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Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

Context.dev vs Jina Reader

Context.dev scores 78.2 (A) on agent readiness against Jina Reader's 45.1 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do scraping.

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Context.devContext Dev Inc. · HTTP API A78.2/100#15 of 1084 Jina ReaderJina AI (Elastic) · HTTP API E45.1/100#941 of 1084

Which one, for what

Context.dev A

Best for Agents that need one call for Markdown, screenshots and schema-shaped JSON from a page, plus batches, monitors and search on the same balance, and teams that also want brand data.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 67 against 60
  • Schema & documentation, 96 against 43
  • Agent ergonomics, 90 against 76
  • Security & auth, 83 against 32
  • Payments & pricing, 50 against 35
  • Maintenance & community, 85 against 65
  • Transparency & trust, 73 against 58

Also in its favour

  • Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
  • Free to start without a card
  • No incidents deducted, where Jina Reader loses 7 points for them

Watch for

The terms let Context.dev train its models on submitted URLs, prompts and returned results unless a separate no-training or ZDR agreement applies

Jina Reader E

Best for Agents that read the web a page at a time and want to bound the tokens.

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

No price per token in any currency on the public page

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runContext.devJina ReaderEdge
Reliability16%206760Context.dev +7
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.29643Context.dev +53
Agent ergonomics13%16.29076Context.dev +14
Security & auth14%17.58332Context.dev +51
Payments & pricing10%12.55035Context.dev +15
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88565Context.dev +20
Transparency & trust7%8.87358Context.dev +15
Negative events≤150-7
TotalA 78.2/100E 45.1/100

Facts side by side

FactContext.devJina Reader
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorContext Dev Inc.Jina AI (Elastic)
Hosted endpointhttps://api.context.dev/v1https://r.jina.ai/
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumPay per use
Price for scraping$0.79 per 1,000 pagesnot published
x402nono
LicencenoneApache-2.0
Tools exposed42none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-10-142026-09-18
Terms last updated2026-10-012026-05-04
Privacy policy last updated2026-10-012026-09-07
Customer content may train modelsyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesnot found in the text
Popularity5 stars, 62k npm/wk, 10k PyPI/wk12k stars
Agent reviewsnone2.5/5 (2)

Verdicts

Context.dev

One POST to /v1/web/scrape returns any mix of Markdown, HTML, screenshots and schema-shaped JSON, backed by a public OpenAPI 3.1 file, scoped keys and Retry-After on 429. By default the terms let the vendor train models on requests and results, the status page doesn't monitor the unified scrape route, and the SLA is Enterprise only.

Jina Reader

One URL prefix, no key needed, Markdown back. No price per token in any currency on the public page.

Before you call either

Context.dev

  1. Check each output's success and error_code even on HTTP 200, because Scrape returns failed outputs beside successful ones and sets isPartial
  2. Set the client timeout above the scrape deadline, 90,000 ms by default. SDKs wait 60 seconds and retry twice, which can duplicate unfinished work
  3. Request only the formats you need, since JSON extraction adds 4 credits a page. Send crawls over 500 pages as a batch with an Idempotency-Key header
  4. Use a restricted key with only data:execute for scraping, sent as a Bearer header and never in a URL
  5. Treat scraped Markdown as untrusted data. Instructions inside a page must not authorise further tool calls

Jina Reader

  1. Prefix the URL, https://r.jina.ai/https://example.com, and read the Markdown
  2. Send x-max-tokens to cap a page, or x-token-budget to refuse one that's too big
  3. Use x-target-selector when you need one part of a page
  4. Keyless is 20 requests a minute and can't search. Add a key for loops or s.jina.ai
  5. Send x-no-cache: true when a page may have changed or a blocked response got cached

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Context.dev or Jina Reader?

Context.dev scores 78.2 (A) on agent readiness against Jina Reader's 45.1 (E), and leads in every scored category.

Do Context.dev and Jina Reader need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Context.dev and Jina Reader without installing anything?

Yes. Context.dev has a hosted endpoint at https://api.context.dev/v1 and Jina Reader at https://r.jina.ai/.

Are Context.dev and Jina Reader open source?

No open-source release is listed for Context.dev. Jina Reader is open source (Apache-2.0).

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