{
 "title": "Crawl4AI Cloud vs Spider",
 "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/spider/",
 "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
 "crawl4ai_live_prices": "https://crawl4ai.com/v1/prices",
 "rule": "Spider facts restate Spider's own pages; not_published means their pages say nothing, not that the feature is missing.",
 "short_answer": "Crawl4AI charges a fixed price by the work each page needs ($0.10 per 1,000 plain pages) and nothing for a failed or blocked call; Spider says there is no per-page price, and its own pages give two answers on whether a failed page costs money. Crawl4AI gives 1,000 free credits every month and refunds within 14 days; Spider gives $0.25 of credits once, and a purchase is non-refundable. Crawl4AI runs in the EU, Singapore and the US with teams and an audit log from the $99 Builder plan; Spider's main region is the United States. Agents set Crawl4AI up from one message, /extract works on every plan with no add-on, and 93 recipes return named sites such as Amazon as rows for 1 credit.",
 "jobs": [
  {
   "job": "One page to Markdown",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$0.10",
   "spider_per_1000": "$0.02–$0.10",
   "costs_less": "spider"
  },
  {
   "job": "Your first 10,000 pages a month",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$0",
   "spider_per_1000": "$0.02–$0.10",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "A page that blocks bots",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$0",
   "spider_per_1000": "Unclear",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "An Amazon product as rows",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$1.00",
   "spider_per_1000": "≈ $2.72",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "Structured JSON from a page",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$1.87",
   "spider_per_1000": "~$10 + plan",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  }
 ],
 "rows": [
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "SSO (SAML, OIDC)",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "spider": "Not published",
   "spider_quote": null,
   "spider_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "SCIM user sync",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "spider": "Not published",
   "spider_quote": null,
   "spider_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Teams, roles and audit log",
   "crawl4ai": "From Builder ($99), no seat limit",
   "spider": "Audit logs on the Enterprise page",
   "spider_quote": "Audit logs and access controls",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/enterprise/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Zero data retention",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "spider": "2.5x credits self-serve; included on Enterprise",
   "spider_quote": "On self-serve plans, every request costs 2.5x the usual credits while ZDR is on. … Enterprise agreements include ZDR at no extra charge.",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/docs/api/zero-data-retention/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "IP allowlist and key limits",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "spider": "Not published",
   "spider_quote": null,
   "spider_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Static exit IPs",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "spider": "Not published; every request uses a residential proxy",
   "spider_quote": "Every request already goes through a residential proxy",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/proxy-locations/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Where data is processed",
   "crawl4ai": "EU, Singapore or US, your choice",
   "spider": "Main region United States; some pages load on outside devices",
   "spider_quote": "Our main region is the United States. … Some pages are loaded on devices in Spider's compute network, including devices run by people outside Spider who share computing capacity with us.",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/privacy/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Deployment",
   "crawl4ai": "Cloud, dedicated fleet, inside your network, managed pipeline; one engine",
   "spider": "Cloud, or the open-source crate with your own proxies",
   "spider_quote": "Proxies: Bring your own. Rotate them yourself. … AI extraction: Not included.",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/open-source-vs-cloud/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "DPA and invoice billing",
   "crawl4ai": "Every Enterprise plan",
   "spider": "DPA on request; invoices NET 30",
   "spider_quote": "Data processing agreement on request … Invoiced billing (NET 30)",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/enterprise/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Refunds",
   "crawl4ai": "14 days, if no credits were used",
   "spider": "None after delivery",
   "spider_quote": "After that, the purchase is non-refundable and non-transferable, except where the law requires otherwise.",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/terms",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Status page",
   "crawl4ai": "Hourly uptime per service, public",
   "spider": "Two components; one \"example incident\" on record",
   "spider_quote": "This is an example incident",
   "spider_source": "https://spidercloud.statuspage.io/api/v2/incidents.json",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Uptime and response SLA",
   "crawl4ai": "Typical: 99.9% a month; service down: first answer within 1 hour, 24/7; part broken: 4 business hours; a question: 1 business day; 5% of the month's fee back if missed, 10% under 99%",
   "spider": "Enterprise: 99.9% uptime, incident under 1 hour; credits back not published",
   "spider_quote": "Uptime 99.9% … Response < 200ms … Incident < 1 hour",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/enterprise/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Support",
   "crawl4ai": "A named engineer",
   "spider": "24/7 priority, reply under 2 hours",
   "spider_quote": "Queue 24/7 priority … Response < 2 hours",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/enterprise/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Security assurance",
   "crawl4ai": "Controls monitored every day in Drata, with the evidence kept; dependencies watched for known vulnerabilities; SOC 2 audit by Sensiba under way, report target January 2027. Security pack on request: policies, audit status, DPA, questionnaire answers.",
   "spider": "SOC 2 or ISO 27001: Not published",
   "spider_quote": null,
   "spider_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "How you pay",
   "crawl4ai": "Credits in every plan: Free, Starter $10, Builder $99, Scale $499",
   "spider": "Bytes and CPU time: $1 a GB + $0.0001 a CPU minute",
   "spider_quote": "There is no per-page price. Spider bills $1 per GB of content plus $0.0001 per CPU minute",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/compare/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "1,000 plain / browser / hard pages",
   "crawl4ai": "$0.10 / $0.50 / $2.00",
   "spider": "$0.02–$0.10 / $0.035–$0.155 / not published (average page)",
   "spider_quote": "Mode| Avg cost per 100 pages … HTTP| $0.002-$0.01 … Browser| $0.0035-$0.0155",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/guides/pricing-and-plans/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Failed calls",
   "crawl4ai": "Free, blocked pages included",
   "spider": "Two answers: \"not free\" (llms.txt) and \"$0\" (pricing)",
   "spider_quote": "An attempt bills for the bandwidth and compute it used, whatever status the page returns. A failed page is not free.",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/llms.txt",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "A page already cached",
   "crawl4ai": "Half price",
   "spider": "Not published",
   "spider_quote": null,
   "spider_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Extra credits",
   "crawl4ai": "Never expire",
   "spider": "Balance never expires",
   "spider_quote": "Your balance never expires.",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/compare/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Refunds",
   "crawl4ai": "14 days, if no credits were used",
   "spider": "None after delivery",
   "spider_quote": "After that, the purchase is non-refundable and non-transferable, except where the law requires otherwise.",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/terms",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Formats",
   "crawl4ai": "Markdown, HTML, links, media, metadata, tables; engine and cache on every answer",
   "spider": "Raw, Markdown, text, XML, bytes, screenshot; no html value",
   "spider_quote": "`return_format`: `\"raw\"` (default), `\"markdown\"`, `\"commonmark\"`, `\"text\"`, `\"html2text\"`, `\"xml\"`, `\"bytes\"`, `\"screenshot\"`, `\"empty\"`. … There is no `\"html\"` value",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/llms.txt",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Whole site",
   "crawl4ai": "/site deep crawl (500 pages a call); /scan up to 50,000 URLs",
   "spider": "/crawl; no limit set means up to your whole balance",
   "spider_quote": "Default: unset, which is auto-capped to your remaining credit balance.",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/llms-full.txt",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Search",
   "crawl4ai": "/search 1 credit; Google results as data with /serp",
   "spider": "About $0.001 a search",
   "spider_quote": "`/search`| Search across multiple engines| ~$0.001/req",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/guides/pricing-and-plans/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Named sites",
   "crawl4ai": "93 recipes; an Amazon product or a LinkedIn profile 1 credit",
   "spider": "146 scraper pages, priced by page size",
   "spider_quote": "146 scrapers, already built.",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/scrapers/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Documents",
   "crawl4ai": "PDF, Word and Excel; a PDF costs one page",
   "spider": "/transform: up to 10 credits a PDF page",
   "spider_quote": "From 0.1 credits for HTML, up to 10 credits per page for PDF.",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/llms-full.txt",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Extraction",
   "crawl4ai": "/extract on every plan; median 1.87 credits a call",
   "spider": "AI Studio add-on (Alpha) from $6 a month",
   "spider_quote": "AI Studio · Add-on · Alpha",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/ai/pricing/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "MCP",
   "crawl4ai": "Hosted, no install; key or OAuth; 17 tools",
   "spider": "Hosted; OAuth or key; 21 tools",
   "spider_quote": "21 tools· Hosted· Streamable HTTP· OAuth or API key",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/mcp/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "Setup",
   "crawl4ai": "One message sets it up in 7 coding agents",
   "spider": "An agent skill file",
   "spider_quote": "Set up Spider for fast web crawling, scraping, and search.",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/agent-skill/SKILL.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "Agent budget",
   "crawl4ai": "Estimate, balance, spend cap and top-up as tools; cost on every answer",
   "spider": "A credit balance tool; price before the call not published",
   "spider_quote": "Check how many credits you have left.",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/mcp/",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Open source",
   "row": "License",
   "crawl4ai": "Apache 2.0, 87,236 GitHub stars",
   "spider": "MIT, 2,842 GitHub stars",
   "spider_quote": "MIT",
   "spider_source": "https://github.com/spider-rs/spider",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Open source",
   "row": "Self-host",
   "crawl4ai": "The same engine as the Cloud",
   "spider": "Bring your own proxies; no AI extraction",
   "spider_quote": "Proxies: Bring your own. Rotate them yourself. … AI extraction: Not included.",
   "spider_source": "https://spider.cloud/open-source-vs-cloud/",
   "not_published": false
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "Spider pricing",
   "url": "https://spider.cloud/pricing"
  },
  {
   "name": "Spider pricing guide",
   "url": "https://spider.cloud/guides/pricing-and-plans/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Spider compare page and FAQ",
   "url": "https://spider.cloud/compare/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Spider llms.txt and llms-full.txt",
   "url": "https://spider.cloud/llms.txt"
  },
  {
   "name": "Spider privacy policy",
   "url": "https://spider.cloud/privacy/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Spider terms",
   "url": "https://spider.cloud/terms"
  },
  {
   "name": "Spider enterprise",
   "url": "https://spider.cloud/enterprise/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Spider AI Studio pricing",
   "url": "https://spider.cloud/ai/pricing/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Spider vs Crawl4AI (their page)",
   "url": "https://spider.cloud/blog/spider-vs-crawl4ai/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Crawl4AI prices",
   "url": "https://crawl4ai.com/v1/prices"
  },
  {
   "name": "Crawl4AI legal",
   "url": "https://crawl4ai.com/legal/"
  }
 ]
}