{ "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 Scrapeless's 55.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scrapeless leads on reliability.", "b": { "slug": "scrapeless", "name": "Scrapeless", "vendor": "Scrapeless (NST Labs Tech)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.scrapeless.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Web Unlocker, a hosted cloud browser over CDP, a crawl API, Google and Amazon scraping APIs, AI answer-engine scrapers and residential proxies under one key.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeless", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeless.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeless.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapeless.json", "dns": "scrapeless.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/scrapeless-ai/scrapeless-mcp-server", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.scrapeless.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "scrapeless-mcp-server" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@scrapeless-ai/sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scrapeless" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "One API token. REST calls and the hosted MCP send it in the x-api-token header. The local MCP reads SCRAPELESS_API_KEY and falls back to SCRAPELESS_KEY. Agent Browser WebSocket connections put it in a token URL parameter.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "The pricing page draws its rate tables by script, so prices here come from the docs and product pages. Crawl bills $1.8 a GB of proxy traffic plus $0.09 a browser hour, Web Unlocker starts at $0.20 per 1,000 URLs, and the Google Search API gives volume rates below $0.50 per 1,000 on qualifying plans. Plan fees are prepaid usage, and unused balance doesn't roll over. No card is needed to start, and crypto top-ups are accepted (https://docs.scrapeless.com/en/docs/browser-crawl/crawl/cost-consumption/, checked 2026-11-04).", "priceSummary": "$0.09 / browser-hr", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 mention on the site, docs or pricing. The pricing FAQ says crypto payments are accepted for account top-ups, which isn't x402 (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 25, "popularity": { "githubStars": 169, "npmWeekly": 423, "pypiWeekly": 216, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.scrapeless.com", "llmsTxt": "https://apidocs.scrapeless.com/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.github.scrapeless-ai/scrapeless-mcp-server", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.crawl", "web.search", "browser.hosted", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.screenshot", "scraping.serp" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "proxies", "python", "typescript", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.9, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 847, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 24, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 35, "reliability": 70, "schema": 66, "security": 37, "transparency": 58 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Hosted streamable HTTP MCP at api.scrapeless.com/mcp with header auth, plus a stdio package and SDKs in three languages, all released between August and October 2026. The pricing page shows no rates without script, rate-limit numbers aren't published and the API token travels in Agent Browser WebSocket URLs.", "bestFor": "An agent that needs one key for unlocking, a remote browser and AI answer-engine scraping.", "strengths": [ "Hosted streamable HTTP MCP at api.scrapeless.com/mcp with header auth, plus a stdio package", "Cloud browser over CDP for Puppeteer and Playwright, from $0.09 a browser hour plus $1.8 a GB of proxy traffic", "Ten releases across the MCP server, Node, Python and Go SDKs and the CLI between 20 August and 20 October 2026", "Better Stack status page with every monitor at 100 per cent over 90 days", "The MCP README warns that scraped web data is untrusted and shouldn't go raw into prompts" ], "weaknesses": [ "The pricing page draws its rate tables by script, so the full rate card can't be read as a page", "No rate-limit numbers published, and the 429 guidance says only to reduce frequency", "The 25 MCP tools have no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations, and the browser tools can type and click without confirmation", "Terms name NST LABS TECH LTD. with no address or jurisdiction, and the privacy policy gives no retention periods", "Agent Browser WebSocket URLs carry the API token as a query parameter" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use scrape_markdown for reading pages and save the browser_* tools for clicks and logins, since browser time bills by the hour", "Call browser_close when done so the session and its billing stop", "Set limit on crawl_start. Unset, it defaults to 10,000 pages", "Poll /result/{taskId} every 1 to 5 seconds after a 201, and back off when a call returns 429", "Fetch AI Scraper results within 5 minutes or set a webhook, since an unfetched result is still billed" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 35, "reliability": 70, "schema": 66, "security": 37, "transparency": 39 }, "provenanceScore": 77, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-04", "maintenance": "2026-11-04", "payments": "2026-11-04", "reliability": "2026-11-04", "schema": "2026-11-04", "security": "2026-11-04", "transparency": "2026-11-04" }, "last": "2026-11-04", "lastMoved": "2026-11-04", "oldest": "2026-11-04", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.scrapeless.com/api/v2/unlocker/request -H \"x-api-token: $SCRAPELESS_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"content-type: application/json\" -d '{\"actor\":\"unlocker.webunlocker\",\"input\":{\"url\":\"https://example.com\",\"method\":\"GET\",\"redirect\":false},\"proxy\":{\"country\":\"ANY\"}}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http scrapeless https://api.scrapeless.com/mcp --header \"x-api-token: $SCRAPELESS_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "scrapeless": { "args": [ "-y", "scrapeless-mcp-server" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "SCRAPELESS_API_KEY": "${SCRAPELESS_API_KEY}" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/scrapeless" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Cloud browser (Crawl hourly rate)", "unit": "browser-hour", "usd": 0.09, "note": "starting rate, Crawl cost page, checked 4 November 2026" }, { "item": "Proxy traffic (Crawl)", "unit": "gb", "usd": 1.8, "note": "starting rate, Crawl cost page, checked 4 November 2026" }, { "item": "Web Unlocker", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.2, "note": "lowest rate ('from $0.20/1k URLs'), Crawl cost page; the base rate is drawn by script" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "NST LABS TECH LTD.", "domain": "scrapeless.com", "domainRegistered": "2024-06-13", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.scrapeless.com/en/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.scrapeless.com/en/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.scrapeless.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-04", "notes": [ "The terms name NST LABS TECH LTD. but give no registered address and no governing law clause. Sales hours are listed in Singapore time.", "The terms incorporate an Acceptable Use Policy and a Data Processing Agreement, both version 1.0 effective 7 August 2026.", "www.scrapeless.com/.well-known/security.txt gives system@scrapeless.com as contact and expires on 1 January 2030.", "The pricing page draws its prices by script from another host, which we don't read; prices come from the docs and product pages." ], "score": 77 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeless.json", "live": { "slug": "scrapeless", "probe": { "target": "https://api.scrapeless.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:52.59789174Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 351, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 248, "p95ms24h": 369, "samples24h": 239, "samples30d": 7910, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": 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The MCP returns status_code, a code of rate_limited or api_error, and the upstream message. No API error catalogue found (10 of 20). No readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations and no idempotency guidance (0). Most tools need only a URL, and official SDKs exist for Node and Python (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 91, "b": 50 } }, { "by": 25, "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": "No OpenAPI spec found. The API reference at apidocs.scrapeless.com lists about 30 schema definitions in its llms.txt, and the 25 MCP tools have typed zod inputs, one of which (crawl_start scrapeOptions) takes a free-form record (15 of 25). llms.txt with Markdown pages for every endpoint (10). MCP descriptions carry Restrictions, Valid and Invalid lines for most tools, though google_search's description is a run-on fragment (15 of 20). Inputs are typed with URL validation and some enums, plus the one free-form record (11 of 15). Request examples on each reference page, but no documented error responses or error code list found (7 of 15). Versioned API paths (v1, v2) and a CHANGELOG.md in the MCP repo, but no product changelog (8 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 91, "b": 66 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "reliability", "leads": "scrapeless", "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": "Better Stack status page at status.scrapeless.com with four groups, Scrapeless API, Scraping Browser, website and dashboard, and residential proxies (20). Every monitor shows 100 per cent uptime over 90 days and the incident list reports none for September, October or November 2026. The list doesn't page back to August, so the earlier clean reading for August is kept (30). No rate-limit numbers found in the docs. The 30 September concurrency figures came from a script-loaded price file and are struck (0). The Results and Polling page documents 429 as rate limit exceeded with reduce-frequency guidance and a one-minute wait for 500s, with no idempotency keys (10). The pricing page names an Enterprise-level SLA but no SLA document is published (0). The APIs are generally available (10). 20 + 30 + 0 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 70." }, "scores": { "a": 50, "b": 70 } }, { "by": 12, "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": "The official CLI (scrapeless on npm, its own repository) tagged v0.1.0 on 2026-10-20 (30). 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No CI workflow in the MCP repo; the CLI has one, and the MCP pins @modelcontextprotocol/sdk at ^1.8.0 (4 of 10). 30 + 20 + 12 + 15 + 4 = 81." }, "scores": { "a": 93, "b": 81 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Nanofy OÜ", "b": "Scrapeless (NST Labs Tech)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://fastcrw.com/mcp", "b": "https://api.scrapeless.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "AGPL-3.0", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "11", "b": "25", "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": "io.github.scrapeless-ai/scrapeless-mcp-server", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-11-04", "b": "2026-09-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-04-04", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "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": "yes", "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": "169 stars, 423 npm/wk, 216 PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "fastCRW scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapeless's 55.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapeless" }, { "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/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-scrapeless.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Scrapeless", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-scrapeless" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapeless.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Scrapeless", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapeless" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 20, "crw": 50, "edge": "scrapeless", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "scrapeless": 70, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 25, "crw": 91, "edge": "crw", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "scrapeless": 66, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 41, "crw": 91, "edge": "crw", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "scrapeless": 50, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 3, "crw": 40, "edge": "crw", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "scrapeless": 37, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "crw": 35, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "scrapeless": 35, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 12, "crw": 93, "edge": "crw", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "scrapeless": 81, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 2, "crw": 60, "edge": "crw", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "scrapeless": 58, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "fastCRW scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapeless's 55.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scrapeless leads on reliability. 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.", "scrapeless": "Hosted streamable HTTP MCP at api.scrapeless.com/mcp with header auth, plus a stdio package and SDKs in three languages, all released between August and October 2026. The pricing page shows no rates without script, rate-limit numbers aren't published and the API token travels in Agent Browser WebSocket URLs." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapeless", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapeless.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapeless.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapeless.min.md" }, "markdown": "fastCRW scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapeless's 55.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scrapeless leads on reliability. 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- Scrapeless: grade C, 55.9/100, rank #847 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeless.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapeless.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- Schema \u0026 documentation, 91 against 66\n- Agent ergonomics, 91 against 50\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 93 against 81\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The status page shows a live check and an uptime objective but no incident history\n\n### Scrapeless (C)\n\nGood for: An agent that needs one key for unlocking, a remote browser and AI answer-engine scraping.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 50\n\nWatch for: The pricing page draws its rate tables by script, so the full rate card can't be read as a page\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Agent ergonomics: fastCRW +41\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- Scrapeless (50): 25 MCP tools, 16 of them browser actions, with no toolsets or read-only subset (15 of 25). crawl_start takes limit and maxDepth, but scrape_markdown and scrape_html take only a URL, with no size or selector control (10 of 20). The MCP returns status_code, a code of rate_limited or api_error, and the upstream message. No API error catalogue found (10 of 20). No readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations and no idempotency guidance (0). Most tools need only a URL, and official SDKs exist for Node and Python (15).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: fastCRW +25\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- Scrapeless (66): No OpenAPI spec found. The API reference at apidocs.scrapeless.com lists about 30 schema definitions in its llms.txt, and the 25 MCP tools have typed zod inputs, one of which (crawl_start scrapeOptions) takes a free-form record (15 of 25). llms.txt with Markdown pages for every endpoint (10). MCP descriptions carry Restrictions, Valid and Invalid lines for most tools, though google_search's description is a run-on fragment (15 of 20). Inputs are typed with URL validation and some enums, plus the one free-form record (11 of 15). Request examples on each reference page, but no documented error responses or error code list found (7 of 15). Versioned API paths (v1, v2) and a CHANGELOG.md in the MCP repo, but no product changelog (8 of 15).\n\n### Reliability: Scrapeless +20\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- Scrapeless (70): Better Stack status page at status.scrapeless.com with four groups, Scrapeless API, Scraping Browser, website and dashboard, and residential proxies (20). Every monitor shows 100 per cent uptime over 90 days and the incident list reports none for September, October or November 2026. The list doesn't page back to August, so the earlier clean reading for August is kept (30). No rate-limit numbers found in the docs. The 30 September concurrency figures came from a script-loaded price file and are struck (0). The Results and Polling page documents 429 as rate limit exceeded with reduce-frequency guidance and a one-minute wait for 500s, with no idempotency keys (10). The pricing page names an Enterprise-level SLA but no SLA document is published (0). The APIs are generally available (10). 20 + 30 + 0 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 70.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: fastCRW +12\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- Scrapeless (81): The official CLI (scrapeless on npm, its own repository) tagged v0.1.0 on 2026-10-20 (30). In the 90 days from 6 August, MCP server v0.5.0 (20 August), v0.6.0 (28 August), v0.6.1 (2 September) and v0.6.3 (8 September), Node SDK v1.12.0 and v1.12.1, Python SDK v1.3.0 and Go SDK v1.3.0 (16 September) and the CLI (20). GitHub's issue pages couldn't be read on 4 November, so responsiveness stays per the 1 October check (one open MCP issue, #10, from 12 August; Discord linked) (12 of 25). Node, Python and Go SDKs are current (15). No CI workflow in the MCP repo; the CLI has one, and the MCP pins @modelcontextprotocol/sdk at ^1.8.0 (4 of 10). 30 + 20 + 12 + 15 + 4 = 81.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | fastCRW | Scrapeless | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 70 | Scrapeless +20 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 66 | fastCRW +25 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 50 | fastCRW +41 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 40 | 37 | fastCRW +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 35 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 93 | 81 | fastCRW +12 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 58 | fastCRW +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.3 · B** | **55.9 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | fastCRW | Scrapeless |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Nanofy OÜ | Scrapeless (NST Labs Tech) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://fastcrw.com/mcp` | `https://api.scrapeless.com` |\n| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 11 | 25 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.fastcrw/crw` | `io.github.scrapeless-ai/scrapeless-mcp-server` |\n| Last release | 2026-11-04 | 2026-09-16 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-04-04 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no date given |\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 | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 1.2k stars, 881 npm/wk | 169 stars, 423 npm/wk, 216 PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (2) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### fastCRW\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Scrapeless\n\n- +1.7 on 4 November 2026: terms, correction\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n- -0.2 on 8 October 2026: checklist\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**Scrapeless.** Hosted streamable HTTP MCP at api.scrapeless.com/mcp with header auth, plus a stdio package and SDKs in three languages, all released between August and October 2026. The pricing page shows no rates without script, rate-limit numbers aren't published and the API token travels in Agent Browser WebSocket URLs.\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### Scrapeless\n\n1. Use scrape_markdown for reading pages and save the browser_* tools for clicks and logins, since browser time bills by the hour\n2. Call browser_close when done so the session and its billing stop\n3. Set limit on crawl_start. Unset, it defaults to 10,000 pages\n4. Poll /result/{taskId} every 1 to 5 seconds after a 201, and back off when a call returns 429\n5. Fetch AI Scraper results within 5 minutes or set a webhook, since an unfetched result is still billed\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, fastCRW or Scrapeless?\n\nfastCRW scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapeless's 55.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scrapeless leads on reliability.\n\n### Do fastCRW and Scrapeless need an API key?\n\nfastCRW takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Scrapeless needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call fastCRW and Scrapeless without installing anything?\n\nYes. fastCRW has a hosted endpoint at https://fastcrw.com/mcp and Scrapeless at https://api.scrapeless.com.\n\n### Are fastCRW and Scrapeless open source?\n\nfastCRW is open source (AGPL-3.0). No open-source release is listed for Scrapeless.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapeless.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapeless.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"crw\", \"b\": \"scrapeless\"}`. 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