SelfHostMap

Maxun alternatives

Short answer

We track 2 self-hosted alternatives to Maxun: Crawl4AI and Firecrawl.

Crawl4AI (same category): fewer license conditions (Permissive vs Network copyleft (AGPL)), larger community (86.9k vs 18.1k GitHub stars) and simpler deploy (one container vs a multi-container stack).

Firecrawl (same category): larger community (198k vs 18.1k GitHub stars).

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Maxun alternatives compared

Self-hosted alternatives to Maxun, ranked
#AppAdvantages over MaxunEst. server costOfficial hardwareLicenseStarsLast commitCompare
—Maxun (this app)Activenot estimated (no official RAM figure)not publishedAGPL-3.018.1kOct 28, 2026—
1 Crawl4AI
Same category		 fewer license conditions (Permissive vs Network copyleft (AGPL)); larger community (86.9k vs 18.1k GitHub stars); simpler deploy (one container vs a multi-container stack) from €19.99/mo minimum 4 GB RAM Apache-2.0 86.9k Oct 26, 2026 Maxun vs Crawl4AI
2 Firecrawl
Same category		 larger community (198k vs 18.1k GitHub stars) not estimated (no official RAM figure) not published AGPL-3.0 (SDKs and some UI components MIT) 198k Nov 3, 2026 Maxun vs Firecrawl

Ranked by the number of objective advantages each alternative has over the app (cheaper estimated server cost, lighter official RAM figure, no GPU needed, fewer license conditions, better maintenance status, at least 1.5× the GitHub stars, simpler deploy). Ties: same-category apps first, then more GitHub stars. License order used: Permissive (MIT/Apache) → Open core → Copyleft (GPL) or Custom conditions → Network copyleft (AGPL) → Source-available. Archived projects are not listed as alternatives.

What each alternative is

  • Crawl4AI (Web scraping for AI): Open-source crawler and scraper that turns web pages into LLM-ready Markdown, with a self-hosted API server.
  • Firecrawl (Web scraping for AI): API that turns websites into clean Markdown or structured data for LLMs.

Maxun alternatives: FAQ

What is the best self-hosted alternative to Maxun?

By our objective ranking: 1. Crawl4AI (fewer license conditions (Permissive vs Network copyleft (AGPL)); larger community (86.9k vs 18.1k GitHub stars); simpler deploy (one container vs a multi-container stack)) 2. Firecrawl (larger community (198k vs 18.1k GitHub stars)). "Best" depends on the features you need; the ranking only counts cost, hardware, license, maintenance, community size and deploy complexity.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Maxun?

Not by our estimate. Maxun: not estimated (no official RAM figure). Alternatives: Crawl4AI (from €19.99/mo), Firecrawl (not estimated (no official RAM figure)).

Which Maxun alternative has the most permissive license?

Crawl4AI: Apache-2.0 (Permissive). Maxun is AGPL-3.0 (Network copyleft (AGPL)). Not legal advice.

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