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Cognee vs crawl4ai

Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.

Cognee

Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.

Best matched with other agent tools.

29.4K
Stars
+12.2K
Weekly
83/100
Health
crawl4ai

Open-source web crawler and scraper for LLMs and AI agents: any website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown. Run it yourself, or use Crawl4AI Cloud with one key.

Best matched with other agent tools.

84.7K
Stars
0
Weekly
66/100
Health

Quick Take

Adoption

crawl4ai has the larger GitHub footprint with 84.7K stars.

Momentum

Cognee is currently growing faster at +12.2K stars this week.

Maintenance

Cognee has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 83/100. This is not a security or fit verdict.

Side-by-side evidence

Use these signals to narrow your choice, then confirm setup, license, and fit upstream.

SignalCogneecrawl4ai
Evidence statusBasic listing· 2026-10-04 09:17 UTCVerified snapshot· 2026-10-04 09:19 UTC
GitHub stars29.4K84.7K
Weekly growth+12.2K0
Health scoreStrong83/100Healthy66/100
Contributors23095
Commits per week137.710.6
Open issues508226
LanguagePythonPython
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Last commit2026-07-26 11:08 UTC2026-09-25 06:37 UTC
Last releasev1.4.0.dev0v0.9.4

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