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
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
| Category | Weight this run | jevcrawl | Scrapingdog | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 68 | 62 | jevcrawl +6 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 81 | 43 | jevcrawl +38 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 80 | 44 | jevcrawl +36 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 59 | 5 | jevcrawl +54 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 30 | 40 | Scrapingdog +10 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 68 | 45 | jevcrawl +23 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 45 | 55 | Scrapingdog +10 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| Total | B 63.7/100 | E 39.2/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | jevcrawl | Scrapingdog |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | Scrapingdog (OpenData Labs) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 35 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | io.github.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcp |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-07-31 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-01-13 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-07-17 |
| 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 | yes | |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |
| Popularity | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk | 0 stars, 41 npm/wk, 12 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (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
- Phrase
goalas one specific question and start withmax_pagesbetween 10 and 30 - Check
stats.stopped_becauseandstats.degraded, and readuncertainbefore reporting that something is missing - Use
scrapewithout 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 exampleauth_errormeansTYPESAFE_API_KEYis missing or rejected - Pages in
stats.needs_js_urlswere not read. Tell the user rather than guessing their content
Scrapingdog
- Add dynamic=false unless the page needs JavaScript. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1, whatever the MCP description says
- Keep request URLs out of logs, since they carry api_key
- Set client timeouts above 60 seconds and retry on 429 or timeout. Failures aren't billed
- 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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/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json·/api/v1/tools/scrapingdog.json - From a terminal
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