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Crawl4AI vs Docling

Docling leads on trust: 89.6/100 (Grade A) against 70.2/100 (Grade B), a 19.4-point gap. Docling leads on supply-chain integrity and provenance.

B Crawl4AI 70.2

Open-source web crawler and scraper for LLMs and AI agents: any website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown. Run it yourself, or use Crawl4AI Cloud with one key.

unclecode/crawl4ai · #327 overall · #6 Research & Data · coverage A (4/5)

Crawl4AI doesn't lead on any scored dimension in this pair.

A Docling 89.6

Get your documents ready for gen AI

docling-project/docling · #23 overall · #1 Research & Data · coverage A (4/5)

Choose Docling if supply-chain integrity and provenance matter most.

+10.8Safety / Integrity: 95% of recent commits signed, against 39%
+7.2Identity / Provenance: package provenance attested, against none
+2.1Maintenance: last push today, against 8d ago

Where they differ

8.0

Safety / IntegrityDocling +10.8

18.8

10.8

Identity / ProvenanceDocling +7.2

18.0

12.6

TransparencyDocling +0.3

12.9

17.9

MaintenanceDocling +2.1

20.0

19.2

AdoptionDocling +0.2

19.4

+1.7

Runtime calibrationCrawl4AI +1.2

+0.5

Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Crawl4AI and Docling, two Research & Data projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.

Full evidence

Signal	Crawl4AIunclecode/crawl4ai	Doclingdocling-project/docling
HVTrust score	70.2	89.6
Evidence grade	B	A
Coverage grade	A	A
Overall rank	#327	#23
Rank in Research & Data	#6	#1
GitHub stars	84.7k	68.3k
Last updated	8d ago	today
Build provenance	No	Yes
OSSF Scorecard	4.8 / 10	5.2 / 10
License	Apache-2.0	MIT
Downloads	359k/wk	756k/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	8.0	18.8
Identity & provenance / 18	10.8	18.0
Transparency / 17	12.6	12.9
Maintenance / 20	17.9	20.0
Adoption / 20	19.2	19.4
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server	—	Implemented
External providers	1 — OpenAI	1 — OpenAI
Requires API keys	Yes	No
Plugin surface	marketplace	plugins
Provenance drift	Match	Unknown

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How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.4 →