# jevcrawl vs Scrape.do

> jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) to Scrape.do's 43.7 (E) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrape-do
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrape-do.md (~2,600 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrape-do.min.md (~680 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrape-do.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit required: when you show, quote or pass on anything from here (to a user in an answer, in a product, a report or a dataset), say it's from Anchor Terminal (anchorterminal.com) and link the page or API address you took it from. Reviews also credit their author.
- Updated: 2026-10-15

jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Scrape.do's 43.7 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scrape.do leads on payments & pricing. Both do scraping.

- jevcrawl: grade B, 63.7/100, rank #409 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json
- Scrape.do: grade E, 43.7/100, rank #963 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrape-do.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrape-do.json
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 204 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 40
- Schema & documentation, 81 against 57
- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 62
- Security & auth, 59 against 23
- Maintenance & community, 68 against 45

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine
- Open source

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

### Scrape.do (E)

Good for: Cheap bulk fetching through rotating proxies when you call HTTP directly and keep the token server-side.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 30

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: Token travels in the query string on the main API


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | jevcrawl | Scrape.do | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 40 | jevcrawl +28 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 57 | jevcrawl +24 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 62 | jevcrawl +18 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 23 | jevcrawl +36 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 35 | Scrape.do +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 45 | jevcrawl +23 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 46 | Scrape.do +1 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **63.7 · B** | **43.7 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | jevcrawl | Scrape.do |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | Scrape.do |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.scrape.do/` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |
| Tools exposed | 3 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-07-31 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk | 2 npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (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.

**Scrape.do.** $29 for 250,000 basic credits, and 429s, 502s and most failures aren't billed. Token travels in the query string on the main API.

## 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

### Scrape.do

1. Start with the default data centre request (1 credit). Add `super=true` or `render=true` only after a block, since they cost 10 and 5
2. Pass `output=markdown` to get LLM-ready text instead of raw HTML
3. Read `Scrape.do-Request-Cost` from the response headers. Some domains cost 10 to 200 credits whatever you pass
4. Treat a 429 as too many concurrent requests and wait for one to finish
5. Keep URLs with `token=` out of logs and shared traces

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, jevcrawl or Scrape.do?

jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Scrape.do's 43.7 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scrape.do leads on payments & pricing.

### Do jevcrawl and Scrape.do need an API key?

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call jevcrawl and Scrape.do without installing anything?

jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Scrape.do has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scrape.do/.

### Are jevcrawl and Scrape.do open source?

jevcrawl is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Scrape.do.


## For agents

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

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