{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "jevcrawl", "name": "jevcrawl", "vendor": "Rayen Mlayeh", "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh", "kind": "mcp", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "jevcrawl is an open-source MCP server and CLI that crawls a website toward a question and returns only the relevant passages, verbatim with source URLs. TypeSafe's hosted Jev decision model scores the pages, passages and links.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json", "repo": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh/jevcrawl", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "jevcrawl" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A TypeSafe API key in the `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` environment variable, created at console.typesafe.ai, is needed for `crawl`, `map` and `scrape` with a goal. `scrape` without a goal makes no Jev call and works with no key. The README says the key is never written to disk or logs.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "The package is free under Apache-2.0. Decisions are billed by TypeSafe for Jev at $0.042 per million input tokens, with output tokens free. The README gives an average of $0.011 per crawl in its benchmark, and `max_decision_usd` (default $0.05) caps each call. We found no free Jev tier.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the source or README (checked 2026-10-15). Jev is paid through a TypeSafe account and key.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 3, "popularity": { "githubStars": 60, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 204, "asOf": "2026-10-15" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh/jevcrawl#readme", "capabilities": [ "web.crawl", "web.extract", "web.scrape", "scraping.js-render" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "apache-2.0", "python", "mcp", "cli", "agent-skill", "usage-priced", "alpha" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 409, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 68, "payments": 30, "reliability": 68, "schema": 81, "security": 59, "transparency": 45 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-15" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Three tools with typed inputs, sensible defaults and descriptions that say when to use `crawl`, `scrape` or `map`", "Every result reports pages fetched, tokens, Jev cost in dollars and why the crawl stopped, with a hard per-call spending cap", "Returned text is copied from the page with URL, heading path, character offsets and a page hash, so quotes can be checked", "174 offline tests, ruff and mypy strict pass in CI on Python 3.11 and 3.13, with PyPI trusted publishing", "Follows robots.txt by default since v0.1.1, and SECURITY.md sets out private reporting with a one-week answer" ], "weaknesses": [ "First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer", "`crawl` and `map` need a paid TypeSafe key, and TypeSafe describes Jev as early access with no free tier found", "Page text from every crawl goes to TypeSafe, whose policies give no retention period", "No check against private, loopback or link-local addresses, so an agent can point it at internal hosts", "No MCP tool annotations, no llms.txt and no entry in the official MCP registry" ], "agentNotes": [ "Phrase `goal` as one specific question and start with `max_pages` between 10 and 30", "Check `stats.stopped_because` and `stats.degraded`, and read `uncertain` before reporting that something is missing", "Use `scrape` without a goal when you need a whole page, since it makes no paid Jev call and needs no key", "Handle `{\"error\": code, \"message\": ...}` results, for example `auth_error` means `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` is missing or rejected", "Pages in `stats.needs_js_urls` were not read. Tell the user rather than guessing their content" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 63.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 68, "payments": 30, "reliability": 68, "schema": 81, "security": 59, "transparency": 63 }, "provenanceScore": 27 }, "connect": { "install": "uv tool install jevcrawl", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add jevcrawl -e TYPESAFE_API_KEY=\u003cyour key\u003e -- uvx jevcrawl", "config": { "mcpServers": { "jevcrawl": { "args": [ "jevcrawl" ], "command": "uvx", "env": { "TYPESAFE_API_KEY": "\u003cyour key\u003e" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.crawl", "tool": "https://letme.dev/jevcrawl" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Jev 1.13 input tokens, billed by TypeSafe", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.042, "note": "Output tokens free. The package itself is free" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "github.com/RayenMlayeh", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh/jevcrawl/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-15", "notes": [ "An individual's open-source project under Apache-2.0. pyproject.toml names Rayen Mlayeh as author, and the GitHub profile names no company or website.", "No vendor domain. The domain line names the GitHub account and scores no domain age.", "Software the owner runs, so there are no service terms or privacy policy of its own. Page text goes to TypeSafe AI, Inc. under TypeSafe's customer agreement and privacy policy (see the typesafe-jev listing).", "The repository has a SECURITY.md that points to GitHub private vulnerability reporting. No website, so no security.txt.", "The changelog is the GitHub release notes. v0.1.0's notes are only a link to the commit list." ], "score": 27 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.json" }, "answer": "jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingAnt's 35.5 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingAnt leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "scrapingant", "name": "ScrapingAnt", "vendor": "ScrapingAnt (DATAANT)", "vendorUrl": "https://scrapingant.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Scraping API that runs each request in headless Chrome behind rotating datacenter or residential proxies, with markdown and AI extraction endpoints, a 3-tool hosted MCP server and standalone proxies billed by the GB.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingant.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scrapingant-client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@scrapingant/scrapingant-client" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API key as an x-api-key header or an x-api-key query parameter. The docs' examples use the query form. The hosted MCP takes the same key in an x-api-key header. The usage endpoint only documents the query form.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "10,000 free credits a month, no card, one concurrent request. Enthusiast $19 a month (100,000 credits), Startup $49 (500,000), Business $249 (3M), Business Pro $599 (8M), Custom from $699 (10M+). A plain request on a datacenter proxy costs 1 credit, headless Chrome with JS rendering 10 (the default), Chrome plus residential proxy 125, and the AI extractor adds 1 credit per 30 characters. Failed requests aren't charged. Residential proxies $3 to $6 a GB and datacenter $0.42 to $0.60 a GB, billed separately (https://scrapingant.com/#pricing).", "priceSummary": "$19 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or other agent payment rail in the docs, pricing or API responses (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 3, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 90, "pypiWeekly": 1969, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.scrapingant.com", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.fetch", "web.extract", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.anti-bot" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "proxies", "closed-source", "python", "typescript" ], "lastRelease": "2024-07-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 35.5, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1031, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 20, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 5, "payments": 40, "reliability": 30, "schema": 43, "security": 10, "transparency": 53 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "10,000 free credits a month with no card. API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs.", "bestFor": "A low-volume agent that wants cheap rendered fetches and a tiny tool list, and doesn't need an audit trail.", "strengths": [ "10,000 free credits a month with no card", "No concurrency cap on paid plans", "Failed requests cost nothing, and the Ant-credits-cost header reports spend per call", "3-tool hosted MCP with header auth, cheap to load into context", "Named Polish entity with processors and hosting locations listed" ], "weaknesses": [ "API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs", "No status page, changelog, security.txt, llms.txt or OpenAPI spec", "SDKs are stale. JavaScript last released 2022-05-06, Python 2024-07-16", "No prompt-injection guidance for the pages it returns", "Privacy policy last updated 3 November 2020" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key in the `x-api-key` header rather than the query string", "Use `/v2/markdown` for LLM input, and set `browser=false` on static pages to pay 1 credit instead of 10", "Switch to `proxy_type=residential` only after a 423 (anti-bot) response. It raises a browser request from 10 to 125 credits", "On the free plan a second concurrent request gets 409. Wait for the first to finish", "Google, Bing and Yandex result pages come back as raw HTML through `/v2/general`, so you parse them yourself" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 35.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 5, "payments": 40, "reliability": 30, "schema": 43, "security": 10, "transparency": 48 }, "provenanceScore": 58 }, "connect": { "http": "curl 'https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/markdown?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com' -H \"x-api-key: $SCRAPINGANT_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add scrapingant --transport http https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp -H \"x-api-key: $SCRAPINGANT_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "scrapingant": { "headers": { "x-api-key": "${SCRAPINGANT_API_KEY}" }, "url": "https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/scrapingant" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Enthusiast plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 19, "note": "100,000 credits" }, { "item": "Startup plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "500,000 credits" }, { "item": "Business plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 249, "note": "3,000,000 credits" }, { "item": "Default browser request on Enthusiast", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1.9, "note": "10 credits each, headless Chrome and datacenter proxy" }, { "item": "Plain request on Enthusiast", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.19, "note": "1 credit each, no browser, datacenter proxy" }, { "item": "Residential proxy", "unit": "gb", "usd": 6, "note": "Micro plan, 5 GB for $30 a month. Falls to $3 at volume" }, { "item": "Datacenter proxy", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0.6, "note": "Micro plan, 50 GB for $30 a month" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "DATAANT SP. Z O.O.", "domain": "scrapingant.com", "domainRegistered": "2020-03-31", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://scrapingant.com/legal/terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://scrapingant.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "Registered in Poland, KRS 0000848755, per the terms and privacy policy", "The privacy policy was last updated 3 November 2020 and predates the MCP server and AI extractor", "The site footer links no status page, changelog or security page" ], "score": 58 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.json", "live": { "slug": "scrapingant", "probe": { "target": "https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-15T11:30:09.547706289Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 422, "lastMs": 95, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 99.95, "p50ms24h": 95, "p95ms24h": 136, "samples24h": 254, "samples30d": 3797, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 123, "ok": 123 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@scrapingant/scrapingant-client", "version": "0.2.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-15T00:19:57.208562553Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scrapingant-client", "version": "2.1.0", "released": "2024-07-16", "seenAt": "2026-10-15T00:19:57.019626047Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 75, "pypiWeekly": 2411, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://scrapingant.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T15:46:54.700086921Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "scrapingant.com", "registered": "2020-03-31", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/scrapingant.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:20:51.825992493Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://scrapingant.com/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:06:49.100509612Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "5d4d337f6a40" }, { "url": "https://scrapingant.com/legal/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:06:51.130004859Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a61dcd1c862d" }, { "url": "https://scrapingant.com/legal/terms-of-use", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:06:53.128649874Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b1e179927df6" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T11:30:09.547706289Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Rayen Mlayeh", "b": "ScrapingAnt (DATAANT)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "3", "b": "3", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-15", "b": "2024-07-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk", "b": "90 npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.5/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingAnt's 35.5 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingAnt leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, jevcrawl or ScrapingAnt?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do jevcrawl and ScrapingAnt need an API key?" }, { "answer": "jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. ScrapingAnt has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general.", "question": "Can an agent call jevcrawl and ScrapingAnt without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "jevcrawl is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for ScrapingAnt.", "question": "Are jevcrawl and ScrapingAnt open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 68 against 30", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 43", "Agent ergonomics, 80 against 66", "Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 10", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 68 against 5" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "jevcrawl", "watchFor": "First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 53 against 45" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "A low-volume agent that wants cheap rendered fetches and a tiny tool list, and doesn't need an audit trail.", "slug": "scrapingant", "watchFor": "API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs" } ], "job": { "capability": "web.scrape", "name": "Scraping" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Bright Data vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Bright Data vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Context.dev vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "ScrapeGraphAI vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Scrapeless vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs ScrapingAnt", "url": 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{ "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapingant" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 38, "edge": "jevcrawl", "jevcrawl": 68, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "scrapingant": 30, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 38, "edge": "jevcrawl", "jevcrawl": 81, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "scrapingant": 43, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "jevcrawl", "jevcrawl": 80, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "scrapingant": 66, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 49, "edge": "jevcrawl", "jevcrawl": 59, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "scrapingant": 10, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "scrapingant", "jevcrawl": 30, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "scrapingant": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 63, "edge": "jevcrawl", "jevcrawl": 68, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "scrapingant": 5, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "scrapingant", "jevcrawl": 45, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "scrapingant": 53, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingAnt's 35.5 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingAnt leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do scraping.", "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.", "scrapingant": "10,000 free credits a month with no card. API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingant", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingant.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingant.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingant.min.md" }, "markdown": "jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingAnt's 35.5 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingAnt leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do scraping.\n\n- 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\n- ScrapingAnt: grade F, 35.5/100, rank #1031 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingant.json\n- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md\n- All 204 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### jevcrawl (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 68 against 30\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 43\n- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 66\n- Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 10\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 68 against 5\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer\n\n### ScrapingAnt (F)\n\nGood for: A low-volume agent that wants cheap rendered fetches and a tiny tool list, and doesn't need an audit trail.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 53 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | jevcrawl | ScrapingAnt | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 30 | jevcrawl +38 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 43 | jevcrawl +38 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 66 | jevcrawl +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 10 | jevcrawl +49 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | ScrapingAnt +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 5 | jevcrawl +63 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 53 | ScrapingAnt +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.7 · B** | **35.5 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | jevcrawl | ScrapingAnt |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | ScrapingAnt (DATAANT) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general` |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |\n| Tools exposed | 3 | 3 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2024-07-16 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk | 90 npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**ScrapingAnt.** 10,000 free credits a month with no card. API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### jevcrawl\n\n1. Phrase `goal` as one specific question and start with `max_pages` between 10 and 30\n2. Check `stats.stopped_because` and `stats.degraded`, and read `uncertain` before reporting that something is missing\n3. Use `scrape` without a goal when you need a whole page, since it makes no paid Jev call and needs no key\n4. Handle `{\"error\": code, \"message\": ...}` results, for example `auth_error` means `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` is missing or rejected\n5. Pages in `stats.needs_js_urls` were not read. Tell the user rather than guessing their content\n\n### ScrapingAnt\n\n1. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header rather than the query string\n2. Use `/v2/markdown` for LLM input, and set `browser=false` on static pages to pay 1 credit instead of 10\n3. Switch to `proxy_type=residential` only after a 423 (anti-bot) response. It raises a browser request from 10 to 125 credits\n4. On the free plan a second concurrent request gets 409. Wait for the first to finish\n5. Google, Bing and Yandex result pages come back as raw HTML through `/v2/general`, so you parse them yourself\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, jevcrawl or ScrapingAnt?\n\njevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingAnt's 35.5 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingAnt leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do jevcrawl and ScrapingAnt need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call jevcrawl and ScrapingAnt without installing anything?\n\njevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. ScrapingAnt has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general.\n\n### Are jevcrawl and ScrapingAnt open source?\n\njevcrawl is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for ScrapingAnt.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingant.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingant.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"jevcrawl\", \"b\": \"scrapingant\"}`. 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