# How Crawl4AI compares

Side-by-side comparisons from the team that wrote the open-source crawler. Every fact about another product comes from its own pages, with the date we read it.
Facts last checked 12 Nov 2026

## Web data for AI agents

The same job as Crawl4AI: pages in, clean data for models and agents out.
[ Crawl4AI *vs*  Firecrawl

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.
Read the comparison →](https://crawl4ai.com/compare/firecrawl/)[ Crawl4AI *vs*  TinyFish

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.
Read the comparison →](https://crawl4ai.com/compare/tinyfish/)[ Crawl4AI *vs*  Jina Reader

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.
Read the comparison →](https://crawl4ai.com/compare/jina/)[ Crawl4AI *vs*  Spider

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.
Read the comparison →](https://crawl4ai.com/compare/spider/)

## Scraping APIs

Proxy and browser services for developers. Crawl4AI returns clean Markdown and rows, not raw HTML.
[ Crawl4AI *vs*  ScrapingBee

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.
Read the comparison →](https://crawl4ai.com/compare/scrapingbee/)[ Crawl4AI *vs*  Apify

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.
Read the comparison →](https://crawl4ai.com/compare/apify/)[ Crawl4AI *vs*  Bright Data

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.
Read the comparison →](https://crawl4ai.com/compare/brightdata/)[ Crawl4AI *vs*  Zyte

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.
Read the comparison →](https://crawl4ai.com/compare/zyte/)

## Search for agents

Web search APIs for LLMs. Crawl4AI adds Google's own results and full pages on the same key.
[ Crawl4AI *vs*  Tavily

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.
Read the comparison →](https://crawl4ai.com/compare/tavily/)[ Crawl4AI *vs*  Exa

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.
Read the comparison →](https://crawl4ai.com/compare/exa/)[ Crawl4AI *vs*  Serper

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.
Read the comparison →](https://crawl4ai.com/compare/serper/)

## How to choose
**Pages for AI agents.** Compare price per 1,000 pages at each effort level, what a failed or blocked call costs, and whether the agent can set itself up and watch its own budget.
**Hard sites.** Look for proxies and real browsers in the price, and for a free answer when a site still blocks the call.
**For a company.** Check where data is processed, SSO and audit logs on your plan, refunds, a public status page and an uptime SLA.

**Their words, their pages.** Every fact about another product comes from its own site, docs or pricing page, and is linked.
**"Not published" is not "no".** When a page says nothing, we say so, rather than guess that a feature is missing.
**Dated, and open to fixes.** Each page says when we read it. Write to hello@crawl4ai.com with a correction.