# jevcrawl vs Scrapingdog

> jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) to Scrapingdog's 39.2 (E) 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 Scrapingdog's 39.2 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scrapingdog 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
- Scrapingdog: grade E, 39.2/100, rank #1006 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingdog.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 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)

Good 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 | jevcrawl | Scrapingdog | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 62 | jevcrawl +6 |
| 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 | 44 | jevcrawl +36 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 5 | jevcrawl +54 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | Scrapingdog +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 45 | jevcrawl +23 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 55 | Scrapingdog +10 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **63.7 · B** | **39.2 · E** | |

## 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

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.


## For agents

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

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