Firecrawl Research Index

Firecrawl Research Index is a specialized index for agents pushing the frontier of AI/ML research. It has state-of-the-art recall on arXivQA, outperforming the next best provider by 18% at comparable cost.

Research Index

Highlights

  • Benchmark-leading performance: On arXivQA, the index hits 53.3% recall versus 45.4% for the next best provider. The index also scores 0.750 MRR, putting the right paper in the top one or two results.
  • Search millions of papers alongside their code: The index includes 3M+ arXiv papers, plus GitHub artifacts from top research repos (issues, merged PRs, READMEs), refreshed daily.
  • A complete toolset for research loops: Agents can retrieve papers, verify claims against full text, and pull code, going from literature to implementation with no manual review.
  • Plugs into any agent harness: Works with Codex, Claude Code, Grok Build, and more.

Read the full documentation here.