Best Jina.ai alternatives

Crawl4AI is an async Python crawler built for LLM workloads. It outputs noise-free Markdown or JSON, supports CSS/XPath or LLM-driven extraction, and (since v0.6) adds Regex extraction plus chunk-level BM25 scoring. You self-host it, so you’re free to run on-prem, attach your own embedding model, or bolt on a custom reranker.

Firecrawl is a SaaS API that takes a single URL (and every internal link it finds) and returns clean Markdown or structured JSON. It executes client-side JavaScript, deduplicates boilerplate, and can handle sitemaps or ad hoc URLs. It’s ideal when you need fast page-to-vector text without running infrastructure.

LLM Scraper is a TypeScript library that turns any page into a JSON schema you define, using OpenAI function calling under the hood. Version 1.6 adds Vercel AI SDK 4 support, better type safety, and code-generation helpers. Perfect when you want structured entities (prices, specs, FAQs) instead of free-form embeddings.

GPT-Crawler uses Playwright to crawl documentation sites and automatically produces a “knowledge file” (Markdown + metadata JSON) that you can upload directly to ChatGPT Custom GPTs or the Assistants API. If you’re migrating knowledge bases into GPT storefronts, it’s plug-and-play.

Describe your extraction flow in natural language (“scroll, click, paginate”), and ScrapeGraphAI converts it into an LLM-directed graph and executes it asynchronously in a browser. It handles login-gated or multi-step sites that break conventional crawlers and exports JSON, CSV, or Pandas for downstream embedding.