Pick AgentQL if
engineers scraping or clicking structured fields who will pay per call.
Read the AgentQL pageAgentQL vs Crawl4AI
Our take
Pick AgentQL if engineers scraping or clicking structured fields who will pay per call. Pick Crawl4AI if rAG and agent authors who want Markdown out and will stay on Cloud or Docker. Skip AgentQL if teams that want a full agent loop (Browser Use) or a crawl-to-markdown API (Firecrawl). Skip Crawl4AI if teams that need a stealth CDP grid (Steel) or neural web ranking (Exa).
Best for
AgentQL Point at a URL and extract a shaped list
Crawl4AI URL → clean Markdown for an agent
Free plan
AgentQL $0 · /month. 50 free API calls/month, then $0.02/call; 10/min; 10 hours remote browser included, then $0.12/hr; 5 concurrent
Crawl4AI $0 · apache-2.0. You run the browsers
Lowest paid
AgentQL Professional $99/mo
Crawl4AI Builder $99/mo
Next step up
AgentQL
Crawl4AI Scale $499/mo
Runs where
AgentQL
Crawl4AI Local or hosted
Watch out
AgentQL Starter’s 50 calls/month is a thin meter
Crawl4AI Free is 10 requests/minute and 2 at a time
Last checked
AgentQL 2026-10-22 · agentql.com/pricing
Crawl4AI 2026-10-22 · docs.crawl4ai.com
Which one, then?
Pick Crawl4AI if
rAG and agent authors who want Markdown out and will stay on Cloud or Docker.
Read the Crawl4AI page