{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "crw", "name": "fastCRW", "vendor": "Nanofy OÜ", "vendorUrl": "https://fastcrw.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "fastCRW is a Firecrawl-compatible scraping engine in Rust from Nanofy OÜ in Estonia. It turns pages into Markdown or JSON and searches, maps and crawls sites, as an AGPL-3.0 self-hosted binary or a hosted API with an MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crw", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crw.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crw.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crw.json", "dns": "crw.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw", "license": "AGPL-3.0", "transports": [ "stdio", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://fastcrw.com/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "crw-mcp" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "crw-sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "crw" }, { "registry": "cargo", "name": "crw-server" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "ghcr.io/fastcrw/crw" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Hosted API at api.fastcrw.com takes `Authorization: Bearer crw_live_...` keys from the fastcrw.com dashboard after a browser signup (GitHub or email). The hosted MCP server at fastcrw.com/mcp takes OAuth 2.1 (PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, one scope `mcp:tools`) or the key in the URL path as fastcrw.com/mcp/\u003cAPI_KEY\u003e. No key scopes found. A self-hosted engine needs no key unless `[auth] api_keys` is set.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "500 one-off credits with no card, plus up to 500 more from onboarding tasks. Hobby $13 a month for 5,000 credits, Standard $69 for 100,000, Growth $279 for 500,000, Scale $549 for 1,000,000 (less with yearly billing). One credit a page on any renderer, search 2. Failed pages refunded, top-ups never expire. Self-hosting is free.", "priceSummary": "$13 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the pricing page, the credit-costs and agent-onboarding docs, or the OpenAPI spec (checked 2026-11-06). A 402 on the hosted API means an exhausted credit balance (`errorCode: insufficient_credits`) with an upgrade URL header, not a payment requirement.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 11, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1200, "npmWeekly": 881, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.fastcrw.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.fastcrw.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/blob/main/docs/openapi.json", "registryName": "io.github.fastcrw/crw", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.crawl", "web.extract", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.proxies", "web.search", "web.fetch" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "local", "open-source", "self-hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "mcp-registry", "llms-txt", "openapi", "rust", "eu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-04", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 478, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 91, "maintenance": 93, "payments": 35, "reliability": 50, "schema": 91, "security": 40, "transparency": 60 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Agents get 11 compact, annotated MCP tools with bounded output, a public OpenAPI spec, refunds on failed pages and a free self-hosted engine. The hosted service has no status history, publishes no SLA terms, names its operator only on the support page, and documents an MCP address with the API key in the URL path.", "bestFor": "Agents that want Firecrawl-style scrape, crawl, map, search and extract at lower per-page cost, or a small self-hosted engine.", "strengths": [ "11 MCP tools, each annotated readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and idempotentHint, with output capped near 15,000 characters and a resume offset", "Public OpenAPI 3.1 spec, llms.txt and an error page that says which codes to retry and which to stop on", "Failed and blocked pages are refunded, every renderer costs 1 credit, and top-up credits never expire", "Released 16 times in the 90 days to 6 November 2026, with five open issues on GitHub", "AGPL-3.0 engine runs self-hosted with no account, and MIT Python and TypeScript SDKs" ], "weaknesses": [ "The status page shows a live check and an uptime objective but no incident history", "The hosted MCP address fastcrw.com/mcp/\u003cAPI_KEY\u003e puts the key in the URL path as a documented option", "Terms and privacy policy name no legal entity, give no retention periods and name no DPA; only the support page names Nanofy OÜ", "No SLA terms beyond an Enterprise mention, no security.txt and no certification found", "No machine payment protocol, and hosted keys need a person to sign up in a browser" ], "agentNotes": [ "Connect to https://fastcrw.com/mcp with OAuth rather than the /mcp/\u003cAPI_KEY\u003e address, so the key stays out of URLs and logs", "Branch on `errorCode`. Stop on 402 insufficient_credits or llm_not_available, and on 429 wait for Retry-After before retrying", "Check `success` as well as the HTTP status, since an anti-bot wall answers 200 with `success: false` and `errorCode: anti_bot`", "Pass `startIndex` from a truncated result to read the rest of a long page instead of setting `maxLength: 0`", "Use native /v1 routes for new work; /firecrawl/v2 is for Firecrawl SDK migrations and keeps the older 429 for empty balances" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 91, "maintenance": 93, "payments": 35, "reliability": 50, "schema": 91, "security": 40, "transparency": 53 }, "provenanceScore": 67, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npx -y crw-mcp@latest install", "http": "curl -X POST https://api.fastcrw.com/v1/scrape -H \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"url\":\"https://example.com\",\"formats\":[\"markdown\"]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/crw" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Hobby plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 13, "note": "5,000 credits; $11 a month billed yearly" }, { "item": "Standard plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 69, "note": "100,000 credits; $59 a month billed yearly" }, { "item": "Hobby top-up", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 9, "note": "one credit scrapes one page on any renderer" }, { "item": "Scale top-up", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 0.6, "note": "$299 for 500,000 credits" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Nanofy OÜ", "domain": "fastcrw.com", "domainRegistered": "2026-03-05", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://fastcrw.com/terms", "privacy": "https://fastcrw.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://fastcrw.com/status", "changelog": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "Nanofy OÜ (registry code 17365846, Sepapaja tn 6, Tallinn) is named as operator on fastcrw.com/support. The terms (last updated 4 April 2026) and the privacy policy (undated) name only fastCRW and 'the jurisdiction in which fastCRW operates'.", "The terms forbid crawling sites against their terms or robots.txt and put responsibility for targets on the customer. No clause forbids automated access to fastcrw.com itself.", "fastcrw.com/robots.txt allows all crawlers except account, API and login paths; docs.fastcrw.com/robots.txt allows all.", "RDAP gives fastcrw.com a registration date of 5 March 2026.", "fastcrw.com/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. SECURITY.md in the repository names security@fastcrw.com and GitHub private vulnerability reporting." ], "score": 67 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crw.json", "live": { "slug": "crw", "probe": { "target": "https://fastcrw.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:19.526009674Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 156, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 80, "p95ms24h": 153, "samples24h": 200, "samples30d": 200, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 187, "ok": 187 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://fastcrw.com/status", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T04:47:35.720864858Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "fastcrw/crw", "version": "v0.42.1", "released": "2026-11-06", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:18:48.669809831Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.fastcrw/crw", "version": "0.42.1", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "crw-mcp", "version": "0.42.1", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:18:46.329470936Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "crw-sdk", "version": "0.42.1", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:18:46.739900633Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "crw", "version": "0.42.1", "released": "2026-11-06", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:18:48.550796676Z" } ], "githubStars": 1230, "npmWeekly": 881, "pypiWeekly": 441, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://fastcrw.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:50.596126033Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.fastcrw.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:32:13.945191217Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fastcrw/crw/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:20:49.992321515Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "572aa4127341" }, { "url": "https://fastcrw.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:09:41.233044196Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "56adab90a2ac" }, { "url": "https://fastcrw.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:09:43.278176432Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "4f55b83dc108" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:19.526009674Z" } }, "answer": "fastCRW scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Outcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "outcrawl", "name": "Outcrawl", "vendor": "Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl)", "vendorUrl": "https://outcrawl.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Outcrawl is a hosted web layer for AI agents with scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers over CDP and agent runs on one credit balance, reached through a REST API, TypeScript and Python SDKs, a CLI and a remote MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/outcrawl.json", "dns": "outcrawl.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/outcrawlai/scout", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@outcrawl/sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "outcrawl" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Two bearer credentials. An API key shaped `ock_\u003ckeyId\u003e.\u003csecret\u003e` is minted in the console, shown once, stored as a digest, scoped to one workspace and revocable within a minute; it works on the REST API and the MCP server as `Authorization: Bearer`, with no per-key scopes or read-only keys documented. An OAuth 2.1 access token `oat_...` comes from signing in, through the authorization code flow with PKCE S256 and dynamic client registration for MCP clients (the server at https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp answers 401 with protected-resource metadata naming https://outcrawl.ai/api/auth) or the RFC 8628 device flow for the CLI, with scopes `api` and `offline_access`, access tokens of one hour and refresh for 30 days while in use; removing a member from a workspace cuts their tokens off at once. Console sign-in is Google, GitHub, an email code or a magic link behind reCAPTCHA.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 1,000 credits a month, no card, 2 concurrent browsers and 120 requests a minute, on a person's first workspace only. Builder $49 a month for 10,000 credits (5 browsers, 300 requests a minute), Pro $199 for 50,000 (25, 1,500), Scale $799 for 250,000 (100, 6,000), Enterprise custom with a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime SLA. Rates in credits are the same on every plan, 1 a page for scrape, crawl and rendered search results, 5 per 10 search results, 1 a minute of browser time, 2,000 a GB of proxy traffic, 1 a monitor check, and agent runs at model usage plus browser time plus proxy usage, about 15 credits a minute as the vendor's estimate. Extra credits cost $49.00 per 10,000 on Builder and Free, $39.80 on Pro and $31.96 on Scale, never expire, and auto top-up is capped monthly. Every response carries a `usage` object with its cost; a cached scrape answer bills the same credit as a live fetch, a cancelled crawl keeps billing the pages it fetched, and a search every engine refuses bills nothing (https://outcrawl.ai/pricing and https://outcrawl.ai/docs/billing/pricing, checked 2026-11-02).", "priceSummary": "$4.90 / 1k pages", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI file, llms-full.txt, the pricing pages or the terms (checked 2026-11-02). Plans and top-ups are paid by card through Stripe in the console.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 29, "popularity": { "githubStars": 948, "npmWeekly": 53, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-02" }, "docsUrl": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.crawl", "web.extract", "web.search", "browser.hosted", "browser.control", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.screenshot" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "oauth", "api-key", "cli", "python", "typescript", "proxies", "browser", "agents", "credits", "free-tier", "no-card", "freemium", "no-status-page", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-20", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 558, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 15, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 71, "security": 66, "transparency": 56 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-02" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago.", "bestFor": "Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.", "strengths": [ "Per-unit rates published without a login, 1 credit a page or browser minute and 5 credits per 10 search results, with the dollar cost per plan and every response carrying its own `usage`", "Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card, 2 concurrent browsers and 120 requests a minute, usable over the API, the SDKs, the CLI and MCP", "OAuth 2.1 with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, device code for the CLI, a revocation endpoint and one-hour access tokens, beside workspace-scoped keys shown once and stored as a digest", "A closed error union in one envelope with a documented list of codes safe to retry, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, and MCP errors that carry a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag", "MCP tool descriptions that each name what the tool is not for and which tool is, with secrets and integrations kept off the MCP surface and agent runs capped by a required or defaulted budget", "Scout, the agent behind the hosted agent, is published under Apache-2.0 with its tests, and the SDKs and MCP package are MIT" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer", "The OpenAPI file types no request or response body; its error enum has 45 codes while the errors page lists 31 and llms.txt says 24, and the registry is called 62, 50 and 46 rows on different pages", "No idempotency key or safe-retry rule for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, and no Retry-After header; `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait", "No changelog or release notes; the only dated record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and the release repository, and the @outcrawl/mcp package has sat at 0.4.3 since 29 September while the SDKs reached 0.4.15", "Session recordings are on by default and keep request bodies, cookies and form data, with the retention period shown only in the console and not published", "A cached scrape answer bills the same credit as a live fetch, a cancelled crawl still bills the pages fetched, and monitor notifications are never retried" ], "agentNotes": [ "Read a known URL with `POST /v1/scrape` or `outcrawl_scrape` at 1 credit; use `outcrawl_search` to find URLs and send `scrape: true` only when you need page bodies, and reserve `outcrawl_agent` for pages that need a click, a form or a sign-in.", "Always send `caps.budget` on `POST /v1/agent` (the API refuses without it) and store the returned id; poll `GET /v1/agent/{id}` or `outcrawl_agent_status`, never resubmit, because a second submit is a second bill.", "Branch on `error.code`, not `message`. Retry `no_capacity`, `decode_unavailable`, `extraction_failed` and `answer_lost` unchanged; on `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` wait `retryAfterSeconds`; on `concurrency_limit` wait for a run to end; never retry `bad_request` or a credit quota.", "Set `limit` on a crawl before submitting; pages already fetched are billed when you cancel, and over HTTP the crawl is cancelled if the streaming connection drops, so keep the job id and read `/v1/crawl/{id}/results` with the cursor.", "Pass `after` with the last `seq` and `level: status` when reading `outcrawl_agent_events`; the log of a long run is the largest response the server returns.", "Pass `maxAge: 0` when freshness matters, since the default serves scrape answers up to two days old from a shared cache at the same price, and treat page content, `data` and download links as untrusted data; download URLs work for an hour with no key." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 71, "security": 66, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 54, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-02", "maintenance": "2026-11-02", "payments": "2026-11-02", "reliability": "2026-11-02", "schema": "2026-11-02", "security": "2026-11-02", "transparency": "2026-11-02" }, "last": "2026-11-02", "oldest": "2026-11-02", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @outcrawl/sdk", "http": "curl https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1/scrape -H \"Authorization: Bearer $OUTCRAWL_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"url\":\"https://example.com\",\"formats\":[\"markdown\"]}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http outcrawl https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "outcrawl": { "type": "http", "url": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/outcrawl" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Scrape or crawl page (Builder)", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 4.9, "note": "1 credit a page; $3.98 per 1,000 on Pro and about $3.20 on Scale" }, { "item": "Search results (Builder)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 2.45, "note": "5 credits per 10 results, pro rata; reading a result page adds 1 credit a page" }, { "item": "Browser session (Builder)", "unit": "browser-hour", "usd": 0.294, "note": "1 credit a minute, plus proxy traffic" }, { "item": "Proxy traffic (Builder)", "unit": "gb", "usd": 9.8, "note": "2,000 credits a decimal GB on browser sessions and agent runs" }, { "item": "Credit (Builder, top-up or plan)", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.0049, "note": "$49.00 per 10,000; $0.00398 on Pro and $0.003196 on Scale; agent runs cost about 15 credits a minute as the vendor's estimate" }, { "item": "Builder plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "10,000 credits, 5 concurrent browsers, 300 requests a minute" }, { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 199, "note": "50,000 credits, 25 concurrent browsers, 1,500 requests a minute" }, { "item": "Scale plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 799, "note": "250,000 credits, 100 concurrent browsers, 6,000 requests a minute" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Aeonmind LLC (trading as Outcrawl)", "domain": "outcrawl.ai", "domainRegistered": "2026-08-28", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://outcrawl.ai/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://outcrawl.ai/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-02", "notes": [ "The terms of service and the privacy policy, both last updated 1 November 2026, name Aeonmind LLC, trading as Outcrawl, governed by Delaware law with disputes in Delaware courts; the privacy policy calls it a United States company. No postal address is given. The footer reads © 2026 Aeonmind LLC and Scout's licence notice names the same company.", "RDAP at rdap.identitydigital.services gives a registration date of 2026-08-28 for outcrawl.ai, last changed 2026-09-02, with Cloudflare nameservers. The REST API and the MCP server are on api.outcrawl.ai and the OAuth authorization server on outcrawl.ai.", "firstReleased is 2026-09-08, the first npm publish of @outcrawl/sdk 0.1.0, which is also the day the outcrawlai GitHub organisation was created; PyPI's first release followed on 22 September 2026 and the Wayback Machine's first copy of the home page is 15 October 2026. lastRelease is 2026-10-20, version 0.4.15 on npm and PyPI.", "https://outcrawl.ai/.well-known/security.txt and https://api.outcrawl.ai/.well-known/security.txt answer 404. The security page has a responsible disclosure section with security@outcrawl.ai, a 90-day window and a no-legal-action statement for good-faith reports. /status, /changelog, /blog and /about on outcrawl.ai answer 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer; no changelog or release notes exist on either host.", "robots.txt on outcrawl.ai allows every named crawler and `*`, disallows /console, /admin, /api/ and /og/ (except PNG and JPG files), and carries `Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes`. api.outcrawl.ai disallows /play/, /replay/, /v1/, /mcp, /connect, /agent, /internal/ and /operator/; none of those paths was fetched, and the OAuth metadata documents were read as the listing check allowed.", "The vendor's own benchmark claim of 92.5 per cent pages reached, the 'orders of magnitude' cost language in tool descriptions and the human input model measurements are the vendor's claims. No MCP registry entry exists for outcrawl (search answers an empty list)." ], "score": 54 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.json", "live": { "slug": "outcrawl", "probe": { "target": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:45.056941891Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 391, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 312, "p95ms24h": 543, "samples24h": 239, "samples30d": 1168, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 61, "ok": 61 }, { "date": "2026-11-03", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 246, "ok": 246 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 241, "ok": 241 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 187, "ok": 187 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@outcrawl/sdk", "version": "0.4.15", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:53:52.37717781Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "outcrawl", "version": "0.4.15", "released": "2026-10-20", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:53:53.382311357Z" } ], "githubStars": 768, "npmWeekly": 122, "pypiWeekly": 49, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://outcrawl.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:24.954980306Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:33:34.758418325Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs/billing/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:15:45.583072809Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "62845cf7d95d" }, { "url": "https://outcrawl.ai/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:15:55.073922161Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2fd364e0d0d5" }, { "url": "https://outcrawl.ai/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:15:47.807555382Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-04T08:29:08.543028067Z", "fingerprint": "24ef8720ec76" }, { "url": "https://outcrawl.ai/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:15:49.924467903Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "5d7197f607d7" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:46:36.529917303Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:46:36.529917303Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:45.056941891Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 26, "category": "security", "leads": "outcrawl", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "The hosted MCP server publishes RFC 9728 metadata naming its own authorisation server, with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration and one scope, `mcp:tools`, and the API takes revocable Bearer keys from the dashboard. No key scopes or second scope found (22). The authentication page documents fastcrw.com/mcp/\u003cAPI_KEY\u003e as a way in, a key in the URL path, so less 10 (12 of 30). Tools mostly read, and data-source calls check approvals, but there is no read-only key or confirmation step for monitors (8 of 20). Managed LLM extraction, summaries and answers wrap scraped text in a nonce fence (crates/crw-extract/src/untrusted.rs), and the hardening guide treats pages as untrusted, but the MCP docs give agents no guidance on scraped content (7 of 15). Each response reports `creditsUsed`; no per-call log in the docs (5 of 15). SECURITY.md names security@fastcrw.com and GitHub private reporting with a 48-hour acknowledgement, and CI runs CodeQL and OpenSSF Scorecard. security.txt answers 404, and no bounty or certification found (8 of 20). 12 + 8 + 7 + 5 + 8 = 40.", "b": "OAuth 2.1 for MCP clients and the CLI with authorization code, PKCE S256, dynamic public-client registration, device code, one-hour access tokens, 30-day refresh, introspection and revocation endpoints and private_key_jwt, but one functional scope, `api`; API keys shaped `ock_\u003ckeyId\u003e.\u003csecret\u003e` are shown once, stored as a digest, scoped to a workspace and revoked within a minute, with no per-key scopes, expiry or read-only keys; nothing documents a secret in a query string (25 of 30). No read-only key or scope. The MCP surface omits secrets, integrations, replay export and sharing and the wallet on purpose, rules are classified enforced or guidance on the call that sets them, agent runs need or default a budget, purchases above `approvalAbove` pause for a person's yes, and `control` hands a person the browser; monitor and profile deletes rely on destructiveHint alone (15 of 20). Every tool returns untrusted page content. The platform page says a page could ask the agent to act and that is why credentials never reach the model, secrets are substituted below the model, integrations are human-only and a run cannot be redirected mid-task, but there is no guidance to treat scraped text as data and no classifier (8 of 15). Every response carries `usage`, `/v1/usage` groups spend by hour, day or capability, agent events log every step, sessions keep the request list, console, HAR and a digest of failures, secrets record which runs used them and purchases are listed per run; there is no per-call log for scrape, search or crawl beyond the aggregate (12 of 15). No security.txt on either host (404), no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, no bug bounty; the security page has a responsible disclosure route at security@outcrawl.ai with a 90-day window and a no-legal-action statement (6 of 20). 25+15+8+12+6 = 66." }, "scores": { "a": 40, "b": 66 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "schema", "leads": "crw", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "OpenAPI 3.1 for 11 paths at version 0.41.0 in docs/openapi.json, checked against the server in CI, and typed JSON Schema inputs on every MCP tool (25). llms.txt (86 lines), llms-full.txt and Markdown sources for every docs page (10). Tool descriptions state purpose and how to chain them (crawl returns a job id to poll, map returns URLs only, extract needs an LLM), and the docs have a choose-an-endpoint page, but few descriptions say when not to use a tool (14 of 20). Inputs are typed with required fields and a renderer enum, though crawl and extract take a free-form JSON Schema object (12 of 15). Examples on every page and an errors page with each HTTP status, errorCode and next step (15). Semver releases with a dated CHANGELOG that flags breaking changes (15). 25 + 10 + 14 + 12 + 15 + 15 = 91.", "b": "API reading, with the MCP server described. An OpenAPI 3.1 document at https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json lists 62 operations over 51 paths with a summary each and the same 11 status codes, generated from the vendor's capability registry, but every request body is an untyped object marked `additionalProperties: true` with a pointer to the docs, every 200 response is an untyped object, and `Error` is the only schema; the typed shapes live in the SDK declarations and in the MCP server's zod schemas, which were read in the 0.4.3 npm package rather than from the hosted server (15 of 25). llms.txt and a 525 KB llms-full.txt on the docs, a Markdown twin of every page and an llms.txt on the site (10). The MCP descriptions each end with a `Not for:` clause naming the better tool and most with a `Cost:` clause, the OpenAPI summaries say when not to use a route, and the capability pages say which neighbour to use instead (18 of 20). Scrape formats are an enum of eight, event levels and record kinds are enums, `caps.budget` is required, and the SDK types bound every option, while the OpenAPI bodies carry none of it (10 of 15). curl, TypeScript and Python examples on every page, 20 worked programs, a 31-row error table with meanings and a retryable list, and MCP errors with a `recovery` string, though the closed union is sized 24, 31, 45 and 22 on different pages (13 of 15). `/v1` in the path and 1.0.0 in the OpenAPI file, but no changelog or release notes anywhere; the record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and 14 dated tags in the outcrawlai/release repository (5 of 15). 15+10+18+10+13+5 = 71." }, "scores": { "a": 91, "b": 71 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "crw", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "v0.41.0 on 4 November 2026, matching the registry and npm (30). 16 dated releases in the 90 days from 8 August, from 0.37.0 to 0.41.0 (20). Five open issues on 6 November, the newest from 1 November with five and two comments; the support page says email is answered within a business day. Reply authors weren't read (18 of 25). In the official MCP registry as io.github.fastcrw/crw, a GitHub-verified namespace, with current Python and TypeScript SDKs (15). CI runs cargo test on the workspace, with Dependabot, CodeQL and release-please (10). 30 + 20 + 18 + 15 + 10 = 93.", "b": "@outcrawl/sdk and the PyPI package outcrawl both reached 0.4.15 on 20 October 2026, 13 days before the check, and the Scout mirror was synced on 1 November (30). 21 npm versions since 8 September and 17 PyPI releases since 22 September 2026, with 14 dated tags in outcrawlai/release (20). Scout's pull request #1 of 13 October was answered the same day with an import note and closed, while three pull requests and one issue opened on 18 October had no reply after 15 days; the service has no changelog, support is one email address, and no community channel exists (8 of 25). Not in the official MCP registry; official SDKs in TypeScript and Python current at 0.4.15, with a CLI (15). The three npm packages are published from GitHub Actions with trusted publishing, the TypeScript SDK has zero runtime dependencies and the Python SDK one, and Scout has tests per package, but the mirror has no CI workflows and @outcrawl/mcp has sat at 0.4.3 since 29 September with a tool list that differs from the hosted docs (6 of 10). 30+20+8+15+6 = 79." }, "scores": { "a": 93, "b": 79 } }, { "by": 8, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "crw", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "11 compact MCP tools, two of them the data-source tools added in 0.41.0. Content is capped near 15,000 characters with `truncated: true` and a resume offset, and map returns at most 100 URLs by default (20 of 25). Formats, main-content filtering, include and exclude selectors, maxLength, startIndex, limit and crawl depth and page caps (20). Errors carry `errorCode` values such as anti_bot, insufficient_credits and llm_not_available with a retry table, though an anti-bot wall answers HTTP 200 with `success: false` (19 of 20). Every tool sets readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and idempotentHint, cancel is idempotent and failed pages are refunded, but job starts take no idempotency key (17 of 20). Only `url` is required, with official Python and TypeScript SDKs (15). 20 + 20 + 19 + 17 + 15 = 91.", "b": "API reading. Scrape returns main content only by default with `formats` picking markdown, html, rawHtml, links, screenshots or schema JSON, search renders page bodies only on request, agent events take a `level` and an `after` cursor, the MCP server shows request bodies up to a character limit and says when it truncated, and the MCP surface is 29 tools with no toolsets (20 of 25). Cursor pagination on crawl results, agent results and downloads, `limit`, depth and path filters on crawl, status, outcome, task and age filters on sessions, and usage grouped by hour, day, month or capability (20). One error envelope with a closed `code`, `details` such as the cap that stopped a run, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, a documented list of codes safe to retry, and on MCP a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag per error (18 of 20). No idempotency key on any route, a repeated agent, crawl or monitor submit runs twice, and `concurrency_limit` carries no retry hint; cancel is idempotent, `integration_changed` (409) guards updates, and the npm MCP package sets readOnlyHint on GET tools, destructiveHint on DELETE tools and idempotentHint on either, which the hosted server was not read to confirm (10 of 20). Scrape needs a URL alone, agent runs need `caps.budget` on the API and SDKs with the MCP server defaulting it, and official SDKs exist in TypeScript and Python beside a CLI (15). 20+20+18+10+15 = 83." }, "scores": { "a": 91, "b": 83 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "reliability", "leads": "crw", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Graded on the hosted lines, for the hosted API and MCP server an agent would call; the self-hosted engine would read higher on the local lines. fastcrw.com/status is a first-party page with a live health check and a 99.9% monthly uptime objective, but no components with history (10 of 20). It lists no incidents and keeps no history we could read (5). Concurrency per plan is published, 3 on Free to 150 on Scale, while the request-rate guard above it is deliberately unpublished (12 of 15). The rate-limits page documents Retry-After and X-RateLimit headers, gives exponential backoff code, and separates 429 (retry) from 402 (stop). No idempotency keys for crawl, extract or monitor starts (13 of 15). Pricing mentions an SLA only as 'Premier + SLA' on Enterprise, with no terms, and the terms promise no uptime (0). The hosted service is sold on paid plans with no beta label, though the engine is at 0.41.0 (10). 10 + 5 + 12 + 13 + 0 + 10 = 50.", "b": "Hosted reading, for the REST API with the MCP server that shares its limits. No public status page was found. None is linked from the site or the docs, https://outcrawl.ai/status answers 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer (0). No readable incident history, so the floor (5). Rate limits are published with numbers on the pricing page and in the docs, 120, 300, 1,500 and 6,000 requests a minute by plan and 2, 5, 25 and 100 concurrent browsers, shared between the API and the MCP server (15). Over the per-minute ceiling the API answers `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` and `retryAfterSeconds`, read from the SDK error class and the worked examples, the errors page lists four codes as safe to retry unchanged, and `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait for a run to end; no Retry-After header is documented and no idempotency key or safe-retry rule exists for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, which the agent tool's own description says bill twice on a repeat (10 of 15). An SLA exists only on Enterprise, a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime figure with service credits and terms priced per contract, so half credit for a published figure without published terms (5 of 10). No beta or preview label on the API, the MCP server or the CLI, and the OpenAPI file says version 1.0.0, though both SDKs are at 0.4.15 and the domain is nine weeks old (10). 0+5+15+10+5+10 = 45." }, "scores": { "a": 50, "b": 45 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "payments", "leads": "outcrawl", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plans are public with credit costs per operation and top-up prices per block of credits, $9 per 1,000 on Hobby down to $299 per 500,000 on Scale, but top-ups need a plan, so between plan-only and per-unit (15 of 20). 500 one-off credits with no card, plus up to 500 from onboarding tasks (20). Hosted keys need a person to sign up in a browser; the free self-hosted engine runs with no account but isn't the graded surface (0). 0 + 15 + 20 + 0 = 35.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI file, the docs, the pricing pages or the terms (0). Per-unit rates published without a login, 1 credit a page, 5 credits per 10 search results, 1 credit a browser minute, 2,000 credits a GB and 1 credit a monitor check, with the dollar rate per plan ($4.90 per 1,000 credits on Builder down to about $3.20 on Scale), top-up prices per 10,000 and an estimate of about 15 credits a minute for agent runs (20). Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card, on a person's first workspace (20). A person signs in with Google, GitHub, an email code or a magic link behind reCAPTCHA, and MCP's OAuth consent needs that browser sign-in; no keyless route, no programmatic key creation (0). 0+20+20+0 = 40." }, "scores": { "a": 35, "b": 40 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Nanofy OÜ", "b": "Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://fastcrw.com/mcp", "b": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "not published", "b": "$4.90 per 1,000 pages", "name": "Price for scraping" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "AGPL-3.0", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "11", "b": "29", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "io.github.fastcrw/crw", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-11-04", "b": "2026-10-20", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-04-04", "b": "2026-11-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-11-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "1.2k stars, 881 npm/wk", "b": "948 stars, 53 npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "fastCRW scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Outcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, fastCRW or Outcrawl?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do fastCRW and Outcrawl need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. fastCRW has a hosted endpoint at https://fastcrw.com/mcp and Outcrawl at https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call fastCRW and Outcrawl without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "fastCRW is open source (AGPL-3.0). No open-source release is listed for Outcrawl.", "question": "Are fastCRW and Outcrawl open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 50 against 45", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 91 against 71", "Agent ergonomics, 91 against 83", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 93 against 79" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Agents that want Firecrawl-style scrape, crawl, map, search and extract at lower per-page cost, or a small self-hosted engine.", "slug": "crw", "watchFor": "The status page shows a live check and an uptime objective but no incident history" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 40", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.", "slug": "outcrawl", "watchFor": "No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer" } ], "history": null, "job": { "capability": "web.scrape", "name": "Scraping" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-crw.json", "title": "Bright Data vs fastCRW", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-crw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browseract-vs-crw.json", "title": "BrowserAct vs fastCRW", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browseract-vs-crw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browseract-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "BrowserAct vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browseract-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-crw.json", "title": "Context.dev vs fastCRW", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-crw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Context.dev vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crawl4ai-vs-crw.json", "title": "Crawl4AI vs fastCRW", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crawl4ai-vs-crw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crawl4ai-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Crawl4AI vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crawl4ai-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-decodo.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Decodo Web Data API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-decodo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-diffbot.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Diffbot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-diffbot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "fastCRW vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-jina-reader.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Jina Reader", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-jina-reader" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-microlink.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Microlink", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-microlink" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-olostep.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Olostep", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-olostep" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapegraphai.json", "title": "fastCRW vs ScrapeGraphAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapegraphai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapeless.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Scrapeless", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapeless" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapeops.json", "title": "fastCRW vs ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapeops" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "fastCRW vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapewise.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Scrapewise", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapewise" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "fastCRW vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "fastCRW vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-webscraping-ai.json", "title": "fastCRW vs WebScraping.AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-webscraping-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "fastCRW vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-zyte.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decodo-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Decodo Web Data API vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decodo-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Jina Reader vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microlink-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Microlink vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microlink-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Olostep vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapegraphai.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapeGraphAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapegraphai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeless.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapeless", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeless" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeops.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeops" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapewise.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapewise", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapewise" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-webscraping-ai.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs WebScraping.AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-webscraping-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-firecrawl-mcp.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Firecrawl MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-firecrawl-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-qovia.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Qovia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-qovia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapeatlas.json", "title": "fastCRW vs ScrapeAtlas", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapeatlas" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-soldfetch.json", "title": "fastCRW vs SoldFetch", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-soldfetch" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-qovia.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Qovia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-qovia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeatlas.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapeAtlas", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeatlas" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-soldfetch.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs SoldFetch", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-soldfetch" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-crw.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs fastCRW", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-crw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-outcrawl" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 5, "crw": 50, "edge": "crw", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "outcrawl": 45, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 20, "crw": 91, "edge": "crw", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "outcrawl": 71, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 8, "crw": 91, "edge": "crw", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "outcrawl": 83, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 26, "crw": 40, "edge": "outcrawl", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "outcrawl": 66, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "crw": 35, "edge": "outcrawl", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "outcrawl": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 14, "crw": 93, "edge": "crw", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "outcrawl": 79, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 4, "crw": 60, "edge": "crw", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "outcrawl": 56, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "fastCRW scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Outcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do scraping.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "crw": "Agents get 11 compact, annotated MCP tools with bounded output, a public OpenAPI spec, refunds on failed pages and a free self-hosted engine. The hosted service has no status history, publishes no SLA terms, names its operator only on the support page, and documents an MCP address with the API key in the URL path.", "outcrawl": "One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-outcrawl", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-outcrawl.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-outcrawl.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-outcrawl.min.md" }, "markdown": "fastCRW scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Outcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do scraping.\n\n- fastCRW: grade B, 64.3/100, rank #478 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crw.json\n- Outcrawl: grade B, 62.4/100, rank #558 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/outcrawl.json\n- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md\n- All 501 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### fastCRW (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that want Firecrawl-style scrape, crawl, map, search and extract at lower per-page cost, or a small self-hosted engine.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 50 against 45\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 91 against 71\n- Agent ergonomics, 91 against 83\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 93 against 79\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The status page shows a live check and an uptime objective but no incident history\n\n### Outcrawl (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 40\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Outcrawl +26\n\n- fastCRW (40): The hosted MCP server publishes RFC 9728 metadata naming its own authorisation server, with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration and one scope, `mcp:tools`, and the API takes revocable Bearer keys from the dashboard. No key scopes or second scope found (22). The authentication page documents fastcrw.com/mcp/\u003cAPI_KEY\u003e as a way in, a key in the URL path, so less 10 (12 of 30). Tools mostly read, and data-source calls check approvals, but there is no read-only key or confirmation step for monitors (8 of 20). Managed LLM extraction, summaries and answers wrap scraped text in a nonce fence (crates/crw-extract/src/untrusted.rs), and the hardening guide treats pages as untrusted, but the MCP docs give agents no guidance on scraped content (7 of 15). Each response reports `creditsUsed`; no per-call log in the docs (5 of 15). SECURITY.md names security@fastcrw.com and GitHub private reporting with a 48-hour acknowledgement, and CI runs CodeQL and OpenSSF Scorecard. security.txt answers 404, and no bounty or certification found (8 of 20). 12 + 8 + 7 + 5 + 8 = 40.\n- Outcrawl (66): OAuth 2.1 for MCP clients and the CLI with authorization code, PKCE S256, dynamic public-client registration, device code, one-hour access tokens, 30-day refresh, introspection and revocation endpoints and private_key_jwt, but one functional scope, `api`; API keys shaped `ock_\u003ckeyId\u003e.\u003csecret\u003e` are shown once, stored as a digest, scoped to a workspace and revoked within a minute, with no per-key scopes, expiry or read-only keys; nothing documents a secret in a query string (25 of 30). No read-only key or scope. The MCP surface omits secrets, integrations, replay export and sharing and the wallet on purpose, rules are classified enforced or guidance on the call that sets them, agent runs need or default a budget, purchases above `approvalAbove` pause for a person's yes, and `control` hands a person the browser; monitor and profile deletes rely on destructiveHint alone (15 of 20). Every tool returns untrusted page content. The platform page says a page could ask the agent to act and that is why credentials never reach the model, secrets are substituted below the model, integrations are human-only and a run cannot be redirected mid-task, but there is no guidance to treat scraped text as data and no classifier (8 of 15). Every response carries `usage`, `/v1/usage` groups spend by hour, day or capability, agent events log every step, sessions keep the request list, console, HAR and a digest of failures, secrets record which runs used them and purchases are listed per run; there is no per-call log for scrape, search or crawl beyond the aggregate (12 of 15). No security.txt on either host (404), no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, no bug bounty; the security page has a responsible disclosure route at security@outcrawl.ai with a 90-day window and a no-legal-action statement (6 of 20). 25+15+8+12+6 = 66.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: fastCRW +20\n\n- fastCRW (91): OpenAPI 3.1 for 11 paths at version 0.41.0 in docs/openapi.json, checked against the server in CI, and typed JSON Schema inputs on every MCP tool (25). llms.txt (86 lines), llms-full.txt and Markdown sources for every docs page (10). Tool descriptions state purpose and how to chain them (crawl returns a job id to poll, map returns URLs only, extract needs an LLM), and the docs have a choose-an-endpoint page, but few descriptions say when not to use a tool (14 of 20). Inputs are typed with required fields and a renderer enum, though crawl and extract take a free-form JSON Schema object (12 of 15). Examples on every page and an errors page with each HTTP status, errorCode and next step (15). Semver releases with a dated CHANGELOG that flags breaking changes (15). 25 + 10 + 14 + 12 + 15 + 15 = 91.\n- Outcrawl (71): API reading, with the MCP server described. An OpenAPI 3.1 document at https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json lists 62 operations over 51 paths with a summary each and the same 11 status codes, generated from the vendor's capability registry, but every request body is an untyped object marked `additionalProperties: true` with a pointer to the docs, every 200 response is an untyped object, and `Error` is the only schema; the typed shapes live in the SDK declarations and in the MCP server's zod schemas, which were read in the 0.4.3 npm package rather than from the hosted server (15 of 25). llms.txt and a 525 KB llms-full.txt on the docs, a Markdown twin of every page and an llms.txt on the site (10). The MCP descriptions each end with a `Not for:` clause naming the better tool and most with a `Cost:` clause, the OpenAPI summaries say when not to use a route, and the capability pages say which neighbour to use instead (18 of 20). Scrape formats are an enum of eight, event levels and record kinds are enums, `caps.budget` is required, and the SDK types bound every option, while the OpenAPI bodies carry none of it (10 of 15). curl, TypeScript and Python examples on every page, 20 worked programs, a 31-row error table with meanings and a retryable list, and MCP errors with a `recovery` string, though the closed union is sized 24, 31, 45 and 22 on different pages (13 of 15). `/v1` in the path and 1.0.0 in the OpenAPI file, but no changelog or release notes anywhere; the record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and 14 dated tags in the outcrawlai/release repository (5 of 15). 15+10+18+10+13+5 = 71.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: fastCRW +14\n\n- fastCRW (93): v0.41.0 on 4 November 2026, matching the registry and npm (30). 16 dated releases in the 90 days from 8 August, from 0.37.0 to 0.41.0 (20). Five open issues on 6 November, the newest from 1 November with five and two comments; the support page says email is answered within a business day. Reply authors weren't read (18 of 25). In the official MCP registry as io.github.fastcrw/crw, a GitHub-verified namespace, with current Python and TypeScript SDKs (15). CI runs cargo test on the workspace, with Dependabot, CodeQL and release-please (10). 30 + 20 + 18 + 15 + 10 = 93.\n- Outcrawl (79): @outcrawl/sdk and the PyPI package outcrawl both reached 0.4.15 on 20 October 2026, 13 days before the check, and the Scout mirror was synced on 1 November (30). 21 npm versions since 8 September and 17 PyPI releases since 22 September 2026, with 14 dated tags in outcrawlai/release (20). Scout's pull request #1 of 13 October was answered the same day with an import note and closed, while three pull requests and one issue opened on 18 October had no reply after 15 days; the service has no changelog, support is one email address, and no community channel exists (8 of 25). Not in the official MCP registry; official SDKs in TypeScript and Python current at 0.4.15, with a CLI (15). The three npm packages are published from GitHub Actions with trusted publishing, the TypeScript SDK has zero runtime dependencies and the Python SDK one, and Scout has tests per package, but the mirror has no CI workflows and @outcrawl/mcp has sat at 0.4.3 since 29 September with a tool list that differs from the hosted docs (6 of 10). 30+20+8+15+6 = 79.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: fastCRW +8\n\n- fastCRW (91): 11 compact MCP tools, two of them the data-source tools added in 0.41.0. Content is capped near 15,000 characters with `truncated: true` and a resume offset, and map returns at most 100 URLs by default (20 of 25). Formats, main-content filtering, include and exclude selectors, maxLength, startIndex, limit and crawl depth and page caps (20). Errors carry `errorCode` values such as anti_bot, insufficient_credits and llm_not_available with a retry table, though an anti-bot wall answers HTTP 200 with `success: false` (19 of 20). Every tool sets readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and idempotentHint, cancel is idempotent and failed pages are refunded, but job starts take no idempotency key (17 of 20). Only `url` is required, with official Python and TypeScript SDKs (15). 20 + 20 + 19 + 17 + 15 = 91.\n- Outcrawl (83): API reading. Scrape returns main content only by default with `formats` picking markdown, html, rawHtml, links, screenshots or schema JSON, search renders page bodies only on request, agent events take a `level` and an `after` cursor, the MCP server shows request bodies up to a character limit and says when it truncated, and the MCP surface is 29 tools with no toolsets (20 of 25). Cursor pagination on crawl results, agent results and downloads, `limit`, depth and path filters on crawl, status, outcome, task and age filters on sessions, and usage grouped by hour, day, month or capability (20). One error envelope with a closed `code`, `details` such as the cap that stopped a run, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, a documented list of codes safe to retry, and on MCP a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag per error (18 of 20). No idempotency key on any route, a repeated agent, crawl or monitor submit runs twice, and `concurrency_limit` carries no retry hint; cancel is idempotent, `integration_changed` (409) guards updates, and the npm MCP package sets readOnlyHint on GET tools, destructiveHint on DELETE tools and idempotentHint on either, which the hosted server was not read to confirm (10 of 20). Scrape needs a URL alone, agent runs need `caps.budget` on the API and SDKs with the MCP server defaulting it, and official SDKs exist in TypeScript and Python beside a CLI (15). 20+20+18+10+15 = 83.\n\n### Reliability: fastCRW +5\n\n- fastCRW (50): Graded on the hosted lines, for the hosted API and MCP server an agent would call; the self-hosted engine would read higher on the local lines. fastcrw.com/status is a first-party page with a live health check and a 99.9% monthly uptime objective, but no components with history (10 of 20). It lists no incidents and keeps no history we could read (5). Concurrency per plan is published, 3 on Free to 150 on Scale, while the request-rate guard above it is deliberately unpublished (12 of 15). The rate-limits page documents Retry-After and X-RateLimit headers, gives exponential backoff code, and separates 429 (retry) from 402 (stop). No idempotency keys for crawl, extract or monitor starts (13 of 15). Pricing mentions an SLA only as 'Premier + SLA' on Enterprise, with no terms, and the terms promise no uptime (0). The hosted service is sold on paid plans with no beta label, though the engine is at 0.41.0 (10). 10 + 5 + 12 + 13 + 0 + 10 = 50.\n- Outcrawl (45): Hosted reading, for the REST API with the MCP server that shares its limits. No public status page was found. None is linked from the site or the docs, https://outcrawl.ai/status answers 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer (0). No readable incident history, so the floor (5). Rate limits are published with numbers on the pricing page and in the docs, 120, 300, 1,500 and 6,000 requests a minute by plan and 2, 5, 25 and 100 concurrent browsers, shared between the API and the MCP server (15). Over the per-minute ceiling the API answers `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` and `retryAfterSeconds`, read from the SDK error class and the worked examples, the errors page lists four codes as safe to retry unchanged, and `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait for a run to end; no Retry-After header is documented and no idempotency key or safe-retry rule exists for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, which the agent tool's own description says bill twice on a repeat (10 of 15). An SLA exists only on Enterprise, a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime figure with service credits and terms priced per contract, so half credit for a published figure without published terms (5 of 10). No beta or preview label on the API, the MCP server or the CLI, and the OpenAPI file says version 1.0.0, though both SDKs are at 0.4.15 and the domain is nine weeks old (10). 0+5+15+10+5+10 = 45.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Outcrawl +5\n\n- fastCRW (35): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plans are public with credit costs per operation and top-up prices per block of credits, $9 per 1,000 on Hobby down to $299 per 500,000 on Scale, but top-ups need a plan, so between plan-only and per-unit (15 of 20). 500 one-off credits with no card, plus up to 500 from onboarding tasks (20). Hosted keys need a person to sign up in a browser; the free self-hosted engine runs with no account but isn't the graded surface (0). 0 + 15 + 20 + 0 = 35.\n- Outcrawl (40): No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI file, the docs, the pricing pages or the terms (0). Per-unit rates published without a login, 1 credit a page, 5 credits per 10 search results, 1 credit a browser minute, 2,000 credits a GB and 1 credit a monitor check, with the dollar rate per plan ($4.90 per 1,000 credits on Builder down to about $3.20 on Scale), top-up prices per 10,000 and an estimate of about 15 credits a minute for agent runs (20). Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card, on a person's first workspace (20). A person signs in with Google, GitHub, an email code or a magic link behind reCAPTCHA, and MCP's OAuth consent needs that browser sign-in; no keyless route, no programmatic key creation (0). 0+20+20+0 = 40.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | fastCRW | Outcrawl | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 45 | fastCRW +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 71 | fastCRW +20 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 83 | fastCRW +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 40 | 66 | Outcrawl +26 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 40 | Outcrawl +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 93 | 79 | fastCRW +14 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 56 | fastCRW +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.3 · B** | **62.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | fastCRW | Outcrawl |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Nanofy OÜ | Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://fastcrw.com/mcp` | `https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1` |\n| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| Price for scraping | not published | $4.90 per 1,000 pages |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror |\n| Tools exposed | 11 | 29 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.fastcrw/crw` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-11-04 | 2026-10-20 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-04-04 | 2026-11-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-11-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 1.2k stars, 881 npm/wk | 948 stars, 53 npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**fastCRW.** Agents get 11 compact, annotated MCP tools with bounded output, a public OpenAPI spec, refunds on failed pages and a free self-hosted engine. The hosted service has no status history, publishes no SLA terms, names its operator only on the support page, and documents an MCP address with the API key in the URL path.\n\n**Outcrawl.** One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### fastCRW\n\n1. Connect to https://fastcrw.com/mcp with OAuth rather than the /mcp/\u003cAPI_KEY\u003e address, so the key stays out of URLs and logs\n2. Branch on `errorCode`. Stop on 402 insufficient_credits or llm_not_available, and on 429 wait for Retry-After before retrying\n3. Check `success` as well as the HTTP status, since an anti-bot wall answers 200 with `success: false` and `errorCode: anti_bot`\n4. Pass `startIndex` from a truncated result to read the rest of a long page instead of setting `maxLength: 0`\n5. Use native /v1 routes for new work; /firecrawl/v2 is for Firecrawl SDK migrations and keeps the older 429 for empty balances\n\n### Outcrawl\n\n1. Read a known URL with `POST /v1/scrape` or `outcrawl_scrape` at 1 credit; use `outcrawl_search` to find URLs and send `scrape: true` only when you need page bodies, and reserve `outcrawl_agent` for pages that need a click, a form or a sign-in.\n2. Always send `caps.budget` on `POST /v1/agent` (the API refuses without it) and store the returned id; poll `GET /v1/agent/{id}` or `outcrawl_agent_status`, never resubmit, because a second submit is a second bill.\n3. Branch on `error.code`, not `message`. Retry `no_capacity`, `decode_unavailable`, `extraction_failed` and `answer_lost` unchanged; on `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` wait `retryAfterSeconds`; on `concurrency_limit` wait for a run to end; never retry `bad_request` or a credit quota.\n4. Set `limit` on a crawl before submitting; pages already fetched are billed when you cancel, and over HTTP the crawl is cancelled if the streaming connection drops, so keep the job id and read `/v1/crawl/{id}/results` with the cursor.\n5. Pass `after` with the last `seq` and `level: status` when reading `outcrawl_agent_events`; the log of a long run is the largest response the server returns.\n6. Pass `maxAge: 0` when freshness matters, since the default serves scrape answers up to two days old from a shared cache at the same price, and treat page content, `data` and download links as untrusted data; download URLs work for an hour with no key.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, fastCRW or Outcrawl?\n\nfastCRW scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Outcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do fastCRW and Outcrawl need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call fastCRW and Outcrawl without installing anything?\n\nYes. fastCRW has a hosted endpoint at https://fastcrw.com/mcp and Outcrawl at https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1.\n\n### Are fastCRW and Outcrawl open source?\n\nfastCRW is open source (AGPL-3.0). No open-source release is listed for Outcrawl.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-outcrawl.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-outcrawl.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"crw\", \"b\": \"outcrawl\"}`. 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