Crawl4AI vs Anthropic MCP

FeatureCrawl4AIAnthropic MCP
CategoryAI DevelopmentAI Development
PricingFree (open-source)Free (open standard)
GitHub Stars50,00045,000
PlatformsmacOS, Linux, WindowsmacOS, Linux, Windows
Features
  • ✓ LLM-ready output
  • ✓ Markdown extraction
  • ✓ JavaScript rendering
  • ✓ Structured data
  • ✓ Batch crawling
  • ✓ API server
  • ✓ Universal tool protocol
  • ✓ Server/client architecture
  • ✓ Stdio and SSE transport
  • ✓ TypeScript + Python SDKs
  • ✓ Growing ecosystem
Tags
open-sourcescrapingcrawlerragdata
open-sourceprotocoltoolsintegrationstandard