Firecrawl vs Sardine

Firecrawl (Web data API for AI) and Sardine both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Firecrawl (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Sardine (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 35). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Firecrawl is ahead of Sardine. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Firecrawl is clearly ahead of Sardine. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Firecrawl is clearly ahead of Sardine. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Sardine is ahead of Firecrawl. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Firecrawl is clearly ahead of Sardine.

Firecrawl carries 199,181 GitHub stars across 101 public repos, with 28 repositories active in the last 90 days and 130 external contributors on record. Sardine shows 19 stars across 55 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Firecrawl's footprint is roughly 10483.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Firecrawl is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Sardine looks better where reach is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.