Crawl4AI vs Perplexity

FeatureCrawl4AIPerplexity
CategoryAI DevelopmentAI Search
PricingFree (open-source)Free + Pro $20/mo
GitHub Stars50,000—
PlatformsmacOS, Linux, WindowsWeb, iOS, Android
Features
  • ✓ LLM-ready output
  • ✓ Markdown extraction
  • ✓ JavaScript rendering
  • ✓ Structured data
  • ✓ Batch crawling
  • ✓ API server
  • ✓ Real-time search
  • ✓ Citations
  • ✓ Follow-up questions
  • ✓ File upload
  • ✓ API
  • ✓ Collections
Tags
open-sourcescrapingcrawlerragdata
searchresearchcitationswebapi