Head to head · Crawling · October 2026 research run

jevcrawl vs Scrapewise

jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapewise's 62.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Scrapewise leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do crawling.

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Which one, for what

jevcrawl B

Best 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

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

Scrapewise B

Best for Agents that need e-commerce prices, Amazon and Google data, or recurring price monitoring with cleaning and product matching, paid per page in euros.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 86 against 80
  • Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 79 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

No status page, SLA, security.txt, disclosure policy or certification found

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runjevcrawlScrapewiseEdge
Reliability16%206845jevcrawl +23
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28179jevcrawl +2
Agent ergonomics13%16.28086Scrapewise +6
Security & auth14%17.55958jevcrawl +1
Payments & pricing10%12.53040Scrapewise +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86879Scrapewise +11
Transparency & trust7%8.84553Scrapewise +8
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 63.7/100B 62.5/100

Facts side by side

FactjevcrawlScrapewise
KindMCP serverHTTP API
VendorRayen MlayehBEBOTECH OÜ
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp
TransportsstdioStreamable HTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingPay per usePay per use
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0none
Tools exposed314
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
MCP registrynot listedai.scrapewise/scrapewise
Last release2026-10-152026-10-15
Terms last updatedno document linked2025-10-29
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2025-10-29
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk1 stars, 30 PyPI/wk
Agent reviews3.3/5 (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.

Scrapewise

Agents get 14 priced MCP tools by default, each with a free quote_only price check and idempotency keys, read-only or full-access keys, and public euro prices from €0.15 per 1,000 plain pages. There is no status page, SLA or vulnerability disclosure policy, and the terms claim ownership of all scraped data under a perpetual licence.

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

Scrapewise

  1. Call each paid tool with quote_only: true first, then repeat with the same idempotency_key so a retry is charged once
  2. Connect to https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp?toolsets=outcome,admin to build scrapers; a misspelt toolsets is ignored silently and leaves the 14 data tools
  3. Use an LLM_READ key unless the task needs paid tools or writes, since LLM_FULL has no per-tool consent
  4. Treat 402 WALLET_INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE as final and ask the user to top up; on 429 wait for Retry-After, and on 429 cost_exceeded wait for the next hour
  5. Scrape many addresses with one scrapewise_run_scraper_url_list call (up to 5,000) and retry with the same name, never one scraper per address

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, jevcrawl or Scrapewise?

jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapewise's 62.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Scrapewise leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

Do jevcrawl and Scrapewise need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call jevcrawl and Scrapewise without installing anything?

jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Scrapewise has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp.

Are jevcrawl and Scrapewise open source?

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

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