# Crawl4AI — card for AI agents

Open-source LLM-friendly crawler you can self-host, now also offered as a hosted cloud API.

Maker: Crawl4AI (unclecode) · category: Scraping and crawling

## Price (official page)
- Free tier: Self-host free (open source); Cloud Free: 1,000 credits/month (about 2,000 page scrapes), 10/min, 2 concurrent, no card
- Paid from $10/month
- Usage price: Cloud: 1 credit = $0.001; page 0.5 credit, search 1, archive 0.25, real browser 1, hard site 2. Starter $10/mo 10,000 credits, Builder $99/mo 125,000, Scale $499/mo 750,000; extra credits $1/$0.79/$0.67 per 1,000 credits
- About $0.50 per 1,000 requests
- Pricing page: https://crawl4ai.com/ (checked 2026-10-09)
- Note: Crawl4AI Cloud is in soft launch and the site says prices and free credit can change; a monthly Builder plan is 'coming soon'. per_1k_usd = 1,000 pages x 0.5 credit x $0.001. Credit packs never expire. Self-hosted docker server also exposes MCP.

## Connect
- Official MCP server: https://api.crawl4ai.com/mcp
- PyPI: `pip install crawl4ai`
- Repository: https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai

## Other APIs in this category
- Web Scraper Cloud: https://agentgid.com/apis/webscraper-io/agent.md
- Zyte API: https://agentgid.com/apis/zyte/agent.md
- Scrapfly: https://agentgid.com/apis/scrapfly/agent.md
- Diffbot: https://agentgid.com/apis/diffbot/agent.md
- Bright Data (Unlocker API): https://agentgid.com/apis/bright-data/agent.md

## Links
- AgentGid page: https://agentgid.com/apis/crawl4ai/

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