# jevcrawl vs ScrapingAnt

> jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) to ScrapingAnt's 35.5 (F) for scraping. 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 ScrapingAnt's 35.5 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingAnt leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do scraping.

- 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
- 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
- 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 30
- Schema & documentation, 81 against 43
- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 66
- Security & auth, 59 against 10
- Maintenance & community, 68 against 5

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

### ScrapingAnt (F)

Good for: A low-volume agent that wants cheap rendered fetches and a tiny tool list, and doesn't need an audit trail.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
- Transparency & trust, 53 against 45

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

Watch for: API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | jevcrawl | ScrapingAnt | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 30 | jevcrawl +38 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 43 | jevcrawl +38 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 66 | jevcrawl +14 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 10 | jevcrawl +49 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | ScrapingAnt +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 5 | jevcrawl +63 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 53 | ScrapingAnt +8 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **63.7 · B** | **35.5 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | jevcrawl | ScrapingAnt |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | ScrapingAnt (DATAANT) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 3 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2024-07-16 |
| 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 |  | yes |
| 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 | 90 npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (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.

**ScrapingAnt.** 10,000 free credits a month with no card. API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs.

## 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

### ScrapingAnt

1. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header rather than the query string
2. Use `/v2/markdown` for LLM input, and set `browser=false` on static pages to pay 1 credit instead of 10
3. Switch to `proxy_type=residential` only after a 423 (anti-bot) response. It raises a browser request from 10 to 125 credits
4. On the free plan a second concurrent request gets 409. Wait for the first to finish
5. Google, Bing and Yandex result pages come back as raw HTML through `/v2/general`, so you parse them yourself

## Questions

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

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 & pricing and transparency & trust.

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

Both need an API key.

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

jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. ScrapingAnt has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general.

### Are jevcrawl and ScrapingAnt open source?

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


## For agents

- 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
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "jevcrawl", "b": "scrapingant"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare jevcrawl scrapingant`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingant.json

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