Ollagraph vs Crawlbase
Crawlbase (formerly ProxyCrawl) pairs a scraping API with crawling and optional result storage. Ollagraph overlaps on scraping and crawling, adds intelligence and agent tooling — and deliberately does not retain your scraped content.
What Crawlbase does well
Crawlbase offers a mature scraping and crawling API with a large proxy pool, plus optional cloud storage and a screenshots API. For teams that want crawling plus managed storage of results in one vendor with a long track record, it's a capable option.
Where Ollagraph goes further
- No content retention, by design. Ollagraph returns your data and keeps URL-level metadata only — we don't store the scraped content itself. That's a deliberate privacy posture, not a missing feature.
- Structured output for LLMs. Clean markdown plus JSON-LD / OpenGraph extraction in the same call.
- Domain intelligence. DNS/WHOIS/SSL/enrichment alongside the crawl.
- Agent-native. Browser automation with natural-language actions and a Model Context Protocol server.
Side by side
| Feature | Crawlbase | Ollagraph |
|---|---|---|
| Scraping API with proxies | Yes | Yes |
| Full-site crawler | Yes | Yes |
| Managed storage of scraped results | Yes (optional) | By design, not stored |
| Clean markdown output for LLMs | Not native | Native |
| Domain intelligence (DNS/WHOIS/SSL) | Not offered | Included |
| MCP server for AI agents | Not offered | Included |
| Free to start | Trial | 1,000 credits |
Who each is best for
Teams that specifically want managed cloud storage of crawled results inside the same vendor, plus a long-established proxy pool.
Teams who want scraping plus intelligence plus actors plus automation — and who prefer that their scraped content is never retained by the vendor.
Sources & further reading
The standards behind every tool in this comparison, for readers who want the primary sources rather than our summary of them:
- Web scraping (Wikipedia) — the category these tools operate in, with its technical and legal background.
- RFC 9309 — Robots Exclusion Protocol (IETF, 2022) — the robots.txt standard a responsible crawler honors.
- JSON-LD 1.1 (W3C Recommendation) — the structured-data format these tools extract.
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Lewis et al., 2020) — the AI pattern most of this web data ultimately feeds.
Common questions
Does Ollagraph store my scraped data like Crawlbase's storage option?
No, and that's deliberate. We return your results and keep only URL-level metadata for your usage and observability — the scraped content itself is never persisted. If you need the vendor to hold a copy of crawled pages, Crawlbase's storage is the better fit; if you'd rather it never be retained, that's our default.
Can Ollagraph crawl whole sites like Crawlbase?
Yes. The crawl endpoint walks a site within depth and budget limits, obeys robots.txt, and delivers results to a webhook — comparable to a managed crawler, returned to you rather than stored on our side.
How does pricing compare?
Ollagraph prices in credits — 1 per call, refunds on failure — with pay-as-you-go from $5 and 1,000 free credits. Compare against Crawlbase's current plans on their pricing page.
Try Ollagraph free.
1,000 credits, one bearer token, every endpoint. Decide for yourself.