Context7 vs Crawl4AI
Context7 (Upstash) and Crawl4AI (Crawl4AI) side by side on public data, as of Oct 9, 2026.
Context7 has 1.4x the weekly package downloads of Crawl4AI (480K against 351K). Crawl4AI has 1.4x the GitHub stars of Context7 (85K against 62.8K). Over the last 30 days downloads moved -33% for Context7 and -6% for Crawl4AI. Context7 shipped 44 stable releases in the past 90 days. Crawl4AI shipped 3 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Context7 | Crawl4AI |
|---|---|---|
| Gid Score | 44 | 55 |
| Overall rank | #73 | #35 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 480K | 351K |
| Downloads, 7-day change | up 5.6% | up 5.9% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | down 32.9% | down 6.5% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 62.8K | 85K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 2 | 0 |
| Latest stable release | 0.5.15 · yesterday | 0.9.4 · 16d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 44 | 3 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free + $10/mo | Free (OSS) |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| First released | — | — |
| Interfaces | MCP server, REST API | Python library, Docker, REST API |
| Models |
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Context7
Gives coding agents up-to-date, version-specific documentation and code examples for libraries, through an MCP server or API, instead of relying on what the model memorised.
Pricing: Free for individuals with 1,000 API calls a month. Pro is $10 per seat a month with 2,000 calls per seat, then $5 per 1,000 calls.
Latest release 0.5.15:
- c1e314b: ctx7 setup now downloads the find-docs and context7-mcp skills directly from GitHub instead of the deprecated Skill Hub API.
Crawl4AI
An open-source web crawler and scraper that turns any website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown, run on your own machine or through Crawl4AI Cloud.
Pricing: Free and open source to self-host. Crawl4AI Cloud is pay as you go with $10, $25 and $100 credit packs.
Latest release 0.9.4:
- PyPI: bash pip install crawl4ai==0.9.4
- Docker: bash docker pull unclecode/crawl4ai:0.9.4 docker pull unclecode/crawl4ai:latest
- Note: Docker images are being built and will be available shortly. Check the Docker Release workflow for build status.