Comparison
Crawl4ai vs web-retrieval-mcp
Crawl4ai has more GitHub stars (85,664 vs 0). Crawl4ai was updated more recently (last commit 4d ago). Data comes straight from GitHub and refreshes daily.
Crawl4ai
Open-source web crawler and scraper for LLMs and AI agents: any website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown. Run it yourself, or use Crawl4AI Cloud with one key.
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git clone https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai
web-retrieval-mcp
MCP web search + tiered web fetch for AI agents (Exa, Firecrawl), SSRF-guarded, cross-platform.
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uvx web-retrieval-mcp| Metric | Crawl4ai | web-retrieval-mcp |
|---|---|---|
| Type | MCP server | MCP server |
| GitHub stars | 85,664 | 0 |
| Stars, last 7 days | +47 | n/a |
| Forks | 8,900 | 0 |
| Upvotes | 0 | 0 |
| Language | Python | n/a |
| License | Apache-2.0 | n/a |
| Last commit | 4d ago | n/a |
| Created | May 2024 | n/a |
| Categories | Browser automation, Memory & knowledge, Data & analytics | Search & web, Browser automation |