Crawl4AI

Search APIs

Crawl4AI is a free open-source library you can self-host, which means you run it on your own servers. Crawl4AI also sells Crawl4AI Cloud, a hosted API in soft launch, a test phase where its prices “can change.”

The verdict

Crawl4AI Cloud costs less on plain pages, and the library is free. Firecrawl costs less on sites that block bots and puts search and browser minutes on the same credits.

Read the verdict before you buy. Skip anything that only looks good in a demo.

When we use it

You scrape plain pages at volume. Crawl4AI Cloud costs 0.5 credits a page.
Pick the Crawl4AI library if you want to self-host for free under Apache-2.0.
If they are plain pages, run them on Crawl4AI Cloud’s free 1,000 credits.

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Firecrawl vs Crawl4AI · Crawl4AI costs less per plain page, and Firecrawl costs less on blocked sites