Crawl4AI vs GPT Researcher
Crawl4AI leads on trust: 71.3/100 (Grade B) against 63.0/100 (Grade C), a 8.3-point gap. Crawl4AI leads on maintenance and adoption; GPT Researcher leads on supply-chain integrity and transparency.
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. Join our Discord https://discord.gg/VuxzM8mtf
Choose Crawl4AI if maintenance and adoption matter most.
- +5.1Maintenance: last push 1d ago, against 24d ago
- +3.4Adoption: 358.1k weekly downloads against 6.9k
An autonomous agent that conducts deep research on any data using any LLM providers
Choose GPT Researcher if supply-chain integrity and transparency matter most.
- +2.7Safety / Integrity: 49% of recent commits signed, against 28%
- +1.1Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 6.2 against 4.9
Where they differ
1 dimension identical: Identity 10.8 · Full evidence table
An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Crawl4AI and GPT Researcher, 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 | GPT Researcherassafelovic/gpt-researcher |
|---|---|---|
| HVTrust score | 71.3 | 63.0 |
| Evidence grade | B | C |
| Coverage grade | A | A |
| Overall rank | #339 | #600 |
| Rank in Research & Data | #7 | #13 |
| GitHub stars | 86.8k | 30.4k |
| Last updated | 1d ago | 24d ago |
| Build provenance | No | No |
| OSSF Scorecard | 4.9 / 10 | 6.2 / 10 |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Downloads | 358k/wk | 7k/wk |
| Trust dimensions (points earned) | ||
| Safety / integrity / 25 | 7.5 | 10.2 |
| Identity & provenance / 18 | 10.8 | 10.8 |
| Transparency / 17 | 12.7 | 13.8 |
| Maintenance / 20 | 19.3 | 14.2 |
| Adoption / 20 | 19.3 | 15.9 |
| Runtime capability surface (full matrix) | ||
| MCP server | — | Implemented |
| External providers | 1 — OpenAI | 5 — Firecrawl, Google Gemini, Multi-provider (LiteLLM), … |
| Requires API keys | Yes | Yes |
| Plugin surface | marketplace | plugins |
| Provenance drift | Match | Unknown |
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 →