{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "jevcrawl", "name": "jevcrawl", "vendor": "Rayen Mlayeh", "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh", "kind": "mcp", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "jevcrawl is an open-source MCP server and CLI that crawls a website toward a question and returns only the relevant passages, verbatim with source URLs. TypeSafe's hosted Jev decision model scores the pages, passages and links.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json", "repo": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh/jevcrawl", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "jevcrawl" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A TypeSafe API key in the `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` environment variable, created at console.typesafe.ai, is needed for `crawl`, `map` and `scrape` with a goal. `scrape` without a goal makes no Jev call and works with no key. The README says the key is never written to disk or logs.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "The package is free under Apache-2.0. Decisions are billed by TypeSafe for Jev at $0.042 per million input tokens, with output tokens free. The README gives an average of $0.011 per crawl in its benchmark, and `max_decision_usd` (default $0.05) caps each call. We found no free Jev tier.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the source or README (checked 2026-10-15). Jev is paid through a TypeSafe account and key.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 3, "popularity": { "githubStars": 60, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 204, "asOf": "2026-10-15" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh/jevcrawl#readme", "capabilities": [ "web.crawl", "web.extract", "web.scrape", "scraping.js-render" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "apache-2.0", "python", "mcp", "cli", "agent-skill", "usage-priced", "alpha" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 409, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 68, "payments": 30, "reliability": 68, "schema": 81, "security": 59, "transparency": 45 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-15" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Three tools with typed inputs, sensible defaults and descriptions that say when to use `crawl`, `scrape` or `map`", "Every result reports pages fetched, tokens, Jev cost in dollars and why the crawl stopped, with a hard per-call spending cap", "Returned text is copied from the page with URL, heading path, character offsets and a page hash, so quotes can be checked", "174 offline tests, ruff and mypy strict pass in CI on Python 3.11 and 3.13, with PyPI trusted publishing", "Follows robots.txt by default since v0.1.1, and SECURITY.md sets out private reporting with a one-week answer" ], "weaknesses": [ "First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer", "`crawl` and `map` need a paid TypeSafe key, and TypeSafe describes Jev as early access with no free tier found", "Page text from every crawl goes to TypeSafe, whose policies give no retention period", "No check against private, loopback or link-local addresses, so an agent can point it at internal hosts", "No MCP tool annotations, no llms.txt and no entry in the official MCP registry" ], "agentNotes": [ "Phrase `goal` as one specific question and start with `max_pages` between 10 and 30", "Check `stats.stopped_because` and `stats.degraded`, and read `uncertain` before reporting that something is missing", "Use `scrape` without 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 example `auth_error` means `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` is missing or rejected", "Pages in `stats.needs_js_urls` were not read. Tell the user rather than guessing their content" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 63.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 68, "payments": 30, "reliability": 68, "schema": 81, "security": 59, "transparency": 63 }, "provenanceScore": 27 }, "connect": { "install": "uv tool install jevcrawl", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add jevcrawl -e TYPESAFE_API_KEY=\u003cyour key\u003e -- uvx jevcrawl", "config": { "mcpServers": { "jevcrawl": { "args": [ "jevcrawl" ], "command": "uvx", "env": { "TYPESAFE_API_KEY": "\u003cyour key\u003e" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.crawl", "tool": "https://letme.dev/jevcrawl" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Jev 1.13 input tokens, billed by TypeSafe", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.042, "note": "Output tokens free. The package itself is free" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "github.com/RayenMlayeh", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh/jevcrawl/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-15", "notes": [ "An individual's open-source project under Apache-2.0. pyproject.toml names Rayen Mlayeh as author, and the GitHub profile names no company or website.", "No vendor domain. The domain line names the GitHub account and scores no domain age.", "Software the owner runs, so there are no service terms or privacy policy of its own. Page text goes to TypeSafe AI, Inc. under TypeSafe's customer agreement and privacy policy (see the typesafe-jev listing).", "The repository has a SECURITY.md that points to GitHub private vulnerability reporting. No website, so no security.txt.", "The changelog is the GitHub release notes. v0.1.0's notes are only a link to the commit list." ], "score": 27 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.json" }, "answer": "ZenRows scores 74.8 (BB) on agent readiness against jevcrawl's 63.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. jevcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "zenrows", "name": "ZenRows", "vendor": "ZenRows", "vendorUrl": "https://www.zenrows.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Scraping API (Fetch, formerly Universal Scraper API) with JavaScript rendering, residential proxies and anti-bot bypass, plus Extract for structured JSON, Batch for bulk URL jobs and hosted Browser Sessions.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zenrows", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zenrows.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zenrows.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zenrows.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.zenrows.com/v1/", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@zenrows/mcp" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "zenrows" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "zenrows" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The Fetch API takes the key as the apikey query parameter, so it ends up in the request URL. The hosted MCP at mcp.zenrows.com takes it as a Bearer header, or OAuth in clients that support it. The local stdio server reads ZENROWS_API_KEY, and with none set it provisions a Free account through POST https://app.zenrows.com/api/agent/signup, stores the key under ~/.zenrows/ and prints a claim URL, unless ZENROWS_AUTO_SIGNUP=false.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free 5,000 credits a month, no card, 5 concurrent requests. Build from $19 a month (45,000 credits), Launch from $69 (250,000), Growth from $199 (1.2 million), Scale from $549 (5 million), about 17 per cent less billed yearly. A standard request costs 1 credit, JavaScript rendering 5, premium proxies 10, both 25. Browser Sessions and residential proxies cost 25,000 credits a GB plus 5 credits a session-minute. Only successful requests are billed (https://www.zenrows.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$19 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "partial", "evidence": "An agent storefront at agents.zenrows.com sells plans and prepaid credit ($5 minimum) settled over x402 (USDC on Base), MPP or card. It runs on ZeroClick's platform with its own buyer terms and proxies calls through a per-session storefront path. There's no per-call x402 price on api.zenrows.com (https://agents.zenrows.com/llms.txt, checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 44, "popularity": { "githubStars": 21, "npmWeekly": 34642, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.zenrows.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.zenrows.com/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.github.ZenRows/zenrows-mcp", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.extract", "browser.hosted", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.screenshot" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "proxies", "x402", "python", "typescript" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-18", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 74.8, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 67, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 80, "reliability": 87, "schema": 83, "security": 41, "transparency": 72 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "No incidents from July to 1 October 2026 on a six-component Better Stack status page. The Fetch API only takes the key in the query string.", "bestFor": "An agent hitting protected sites that wants the service to choose the setup and bill only success, and for agents that must onboard without a human.", "strengths": [ "No incidents from July to 1 October 2026 on a six-component Better Stack status page", "5,000 free credits a month with no card, and a stdio MCP that can provision a free account by itself", "Every MCP tool carries readOnlyHint and destructiveHint, and the scrape tool says when to use extract instead", "Concurrency-Remaining, X-Request-Cost and X-Request-Id on every response, plus about 35 coded errors", "SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 claimed, and a named Spanish entity with address and tax ID" ], "weaknesses": [ "The Fetch API only takes the key in the query string", "A protected request costs 25 credits, so real costs sit well above the headline rate", "44 MCP tools load at once, 36 of them for the browser", "No prompt-injection guidance for the pages it returns", "x402 runs only through a third-party storefront, and the 2026 product renames aren't in the changelog" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start with mode=auto and let it escalate. Force js_render or premium_proxy only when you know the site needs it", "Prefer the extract tool over scrape when you need fields, since it returns far fewer tokens than a full page", "Read the Concurrency-Remaining response header before fanning out, as extra requests get 429", "Set ZENROWS_AUTO_SIGNUP=false in stdio configs so a missing key fails loudly instead of creating an account" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 74.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 80, "reliability": 87, "schema": 83, "security": 41, "transparency": 53 }, "provenanceScore": 91 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.zenrows.com/v1/?apikey=$ZENROWS_API_KEY\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com\u0026mode=auto\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http zenrows https://mcp.zenrows.com/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer $ZENROWS_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "zenrows": { "args": [ "-y", "@zenrows/mcp" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "ZENROWS_API_KEY": "${ZENROWS_API_KEY}", "ZENROWS_AUTO_SIGNUP": "false" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/zenrows" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Build plan (B1)", "unit": "month", "usd": 19, "note": "45,000 credits, 20 concurrent. $16 a month billed yearly" }, { "item": "Launch plan (L1)", "unit": "month", "usd": 69, "note": "250,000 credits, 50 concurrent. $57 a month billed yearly" }, { "item": "Growth plan (G1)", "unit": "month", "usd": 199, "note": "1.2 million credits, 100 concurrent" }, { "item": "Standard request on Build B1", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.42, "note": "1 credit each, successful requests only" }, { "item": "Protected request on Build B1", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 10.56, "note": "JavaScript rendering plus premium proxies, 25 credits each" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "ZENROWS, S.L.", "domain": "zenrows.com", "domainRegistered": "2020-08-05", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.zenrows.com/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.zenrows.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.zenrows.com", "changelog": "https://eu.intercom.news/zenrows", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The privacy policy gives a registered address in Getxo, Bizkaia, Spain, and tax ID B10660298.", "www.zenrows.com/.well-known/security.txt redirects to app.zenrows.com, which serves a file expiring 2027-09-30.", "The website returns 403 to plain curl without a browser user agent." ], "score": 91 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zenrows.json", "live": { "slug": "zenrows", "probe": { "target": "https://api.zenrows.com/v1/", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-15T11:30:18.097915081Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 400, "lastMs": 337, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 343, "p95ms24h": 1789, "samples24h": 254, "samples30d": 3797, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 123, "ok": 123 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.zenrows.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-15T10:07:55.528276151Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.ZenRows/zenrows-mcp", "version": "2.7.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-15T04:34:40.660646921Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@zenrows/mcp", "version": "2.7.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-15T00:31:43.057132035Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "zenrows", "version": "2.3.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-15T00:31:45.156091536Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "zenrows", "version": "1.8.0", "released": "2026-10-14", "seenAt": "2026-10-15T00:31:46.403650068Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 1380, "pypiWeekly": 97916, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://zenrows.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-10-14T15:46:36Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T15:46:35.19249297Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.zenrows.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T14:15:25.378067291Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "zenrows.com", "registered": "2020-08-05", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/zenrows.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:19:25.034350816Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://eu.intercom.news/zenrows", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:00:19.551619122Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a9b3543b3e4d" }, { "url": "https://www.zenrows.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:19:26.569202864Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-14T21:19:26.569202864Z", "fingerprint": "f5fc5290f472" }, { "url": "https://www.zenrows.com/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:19:22.42687653Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-10T19:20:10.955833897Z", "fingerprint": "1893440839c4" }, { "url": "https://www.zenrows.com/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:19:24.510190269Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-10T19:20:13.16772735Z", "fingerprint": "990a4490ed6d" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T11:30:18.097915081Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Rayen Mlayeh", "b": "ZenRows", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.zenrows.com/v1/", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "payer tooling only", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "3", "b": "44", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.github.ZenRows/zenrows-mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-15", "b": "2026-09-18", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2025-07-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2024-09-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk", "b": "21 stars, 35k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.8/5 (8)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "ZenRows scores 74.8 (BB) on agent readiness against jevcrawl's 63.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. jevcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, jevcrawl or ZenRows?" }, { "answer": "jevcrawl needs an API key. ZenRows takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do jevcrawl and ZenRows need an API key?" }, { "answer": "jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. ZenRows has a hosted endpoint at https://api.zenrows.com/v1/.", "question": "Can an agent call jevcrawl and ZenRows without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "jevcrawl is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for ZenRows.", "question": "Are jevcrawl and ZenRows open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 41" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "jevcrawl", "watchFor": "First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 87 against 68", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 80 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 68", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 45" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "An agent hitting protected sites that wants the service to choose the setup and bill only success, and for agents that must onboard without a human.", "slug": "zenrows", "watchFor": "The Fetch API only takes the key in the query string" } ], "job": { "capability": "web.scrape", "name": "Scraping" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Bright Data vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Bright Data vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Context.dev vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Context.dev vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-jina-reader.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Jina Reader", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-jina-reader" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zyte.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Jina Reader vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Olostep vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "ScrapeGraphAI vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Scrapeless vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Scrapfly vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "ScrapingAnt vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "ScrapingBee vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Scrapingdog vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/spider-cloud-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Spider vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/spider-cloud-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/zenrows-vs-zyte.json", "title": "ZenRows vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/zenrows-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-olostep.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Olostep", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-olostep" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapegraphai.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs ScrapeGraphAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapegraphai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapeless.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Scrapeless", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapeless" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Diffbot vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-zenrows" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 19, "edge": "zenrows", "jevcrawl": 68, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16, "zenrows": 87 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "zenrows", "jevcrawl": 81, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13, "zenrows": 83 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "jevcrawl", "jevcrawl": 80, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "zenrows": 79 }, { "by": 18, "edge": "jevcrawl", "jevcrawl": 59, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "zenrows": 41 }, { "by": 50, "edge": "zenrows", "jevcrawl": 30, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "zenrows": 80 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 19, "edge": "zenrows", "jevcrawl": 68, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "zenrows": 87 }, { "by": 27, "edge": "zenrows", "jevcrawl": 45, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "zenrows": 72 } ], "summary": "ZenRows scores 74.8 (BB) on agent readiness against jevcrawl's 63.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. jevcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do scraping.", "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.", "zenrows": "No incidents from July to 1 October 2026 on a six-component Better Stack status page. The Fetch API only takes the key in the query string." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zenrows", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zenrows.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zenrows.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zenrows.min.md" }, "markdown": "ZenRows scores 74.8 (BB) on agent readiness against jevcrawl's 63.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. jevcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do scraping.\n\n- 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\n- ZenRows: grade BB, 74.8/100, rank #67 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zenrows.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zenrows.json\n- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md\n- All 204 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### jevcrawl (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 41\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer\n\n### ZenRows (BB)\n\nGood for: An agent hitting protected sites that wants the service to choose the setup and bill only success, and for agents that must onboard without a human.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 87 against 68\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 80 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 68\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: The Fetch API only takes the key in the query string\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | jevcrawl | ZenRows | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 87 | ZenRows +19 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 83 | ZenRows +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 79 | jevcrawl +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 41 | jevcrawl +18 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 80 | ZenRows +50 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 87 | ZenRows +19 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 72 | ZenRows +27 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.7 · B** | **74.8 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | jevcrawl | ZenRows |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | ZenRows |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.zenrows.com/v1/` |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | payer tooling only |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |\n| Tools exposed | 3 | 44 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.ZenRows/zenrows-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-09-18 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2025-07-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2024-09-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk | 21 stars, 35k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.8/5 (8) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**ZenRows.** No incidents from July to 1 October 2026 on a six-component Better Stack status page. The Fetch API only takes the key in the query string.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### jevcrawl\n\n1. Phrase `goal` as one specific question and start with `max_pages` between 10 and 30\n2. Check `stats.stopped_because` and `stats.degraded`, and read `uncertain` before reporting that something is missing\n3. Use `scrape` without a goal when you need a whole page, since it makes no paid Jev call and needs no key\n4. Handle `{\"error\": code, \"message\": ...}` results, for example `auth_error` means `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` is missing or rejected\n5. Pages in `stats.needs_js_urls` were not read. Tell the user rather than guessing their content\n\n### ZenRows\n\n1. Start with mode=auto and let it escalate. Force js_render or premium_proxy only when you know the site needs it\n2. Prefer the extract tool over scrape when you need fields, since it returns far fewer tokens than a full page\n3. Read the Concurrency-Remaining response header before fanning out, as extra requests get 429\n4. Set ZENROWS_AUTO_SIGNUP=false in stdio configs so a missing key fails loudly instead of creating an account\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, jevcrawl or ZenRows?\n\nZenRows scores 74.8 (BB) on agent readiness against jevcrawl's 63.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. jevcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do jevcrawl and ZenRows need an API key?\n\njevcrawl needs an API key. ZenRows takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call jevcrawl and ZenRows without installing anything?\n\njevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. ZenRows has a hosted endpoint at https://api.zenrows.com/v1/.\n\n### Are jevcrawl and ZenRows open source?\n\njevcrawl is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for ZenRows.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zenrows.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zenrows.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"jevcrawl\", \"b\": \"zenrows\"}`. 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