# jevcrawl vs ScrapeGraphAI

> ScrapeGraphAI scores 68.3 (B) to jevcrawl's 63.7 (B) for crawling. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-15

ScrapeGraphAI scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against jevcrawl's 63.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. jevcrawl leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do crawling.

- 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
- ScrapeGraphAI: grade B, 68.3/100, rank #232 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapegraphai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapegraphai.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:
- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 72
- Security & auth, 59 against 39

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

### ScrapeGraphAI (B)

Good for: LLM pipelines that want prompt-to-JSON extraction and for agents that must pay with a wallet.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 88 against 81
- Payments & pricing, 90 against 30
- Transparency & trust, 60 against 45

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

Watch for: Rate limits and plan prices differ between docs pages


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | jevcrawl | ScrapeGraphAI | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 64 | jevcrawl +4 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 88 | ScrapeGraphAI +7 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 72 | jevcrawl +8 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 39 | jevcrawl +20 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 90 | ScrapeGraphAI +60 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 70 | ScrapeGraphAI +2 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 60 | ScrapeGraphAI +15 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **63.7 · B** | **68.3 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | jevcrawl | ScrapeGraphAI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | ScrapeGraphAI |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | no | payer tooling only |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 20 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.ScrapeGraphAI/scrapegraph-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-07-31 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-04 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2024-03-15 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| 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 | 2.4k npm/wk, 46k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (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.

**ScrapeGraphAI.** An agent can mint an account and key over x402 or MPP with no signup. Rate limits and plan prices differ between docs pages.

## 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

### ScrapeGraphAI

1. Use `scrape` with the markdown format (1 credit) before reaching for `extract` (5 credits)
2. Read `GET https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com/api/agent/protocols` for current packs and prices before paying over x402
3. MCP tool calls stop at 60 seconds. Use `crawl_start` and poll for anything longer
4. Back off 1, 2 then 4 seconds on a 429 `rate_limit_exceeded`. No Retry-After is sent
5. Use Orthogonal's x402 gateway when you need to pay per call without a key

## Questions

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

ScrapeGraphAI scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against jevcrawl's 63.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. jevcrawl leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth.

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

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

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

jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. ScrapeGraphAI has a hosted endpoint at https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com.

### Are jevcrawl and ScrapeGraphAI open source?

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


## For agents

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

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