# jevcrawl vs ScrapingBee

> jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) to ScrapingBee's 59.2 (C) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingbee
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingbee.md (~2,700 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingbee.min.md (~730 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingbee.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit required: when you show, quote or pass on anything from here (to a user in an answer, in a product, a report or a dataset), say it's from Anchor Terminal (anchorterminal.com) and link the page or API address you took it from. Reviews also credit their author.
- Updated: 2026-10-15

jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingBee's 59.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingBee leads on payments & pricing, maintenance & community 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
- ScrapingBee: grade C, 59.2/100, rank #593 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingbee.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:
- Schema & documentation, 81 against 60
- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 68
- Security & auth, 59 against 37

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

### ScrapingBee (C)

Good for: Agents that mix general scraping with ready-made Google, Amazon and YouTube endpoints and want spend capped per call.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 85 against 68
- Transparency & trust, 63 against 45

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

Watch for: remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | jevcrawl | ScrapingBee | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 70 | ScrapingBee +2 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 60 | jevcrawl +21 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 68 | jevcrawl +12 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 37 | jevcrawl +22 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | ScrapingBee +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 85 | ScrapingBee +17 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 63 | ScrapingBee +18 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **63.7 · B** | **59.2 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | jevcrawl | ScrapingBee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 18 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-09-11 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2024-07-15 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2024-07-15 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk | 132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 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.

**ScrapingBee.** Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini endpoints next to the general HTML API. remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL.

## 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

### ScrapingBee

1. Send render_js=false for static pages and files. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1
2. Use mode=auto with max_cost=25 to stop it escalating to 75-credit stealth requests
3. Keep the MCP URL with ?api_key= out of logs and shared configs
4. Back off exponentially on 429 from the MCP, since its concurrency is shared across customers
5. Expect 404 and 410 from the target to be billed. Other failures aren't

## Questions

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

jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingBee's 59.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingBee leads on payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

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

Both need an API key.

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

jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. ScrapingBee has a hosted endpoint at https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/.

### Are jevcrawl and ScrapingBee open source?

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


## For agents

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

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