# firecrawl/fireplexity

🔥 Open Source Perplexity like AI search engine with real-time citations, streaming responses, and live data powered by Firecrawl

Repository: https://github.com/firecrawl/fireplexity
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fireplexity
Language: TypeScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-08-22T11:51:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 36/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 38, release rhythm 35, longevity 31
- inputs: {"age_days": 440, "days_push": 376, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1958, forks 341 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:59.237646+00:00)

## What it is
Fireplexity is an open-source, Perplexity-style AI search engine built with TypeScript that delivers answers with real-time citations, streaming responses, and live web, news, and image data. It is powered by Firecrawl for web scraping and Groq for fast LLM inference, and can be self-hosted or deployed to Vercel.

## Use cases
- self-host an AI search engine like Perplexity
- build a search engine with real-time citations
- AI search with streaming answers and live web data
- deploy an open-source answer engine to Vercel
- search the web, news, and images with an LLM
- customize a Perplexity alternative with my own API keys

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted Perplexity alternative you can customize
- you need cited, real-time AI search answers with streaming responses
- you already use Firecrawl and/or Groq and want a ready-made frontend
- you want a Next.js/TypeScript codebase to extend into your own product

## When to avoid
- you need a production search engine without external API dependencies (it requires Firecrawl and Groq keys)
- you want a fully local/offline search stack with no third-party services
- you need a general-purpose web crawler or scraper rather than a search UI
- you require a project with an explicit license file or long-term vendor support

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, rag, llm-inference, web-scraping, chat-interface, ssr
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, web-development, frontend
- platform: cloud, self-hosted
- tags: ai-search-engine, perplexity-clone, firecrawl, groq, nextjs, real-time-citations, streaming-responses, vercel, search, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- firecrawl/fireplexity (main) score 36

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:59.237646+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:05:59.683035+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/firecrawl/fireplexity (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:59.237646+00:00, sha f97f9a6993f4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.