Comparison
firecrawl vs tidb
A neutral, constraint-first comparison - live GitHub stats and typed relationships, not marketing.
| firecrawl | tidb | |
|---|---|---|
| Tagline | API for searching, scraping, and interacting with the web at scale | TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL database. |
| Stars | 147k | 40k |
| Forks | 8.5k | 6.2k |
| Open issues | 388 | 6.5k |
| Language | TypeScript | Go |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Last pushed | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 |
| Categories | AI Agents, Data & Retrieval | Data & Retrieval |
Choose firecrawl if…
- More widely adopted - 147k stars vs 40k.
- More recently updated (last pushed Jul 7, 2026).
- Leaner open-issue backlog (388).
- Also covers AI Agents.