# jevcrawl vs ScrapeAtlas

> jevcrawl scores 64.3 (B) to ScrapeAtlas's 63 (B) for extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-30

jevcrawl scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapeAtlas's 63 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeAtlas leads on schema & documentation, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do extraction.

- jevcrawl: grade B, 64.3/100, rank #410 of 1226. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json
- ScrapeAtlas: grade B, 63/100, rank #481 of 1226. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeatlas.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapeatlas.json
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 242 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 42

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

### ScrapeAtlas (B)

Good for: Agents that need structured public data from a named social, video, forum, marketplace or prediction-market platform, such as a creator's profile and recent posts, a thread's comments, a product's reviews or a market's order book, paid per successful request without a subscription.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 88 against 81
- Payments & pricing, 55 against 30
- Transparency & trust, 61 against 51

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

Watch for: No status page or incident history was found, and the terms promise no uptime, throughput or continued availability of an endpoint


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | jevcrawl | ScrapeAtlas | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 42 | jevcrawl +26 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 88 | ScrapeAtlas +7 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 76 | jevcrawl +4 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 55 | jevcrawl +4 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 55 | ScrapeAtlas +25 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 70 | ScrapeAtlas +2 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 61 | ScrapeAtlas +10 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **64.3 · B** | **63 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | jevcrawl | ScrapeAtlas |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | OD. Media & Technology LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.scrapeatlas.com` |
| 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 | Proprietary service under ScrapeAtlas's Terms of Service. The @scrapeatlas/cli package on npm is MIT with no public source repository |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 373 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.OnlineDopamine/scrapeatlas` |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-28 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| Customer content may train models |  |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Popularity | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | none |

## 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.

**ScrapeAtlas.** An OpenAPI 3.1 file with 386 operations, typed parameters and a uniform failure object, published limits of 120 requests a minute and 4 concurrent, and 1 credit per successful request with failed calls free. No status page, security.txt or SDKs, the MCP server is a preview with 373 tools, and the product is five weeks old.

## 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

### ScrapeAtlas

1. Send the key as `x-api-key` on https://api.scrapeatlas.com and check `status` on every HTTP 200; `partial` is usable data with `coverage.warnings`, `failed` and `challenged` carry `failure.code`.
2. Retry only on `upstream_rate_limited`, `timeout` and `busy`, after the `retry-after` on a 429. Stay under 120 requests a minute and 4 concurrent per account.
3. Pass the returned `cursor` back unchanged for the next page, and use `since` and `until` (ISO 8601 or Unix seconds) where listed; each page costs another credit.
4. Each platform has its own response schema, so read the endpoint's response fields before mapping; unknown values are `null`, never 0.
5. For MCP, connect to https://api.scrapeatlas.com/mcp over Streamable HTTP with `Authorization: Bearer` and expect 373 tools; the two account tools and failed calls cost 0 credits.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, jevcrawl or ScrapeAtlas?

jevcrawl scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapeAtlas's 63 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeAtlas leads on schema & documentation, payments & pricing and transparency & trust.

### Do jevcrawl and ScrapeAtlas need an API key?

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

### Can an agent call jevcrawl and ScrapeAtlas without installing anything?

jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. ScrapeAtlas has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

### Are jevcrawl and ScrapeAtlas open source?

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


## For agents

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

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