# Crawl4AI: what AI models say (September 2026)

Source: Memetik Index, https://www.memetik.ai/vendors/crawl4ai
Website: https://docs.crawl4ai.com

Crawl4AI was named in 5 of 50 AI answers across 1 category. Best position: Web search and scraping APIs for AI, 10% answer share, ranked #16, named first in 0%.

## What Crawl4AI is

Crawl4AI is an open-source web crawler and scraper for large language models, AI agents and data pipelines. It produces web data for LLM ingestion and retrieval-augmented generation workflows. It has no forced API keys or paywalls.

It crawls URLs asynchronously through AsyncWebCrawler and generates clean Markdown for RAG pipelines or LLM ingestion. It can extract structured data with CSS selectors, XPath or LLM-based methods. Browser controls include hooks, proxies, stealth modes and session reuse.

Pricing: It is open source with no forced API keys or paywalls.
(From Crawl4AI's own website, read 2026-09-02.)

## By category

| Category | Rank | Answer share | Named first | Models |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web search and scraping APIs for AI (https://www.memetik.ai/index/ai-search-apis) | #16 of 17 | 10% | 0% | Gemini, Gemini 3.5 Flash |