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Deer Flow vs crawl4ai
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
Deer Flow
An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.
Best matched with other agent tools.
77.6K
Stars
+10.7K
Weekly
90/100
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
Deer Flow is currently growing faster at +10.7K stars this week.
Maintenance
Deer Flow has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 90/100. 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 | Deer Flow | crawl4ai |
|---|---|---|
| Evidence status | Basic listing· 2026-10-04 09:18 UTC | Verified snapshot· 2026-10-04 09:19 UTC |
| GitHub stars | 77.6K | 84.7K |
| Weekly growth | +10.7K | 0 |
| Health score | Strong90/100 | Healthy66/100 |
| Contributors | 324 | 95 |
| Commits per week | 60.8 | 10.6 |
| Open issues | 973 | 226 |
| Language | Python | Python |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Last commit | 2026-07-22 13:31 UTC | 2026-09-25 06:37 UTC |
| Last release | v2.0.0 | v0.9.4 |
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