# jevcrawl vs ScraperAPI

> jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) to ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D) for crawling. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-15

jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScraperAPI leads on payments & pricing 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
- ScraperAPI: grade D, 52.1/100, rank #795 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scraperapi.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 45
- Schema & documentation, 81 against 67
- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 74
- Security & auth, 59 against 29
- Maintenance & community, 68 against 61

Also in its favour:
- Open source

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

### ScraperAPI (D)

Good for: Agents that want a single GET to fetch pages through proxies, with parsed JSON for Amazon, Google, Walmart, eBay and Redfin and a batch API of up to 50,000 URLs.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
- Transparency & trust, 54 against 45

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

Watch for: No status page is linked from the home, pricing, support or docs pages, although the pricing page lists a 99.9% uptime guarantee


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | jevcrawl | ScraperAPI | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 45 | jevcrawl +23 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 67 | jevcrawl +14 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 74 | jevcrawl +6 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 29 | jevcrawl +30 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | ScraperAPI +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 61 | jevcrawl +7 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 54 | ScraperAPI +9 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **63.7 · B** | **52.1 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | jevcrawl | ScraperAPI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | ScraperAPI (saas.group) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.scraperapi.com` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 28 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-08-07 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Customer content may train models |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk | 5 stars |

## 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.

**ScraperAPI.** One GET request with a key and a URL returns a page, and the MCP server's 28 tools carry read-only and destructive hints. No status page, OpenAPI file, security.txt or certification was found, and the documented default puts the API key in the URL query string.

## 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

### ScraperAPI

1. Set the client timeout to 70 seconds. The API retries for that long before it returns 500, and a request cancelled earlier is still charged
2. Send the key as the `x-sapi-api_key` header to keep it out of URLs and logs
3. Pass `max_cost` on each request, or call `/account/urlcost` first, because domain and anti-bot surcharges vary from 1 to 75 credits
4. Use `output_format=markdown` or `text` to cut response size, and `autoparse=true` only on supported domains
5. On 429 reduce concurrency to the plan limit (5 on Free, 20 on Hobby). The request is rejected, not queued

## Questions

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

jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScraperAPI leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust.

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

Both need an API key.

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

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

### Are jevcrawl and ScraperAPI open source?

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


## For agents

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

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