Crawl4AI vs Firecrawl
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 |
Firecrawl
Turns websites into LLM-ready Markdown and data for AI agents
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8 / 10 | 8.1 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| 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 | 1,000 credits/month (about 1,000 pages or 500 searches), 2 concurrent browsers, no card; Agent preview 5 free runs/day |
| Paid from | $10 credit pack (Crawl4AI Cloud Supporter; credits never expire) | From $19/mo (Hobby, monthly) or $16/mo billed annually for 5,000 credits |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2022 |
| Maker | Context4AI Pte Ltd | Independent (SideGuide Technologies, Inc.) |
| 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... |
Firecrawl is one of the most popular ways to feed live web content into AI agents and retrieval pipelines: reliable scraping of difficult pages, whole-site crawls, search with content, and now multi-site research and lic... |
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