# jevcrawl vs Scrapfly

> Scrapfly scores 69.6 (B) to jevcrawl's 63.7 (B) for crawling. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Scrapfly scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against jevcrawl's 63.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. jevcrawl leads on reliability. Both do crawling.

- jevcrawl: grade B, 63.7/100, rank #406 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json
- Scrapfly: grade B, 69.6/100, rank #186 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapfly.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapfly.json
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 224 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 50

Also in its favour:
- Open source

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

### Scrapfly (B)

Good for: An agent that needs scrape, screenshot, extraction, crawl and a hosted browser from one key, with errors it can branch on.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 95 against 81
- Security & auth, 70 against 59
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 84 against 68
- Transparency & trust, 75 against 45

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Free to start without a card
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 4.0 against 3.3 out of 5

Watch for: The open-source MCP server registers 61 tools at once, a heavy tools/list


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | jevcrawl | Scrapfly | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 50 | jevcrawl +18 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 95 | Scrapfly +14 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 80 | even |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 70 | Scrapfly +11 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | Scrapfly +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 84 | Scrapfly +16 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 75 | Scrapfly +30 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **63.7 · B** | **69.6 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | jevcrawl | Scrapfly |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | Scrapfly (Joam Intelligence, LLC) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 61 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.scrapfly.mcp/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-09-08 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-05-14 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk | 14 stars, 21k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 4/5 (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.

**Scrapfly.** The error catalogue documents HTTP status, retry behaviour and billing for over 100 codes. The MCP server loads 61 tools at once.

## 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

### Scrapfly

1. Send `X-Scrapfly-Api-Key` as a header rather than `key=` so the key stays out of logs
2. Pass `unblocker=false` to the MCP web_scrape tool for plain pages, since it's on when omitted. `asp` is the deprecated alias
3. Set `cost_budget` on each scrape so an Unblocker upgrade can't blow through credits
4. Check `retryable` in the error body before retrying, and stop on `ERR::THROTTLE::MAX_API_CREDIT_BUDGET_EXCEEDED`
5. Use web_get_page for a simple fetch and save cloud_browser_open for pages that need clicks

## Questions

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

Scrapfly scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against jevcrawl's 63.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. jevcrawl leads on reliability.

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

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

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

jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Scrapfly has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape.

### Are jevcrawl and Scrapfly open source?

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


## For agents

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

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