# jevcrawl vs Jina Reader

> jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) to Jina Reader's 45.1 (E) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-16

jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Jina Reader's 45.1 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jina Reader leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do scraping.

- jevcrawl: grade B, 63.7/100, rank #406 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json
- Jina Reader: grade E, 45.1/100, rank #954 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jina-reader.json
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 224 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md

## Which one, for what

### jevcrawl (B)

Good for: An agent that must find one answer several clicks deep on a documentation or help site and wants a few thousand tokens back instead of whole pages.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 68 against 60
- Schema & documentation, 81 against 43
- Security & auth, 59 against 32

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.3 against 2.5 out of 5
- No incidents deducted, where Jina Reader loses 7 points for them

Watch for: First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer

### Jina Reader (E)

Good for: Agents that read the web a page at a time and want to bound the tokens.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 30
- Transparency & trust, 58 against 45

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for: No price per token in any currency on the public page


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | jevcrawl | Jina Reader | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 60 | jevcrawl +8 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 43 | jevcrawl +38 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 76 | jevcrawl +4 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 32 | jevcrawl +27 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 35 | Jina Reader +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 65 | jevcrawl +3 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 58 | Jina Reader +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -7 | |
| **Total** | | **63.7 · B** | **45.1 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | jevcrawl | Jina Reader |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | Jina AI (Elastic) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://r.jina.ai/` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 3 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-09-18 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-05-04 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-07 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk | 12k stars |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**jevcrawl.** Three compact, typed MCP tools return verbatim passages with source URLs, cost and stop reasons, and errors arrive as codes with instructions. The project is three days old and alpha, it depends on TypeSafe's paid Jev API, which is in early access with no free tier found, and it does not block crawls of private or local addresses.

**Jina Reader.** One URL prefix, no key needed, Markdown back. No price per token in any currency on the public page.

## Before you call either

### jevcrawl

1. Phrase `goal` as one specific question and start with `max_pages` between 10 and 30
2. Check `stats.stopped_because` and `stats.degraded`, and read `uncertain` before reporting that something is missing
3. Use `scrape` without a goal when you need a whole page, since it makes no paid Jev call and needs no key
4. Handle `{"error": code, "message": ...}` results, for example `auth_error` means `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` is missing or rejected
5. Pages in `stats.needs_js_urls` were not read. Tell the user rather than guessing their content

### Jina Reader

1. Prefix the URL, `https://r.jina.ai/https://example.com`, and read the Markdown
2. Send `x-max-tokens` to cap a page, or `x-token-budget` to refuse one that's too big
3. Use `x-target-selector` when you need one part of a page
4. Keyless is 20 requests a minute and can't search. Add a key for loops or s.jina.ai
5. Send `x-no-cache: true` when a page may have changed or a blocked response got cached

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, jevcrawl or Jina Reader?

jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Jina Reader's 45.1 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jina Reader leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust.

### Do jevcrawl and Jina Reader need an API key?

jevcrawl needs an API key. Jina Reader takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call jevcrawl and Jina Reader without installing anything?

jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Jina Reader has a hosted endpoint at https://r.jina.ai/.

### Are jevcrawl and Jina Reader open source?

Yes. jevcrawl is open source (Apache-2.0). Jina Reader is open source (Apache-2.0).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-jina-reader.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-jina-reader.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "jevcrawl", "b": "jina-reader"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare jevcrawl jina-reader`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jina-reader.json

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