Crawlora vs ScrapeGraphAI

A fixed credit weight vs. a per-call formula

Crawlora charges the same credit weight for an endpoint every time — 3 credits for a Bing Search request, regardless of how the page rendered. ScrapeGraphAI prices each of its five endpoints on its own base cost, then adds modifiers: Scrape is 1 credit for markdown output, 2 for a screenshot, 25 for branding analysis; Extract is a flat 5; Search is 2 credits per result without a prompt or 5 with one; Crawl is a 2-credit startup fee plus the per-page Scrape cost for every page visited; Monitor adds 5 credits only when it detects a change. A stealth toggle adds +5 credits to any of those on top, so the same Extract call costs 5 credits on an easy page and 10 on a stealth-gated one — the price moves with the target, which a fixed Crawlora endpoint weight does not.

Worked example: extracting one defended product page

On ScrapeGraphAI's $20/mo Starter plan (10,000 credits, $0.002/credit), an Extract call with stealth enabled against a bot-protected page costs 5 + 5 = 10 credits ≈ $0.02. The same call against an unprotected page costs 5 credits ≈ $0.01 — a 2x swing based purely on whether the stealth modifier was needed. Crawlora's documented endpoints don't carry that swing: the weight is fixed once a platform's schema is supported, whether or not the target happened to be defended that day.

Open-source library vs. hosted-only API

ScrapeGraphAI publishes its core extraction engine as the open-source scrapegraph-ai Python library on GitHub, with LangChain and LlamaIndex integrations, separate from its hosted API and paid credit plans. If you want to inspect or self-host the LLM-extraction pipeline itself rather than depend on a hosted service, that's a real differentiator — Crawlora's API is closed and hosted only.

Which one is better for AI agents and RAG?

Use Crawlora when an agent needs clean, structured records from a supported public platform via MCP tools — no prompt engineering required. Use ScrapeGraphAI when you want to turn arbitrary pages into LLM-ready data with a prompt, or need its dedicated Crawl (recursive site crawling) or Monitor (scheduled change detection with webhooks) products, which Crawlora doesn't offer as endpoints.

Pricing tiers and limits

ScrapeGraphAI's paid tiers run $20/mo (Starter: 10,000 credits, 100 req/min, 5 monitors, 3 concurrent crawls), $100/mo (Growth: 100,000 credits, 500 req/min, 25 monitors, 15 concurrent crawls, Basic Proxy Rotation — its most popular plan), and $500/mo (Pro: 750,000 credits, 5,000 req/min, 100 monitors, 50 concurrent crawls, Advanced Proxy Rotation, priority support), plus a free plan with 500 one-time credits (10 req/min, 1 monitor, 1 concurrent crawl) and one-time credit top-ups from $5 for 1,000 credits down to $3.00/1k at the 50,000-credit pack. Crawlora uses a single, fixed credit rate per documented endpoint call. Compare the cost per successful, structured workflow for your sources, not just the headline plan price.

Responsible public web data access

Crawlora is designed for responsible public web data workflows. It should not be used for private or protected data, and no comparison page should be read as a guarantee that every target will succeed. Review provider terms, target-site rules, and your own compliance requirements before production use.

• Use supported endpoints and documented request parameters.
• Treat blocked, challenged, or unusable upstream responses as workflow signals.
• Review Crawlora Terms and each provider's official documentation before launch.