, and Linux X11
  • Apache-2.0
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What is Firecrawl?

Open-source web data API for AI agents and LLM apps that searches, scrapes, and interacts with the web.

Price: Freemium

  • Search runs live web queries and returns full page content
  • Scrape turns pages into clean Markdown or structured JSON
  • Crawl, Map, and Parse endpoints, including PDFs and DOCX
  • Interact is managed browser automation
  • Monitor detects scheduled changes and notifies by webhook, email, or Slack
  • Alexandria calls data providers and specialized indexes through one API, MCP server, or CLI
  • Official plugin for ChatGPT and Codex, and a connector for Claude
  • MCP server for Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, and VS Code
  • SDKs for Python, Node.js, Go, and Rust
  • Integrations with LangChain, LlamaIndex, n8n, Make, Zapier, and Dify
  • SOC 2 Type II
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