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Crawl4AI
Turn any web page into clean markdown for an LLM

Open source✓ VerifiedSelf-hostable
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Our take

Feeding raw HTML to a model wastes most of the context window on navigation junk. This strips a page to the actual content as markdown — the boring step that makes everything downstream work.

Watch out

Still needs you to respect robots.txt and rate limits. It's a tool, not permission.

The free tier, in detail

What you get freeFree and open source (Apache-2.0), no API key, runs locally
Where the limit sitsNo limits self-hosted
Credit card to startNo
Pricing typeOpen source
Last checked2026-07-30 · source
Run it yourselfYes — Apache-2.0 · repo
Platformslinux, mac, windows
CategoryData & backend · Code & dev · Self-hosted / local

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