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Vane vs crawl4ai

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

Vane

Vane is an AI-powered answering engine.

Best matched with other agent tools.

36.7K
Stars
+102
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

Vane is currently growing faster at +102 stars this week.

Maintenance

Vane 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.

SignalVanecrawl4ai
Evidence statusBasic listing· 2026-10-04 09:18 UTCVerified snapshot· 2026-10-04 09:19 UTC
GitHub stars36.7K84.7K
Weekly growth+1020
Health scoreHealthy66/100Healthy66/100
Contributors5095
Commits per week0.110.6
Open issues351226
LanguageTypeScriptPython
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Last commit2026-09-01 14:12 UTC2026-09-25 06:37 UTC
Last releasev1.12.2v0.9.4

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