crawl4ai vs earshot

MCP rivals. Both tagged mcp, ai-agents. Six rounds of real GitHub data, an AI referee, and the crowd picks a side.

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unclecode/crawl4ai: 87,213 stars, Python. Official Crawl4AI Cloud: a hosted web scraping, extraction, and search API for AI agents. Free API key, 1,000 credits a month, no card. Ful…
Leonxlnx/earshot: 4,484 stars, Python. Ears for coding agents: let AI hear, review and make sound. CPU-only, open source.

crawl4ai vs earshot: tale of the tape

GitHub data as of November 11, 2026

crawl4ai has 19.4 times as many GitHub stars as earshot (87,213 vs 4,484). In the last 6 days, earshot gained more stars: +532 (+13.5%) against +272 (+0.3%) for crawl4ai. crawl4ai saw more development in the last 52 weeks with 418 commits, against 38 for earshot. crawl4ai is the older project (created May 2024), earshot started in October 2026. Both are written mainly in Python.

	unclecode/crawl4ai	Leonxlnx/earshot
Stars	87,213	4,484
Stars gained, last 6 days	+272	+532
Growth, last 6 days	+0.3%	+13.5%
Avg. stars per day since creation	95	166
Forks	9,088	289
Commits, last 52 weeks	418	38
Open issues	331	4
Best Repocharts rank today	#31 in AI	#41 in Rising
Language	Python	Python
License	Apache-2.0	MIT
Created	May 9, 2024	Oct 15, 2026
Last push	Nov 10, 2026	Nov 6, 2026

Quick answers

Which is more popular, crawl4ai or earshot?

crawl4ai has 19.4 times as many GitHub stars as earshot (87,213 vs 4,484) (Repocharts data as of November 11, 2026).

Which is growing faster, crawl4ai or earshot?

In the last 6 days, earshot gained more stars: +532 (+13.5%) against +272 (+0.3%) for crawl4ai.

Which is more actively developed?

crawl4ai saw more development in the last 52 weeks with 418 commits, against 38 for earshot.

What languages are crawl4ai and earshot written in?

Both are written mainly in Python.

How does RepoClash compare crawl4ai and earshot?

RepoClash scores both repositories in six rounds (popularity, momentum, activity, community, maintenance and freshness) from public GitHub data, adds an AI referee's verdict and lets developers vote for their favorite. Star counts are updated daily.