diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl.ts
index f31e81f0..40ceafa4 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl.ts
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ export async function crawlController(req: Request, res: Response) {
         pageOptions: pageOptions,
         origin: req.body.origin ?? defaultOrigin,
         crawl_id: id,
+      }, {
+        priority: 1, // prioritize request 0 of crawl jobs same as scrape jobs
       });
       await addCrawlJob(id, job.id);
     }
diff --git a/apps/api/src/services/queue-jobs.ts b/apps/api/src/services/queue-jobs.ts
index 5e679bfc..0f0d2c99 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/services/queue-jobs.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/services/queue-jobs.ts
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ export async function addScrapeJob(
   jobId: string = uuidv4(),
 ): Promise<Job> {
   return await getScrapeQueue().add(jobId, webScraperOptions, {
+    priority: webScraperOptions.crawl_id ? 2 : 1,
     ...options,
     jobId,
-    priority: webScraperOptions.crawl_id ? 2 : 1,
   });
 }