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Crawl4AIvsWinter CMS

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

Crawl4AIWinter CMS
Score86/10062/100
Rank in category#2 of 16 in Web Scraping#16 of 42 in Content Management
GitHub stars86 4931 522
Stars, last 30 days+2 273+2
Stable releases, 12 months97
Latest releasev0.9.5 · 14 Oct 2026v1.2.14 · 19 Aug 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languagePythonPHP

Which one should you pick?

Crawl4AI scores 86/100 against 62/100 for Winter CMS, so it is the safer default.

Crawl4AI ships more often: 9 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for Winter CMS.

Crawl4AI is growing faster right now (+2 273 stars in 30 days).

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