{
 "title": "How Crawl4AI Cloud compares",
 "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/",
 "rule": "Facts about each product restate its own pages, with the date they were read; Crawl4AI's prices: https://crawl4ai.com/v1/prices",
 "comparisons": [
  {
   "rival": "Apify",
   "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/apify/",
   "json": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/apify.json",
   "markdown": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/apify/index.md",
   "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
   "summary": "Apify's page fetcher costs $1.00 to $1.50 per 1,000 pages and its prepaid usage expires each month; Crawl4AI charges by the work, from $0.10 per 1,000, and runs in the EU, Singapore and the US."
  },
  {
   "rival": "Bright Data",
   "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/brightdata/",
   "json": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/brightdata.json",
   "markdown": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/brightdata/index.md",
   "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
   "summary": "Bright Data charges $1.50 per 1,000 requests, plain or hard, with plans from $499 a month; Crawl4AI charges by the work, from $0.10 per 1,000, with plans from $10."
  },
  {
   "rival": "Exa",
   "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/exa/",
   "json": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/exa.json",
   "markdown": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/exa/index.md",
   "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
   "summary": "Exa charges $4 to $7 per 1,000 searches and says it cannot give Google's results; Crawl4AI charges $1.00, returns Google's own results page as data, and reads the full pages on the same key."
  },
  {
   "rival": "Firecrawl",
   "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/firecrawl/",
   "json": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/firecrawl.json",
   "markdown": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/firecrawl/index.md",
   "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
   "summary": "Firecrawl charges 1 credit for every page, 403 and 404 included; Crawl4AI charges by the work, from $0.10 per 1,000, and runs in the EU, Singapore and the US."
  },
  {
   "rival": "Jina Reader",
   "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/jina/",
   "json": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/jina.json",
   "markdown": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/jina/index.md",
   "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
   "summary": "Jina Reader charges by the tokens in each page and does not try to get past bot checks; Crawl4AI charges by the work, from $0.10 per 1,000, and gets hard sites."
  },
  {
   "rival": "ScrapingBee",
   "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/scrapingbee/",
   "json": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/scrapingbee.json",
   "markdown": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/scrapingbee/index.md",
   "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
   "summary": "ScrapingBee charges 5 credits for a default call and bills 404 pages; Crawl4AI charges by the work, from $0.10 per 1,000, and a failed call costs nothing."
  },
  {
   "rival": "Serper",
   "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/serper/",
   "json": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/serper.json",
   "markdown": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/serper/index.md",
   "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
   "summary": "Serper charges 1 credit a search and 2 to 10 credits a page; Crawl4AI adds Google's whole results page and full pages from $0.10 per 1,000, and runs in the EU, Singapore and the US."
  },
  {
   "rival": "Spider",
   "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/spider/",
   "json": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/spider.json",
   "markdown": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/spider/index.md",
   "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
   "summary": "Spider bills bytes and CPU time with no per-page price; Crawl4AI prints a fixed price per page, charges nothing for a failed call, and runs in the EU, Singapore and the US."
  },
  {
   "rival": "Tavily",
   "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/tavily/",
   "json": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/tavily.json",
   "markdown": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/tavily/index.md",
   "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
   "summary": "Tavily charges $5 to $16 per 1,000 searches; Crawl4AI charges $1.00, adds Google's own results page and full pages from $0.10 per 1,000, and runs in the EU, Singapore and the US."
  },
  {
   "rival": "TinyFish",
   "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/tinyfish/",
   "json": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/tinyfish.json",
   "markdown": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/tinyfish/index.md",
   "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
   "summary": "TinyFish calls a CAPTCHA page a hard limit and prices hard sites per agent step; Crawl4AI charges $2.00 per 1,000 hard pages and nothing for a blocked call."
  },
  {
   "rival": "Zyte",
   "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/zyte/",
   "json": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/zyte.json",
   "markdown": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/zyte/index.md",
   "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
   "summary": "Zyte prices each site by a tier it sets, up to $16.08 per 1,000 browser pages; Crawl4AI charges $0.50 for a browser page on any site, needs no commitment, and runs in the EU, Singapore and the US."
  }
 ]
}