Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

jevcrawl vs Scrapingdog

jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapingdog's 39.2 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scrapingdog leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do scraping.

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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 62
  • Schema & documentation, 81 against 43
  • Agent ergonomics, 80 against 44
  • Security & auth, 59 against 5
  • Maintenance & community, 68 against 45

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

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

Scrapingdog E

Best for A budget agent that wants parsed Google, Amazon or LinkedIn results and can keep the key out of logs.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
  • Transparency & trust, 55 against 45

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

API key only travels in the URL query string

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runjevcrawlScrapingdogEdge
Reliability16%206862jevcrawl +6
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28143jevcrawl +38
Agent ergonomics13%16.28044jevcrawl +36
Security & auth14%17.5595jevcrawl +54
Payments & pricing10%12.53040Scrapingdog +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86845jevcrawl +23
Transparency & trust7%8.84555Scrapingdog +10
Negative events≤150-2
TotalB 63.7/100E 39.2/100

Facts side by side

FactjevcrawlScrapingdog
KindMCP serverHTTP API
VendorRayen MlayehScrapingdog (OpenData Labs)
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape
TransportsstdioHTTP, stdio
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingPay per useFreemium
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0none
Tools exposed335
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
MCP registrynot listedio.github.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcp
Last release2026-10-152026-07-31
Terms last updatedno document linked2026-01-13
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2025-07-17
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 noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk0 stars, 41 npm/wk, 12 PyPI/wk
Agent reviewsnone3/5 (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.

Scrapingdog

A plain request is 1 credit, about $0.20 per 1,000 on Lite. API key only travels in the URL query string.

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

Scrapingdog

  1. Add dynamic=false unless the page needs JavaScript. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1, whatever the MCP description says
  2. Keep request URLs out of logs, since they carry api_key
  3. Set client timeouts above 60 seconds and retry on 429 or timeout. Failures aren't billed
  4. Prefer the parsed endpoints (Google, Amazon) over scraping the raw page when one exists

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, jevcrawl or Scrapingdog?

jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapingdog's 39.2 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scrapingdog leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust.

Do jevcrawl and Scrapingdog need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call jevcrawl and Scrapingdog without installing anything?

jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Scrapingdog has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape.

Are jevcrawl and Scrapingdog open source?

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

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