# Open-source alternatives for Web scraping for AI

> Crawlers and scrapers that turn websites into clean data or Markdown for AI tools.

## Paid products
- [Open-source alternatives to Firecrawl Cloud](https://repoquarry.dev/alternatives/firecrawl-cloud.md): Paid hosted API that crawls and scrapes websites into Markdown or structured JSON, with web search and managed proxies. Pricing: Free plan (1,000 credits a month, no card); Hobby $19/month billed monthly or $16/month billed annually; Standard, Growth, Scale and Enterprise tiers above.

## Top ranked projects
1. [Scrapling](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/scrapling.md): Python scraping and crawling framework with adaptive selectors, stealth browser fetchers, Scrapy-like spiders and Markdown output for AI. Commercial use: Confirmed.
2. [Crawl4AI](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/crawl4ai.md): Open-source Python web crawler that turns pages into clean, LLM-ready Markdown or structured JSON, as a library, CLI or Docker server. Commercial use: Partial.
3. [Firecrawl (self-hosted)](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/firecrawl.md): Open-source version of the Firecrawl API that crawls, maps, searches and scrapes websites into Markdown or JSON, self-hosted with Docker Compose. Commercial use: Partial.
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