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Crawl4AI vs WrenAI

WrenAI leads on trust: 85.7/100 (Grade A) against 71.3/100 (Grade B), a 14.4-point gap. Crawl4AI leads on maintenance and adoption, and rests on broader evidence; WrenAI leads on supply-chain integrity and provenance. Note: WrenAI's evidence coverage is thinner (coverage B vs A) — its score rests on fewer independent signal types.

B Crawl4AI 71.3

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

unclecode/crawl4ai · #339 overall · #7 Research & Data · coverage A (4/5)

Choose Crawl4AI if maintenance and adoption matter most.

  • +6.3Adoption: 358.1k weekly downloads against 121
  • +0.8Maintenance
  • A vs BEvidence coverage: 4 of 5 independent signal types, against 3
A WrenAI 85.7

GenBI (Generative BI) for AI agents, an open-source, governed text-to-SQL through an open context layer that turns natural-language questions into trusted dashboards, charts, and SQL across 20+ data sources, such as BigQuery, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Amazon Redshift, Databricks and more.

Canner/WrenAI · #89 overall · #4 Research & Data · coverage B (3/5)

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

  • +11.6Safety / Integrity: 94% of recent commits signed, against 28%
  • +7.2Identity / Provenance: package provenance attested, against none
  • +0.5Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 5.5 against 4.9

Where they differ

7.5
Safety / IntegrityWrenAI +11.6
19.1
10.8
Identity / ProvenanceWrenAI +7.2
18.0
12.7
TransparencyWrenAI +0.5
13.2
19.3
MaintenanceCrawl4AI +0.8
18.5
19.3
AdoptionCrawl4AI +6.3
13.0
+1.7
Runtime calibrationWrenAI +2.2
+3.9

Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Crawl4AI and WrenAI, 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 WrenAICanner/WrenAI
HVTrust score 71.3 85.7
Evidence grade B A
Coverage grade A B
Overall rank #339 #89
Rank in Research & Data #7 #4
GitHub stars 86.8k 18.0k
Last updated 1d ago 1d ago
Build provenance No Yes
OSSF Scorecard 4.9 / 10 5.5 / 10
License Apache-2.0 NOASSERTION
Downloads 358k/wk 121/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25 7.5 19.1
Identity & provenance / 18 10.8 18.0
Transparency / 17 12.7 13.2
Maintenance / 20 19.3 18.5
Adoption / 20 19.3 13.0
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server — Implemented
External providers 1 — OpenAI 3 — Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Postgres
Requires API keys Yes No
Plugin surface marketplace plugins
Provenance drift Match Match
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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 →