Firecrawl has built a strong reputation as a go-to tool for converting web pages into LLM-ready Markdown. It handles JavaScript rendering, offers a clean API, and integrates well with frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex. For many developers building AI pipelines, it was a natural first choice. But as projects scale, a few structural issues tend to surface: credit costs that grow faster than expected, an AGPL 3.0 license that complicates commercial use without enterprise