Best Jina.ai alternatives

Find the best alternatives to Jina.ai that help you search, crawl, chunk, and embed web data for AI-powered RAG and semantic search.

RAG Web Browser

RAG Web Browser starts with a Google query, grabs the top search results you choose (e.g., the first 10 links), and converts each page into clean, chunked Markdown. The API response already includes titles, URLs, and text blocks, so you can push it straight to a vector DB or feed it to OpenAI Assistants via Model Context Protocol (MCP). It runs headless Chrome under the hood, bypasses anti-bot measures with proxies and browser fingerprints, and supports both dynamic and static sites, making it a drop-in “search-and-scrape” step for any Jina-style pipeline.

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Crawl4AI

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

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

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

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.

ScrapeGraphAI

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.

Website Content Crawler

Website Content Crawler is Apify’s flagship deep crawler. It strips headers/footers, solves CAPTCHAs, downloads linked files, and exports Markdown, plain text, or HTML. Built-in connectors for LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, and major vector stores let you stream the output straight into your RAG pipeline. This makes it a solid alternative to Jina.ai for enterprise-scale volume without managing servers.

Jina.ai alternatives comparison table

RAG Web Browser

Search-first

Google query + crawl

Vector-ready output

Chunked Markdown

JavaScript handling

Headless browser

Scalability

Cloud Actor

Proxy rotation

Built-in

Best for

Search-first RAG pipelines

Search-first

Vector-ready output

JavaScript handling

Scalability

Proxy rotation

Best for

RAG Web Browser

Google query + crawl

Chunked Markdown

Headless browser

Cloud Actor

Built-in

Search-first RAG pipelines

Crawl4AI

Sitemap / list input

Markdown / JSON

Async browser

Self-host + async

External setup

Open-source crawling

Firecrawl

Markdown

Headless browser

SaaS API

External setup

Quick Markdown API

LLM Scraper

JSON schema

Depends on puppeteer

Library-level

Schema-driven JSON

GPT-Crawler

Knowledge file

Headless browser

Self-host or cloud

Yes

Docs→GPT upload

Scrape GraphAI

JSON / CSV

Full browser control

Distributed agents

Yes

Complex multi-step flows

Website Content Crawler

Markdown / HTML

Headless Chrome

Cloud Actor

Yes

Large, multi-site crawls

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