# jevcrawl vs Spider (slim)

> Spider scores 74.1 (BB) to jevcrawl's 63.7 (B) for crawling. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Spider scores 74.1 (BB) on agent readiness against jevcrawl's 63.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. jevcrawl leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do crawling. Spider accepts x402. jevcrawl doesn't.

- jevcrawl: B 63.7, rank #409 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.min.md
- Spider: BB 74.1, rank #79 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spider-cloud.min.md
- jevcrawl, 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 Agent ergonomics, 80 against 70; Security & auth, 59 against 42.
- Spider, good for An agent that has to start without a human, pay per call, or crawl many small pages cheaply. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 68; Schema & documentation, 87 against 81; Payments & pricing, 96 against 30; Maintenance & community, 85 against 68; Transparency & trust, 66 against 45. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | jevcrawl | Spider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 68 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 59 | 42 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 96 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 68 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 45 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | jevcrawl | Spider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | Spider (BAGELMEN LLC) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.spider.cloud` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| x402 | no | yes, from $0.0005/call |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 22 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `cloud.spider/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-07-19 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-10-01 |
| 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 | 2.7k stars, 2.7k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (8) |