Draco reimplements Firecrawl's scraping API in Rust

Draco reimplements Firecrawl's REST API in a single Rust binary you self-host instead of paying per scrape, according to its GitHub repo.

Per-request pricing is a real line item in agent pipelines that scrape at volume. Draco's pitch: make that line item disappear once you self-host.

Firecrawl and similar tools typically boot a full browser to render JavaScript-heavy pages before scraping them. Draco runs a V8 isolate in-process instead, and the author cites roughly 300ms for standard HTML pages.

It extracts Markdown and metadata natively. For structured data it uses a tiered approach: embedded state first, then API discovery, then runtime interception if neither exists.

It also runs multi-engine web search, supports MCP, and keeps interactive sessions with cookie persistence. Licensing is dual MIT and Apache-2.0.

Yes, but Firecrawl has 159,000 stars to Draco's 48, and matching an API surface on paper isn't the same as proving it at Firecrawl's scale.