# Jina Reader vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API (slim)

> Oxylabs Web Scraper API scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against Jina Reader's 45.1 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do scraping. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Oxylabs Web Scraper API scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against Jina Reader's 45.1 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do scraping.

- Jina Reader: E 45.1, rank #774 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader.min.md
- Oxylabs Web Scraper API: B 63, rank #372 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/oxylabs-web-scraper.min.md
- Jina Reader, good for Agents that read the web a page at a time and want to bound the tokens. Also Open source.
- Oxylabs Web Scraper API, good for Agents that need parsed Google, Amazon and other large-site results or bulk asynchronous jobs through one API. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 60; Schema & documentation, 68 against 43; Security & auth, 53 against 32; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35; Maintenance & community, 72 against 65; Transparency & trust, 63 against 58. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Jina Reader | Oxylabs Web Scraper API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 43 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 32 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 65 | 72 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 58 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Jina Reader | Oxylabs Web Scraper API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Jina AI (Elastic) | oxylabs, UAB |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://r.jina.ai/` | `https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under the Oxylabs General Conditions. The MCP server and the Python SDK on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 10 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-04 | 2026-10-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-07 | 2024-10-14 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 12k stars | 18k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |