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Crawl4AI Pricing

open sourceopen source · Apache-2.0last verified September 6, 2026official site ↗

At a glance

100% free and open-source asynchronous web crawler and scraper for AI and LLM pipelines under the Apache-2.0 license (35k+ GitHub stars) with $0 software licensing fees. Built on Playwright and asyncio, Crawl4AI delivers clean Markdown, structured JSON extraction via heuristic clustering or schema-driven LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama), media filtering, dynamic JS execution, and local REST API/Docker containerization (unclecode/crawl4ai). Users only pay for third-party LLM API tokens or proxy providers if configured.

Self-hosting cost

Crawl4AI is open source under the Apache-2.0 license. Self-hosting does not add a software license fee, but you still pay for infrastructure, operations, and any external model or API usage.

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FAQ

How much does Crawl4AI cost?

100% free and open-source asynchronous web crawler and scraper for AI and LLM pipelines under the Apache-2.0 license (35k+ GitHub stars) with $0 software licensing fees. Built on Playwright and asyncio, Crawl4AI delivers clean Markdown, structured JSON extraction via heuristic clustering or schema-driven LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama), media filtering, dynamic JS execution, and local REST API/Docker containerization (unclecode/crawl4ai). Users only pay for third-party LLM API tokens or proxy providers if configured.

Does Crawl4AI have a free plan?

Yes — Crawl4AI is open source and free to use.

Can you self-host Crawl4AI for free?

Crawl4AI is open source under the Apache-2.0 license. Self-hosting does not add a software license fee, but you still pay for infrastructure, operations, and any external model or API usage.

What are free or cheaper Crawl4AI alternatives?

Grok Bot, Raycast, Linear are in the same category with a free plan or open-source license.

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