Comparison
Crawl4ai vs Playwright MCP
Crawl4ai has more GitHub stars (85,664 vs 38,240). Crawl4ai was updated more recently (last commit 2d 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
Playwright MCP
Playwright MCP server
$
claude mcp add playwright npx @playwright/mcp@latest| Metric | Crawl4ai | Playwright MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Type | MCP server | MCP server |
| GitHub stars | 85,664 | 38,240 |
| Stars, last 7 days | +47 | +41 |
| Forks | 8,900 | 3,262 |
| Upvotes | 0 | 0 |
| Language | Python | TypeScript |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Last commit | 2d ago | 1w ago |
| Created | May 2024 | Mar 2025 |
| Categories | Browser automation, Memory & knowledge, Data & analytics | Browser automation |