The 80% point is real, but the missing 20% is where Firecrawl actually earns its money rotating proxies, browser fingerprint evasion, handling sites that detect headless Chrome. If your crawling targets are mostly cooperative sites, 2700 lines of Elixir is the right call. If you ever hit Cloudflare-heavy targets at scale, that 20% becomes the whole problem.
The 80% point is real, but the missing 20% is where Firecrawl actually earns its money rotating proxies, browser fingerprint evasion, handling sites that detect headless Chrome. If your crawling targets are mostly cooperative sites, 2700 lines of Elixir is the right call. If you ever hit Cloudflare-heavy targets at scale, that 20% becomes the whole problem.