{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "bright-data", "name": "Bright Data", "vendor": "Bright Data", "vendorUrl": "https://brightdata.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Web Unlocker, SERP API, a hosted Browser API and residential proxies, with an official MCP server wrapping them.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bright-data.json", "repo": "https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.brightdata.com/request", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@brightdata/mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Bearer key for the API. Keys take a role (Admin, Finance, Ops, Limit or User) and an optional expiry. Proxy-style access uses Basic auth on port 44445. The hosted MCP takes the key as `?token=` in the URL by default, or OAuth 2.1 (PKCE S256, scope `mcp`) with an `Authorization: Bearer` header. MCP agent keys are listed separately in account settings and can be revoked.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "5,000 free requests a month including MCP, no card. Web Unlocker and SERP $1.50 per 1,000 successful requests, $1.30 on Scale ($499 a month). Browser API $8 a GB (https://brightdata.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$1.50 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 69, "popularity": { "githubStars": 2600, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-26" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.brightdata.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.brightdata.com/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.github.brightdata/brightdata-mcp", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.search", "browser.hosted", "web.crawl" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "proxies" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.8, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 572, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 82, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 40, "reliability": 35, "schema": 74, "security": 57, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Pay only for successful requests, $1.50 per 1,000 on Web Unlocker and SERP. No public status page or incident history.", "bestFor": "Hard targets and site-specific structured data (Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Maps) at volume.", "strengths": [ "Pay only for successful requests, $1.50 per 1,000 on Web Unlocker and SERP", "5,000 free requests a month with no card", "Five tools by default out of 69, with groups for e-commerce, social, browser and more", "Role-based API keys with expiry, and OAuth 2.1 with PKCE on the hosted MCP", "ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II and a private bug bounty" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public status page or incident history", "The default hosted MCP URL carries the key as `?token=`", "No prompt-injection guidance for scraped content", "No retention periods, DPA or subprocessor list in the privacy policy", "MCP registry entry lags npm by two minor versions" ], "agentNotes": [ "Connect with OAuth or keep the `?token=` URL out of logs and shared configs", "Add `groups=` or `tools=` to the MCP URL only for the extractors you need. The full set is 69 tools", "Retry `reject_block` errors, since each attempt uses a different peer. Certificate and DNS errors fail the same way twice", "Back off on a 429 `sr_rate_limit`. Bright Data throttles a target whose success rate drops", "Use the batch tools for up to 10 searches or scrapes in one call" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 82, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 40, "reliability": 35, "schema": 74, "security": 57, "transparency": 43 }, "provenanceScore": 75 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.brightdata.com/request -H \"Authorization: Bearer $BRIGHTDATA_TOKEN\" \\\n -H \"content-type: application/json\" -d '{\"zone\":\"web_unlocker1\",\"url\":\"https://example.com\",\"format\":\"raw\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http brightdata \"https://mcp.brightdata.com/mcp?token=$BRIGHTDATA_TOKEN\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/bright-data" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Web Unlocker", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1.5, "note": "successful requests only" }, { "item": "Web Unlocker on Scale", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1.3, "note": "$499 a month plan" }, { "item": "SERP API", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1.5 }, { "item": "Browser API", "unit": "gb", "usd": 8 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Bright Data Ltd.", "domain": "brightdata.com", "domainRegistered": "2002-05-26", "domainNote": "brightdata.com was registered in 2002, long before the rename from Luminati.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://brightdata.com/license", "privacy": "https://brightdata.com/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.brightdata.com/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-26", "score": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data.json", "live": { "slug": "bright-data", "probe": { "target": "https://api.brightdata.com/request", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-15T11:29:48.548966805Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 258, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 99.85, "p50ms24h": 262, "p95ms24h": 332, "samples24h": 254, "samples30d": 4751, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-27", "probes": 132, "ok": 132 }, { "date": "2026-09-28", "probes": 285, "ok": 284 }, { "date": "2026-09-29", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 245 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 246 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 246 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 123, "ok": 123 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "brightdata/brightdata-mcp", "version": "v3.0.0", "released": "2026-10-11", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:42:34.374527835Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.brightdata/brightdata-mcp", "version": "3.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-15T04:34:40.660646921Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@brightdata/mcp", "version": "3.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:42:33.542988016Z" } ], "githubStars": 2677, "npmWeekly": 16203, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://brightdata.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T15:46:45.958101725Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.brightdata.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T14:13:32.936825085Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "brightdata.com", "registered": "2002-05-26", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/brightdata.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:21:22.227465067Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.brightdata.com/release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T20:57:55.15946777Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:04:47.841998162Z", "fingerprint": "4f0c2c932c30" }, { "url": "https://brightdata.com/license", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T20:54:35.000853738Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-12T19:46:08.775326381Z", "fingerprint": "38fd891847e2" }, { "url": "https://brightdata.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T20:54:37.324979215Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:06:06.965309303Z", "fingerprint": "f1156dadf590" }, { "url": "https://brightdata.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T20:54:39.13346702Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:06:08.938073625Z", "fingerprint": "31d5a2dede1c" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T11:29:48.548966805Z" } }, "answer": "jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Bright Data's 59.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Bright Data leads on payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "jevcrawl", "name": "jevcrawl", "vendor": "Rayen Mlayeh", "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh", "kind": "mcp", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "jevcrawl is an open-source MCP server and CLI that crawls a website toward a question and returns only the relevant passages, verbatim with source URLs. TypeSafe's hosted Jev decision model scores the pages, passages and links.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json", "repo": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh/jevcrawl", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "jevcrawl" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A TypeSafe API key in the `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` environment variable, created at console.typesafe.ai, is needed for `crawl`, `map` and `scrape` with a goal. `scrape` without a goal makes no Jev call and works with no key. The README says the key is never written to disk or logs.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "The package is free under Apache-2.0. Decisions are billed by TypeSafe for Jev at $0.042 per million input tokens, with output tokens free. The README gives an average of $0.011 per crawl in its benchmark, and `max_decision_usd` (default $0.05) caps each call. We found no free Jev tier.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the source or README (checked 2026-10-15). Jev is paid through a TypeSafe account and key.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 3, "popularity": { "githubStars": 60, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 204, "asOf": "2026-10-15" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh/jevcrawl#readme", "capabilities": [ "web.crawl", "web.extract", "web.scrape", "scraping.js-render" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "apache-2.0", "python", "mcp", "cli", "agent-skill", "usage-priced", "alpha" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 409, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 68, "payments": 30, "reliability": 68, "schema": 81, "security": 59, "transparency": 45 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-15" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Three compact, typed MCP tools return verbatim passages with source URLs, cost and stop reasons, and errors arrive as codes with instructions. The project is three days old and alpha, it depends on TypeSafe's paid Jev API, which is in early access with no free tier found, and it does not block crawls of private or local addresses.", "bestFor": "An agent that must find one answer several clicks deep on a documentation or help site and wants a few thousand tokens back instead of whole pages.", "strengths": [ "Three tools with typed inputs, sensible defaults and descriptions that say when to use `crawl`, `scrape` or `map`", "Every result reports pages fetched, tokens, Jev cost in dollars and why the crawl stopped, with a hard per-call spending cap", "Returned text is copied from the page with URL, heading path, character offsets and a page hash, so quotes can be checked", "174 offline tests, ruff and mypy strict pass in CI on Python 3.11 and 3.13, with PyPI trusted publishing", "Follows robots.txt by default since v0.1.1, and SECURITY.md sets out private reporting with a one-week answer" ], "weaknesses": [ "First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer", "`crawl` and `map` need a paid TypeSafe key, and TypeSafe describes Jev as early access with no free tier found", "Page text from every crawl goes to TypeSafe, whose policies give no retention period", "No check against private, loopback or link-local addresses, so an agent can point it at internal hosts", "No MCP tool annotations, no llms.txt and no entry in the official MCP registry" ], "agentNotes": [ "Phrase `goal` as one specific question and start with `max_pages` between 10 and 30", "Check `stats.stopped_because` and `stats.degraded`, and read `uncertain` before reporting that something is missing", "Use `scrape` without a goal when you need a whole page, since it makes no paid Jev call and needs no key", "Handle `{\"error\": code, \"message\": ...}` results, for example `auth_error` means `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` is missing or rejected", "Pages in `stats.needs_js_urls` were not read. Tell the user rather than guessing their content" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 63.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 68, "payments": 30, "reliability": 68, "schema": 81, "security": 59, "transparency": 63 }, "provenanceScore": 27 }, "connect": { "install": "uv tool install jevcrawl", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add jevcrawl -e TYPESAFE_API_KEY=\u003cyour key\u003e -- uvx jevcrawl", "config": { "mcpServers": { "jevcrawl": { "args": [ "jevcrawl" ], "command": "uvx", "env": { "TYPESAFE_API_KEY": "\u003cyour key\u003e" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.crawl", "tool": "https://letme.dev/jevcrawl" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Jev 1.13 input tokens, billed by TypeSafe", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.042, "note": "Output tokens free. The package itself is free" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "github.com/RayenMlayeh", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh/jevcrawl/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-15", "notes": [ "An individual's open-source project under Apache-2.0. pyproject.toml names Rayen Mlayeh as author, and the GitHub profile names no company or website.", "No vendor domain. The domain line names the GitHub account and scores no domain age.", "Software the owner runs, so there are no service terms or privacy policy of its own. Page text goes to TypeSafe AI, Inc. under TypeSafe's customer agreement and privacy policy (see the typesafe-jev listing).", "The repository has a SECURITY.md that points to GitHub private vulnerability reporting. No website, so no security.txt.", "The changelog is the GitHub release notes. v0.1.0's notes are only a link to the commit list." ], "score": 27 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "MCP server", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Bright Data", "b": "Rayen Mlayeh", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.brightdata.com/request", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "69", "b": "3", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "io.github.brightdata/brightdata-mcp", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-09-15", "b": "2026-10-15", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-06-16", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-14", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "2.6k stars", "b": "60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "4/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Bright Data's 59.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Bright Data leads on payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Bright Data or jevcrawl?" }, { "answer": "Bright Data takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. jevcrawl needs an API key.", "question": "Do Bright Data and jevcrawl need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Bright Data has a hosted endpoint at https://api.brightdata.com/request. jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.", "question": "Can an agent call Bright Data and jevcrawl without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Bright Data. jevcrawl is open source (Apache-2.0).", "question": "Are Bright Data and jevcrawl open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 68", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 45" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Hard targets and site-specific structured data (Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Maps) at volume.", "slug": "bright-data", "watchFor": "No public status page or incident history" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 68 against 35", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 74" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "An agent that must find one answer several clicks deep on a documentation or help site and wants a few thousand tokens back instead of whole pages.", "slug": "jevcrawl", "watchFor": "First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer" } ], "job": { "capability": "web.scrape", "name": "Scraping" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-context-dev.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Context.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-context-dev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-diffbot.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Diffbot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-diffbot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-jina-reader.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Jina Reader", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-jina-reader" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-olostep.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Olostep", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-olostep" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapegraphai.json", "title": "Bright Data vs ScrapeGraphAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapegraphai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapeless.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Scrapeless", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapeless" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Bright Data vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Bright Data vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Bright Data vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Bright Data vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Context.dev vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-jina-reader.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Jina Reader", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-jina-reader" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zyte.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-firecrawl-mcp.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Firecrawl MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-firecrawl-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-bright-data.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Bright Data", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapeless" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Diffbot vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-jevcrawl" } ], "scores": [ { "bright-data": 35, "by": 33, "edge": "jevcrawl", "jevcrawl": 68, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bright-data.json\n- jevcrawl: grade B, 63.7/100, rank #409 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json\n- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md\n- All 204 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Bright Data (C)\n\nGood for: Hard targets and site-specific structured data (Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Maps) at volume.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 68\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No public status page or incident history\n\n### jevcrawl (B)\n\nGood for: An agent that must find one answer several clicks deep on a documentation or help site and wants a few thousand tokens back instead of whole pages.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 68 against 35\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 74\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Bright Data | jevcrawl | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 68 | jevcrawl +33 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 81 | jevcrawl +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 80 | Bright Data +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 59 | jevcrawl +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | Bright Data +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 68 | Bright Data +16 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 45 | Bright Data +14 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **59.8 · C** | **63.7 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Bright Data | jevcrawl |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |\n| Vendor | Bright Data | Rayen Mlayeh |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.brightdata.com/request` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 69 | 3 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.brightdata/brightdata-mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-15 | 2026-10-15 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-06-16 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-14 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n| Popularity | 2.6k stars | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Bright Data.** Pay only for successful requests, $1.50 per 1,000 on Web Unlocker and SERP. No public status page or incident history.\n\n**jevcrawl.** Three compact, typed MCP tools return verbatim passages with source URLs, cost and stop reasons, and errors arrive as codes with instructions. The project is three days old and alpha, it depends on TypeSafe's paid Jev API, which is in early access with no free tier found, and it does not block crawls of private or local addresses.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Bright Data\n\n1. Connect with OAuth or keep the `?token=` URL out of logs and shared configs\n2. Add `groups=` or `tools=` to the MCP URL only for the extractors you need. The full set is 69 tools\n3. Retry `reject_block` errors, since each attempt uses a different peer. Certificate and DNS errors fail the same way twice\n4. Back off on a 429 `sr_rate_limit`. Bright Data throttles a target whose success rate drops\n5. Use the batch tools for up to 10 searches or scrapes in one call\n\n### jevcrawl\n\n1. Phrase `goal` as one specific question and start with `max_pages` between 10 and 30\n2. Check `stats.stopped_because` and `stats.degraded`, and read `uncertain` before reporting that something is missing\n3. Use `scrape` without a goal when you need a whole page, since it makes no paid Jev call and needs no key\n4. Handle `{\"error\": code, \"message\": ...}` results, for example `auth_error` means `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` is missing or rejected\n5. Pages in `stats.needs_js_urls` were not read. Tell the user rather than guessing their content\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Bright Data or jevcrawl?\n\njevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Bright Data's 59.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Bright Data leads on payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Bright Data and jevcrawl need an API key?\n\nBright Data takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. jevcrawl needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Bright Data and jevcrawl without installing anything?\n\nBright Data has a hosted endpoint at https://api.brightdata.com/request. jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.\n\n### Are Bright Data and jevcrawl open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Bright Data. jevcrawl is open source (Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-jevcrawl.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-jevcrawl.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"bright-data\", \"b\": \"jevcrawl\"}`. 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