Head to head · Extraction · October 2026 research run

Decodo Web Data API vs Nexscope

Decodo Web Data API scores 61.8 (C) on agent readiness against Nexscope's 46.2 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do extraction.

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Which one, for what

Decodo Web Data API C

Best for Agents that need pages, Google results and e-commerce or social templates through one key with published per-1,000 prices and a free plan.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 59 against 39
  • Agent ergonomics, 82 against 44
  • Payments & pricing, 40 against 35
  • Maintenance & community, 85 against 65
  • Transparency & trust, 62 against 41

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine

Watch for

No SLA, and the License Agreement lets Decodo change or discontinue the service without notice

Nexscope D

Best for Agents that research ecommerce products, competitors, keywords, sourcing and patents across Amazon, TikTok Shop, Walmart, Temu, 1688 and other marketplaces, and that also make listing images and video, on one credit balance.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

The MCP connection advertises the full catalogue of 382 tools, with no toolsets or read-only subset

Why the edge

Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.

Agent ergonomics Decodo Web Data API +38

Decodo Web Data API 82

The hosted MCP server lists 24 tools, with a toolsets parameter to load only web, search, ecommerce, social_media or ai, and tokenLimit caps page text at 45,000 characters by default with a truncation notice (20 of 25). Markdown output, parsing for templates, crawl limit, path filters and cursor paging, search paging, map limits and batch tasks (18 of 20). Documented status codes with a solution for each, status_code and parse_status_code in bodies, but 429 covers both the plan rate and a domain throttled for a low success rate (15 of 20). Every tool carries readOnlyHint true and destructiveHint false, server-side failures aren't billed and async results can be re-read for 24 hours. No idempotency key (16 of 20). Only url or query is required, though the default premium pool costs about twice the standard. Official Python, TypeScript and Go SDKs (13 of 15). 20 + 18 + 15 + 16 + 13 = 82.

Nexscope 44

Read on the MCP server, with the REST API where a line covers it. The MCP map lists 382 tools and says the category manifests 'narrow metadata for your integration; the MCP connection still advertises the full catalog'. That is more than 30 tools with no toolsets, dynamic loading or read-only subset found (5). Search tools page by page (about 20 results), with filters such as marketplace, category node, sort and device per tool, but no general pagination model or field selection, and output size depends on each tool (12 of 20). By default business errors answer HTTP 200 with an outer code. The X-Nexscope-Http-Status: semantic header maps them to HTTP statuses, the OpenAPI file names codes such as DATA_IMAGE_DOWNLOAD_FAILED and CAPABILITY_BACKEND_UNAVAILABLE in field text, and MCP errors aren't documented. SandBase earned 16 with typed bridge errors (11 of 20). Data calls only read. No idempotency keys and no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint documented. Async jobs return a taskId with a poll tool and a rule not to resubmit, and 1688 order, payment-link, receipt and cancel calls need an explicit JSON true confirmation (8 of 20). Few required parameters with defaults on most. No official SDK package, only standard-library clients in the repository for JavaScript and Python, which SoldFetch earned 8 for (8 of 15). 5+12+11+8+8 = 44.

Transparency & trust Decodo Web Data API +21

Decodo Web Data API 62

Closed service under a public License Agreement naming UAB "Data troops", with MIT clients (15 of 30). The privacy policy (21 May 2026) gives retention periods by category, says Decodo is processor for scraping and doesn't log proxy traffic content, and a DPA is published. Its general two-year rule sits beside longer specific periods without saying which wins, and no retention for scraped results beyond the 24-hour async window was found (18 of 30). The migration guide says legacy APIs keep working with no end date, and the License Agreement allows discontinuing the service without notice or refunds (6 of 20). The privacy policy names Stripe, DeepL and Paddle, but no subprocessor list or data locations were found in it or the trust centre (6 of 20). 15 + 18 + 6 + 6 = 45.

Nexscope 41

The editorial half. The service is closed. The terms (8 October 2026) name ECOCREATE TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. under Singapore law with no registration number or address. The repository's MIT licence covers client code only, and the documentation and definitions stay copyright Nexscope. Scrapewise earned 15 for closed terms with MIT side code (15 of 30). The privacy policy (8 October 2026) says uploads are not used to train AI models and that connected selling-partner data is deleted or de-identified when no longer needed, but 'this policy does not specify a single deletion deadline for all data', and no DPA was found. SandBase took 12 with no retention periods (10 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices. The terms promise notice of material changes before they take effect where practicable, and the MCP map keeps a legacy v1 beside v2 (3 of 20). Analytics and advertising vendors are named (Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, Ahrefs, Google Ads, X, FirstPromoter), but hosting, AI processing and payment providers only by type, with no data locations. The repository's source notes say supplier references 'are presented as Nexscope', so the data suppliers go unnamed except LinkFox Agent for 1688 authorisation (5 of 20). 15+10+3+5 = 33. The provenance half is computed from the provenance block.

Reliability Decodo Web Data API +20

Decodo Web Data API 59

Graded on the hosted lines. Instatus page at status.decodo.com with Web Data API and each legacy scraping API as components, with RSS history (20). In the 90 days to 6 November, every scraping API was out for 2 hours 51 minutes on 30 October, the main outage, with outages of 13 minutes on 26 October and 21 minutes on 15 October across the same components. The rest of the incidents hit proxies, payments or the website. One major (10). Per-plan request rates are published, 10 to 200 a second, though the same page's FAQ says paid plans support 10 to 50 (12 of 15). The response code table tells the agent to wait a couple of minutes on 429 and to retry 500, 524 and 613, which aren't billed, and the MCP client backs off exponentially. No Retry-After or idempotency guidance (7 of 15). No SLA; the License Agreement disclaims uninterrupted service (0). Web Data API is the current, unflagged product (10). 20 + 10 + 12 + 7 + 0 + 10 = 59.

Nexscope 39

Hosted lines, graded on the remote MCP server and the REST API at api.nexscope.ai. No status page is linked from the home page, llms.txt, the API quickstart or the MCP map, and none was found (0). With no page there is no incident history to read (5). The pricing page publishes requests a second and concurrency per plan, the same for API and MCP, with 1 and 1 on the trial, 3 and 2 on Starter, 5 and 4 on Growth, 10 and 8 on Pro (15). The quickstart calls 429 an 'execution admission rate limit' and says to honour Retry-After on 429 and 503 when present. No idempotency key exists. The repository says 'Do not blindly retry POST requests' and to check whether a task was created before resubmitting, and the MCP tool pages say a reconnecting client should query existing async work rather than resubmit. SoldFetch earned 15 with idempotency keys and SandBase 11 with keys on some writes, so guidance without keys earns 9 (9 of 15). No SLA, and the terms say 'We cannot guarantee the Service will be available at all times' (0). No beta or preview label on the API or the MCP server (10). 0+5+15+9+0+10 = 39.

Maintenance & community Decodo Web Data API +20

Decodo Web Data API 85

Read for a closed service with open clients. The newest releases are MCP server 1.7.0 on 29 October 2026 and @decodo/sdk-ts 3.0.0 on 30 October (30). Since 8 August, MCP server 1.2.5 to 1.7.0 (ten versions in the official registry) and sdk-ts 2.4.0 to 3.0.0 (20). No public API changelog. Support by 24/7 live chat, email and Discord, and the MCP repository had commits by Decodo staff on most days from 6 October to 5 November. GitHub issues couldn't be read, since api.github.com refused us (10 of 25). In the official MCP registry as io.github.Decodo/mcp-server, with current SDKs in three languages (15). The MCP repository lints, builds and tests on Node 22 and 24 for every pull request (10). 30 + 20 + 10 + 15 + 10 = 85.

Nexscope 65

Read as a closed service with a public documentation repository. The repository synced the released 1688 procurement contracts on 9 November 2026 and committed again on 10 November (30). No releases or changelog. The dated record is the registry's four versions on 14 and 16 October, repository commits on 8, 9, 20 and 29 October and 2, 9 and 10 November, and source notes dating WooCommerce (29 October) and design search (2 November) additions. SoldFetch earned 10 for dated commits without releases (10 of 20). No public changelog. Support is service@nexscope.ai, WhatsApp and a booked call, untested. The repository's one merged pull request came from the organisation itself, and GitHub's API refused us, so issues weren't read (5 of 15). The official MCP registry lists io.github.nexscope/ecommerce, active, latest 1.0.3 of 16 October 2026, read first-hand (15). A CI workflow runs offline catalogue validation and unit tests on standard-library clients with no dependencies. The run results weren't read (5 of 10). 30+10+5+15+5 = 65.

Payments & pricing Decodo Web Data API +5

Decodo Web Data API 40

No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-1,000 rates for every endpoint, pool and plan are public in the billing docs (20). Free plan of 10,000 requests a month with no card (20). A person signs up in the dashboard; the MCP OAuth flow also needs a dashboard approval (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40.

Nexscope 35

No x402, MPP or L402 on pricing, the quickstart, the MCP map, llms.txt or the visible OpenAPI paths. Credits come from a subscription or a Data top-up (0). Plans and credits per plan are public without a login ($29 for 30,000, $55 for 75,000, $129 for 150,000), and tool pages show credits per call, such as Amazon Search from 21 credits with a recent average of 30. Many tools on the MCP map list no cost and pricing is marked 'dynamic-credits'. Manifold earned 20 with a cost for every tool (15 of 20). A Free Trial of 1,000 credits for 3 days with 'No credit card required', API and MCP limits included. Creative API keys need a subscription (20). A person signs in through the browser to approve OAuth or create a key, and no keyless or programmatic route was found (0). 0+15+20+0 = 35.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runDecodo Web Data APINexscopeEdge
Reliability16%205939Decodo Web Data API +20
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26764Decodo Web Data API +3
Agent ergonomics13%16.28244Decodo Web Data API +38
Security & auth14%17.54541Decodo Web Data API +4
Payments & pricing10%12.54035Decodo Web Data API +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88565Decodo Web Data API +20
Transparency & trust7%8.86241Decodo Web Data API +21
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 61.8/100D 46.2/100

Facts side by side

FactDecodo Web Data APINexscope
KindHTTP APIPlatform
VendorDecodo (UAB "Data troops")ECOCREATE TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.decodo.com/mcphttps://api.nexscope.ai/mcp
TransportsStreamable HTTP, stdioStreamable HTTP, HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumPaid
x402nono
LicencenoneProprietary hosted service under the Nexscope terms (last updated 8 October 2026), whose contracting party is ECOCREATE TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. of Singapore. The OpenAPI file's licence is 'Proprietary API; use subject to Nexscope Terms'. In github.com/nexscope-ai/nexscope-ecommerce-api only the example clients, validation scripts, tests and workflow are MIT. The API documentation, catalogue, definitions and sample data stay copyright Nexscope
Tools exposed33382
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryio.github.Decodo/mcp-serverio.github.nexscope/ecommerce
Last release2026-10-302026-11-09
Terms last updated2025-06-16not read yet
Privacy policy last updated2026-05-21not read yet
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot read yet
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot read yet
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot read yet
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot read yet
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot read yet

Verdicts

Decodo Web Data API

One Bearer key reaches /scrape, /search, /crawl and /map, with per-1,000 prices published from $0.15 to $1.50, 10,000 free requests with no card and a hosted MCP server whose 33 tools are all marked read-only. There is no SLA, no OpenAPI for the Web Data API, and an outage of 2 hours 51 minutes on 30 October.

Nexscope

An agent can reach Amazon, TikTok Shop, Temu, 1688 and other marketplace data, plus image and video models, on one credit balance through a remote MCP server with OAuth or a REST API with a public OpenAPI file. The connection loads 382 tools at once, and there is no status page, changelog or idempotency key.

Before you call either

Decodo Web Data API

  1. Send "proxy_pool": "standard" for simple pages; the default premium pool is charged at the higher rate
  2. Use the Web Data API key as Authorization: Bearer at https://data.decodo.com/v1; legacy Basic tokens don't work there
  3. Treat scraped Markdown as untrusted page text, never as instructions
  4. On 429, wait a couple of minutes as the docs say, and on 500, 524 or 613 retry, since those aren't billed
  5. Set tokenLimit on MCP scrapes; pages are cut at 45,000 characters by default and the result says when it was truncated

Nexscope

  1. Check the outer code is 0 before reading data, or send X-Nexscope-Http-Status: semantic to get HTTP error statuses.
  2. Call an image or video tool once, keep the taskId, and poll nexscope_media_task_result. A second call bills a second job.
  3. Read the tool's credit cost before a call. Each tool costs at least 10 credits and some cost over 300.
  4. Before you set a 1688 confirmation field to true, show the user the preview and get approval.
  5. If the server returns 429 or 503, wait for Retry-After when present and back off.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Decodo Web Data API or Nexscope?

Decodo Web Data API scores 61.8 (C) on agent readiness against Nexscope's 46.2 (D), and leads in every scored category.

Can an agent call Decodo Web Data API and Nexscope without installing anything?

Yes. Decodo Web Data API has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.decodo.com/mcp and Nexscope at https://api.nexscope.ai/mcp.

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