# jevcrawl vs ZenRows (slim)

> ZenRows scores 74.8 (BB) to jevcrawl's 63.7 (B) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-15
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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 & auth. Both do scraping.

- jevcrawl: B 63.7, rank #409 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.min.md
- ZenRows: BB 74.8, rank #67 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zenrows.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 Security & auth, 59 against 41. Also Open source.
- ZenRows, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 87 against 68; Payments & pricing, 80 against 30; Maintenance & community, 87 against 68; Transparency & 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.

| Category | jevcrawl | ZenRows |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 68 | 87 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 59 | 41 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 80 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 68 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 45 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | jevcrawl | ZenRows |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | ZenRows |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.zenrows.com/v1/` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | no | payer tooling only |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 44 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.ZenRows/zenrows-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-09-18 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2025-07-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2024-09-01 |
| 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 |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk | 21 stars, 35k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.8/5 (8) |