Crawl4AI vs Exa
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
| CRA Crawl4AI Open-source crawler that turns web pages into LLM-ready Markdown Visit |
Exa
Web search, contents and research API built for AI agents
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8 / 10 | 7.7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Usage_based |
| Free tier | Library free and open source (Apache-2.0 with attribution clause). Cloud: $10 free credit on email verification until 31 Dec 2026, no card; 200 requests/day | $10 of credit every month plus a $10 onboarding bonus, no payment method required; 10 search queries per second |
| Paid from | $10 credit pack (Crawl4AI Cloud Supporter; credits never expire) | $4 per 1,000 requests (Instant search), pay as you go with no subscription |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2023 |
| Maker | Context4AI Pte Ltd | — |
| Verdict | Crawl4AI is a practical, widely used open-source crawler for AI work, producing clean Markdown and structured data with browser rendering and LLM extraction, and its new hosted Cloud — run by a Singapore company — gives... |
Exa is one of the strongest options for giving agents web access: its own index rather than a wrapper, latency options from sub-200ms Instant search to multi-minute Agent runs, and structured, cited output. Named custome... |
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