Firecrawl launches a search index built for coding agents

Firecrawl launched a Developer Index on August 20, a search API built over more than 70 million repos, docs, and issues instead of the open web.

The index covers READMEs, pull requests, issues, OpenAPI specs, skills files, and daily-refreshed documentation, per the launch post. On 1,179 real developer queries, it scored 0.63 recall@10 against 0.45 for native web search, an 18-point gap.

Firecrawl's own general search scored 0.58 on the same test. Parallel came in at 0.57, Mintlify and Exa tied at 0.54, per the benchmark.

Access is built to remove friction. It costs 2 credits per 10 results and works without an API key to start. It ships through a CLI, an MCP server, and SDKs, dropping into an existing agent setup.

The benchmark is Firecrawl's own, run on a query set the company assembled. The launch post doesn't say who wrote those 1,179 queries or how they were chosen.