LLM-ready web extraction

Scores as of 2026-10-19 (8 days old).

Depot Pick

Firecrawl · 8.25/10 for this job (curated estimate, high confidence)

capability extraction quality + dx.

Runner-up

ScrapingBee · 7.98/10

Scores higher than the pick on: Price / performance, Lock-in risk (higher = worse), Maturity / track record.

When not to use the pick

Need search only without crawl — Exa/Tavily.

Lock-in / migration

Runner-up ScrapingBee has lower stored lock-in risk (4 vs 4.5, 0–10, higher = more lock-in). Self-host fallback listed for this job: MarkItDown.

Sourced price (no comparable unit)

Pick: no sourced price in this job's unit (no_matching_sourced_price).

No cheapest SKU (no_comparable_unit_for_job). No price was invented.

Free option

• MarkItDown (oss) — source, as of 2026-10-25

Failure modes to watch

• Context overflow: If the input exceeds the window, say so and retrieve a narrower slice. Do not answer from a truncated head as if it were the whole source.
• Instruction drift: Restate the stop condition in the trace. End the run when it is met. Review long traces for steps that do not serve the original task.
• Inter-agent misalignment: Log the assigned subtask next to the worker's stated result. The lead rejects a result that does not match the assignment.
• Lost in the middle: Ask the agent to name the passage it used. Spot-check questions whose only support sits in the middle of the context, not only at the edges.
• Policy conflict: If cited sources contradict each other, return the conflict and the URLs. Do not pick a winner silently.
• Prompt injection: Compare each tool call to the original user task. If the call only makes sense given text that arrived from a fetched page, file, or message, stop and ask. Record which source the instruction came from. This catalog does not store payloads or attack steps.

Reported outcomes (submitted reports only)

This job: loading… JSON · reports never change scores · seed/test records excluded

Depot Pick (Firecrawl) on this job: loading… JSON · reports never change scores · seed/test records excluded

Cite: Agent Provider Depot, Depot Pick for llm-ready-extract: firecrawl, scores as of 2026-10-19. Agents: GET /api/decide?jtbd=llm-ready-extract