Convex vs Firecrawl

Convex

Firecrawl

Convex · 18 features

• Actions — Non-deterministic functions for external I/O (fetch, AI APIs, email). Cannot rea…
• Authentication — Convex Auth (built-in) or BYO provider (Clerk, Auth0, Kinde, WorkOS). ID tokens …
• Convex Agents — AI agent framework with durable memory, threads, tool use. Works with OpenAI / A…
• Convex Auth — First-party auth library: passwords, magic links, OAuth, phone — stored in your …
• Convex Components — Reusable backend modules (rate limiter, workflow, aggregate, action-retrier, etc…
• Cron Jobs — Recurring schedules defined in convex/crons.ts. UTC, cron-style patterns.
• Durable Workflows — Long-running multi-step workflows with retries and at-least-once guarantees.
• Exception Reporting — Auto-capture errors to Sentry, Axiom, Datadog.
• File Storage — Upload/download via storage API. Returns storage IDs referenced in documents.
• Full-Text Search — BM25 search index on table fields. withSearchIndex query helper.
• HTTP Actions — Expose public HTTP endpoints for webhooks, OAuth callbacks, third-party integrat…
• Log Streams — Stream function logs to Axiom, Datadog, Sentry. Pro+.
• Mutations — Transactional write functions. All reads + writes in one mutation are ACID; conf…
• Preview Deployments — Every Git branch gets its own isolated deployment. Integrates with Vercel/Netlif…
• Queries — Deterministic read-only TS functions. Automatically cached and re-run when under…
• Real-Time Subscriptions — useQuery auto-subscribes; server invalidates when data a query read changes. No …
• Scheduler — schedule.after / schedule.at — enqueue functions to run later. Durable, survives…
• Vector Search — Native vector index on tables. withIndex + filter fields. Up to 4096 dims.

Firecrawl · 16 features

• Batch Scrape — Scrape many URLs in parallel.
• Crawl — Crawl an entire site following links. Returns all pages.
• Custom Headers/Cookies — Scrape behind login via headers.
• Deep Research (beta) — AI agent that autonomously researches a query across many sites.
• Extract (AI) — Structured extraction with a JSON schema → Firecrawl runs LLM for you.
• JavaScript Rendering — Headless browser handles SPAs, React/Vue sites.
• LLM-Ready Markdown — Cleaned + normalized Markdown optimized for LLM ingestion.
• Map — Fast — returns all URLs on a site without fetching content.
• MCP Server — Official MCP for Claude / Cursor / Agents.
• Open Source (AGPL) — Self-host the entire stack via Docker.
• PDF Parsing — Extract text from PDFs.
• Residential Proxies — Bypass anti-bot + geoblocks (paid).
• Scrape — Single URL → clean markdown/JSON/HTML.
• Screenshots — Visual screenshot alongside content.
• Search (beta) — Google-like search API returning results + content.
• Structured Output — Extract to JSON schema via LLM.