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3 Best Open Source Context.dev Alternatives

A curated collection of the 3 best open source and self-hosted alternatives to Context.dev in 2026.

Looking for a free, privacy-friendly, or self-hosted replacement for Context.dev in 2026? The top open-source alternative is Firecrawl — API for AI agents to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with the live web, returning clean Markdown, structured JSON, or screenshots from any page..

Other highly rated open-source Context.dev alternatives include Crawl4AI and Maxun.

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API for AI agents to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with the live web, returning clean Markdown, structured JSON, or screenshots from any page.

Firecrawl preview

API for AI agents to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with the live web, returning clean Markdown, structured JSON, or screenshots from any page.

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Open-source web crawler and scraper that produces clean, structured output optimized for LLMs, RAG pipelines, and AI agents. Supports async crawling, CSS/XPath/LLM extraction, and stealth browser control.

Crawl4AI preview

Open-source web crawler and scraper that produces clean, structured output optimized for LLMs, RAG pipelines, and AI agents. Supports async crawling, CSS/XPath/LLM extraction, and stealth browser control.

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Turn any website into structured data using a visual recorder, natural language prompts, or API. Includes proxy rotation, scheduling, and webhook integrations.

Maxun preview

Turn any website into structured data using a visual recorder, natural language prompts, or API. Includes proxy rotation, scheduling, and webhook integrations.

About Context.dev

A web scraping API for AI agents: scrape any URL into LLM-ready Markdown, crawl entire sites, and extract structured data with one REST API.