# BrowserAct vs ScrapingAnt (slim)

> BrowserAct scores 44.4 (E) to ScrapingAnt's 35.8 (F) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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BrowserAct scores 44.4 (E) on agent readiness against ScrapingAnt's 35.8 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingAnt leads on reliability, agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do scraping.

- BrowserAct: E 44.4, rank #1204 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browseract.min.md
- ScrapingAnt: F 35.8, rank #1371 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.min.md
- BrowserAct, good for Teams that want no-code, prompt-built scrapers an agent can rerun on a schedule. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 76 against 43; Security & auth, 41 against 10; Maintenance & community, 61 against 5.
- ScrapingAnt, good for A low-volume agent that wants cheap rendered fetches and a tiny tool list, and doesn't need an audit trail. Ahead on Reliability, 30 against 23; Agent ergonomics, 66 against 49; Payments & pricing, 40 against 25; Transparency & trust, 56 against 44. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | BrowserAct | ScrapingAnt |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 23 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 43 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 49 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 41 | 10 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 61 | 5 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 44 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | BrowserAct | ScrapingAnt |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Hongkong Ziniao Technology Co., Limited | ScrapingAnt (DATAANT) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.browseract.com/mcp/` | `https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Tools exposed | none | 3 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-11-05 | 2024-07-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-05-15 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-05-15 | no date given |
| Popularity | none | 90 npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |

Why the edge:
- Maintenance & community, BrowserAct +56: BrowserAct 61 (browser-act-cli 1.6.2 on 5 November 2026, read from PyPI's release feed (30). Six CLI releases from 15 October to 5 November (20). A closed service with a support address, but no public changelog or issue tracker found (8). No official SDKs and no entry in the official MCP registry (0). The CLI package carries no licence or repository in its metadata (3). 30 + 20 + 8 + 0 + 3 = 61.); ScrapingAnt 5 (No changelog or dated API change found, and the newest SDK release is Python 2.1.0 on 2024-07-16 (0). No releases in the last 90 days (0). No public changelog. Support by email (3 of 15). The JavaScript client was last released 2022-05-06, the MCP server isn't in the official registry, and the only registry entry is a third-party wrapper (0). The Python client has a code-check workflow, but neither SDK has moved in over two years (2 of 10).)
- Schema & documentation, BrowserAct +33: BrowserAct 76 (An OpenAPI 3.0.3 document behind the API reference (25). llms.txt on both the site and the docs, with Markdown pages (10). Endpoint descriptions explain the run flow (find a bot, read its input_schema, then run) and when to use the lighter status endpoint (14). Inputs are typed, but a run's input is an object shaped by each bot's own schema (10). Examples per endpoint and named error codes such as 10879 and 10127; no full error table found (10). The path carries v3, but no changelog was found (7). 25 + 10 + 14 + 10 + 10 + 7 = 76.); ScrapingAnt 43 (No OpenAPI or Swagger spec found. The MCP docs give a typed parameter table for the 3 tools (8 of 25). docs.scrapingant.com/llms.txt returns 404 and no Markdown twins were found (0). MCP descriptions are one line each, such as Fetch a URL and return raw HTML content, with no when-to-use guidance (8 of 20). Few parameters, typed, with proxy_type as an enum of `datacenter` or `residential` (10 of 15). Request examples on every docs page and an errors page with 8 status codes and their meanings (12 of 15). Versioned paths (v1 and v2) and no changelog (5 of 15).)
- Security & auth, BrowserAct +31: BrowserAct 41 (One account-wide API key type, revocable and listed with last-used time, but without scopes or expiry (18). Confirmation Required mode holds purchases and asset creation or deletion for approval in the BrowserAct page (14). Scraped pages are untrusted, and no prompt-injection guidance was found (3). Keys show last use and runs keep logs (6). No security page, disclosure policy, certification or bug bounty found (0). 18 + 14 + 3 + 6 + 0 = 41.); ScrapingAnt 10 (One account API key with no scopes, and we found no documented rotation or revocation (10). API Basics tells you to send x-api-key as a query parameter, a documented option, so less 10 (0 of 30). The header form works and the SDKs use it. No read-only mode, and /v2/general can send POST, PUT and DELETE to target sites with no confirmation step (5 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance found for the HTML, Markdown or text it returns (0 of 15). The Ant-credits-cost header and a subscription status endpoint show spend per call. No request log found (5 of 15). No security.txt, disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification found (0 of 20).)
- Agent ergonomics, ScrapingAnt +17: BrowserAct 49 (Graded on the API, since the MCP tool list isn't published. Task results come back whole, with no field selection found (10). Lists of bots, templates and tasks are paginated (15). Errors carry numeric codes with documented meanings for a few cases (12). No idempotency key on task creation; webhooks and a status endpoint avoid polling loops (5). No official SDK in two languages; the CLI is Python (7). 10 + 15 + 12 + 5 + 7 = 49.); ScrapingAnt 66 (3 compact MCP tools (25). Markdown and text endpoints, AI extraction, wait-for-selector and a JSON extended response, but no output-size limit on the MCP tools (12 of 20). 8 documented status codes, and 422 returns a detail field (14 of 20). Requests are reads of third-party pages and failures aren't billed, but there are no tool annotations or retry guidance beyond 423 (5 of 20). Only url is required, though browser defaults to true at 10 credits. Python and JavaScript clients exist but are stale (10 of 15).)
- Payments & pricing, ScrapingAnt +15: BrowserAct 25 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices and credit costs per bot build, run and workflow step are public, but there is no direct per-call price (15). A free plan with 200 credits; whether it needs a card isn't stated (10). A person signs up and creates the key in the dashboard (0). 0 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 25.); ScrapingAnt 40 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Credit costs per request type (1 to 125) and plan prices are public (20). 10,000 free credits a month, no card (20). A person signs up in a browser (0).)
- Transparency & trust, ScrapingAnt +12: BrowserAct 44 (Closed service with published terms naming the operating company and governing law (15). The privacy policy of 15 May 2025 states retention by category and that crawled data is kept per plan and deletable by the user (15). No deprecation policy or notices found (0). No sub-processors or data locations named (3). 15 + 15 + 0 + 3 = 33.); ScrapingAnt 56 (Closed service with terms naming DATAANT SP. Z O.O., registered in Poland (KRS 0000848755). The SDKs are Apache 2.0 (15 of 30). The privacy policy, last updated 3 November 2020, gives 12-month retention after an account closes, names processors and mentions DPAs with clients. It predates the MCP server and AI extractor, and doesn't say whether scraped content is stored (18 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (0). Processors and locations named, Sendgrid in Ireland, Paddle in the UK, Google Analytics and Amazon hosting in the USA (15 of 20).)