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Crw vs crawl4ai
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
Crw
Fast, lightweight Firecrawl/Tavily alternative in Rust. Web scraper, crawler & search API with MCP server for AI agents. Drop-in Firecrawl-compatible API (/scrape, /crawl, /search). 2.3x faster than Tavily, 1.5x faster than Firecrawl in 1K-URL benchmarks. 6 MB RAM, single binary. Self-host or use managed cloud.
Best matched with other agent tools.
518
Stars
0
Weekly
66/100
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
Crw is currently growing faster at 0 stars this week.
Maintenance
Crw has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 66/100. 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.
| Signal | Crw | crawl4ai |
|---|---|---|
| Evidence status | Needs recheck· 2026-08-17 05:11 UTC | Verified snapshot· 2026-10-04 09:19 UTC |
| GitHub stars | 518 | 84.7K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | 0 |
| Health score | Healthy66/100 | Healthy66/100 |
| Contributors | 8 | 95 |
| Commits per week | 46.5 | 10.6 |
| Open issues | 10 | 226 |
| Language | Rust | Python |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Last commit | 2026-08-01 09:20 UTC | 2026-09-25 06:37 UTC |
| Last release | v0.28.0 | v0.9.4 |
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