# Context.dev vs Spider (slim)

> Context.dev scores 78.2 (A) to Spider's 74.1 (BB) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Context.dev scores 78.2 (A) on agent readiness against Spider's 74.1 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Spider leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do scraping. Spider accepts x402. Context.dev doesn't.

- Context.dev: A 78.2, rank #15 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/context-dev.min.md
- Spider: BB 74.1, rank #79 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spider-cloud.min.md
- Context.dev, good 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 Schema & documentation, 96 against 87; Agent ergonomics, 90 against 70; Security & auth, 83 against 42; Transparency & trust, 73 against 66. Also Free to start without a card.
- Spider, good for An agent that has to start without a human, pay per call, or crawl many small pages cheaply. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 67; Payments & pricing, 96 against 50. Also An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Context.dev | Spider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 67 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 96 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 90 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 83 | 42 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 96 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 73 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Context.dev | Spider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Context Dev Inc. | Spider (BAGELMEN LLC) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.context.dev/v1` | `https://api.spider.cloud` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for scraping | $0.79 per 1,000 pages | $0.50 per 1,000 requests |
| x402 | no | yes, from $0.0005/call |
| Licence | none | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 42 | 22 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `cloud.spider/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-07-19 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-01 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 5 stars, 62k npm/wk, 10k PyPI/wk | 2.7k stars, 2.7k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (8) |