# jevcrawl vs Scrapeless

> jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) to Scrapeless's 54.1 (C) for crawling. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapeless
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- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapeless.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
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- Updated: 2026-10-15

jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapeless's 54.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Scrapeless leads on reliability, payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. 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
- Scrapeless: grade C, 54.1/100, rank #743 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeless.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapeless.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:
- Schema & documentation, 81 against 66
- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 50
- Security & auth, 59 against 35

Also in its favour:
- Open source

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

### Scrapeless (C)

Good for: An agent that needs one key for unlocking, a remote browser and AI answer-engine scraping, and is happy to read the pricing JSON rather than llms.txt.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 75 against 68
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 81 against 68
- Transparency & trust, 53 against 45

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

Watch for: llms.txt quotes Deep SerpApi at $0.1 per 1,000 while the plan data charges $1 per 1,000 for Google Search


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | jevcrawl | Scrapeless | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 75 | Scrapeless +7 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 66 | jevcrawl +15 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 50 | jevcrawl +30 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 35 | jevcrawl +24 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 35 | Scrapeless +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 81 | Scrapeless +13 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 53 | Scrapeless +8 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **63.7 · B** | **54.1 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | jevcrawl | Scrapeless |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | Scrapeless (NST Labs Tech) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.scrapeless.com` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 25 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.scrapeless-ai/scrapeless-mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-09-16 |
| 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 |  | not found in the text |
| 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 | 169 stars, 423 npm/wk, 216 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (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.

**Scrapeless.** Hosted streamable HTTP MCP at api.scrapeless.com/mcp with header auth, plus a stdio package, both in the official MCP registry. llms.txt quotes Deep SerpApi at $0.1 per 1,000 while the plan data charges $1 per 1,000 for Google Search.

## 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

### Scrapeless

1. Use scrape_markdown for reading pages and save the browser_* tools for clicks and logins, since browser time bills by the hour
2. Call browser_close when done so the session and its billing stop
3. Set limit on crawl_start. Unset, it defaults to 10,000 pages
4. Crawls are asynchronous. Call crawl_start, then poll crawl_result with the returned id
5. Set SCRAPELESS_API_KEY for the stdio server. Older guides use SCRAPELESS_KEY, which still works as a fallback

## Questions

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

jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapeless's 54.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Scrapeless leads on reliability, payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

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

Both need an API key.

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

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

### Are jevcrawl and Scrapeless open source?

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


## For agents

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

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