{ "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": "Scrapfly scores 74.5 (BB) on agent readiness against fastCRW's 64.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. fastCRW leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "scrapfly", "name": "Scrapfly", "vendor": "Scrapfly (Joam Intelligence, LLC)", "vendorUrl": "https://scrapfly.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Scrape API with datacenter or residential proxies, JS rendering and an anti-bot Unblocker, plus screenshot, LLM extraction, crawler and hosted Cloud Browser APIs on one credit balance.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapfly", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapfly.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapfly.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapfly.json", "dns": "scrapfly.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/scrapfly/scrapfly-mcp", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scrapfly-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "scrapfly-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "scrapfly-mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API key in the `key` query parameter (their canonical form) or the `X-Scrapfly-Api-Key` header. Keys are per project, `scp-live-` for live and `scp-test-` for sandbox. The hosted MCP accepts OAuth 2.0, a Bearer key or `?key=` in the URL.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "1,000 free credits on signup, no card. Discovery $30 a month (200,000 credits), Pro $100 (1 million), Startup $250 (2.5 million), Enterprise $500 (5.5 million), custom from $1,200. Annual billing gives 2 months free. A datacenter request costs 1 credit, residential 25, browser rendering adds 5, and the Unblocker can add target-specific fees that aren't published. Extra credits run $5 per 10,000 on Discovery down to $1.20 on Enterprise, and Discovery and Free stop at quota (https://scrapfly.io/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$30 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 in llms.txt, the docs index or pricing.md (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 62, "popularity": { "githubStars": 14, "npmWeekly": 21337, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://scrapfly.io/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://scrapfly.io/docs/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.scrapfly.mcp/mcp", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.fetch", "web.extract", "web.crawl", "browser.hosted", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.screenshot" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "free-tier", "mcp", "llms-txt", "proxies", "python", "typescript", "openapi", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 74.5, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 84, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 40, "reliability": 85, "schema": 95, "security": 75, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "-3 for an unadvised security fix in the listing's own MCP server. Before v1.4.0 (15 October 2026), a caller of the multi-caller HTTP server could look up and drive another caller's Cloud Browser session, since session lookup wasn't scoped to the API key. Commit 5263030 (1 October) fixed it, and the code comments describe the cross-caller exposure, but no advisory or release note says so. GitHub's advisory page couldn't be read. https://github.com/scrapfly/scrapfly-mcp/commit/52630304aadca11ad4d8c42adbd4cf1d920c0d68" ], "verdict": "The error catalogue documents HTTP status, retry behaviour and billing for over 100 codes, and the Statuspage history shows no incident since May 2026. The MCP server loads 62 tools at once, and the API's canonical form puts the key in the URL.", "bestFor": "An agent that needs scrape, screenshot, extraction, crawl and a hosted browser from one key, with errors it can branch on.", "strengths": [ "Error catalogue of 100+ ERR:: codes, each with HTTP status, retryable and billed flags and a doc link", "Hosted MCP with OAuth open to all plans, and API keys restrictable to products since 15 April 2026", "MCP tools carry readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and idempotentHint, and mutating vault and alert tools need confirm=true", "Statuspage history with 25 components and no incident posted since 21 May 2026", "1,000 free credits with no card, and official SDKs in Python, TypeScript, Go and Rust" ], "weaknesses": [ "The open-source MCP server registers 62 tools at once, a heavy tools/list", "The canonical API auth form and one MCP option put the key in the URL query string", "MCP v1.4.0 fixed cross-caller Cloud Browser session access in the HTTP server with no advisory or release note", "Residential requests cost 25 credits and per-target Unblocker surcharges aren't published", "No uptime SLA, and the terms disclaim uptime" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `X-Scrapfly-Api-Key` as a header rather than `key=` so the key stays out of logs", "Pass `unblocker=false` to the MCP web_scrape tool for plain pages, since it's on when omitted. `asp` is the deprecated alias", "Set `cost_budget` on each scrape so an Unblocker upgrade can't blow through credits", "Check `retryable` in the error body before retrying, and stop on `ERR::THROTTLE::MAX_API_CREDIT_BUDGET_EXCEEDED`", "Use web_get_page for a simple fetch and save cloud_browser_open for pages that need clicks" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 74.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 40, "reliability": 85, "schema": 95, "security": 75, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 92, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "lastMoved": "2026-11-01", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -G \"https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape\" -H \"X-Scrapfly-Api-Key: $SCRAPFLY_API_KEY\" \\\n --data-urlencode \"url=https://example.com\" -d \"format=markdown\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http scrapfly https://mcp.scrapfly.io/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "scrapfly": { "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.scrapfly.io/mcp" ], "command": "npx" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/scrapfly" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Discovery plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 30, "note": "200,000 credits, hard cap at quota" }, { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "1,000,000 credits, extra at $3.50 per 10,000" }, { "item": "Startup plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 250, "note": "2,500,000 credits, extra at $2 per 10,000" }, { "item": "Enterprise plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 500, "note": "5,500,000 credits, extra at $1.20 per 10,000" }, { "item": "Datacenter request on Discovery", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.15, "note": "1 credit a request, no rendering" }, { "item": "Residential request on Discovery", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 3.75, "note": "25 credits a request" }, { "item": "Extra credit on Discovery", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.0005, "note": "$5 per 10,000" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Joam Intelligence, LLC", "domain": "scrapfly.io", "domainRegistered": "2018-09-12", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://scrapfly.io/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://scrapfly.io/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://scrapfly.io/status", "changelog": "https://scrapfly.io/docs/release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-01", "notes": [ "scrapfly.io/status answers with Statuspage's status JSON for the page at scrapfly.statuspage.io, which has 25 components and incident history back to 2022 (read on 2026-11-01). status.scrapfly.io didn't resolve on 2026-10-01.", "The terms were updated on 2026-09-30 and now name only Joam Intelligence, LLC, governed by US law, with no postal address.", "security.txt at scrapfly.io/.well-known/security.txt gives legal@scrapfly.io and expires 2027-04-30 (read on 2026-11-01)." ], "score": 92 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapfly.json", "live": { "slug": "scrapfly", "probe": { "target": "https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:52.721931481Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 484, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 434, "p95ms24h": 548, "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": "2026-10-29", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "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 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://scrapfly.io/status", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T04:48:43.768212462Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.scrapfly.mcp/mcp", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "scrapfly-mcp", "version": "1.4.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:03:41.586016704Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "scrapfly-sdk", "version": "0.12.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:03:40.81112724Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scrapfly-sdk", "version": "0.12.0", "released": "2026-09-08", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:03:40.619043924Z" } ], "githubStars": 15, "npmWeekly": 27604, "pypiWeekly": 83936, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://scrapfly.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-05-06T16:00:19Z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:18.849369675Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://scrapfly.io/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:33:53.345701349Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "scrapfly.io", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:10:24.175745549Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://scrapfly.io/docs/release-notes", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:19:13.959819269Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-30T05:47:57.421528308Z", "fingerprint": "8a91b5eccc7d" }, { "url": "https://scrapfly.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:19:16.715434212Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:35:35.046049372Z", "fingerprint": "f25420398c41" }, { "url": "https://scrapfly.io/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:19:18.099772774Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-22T01:25:11.179303727Z", "fingerprint": "87d893df699e" }, { "url": "https://scrapfly.io/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:19:20.267486312Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-09T18:45:01.532788038Z", "fingerprint": "418fa790a7a3" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.scrapfly.io/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:47:31.289598768Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:47:31.289598768Z" }, "github": { "repo": "scrapfly/scrapfly-mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T09:24:01.853686538Z", "stars": 14, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-30T11:31:37Z", "openIssues": 0, "openPRs": 0, "issuesOpened90d": 1, "issuesClosed90d": 1, "prsMerged90d": 2, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 23, "success": 23, "failure": 0, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-30T11:31:47Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 2, "unanswered": 0, "medianDays": 0.1 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:52.721931481Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 35, "category": "reliability", "leads": "scrapfly", "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": "scrapfly.io/status answers with Statuspage's status JSON, which names its page as scrapfly.statuspage.io. That page has 25 components and incident history back to 2022, read through its history feed on 1 November. The 1 October check read only the overall state and found no history (20, was 10). The newest incident is a Scrapium rendering fault on 21 May 2026, so nothing is posted in the 90 days from 3 August (30, was 5). Concurrency per plan is published (5 on Discovery to 100 on Enterprise) and each project has a configurable per-minute throttle (15). The error catalogue marks every code retryable or not and has three ERR::THROTTLE codes, but we found no Retry-After header or backoff guidance on the errors or throttling pages (10 of 15). The terms disclaim uptime and no uptime SLA is published, and the pricing page's SLA mentions cover support response on Enterprise (0). The Scrape API is GA. Vault and alerting are beta, outside the main surface (10). 20+30+15+10+0+10 = 85." }, "scores": { "a": 50, "b": 85 } }, { "by": 35, "category": "security", "leads": "scrapfly", "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 on the hosted MCP with dashboard revocation, open to all plans. API keys are per project, live or test, and since 15 April 2026 can be restricted to products (30). The canonical API form puts the key in the key query parameter and the MCP also accepts ?key=, so less 10 (20 of 30). Product-restricted keys, confirm=true on every mutating vault and alert tool, info_api_key off in server-key mode, and the self-hosted HTTP server binds loopback by default. Since v1.4.0 Cloud Browser sessions are scoped to the API key that opened them (15 of 20). The source gates mutating vault tools behind a preview step because prompt injection can reach them and redacts keys from CDP URLs. We found no user-facing guidance on untrusted page content (8 of 15). Monitoring shows every call as a log with its error, credit cost line by line and Unblocker state, with replay, per the 24 October release notes, as well as per-domain metrics and alerting. The 1 October check couldn't confirm per-request logs (15, was 10). security.txt valid until 30 April 2027, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and HIPAA claims on the pricing page, and a public SOC 3 report since 21 April 2026. No bug bounty found (17 of 20). 20+15+8+15+17 = 75." }, "scores": { "a": 40, "b": 75 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "transparency", "leads": "scrapfly", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "The engine and MCP server are AGPL-3.0 and the SDKs MIT, while the hosted control plane is closed under terms that name no legal entity (25 of 30). The terms say crawled data is handled transiently with zero data retention for approved accounts, but the privacy policy is undated, names no controller, gives no retention periods and mentions no DPA (10 of 30). The CHANGELOG flags breaking changes, deprecated v2 extract routes return a warning on every response, and the October 2026 402 change is dated in the docs, with no standing notice policy (10 of 20). Local data-source telemetry is disclosed with an opt-out. The privacy policy names Stripe, Google Analytics, Google Ads and an X pixel, but infrastructure and search providers are unnamed and no data location is given (8 of 20). 25 + 10 + 10 + 8 = 53.", "b": "Closed service with terms updated 2026-09-30 under US law. SDKs are BSD 2-Clause, and the MCP source is public with no LICENSE file and ISC in package.json (15 of 30). Privacy policy updated 14 May 2026 with a published DPA and HIPAA BAA, but retention is as long as necessary, and the retention of scraped content isn't stated (18 of 30). Release notes date deprecations and removals, for example Scrapium v153 dropping legacy network interception on 11 September. No standing deprecation policy found (15 of 20). Stripe, Google Analytics, Google Ads and Google Cloud are named, with SCC and Data Privacy Framework transfers, but there's no full subprocessor list (10 of 20). The release notes still date each CDP removal, most recently `Storage.getRelatedWebsiteSets` in Scrapium v156 on 26 October. Not otherwise re-read on 1 November. 15+18+15+10 = 58." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 75 } }, { "by": 11, "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": "The open-source server registers 62 tools by default in v1.4.0 (5 web scraping, 2 account, 9 Cloud Browser sessions, 17 page interaction, 2 WebMCP, 15 credential vault, 12 alerts), all at once, and the docs list a smaller core. There's a code path to mount interaction tools per session, but registration is always-on for clients that don't refetch. On the API side, format=markdown and the extraction API keep responses small, and since v1.4.0 the scrape tools report `api_cost` and `cost_details` (10 of 25). Output format, extraction templates, crawler limits and 100-URL batches (15 of 20). Error codes an agent can branch on, with retryable and billed flags (20). Tools carry readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint, and mutating vault and alert tools need confirm=true after a preview (20). web_get_page works with a URL alone, and official SDKs exist for Python, TypeScript, Go and Rust (15). 10+15+20+20+15 = 80." }, "scores": { "a": 91, "b": 80 } }, { "by": 9, "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": "Scrapium v156 in the release notes on 26 October 2026 and MCP v1.4.0 on 15 October (30). MCP tags v1.3.1 to v1.3.3 (26 and 27 August), v1.3.4 (8 September) and v1.4.0 (15 October), SDKs 0.12.0 on 8 September, and dated release notes on 14, 24 and 26 August, 11, 23 and 25 September, 7, 24 and 26 October (20). Dated release notes most weeks and a support address. We couldn't read GitHub issues, since github.com refuses our reader (12 of 25). In the official MCP registry as io.scrapfly.mcp/mcp under the vendor's domain, though the entry still lists 1.0.0, and the SDKs are current (15). MCP moved to Go 1.27 on 23 October. Its CI runs only a reference check and the npm publish, while the TypeScript SDK runs tests in CI (7 of 10). 30+20+12+15+7 = 84." }, "scores": { "a": 93, "b": 84 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "payments", "leads": "scrapfly", "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 (0). Credit costs per request type (1 datacentre, 5 with rendering or Unblocker, 25 residential, 60 full-page screenshot) and plan prices are public. Unblocker surcharges per target aren't published, but cost_budget caps them (20). 1,000 free credits, no card, no time limit (20). A person signs up in a browser. OAuth still needs an account (0). Plan prices and the 1,000 free credits with no card re-read on the pricing page on 1 November. 0+20+20+0 = 40." }, "scores": { "a": 35, "b": 40 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Nanofy OÜ", "b": "Scrapfly (Joam Intelligence, LLC)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://fastcrw.com/mcp", "b": "https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "AGPL-3.0", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "11", "b": "62", "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.scrapfly.mcp/mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-11-04", "b": "2026-10-15", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-04-04", "b": "2026-09-30", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-05-14", "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": "yes", "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": "14 stars, 21k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "4/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Scrapfly scores 74.5 (BB) on agent readiness against fastCRW's 64.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. fastCRW leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, fastCRW or Scrapfly?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do fastCRW and Scrapfly need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. fastCRW has a hosted endpoint at https://fastcrw.com/mcp and Scrapfly at https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape.", "question": "Can an agent call fastCRW and Scrapfly without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "fastCRW is open source (AGPL-3.0). No open-source release is listed for Scrapfly.", "question": "Are fastCRW and Scrapfly open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 91 against 80", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 93 against 84" ], "also": [ "Open source", "No incidents deducted, where Scrapfly loses 3 points for them" ], "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": [ "Reliability, 85 against 50", "Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 40", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 60" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better" ], "goodFor": "An agent that needs scrape, screenshot, extraction, crawl and a hosted browser from one key, with errors it can branch on.", "slug": "scrapfly", "watchFor": "The open-source MCP server registers 62 tools at once, a heavy tools/list" } ], "history": { "crw": null, "scrapfly": [ { "causes": [ "evidence", "event" ], "date": "2026-11-01", "delta": 4.9, "from": 69.6, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 74.5, "toGrade": "BB" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-08", "delta": -0.2, "from": 69.8, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 69.6, "toGrade": "B" } ] }, "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-scrapfly.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapfly" }, { "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-scrapfly.json", "title": "BrowserAct vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browseract-vs-scrapfly" }, { "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-scrapfly.json", "title": "Context.dev vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-scrapfly" }, { "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-scrapfly.json", "title": "Crawl4AI vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crawl4ai-vs-scrapfly" }, { "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-outcrawl.json", "title": "fastCRW vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-outcrawl" }, { "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-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-scrapfly.json", "title": "Decodo Web Data API vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decodo-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Jina Reader vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microlink-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Microlink vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microlink-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Olostep vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-scrapfly" }, { "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/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "ScrapeGraphAI vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Scrapeless vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapewise-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Scrapewise vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapewise-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Scrapfly vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Scrapfly vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "Scrapfly vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "Scrapfly vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-webscraping-ai.json", "title": "Scrapfly vs WebScraping.AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-webscraping-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Scrapfly vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Scrapfly vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-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/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-scrapfly.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qovia-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Qovia vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qovia-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeatlas-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "ScrapeAtlas vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeatlas-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-soldfetch.json", "title": "Scrapfly vs SoldFetch", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-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-scrapfly.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeops-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeops-vs-scrapfly" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 35, "crw": 50, "edge": "scrapfly", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "scrapfly": 85, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 4, "crw": 91, "edge": "scrapfly", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "scrapfly": 95, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 11, "crw": 91, "edge": "crw", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "scrapfly": 80, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 35, "crw": 40, "edge": "scrapfly", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "scrapfly": 75, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "crw": 35, "edge": "scrapfly", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "scrapfly": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "crw": 93, "edge": "crw", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "scrapfly": 84, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 15, "crw": 60, "edge": "scrapfly", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "scrapfly": 75, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Scrapfly scores 74.5 (BB) on agent readiness against fastCRW's 64.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. fastCRW leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community. 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.", "scrapfly": "The error catalogue documents HTTP status, retry behaviour and billing for over 100 codes, and the Statuspage history shows no incident since May 2026. The MCP server loads 62 tools at once, and the API's canonical form puts the key in the URL." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapfly", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapfly.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapfly.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapfly.min.md" }, "markdown": "Scrapfly scores 74.5 (BB) on agent readiness against fastCRW's 64.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. fastCRW leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community. 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- Scrapfly: grade BB, 74.5/100, rank #84 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapfly.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapfly.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- Agent ergonomics, 91 against 80\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 93 against 84\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n- No incidents deducted, where Scrapfly loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: The status page shows a live check and an uptime objective but no incident history\n\n### Scrapfly (BB)\n\nGood for: An agent that needs scrape, screenshot, extraction, crawl and a hosted browser from one key, with errors it can branch on.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 85 against 50\n- Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 40\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 60\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: The open-source MCP server registers 62 tools at once, a heavy tools/list\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Scrapfly +35\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- Scrapfly (85): scrapfly.io/status answers with Statuspage's status JSON, which names its page as scrapfly.statuspage.io. That page has 25 components and incident history back to 2022, read through its history feed on 1 November. The 1 October check read only the overall state and found no history (20, was 10). The newest incident is a Scrapium rendering fault on 21 May 2026, so nothing is posted in the 90 days from 3 August (30, was 5). Concurrency per plan is published (5 on Discovery to 100 on Enterprise) and each project has a configurable per-minute throttle (15). The error catalogue marks every code retryable or not and has three ERR::THROTTLE codes, but we found no Retry-After header or backoff guidance on the errors or throttling pages (10 of 15). The terms disclaim uptime and no uptime SLA is published, and the pricing page's SLA mentions cover support response on Enterprise (0). The Scrape API is GA. Vault and alerting are beta, outside the main surface (10). 20+30+15+10+0+10 = 85.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Scrapfly +35\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- Scrapfly (75): OAuth 2 on the hosted MCP with dashboard revocation, open to all plans. API keys are per project, live or test, and since 15 April 2026 can be restricted to products (30). The canonical API form puts the key in the key query parameter and the MCP also accepts ?key=, so less 10 (20 of 30). Product-restricted keys, confirm=true on every mutating vault and alert tool, info_api_key off in server-key mode, and the self-hosted HTTP server binds loopback by default. Since v1.4.0 Cloud Browser sessions are scoped to the API key that opened them (15 of 20). The source gates mutating vault tools behind a preview step because prompt injection can reach them and redacts keys from CDP URLs. We found no user-facing guidance on untrusted page content (8 of 15). Monitoring shows every call as a log with its error, credit cost line by line and Unblocker state, with replay, per the 24 October release notes, as well as per-domain metrics and alerting. The 1 October check couldn't confirm per-request logs (15, was 10). security.txt valid until 30 April 2027, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and HIPAA claims on the pricing page, and a public SOC 3 report since 21 April 2026. No bug bounty found (17 of 20). 20+15+8+15+17 = 75.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Scrapfly +15\n\n- fastCRW (60): The engine and MCP server are AGPL-3.0 and the SDKs MIT, while the hosted control plane is closed under terms that name no legal entity (25 of 30). The terms say crawled data is handled transiently with zero data retention for approved accounts, but the privacy policy is undated, names no controller, gives no retention periods and mentions no DPA (10 of 30). The CHANGELOG flags breaking changes, deprecated v2 extract routes return a warning on every response, and the October 2026 402 change is dated in the docs, with no standing notice policy (10 of 20). Local data-source telemetry is disclosed with an opt-out. The privacy policy names Stripe, Google Analytics, Google Ads and an X pixel, but infrastructure and search providers are unnamed and no data location is given (8 of 20). 25 + 10 + 10 + 8 = 53.\n- Scrapfly (75): Closed service with terms updated 2026-09-30 under US law. SDKs are BSD 2-Clause, and the MCP source is public with no LICENSE file and ISC in package.json (15 of 30). Privacy policy updated 14 May 2026 with a published DPA and HIPAA BAA, but retention is as long as necessary, and the retention of scraped content isn't stated (18 of 30). Release notes date deprecations and removals, for example Scrapium v153 dropping legacy network interception on 11 September. No standing deprecation policy found (15 of 20). Stripe, Google Analytics, Google Ads and Google Cloud are named, with SCC and Data Privacy Framework transfers, but there's no full subprocessor list (10 of 20). The release notes still date each CDP removal, most recently `Storage.getRelatedWebsiteSets` in Scrapium v156 on 26 October. Not otherwise re-read on 1 November. 15+18+15+10 = 58.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: fastCRW +11\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- Scrapfly (80): The open-source server registers 62 tools by default in v1.4.0 (5 web scraping, 2 account, 9 Cloud Browser sessions, 17 page interaction, 2 WebMCP, 15 credential vault, 12 alerts), all at once, and the docs list a smaller core. There's a code path to mount interaction tools per session, but registration is always-on for clients that don't refetch. On the API side, format=markdown and the extraction API keep responses small, and since v1.4.0 the scrape tools report `api_cost` and `cost_details` (10 of 25). Output format, extraction templates, crawler limits and 100-URL batches (15 of 20). Error codes an agent can branch on, with retryable and billed flags (20). Tools carry readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint, and mutating vault and alert tools need confirm=true after a preview (20). web_get_page works with a URL alone, and official SDKs exist for Python, TypeScript, Go and Rust (15). 10+15+20+20+15 = 80.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: fastCRW +9\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- Scrapfly (84): Scrapium v156 in the release notes on 26 October 2026 and MCP v1.4.0 on 15 October (30). MCP tags v1.3.1 to v1.3.3 (26 and 27 August), v1.3.4 (8 September) and v1.4.0 (15 October), SDKs 0.12.0 on 8 September, and dated release notes on 14, 24 and 26 August, 11, 23 and 25 September, 7, 24 and 26 October (20). Dated release notes most weeks and a support address. We couldn't read GitHub issues, since github.com refuses our reader (12 of 25). In the official MCP registry as io.scrapfly.mcp/mcp under the vendor's domain, though the entry still lists 1.0.0, and the SDKs are current (15). MCP moved to Go 1.27 on 23 October. Its CI runs only a reference check and the npm publish, while the TypeScript SDK runs tests in CI (7 of 10). 30+20+12+15+7 = 84.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Scrapfly +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- Scrapfly (40): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Credit costs per request type (1 datacentre, 5 with rendering or Unblocker, 25 residential, 60 full-page screenshot) and plan prices are public. Unblocker surcharges per target aren't published, but cost_budget caps them (20). 1,000 free credits, no card, no time limit (20). A person signs up in a browser. OAuth still needs an account (0). Plan prices and the 1,000 free credits with no card re-read on the pricing page on 1 November. 0+20+20+0 = 40.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | fastCRW | Scrapfly | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 85 | Scrapfly +35 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 95 | Scrapfly +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 80 | fastCRW +11 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 40 | 75 | Scrapfly +35 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 40 | Scrapfly +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 93 | 84 | fastCRW +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 75 | Scrapfly +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.3 · B** | **74.5 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | fastCRW | Scrapfly |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Nanofy OÜ | Scrapfly (Joam Intelligence, LLC) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://fastcrw.com/mcp` | `https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape` |\n| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | none |\n| Tools exposed | 11 | 62 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.fastcrw/crw` | `io.scrapfly.mcp/mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-11-04 | 2026-10-15 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-04-04 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-05-14 |\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 | yes |\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 | 14 stars, 21k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### fastCRW\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Scrapfly\n\n- +4.9 on 1 November 2026 (B to BB): new evidence, negative event\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**Scrapfly.** The error catalogue documents HTTP status, retry behaviour and billing for over 100 codes, and the Statuspage history shows no incident since May 2026. The MCP server loads 62 tools at once, and the API's canonical form puts the key in the URL.\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### Scrapfly\n\n1. Send `X-Scrapfly-Api-Key` as a header rather than `key=` so the key stays out of logs\n2. Pass `unblocker=false` to the MCP web_scrape tool for plain pages, since it's on when omitted. `asp` is the deprecated alias\n3. Set `cost_budget` on each scrape so an Unblocker upgrade can't blow through credits\n4. Check `retryable` in the error body before retrying, and stop on `ERR::THROTTLE::MAX_API_CREDIT_BUDGET_EXCEEDED`\n5. Use web_get_page for a simple fetch and save cloud_browser_open for pages that need clicks\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, fastCRW or Scrapfly?\n\nScrapfly scores 74.5 (BB) on agent readiness against fastCRW's 64.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. fastCRW leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do fastCRW and Scrapfly need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call fastCRW and Scrapfly without installing anything?\n\nYes. fastCRW has a hosted endpoint at https://fastcrw.com/mcp and Scrapfly at https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape.\n\n### Are fastCRW and Scrapfly open source?\n\nfastCRW is open source (AGPL-3.0). No open-source release is listed for Scrapfly.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapfly.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crw-vs-scrapfly.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"crw\", \"b\": \"scrapfly\"}`. 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