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Site Search From Your Crawls — Fast, Typo-Tolerant, No Meters · Crawlie

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Engage / Search▊<br>Blazing-fast site search, without the cost. Set up in minutes.<br>Turn the crawl you've already run into typo-friendly site search. Add the ready-made search box or use the API. There's no second indexing pipeline to babysit.<br>Add search to your site free→ Try search on this site⌘K

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[::] live preview — click around Acme/Search<br>Search ⌘K SR

⌘ K 2 results in 14 msSorted by relevance<br>Simple pricing, based on pages crawlie.co/pricingpricingStart free, then pay for the number of pages you crawl. Invite as many teammates as you like.<br>Exact title match · pricing intent Plans and billing crawlie.co/help/billing/planshelpWhat each plan includes, how crawl credits work, and when your allowance resets.<br>Phrase match · documentation boost Scheduled crawls crawlie.co/help/crawling/scheduled-crawlshelpChoose when Crawlie runs and who gets notified when something changes.<br>Exact phrase match

why it wins<br>Why it wins<br>Built different where it counts.

░ One line of HTML<br>Paste the snippet and get a polished search dialog with keyboard controls, dark mode and mobile already handled.

▒ Indexes shaped like your site<br>Search the whole site, only your docs, or several properties at once. The index rebuilds after every crawl.

▓ Analytics that write your roadmap<br>See what people search for and where they come up empty. That's your next content brief, already written.

vs Algolia<br>Search shouldn't punish success<br>Crawlie builds the index from a crawl you already run, so there are no per-record fees at any volume. Free on every plan while in beta — and at GA, every plan includes a search allowance with extra queries at $0.04 per 1,000, about 12× cheaper per search than Algolia.<br>No per-record or indexing fees, ever<br>Included searches on every plan — 10,000 to 1,000,000 a month<br>Beyond that: $0.04 per 1,000 searches (Algolia charges ~$0.50 per 1,000)<br>Free while in beta, on every plan<br>Set up site search →

[::]250k searches / month ✕ Algolia Grow $120 /mo<br>✕ Algolia Grow Plus $420 /mo<br>✕ AddSearch $119+ /mo<br>✓ Crawlie Search (Pro) $0 beta · ~$6 at GA

Crawl to search box<br>Three steps. No indexing project.<br>Crawlie already has the pages. You’re just choosing which ones belong in this search experience.<br>Guide: site search setup →<br>01Pick your sources<br>Use a monitored site, a frozen report or several properties together.<br>acme.comdocs.acme.comhelp.acme.com

02Shape the index<br>Include /docs/, exclude /archive/, and keep private or canonicalised pages out.<br>+ /docs/*+ /help/*− /help/archive/*

03Paste one line<br>Use the ready-made search dialog or call the public JSON API.<br>Copy

vs hosted search<br>Search shouldn’t charge you three times for the same content.<br>Traditional hosted search can meter records, indexing and queries separately. Crawlie turns the crawl you already use into the index.<br>Build an index free →<br>Crawlie Search Traditional hosted search<br>Content pipelineYour existing crawl Build and maintain one<br>Record feesNone in beta Often metered<br>Query feesNone in beta Often metered<br>FreshnessRebuilds after crawls Wire up syncing<br>Several sitesOne index Plan the ingestion

4,218 searches<br>42 ms average<br>81% clicked

Top queriespricing418<br>api keys289<br>scheduled crawls241

Content gapswordpress plugin0 results<br>bulk export0 results<br>sso0 results

More than a search box<br>Your visitors write the content roadmap for you.<br>See the queries people use, what they click and what returns nothing. Every result also explains why it ranked, so relevance isn’t a guessing game.<br>BM25 ranking, typo tolerance and phrase queries<br>Exact title and phrase-match reasons on every hit<br>Automatic rebuilds from monitored sources<br>⌘K, slash shortcut, dark mode and mobile included

agents welcome<br>Agent-native<br>Your agents get the same superpowers.

Everything on this page is a tool call away. The hosted MCP server exposes<br>18 tools — crawls, reports, fixes, monitoring — and the REST API speaks the<br>same JSON. One key, no scraping, no glue code.

Hosted MCP endpoint for Claude, Cursor and any MCP client<br>REST API with the same capabilities, self-describing<br>Open-source CLI + local MCP if you'd rather stay on your machine<br>Works with<br>Claude Cursor Copilot Codex Gemini Windsurf + any MCP client

Install the MCP→ REST API docs →

Add search to our docs site.<br>✓ crawl_site index built from the crawl ✓ GET /pub/search?q=setup top hit in 12 ms<br>Search is live. One script tag embeds the widget, and the index refreshes with every crawl. Free while in beta.

FAQ<br>Questions, answered straight.<br>Explore the docs →<br>01 How does Crawlie build the search index? + From crawls you already run. Pick a monitored site, a single report or several properties together, scope it by route if you like, and the index...

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