# Jina Reader vs ScraperAPI (slim)

> ScraperAPI scores 52.1 (D) to Jina Reader's 45.1 (E) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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ScraperAPI scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Jina Reader's 45.1 (E), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Jina Reader leads on reliability. Both do scraping.

- Jina Reader: E 45.1, rank #871 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader.min.md
- ScraperAPI: D 52.1, rank #739 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.min.md
- Jina Reader, good for Agents that read the web a page at a time and want to bound the tokens. Ahead on Reliability, 60 against 45. Also Open source.
- ScraperAPI, good for Agents that want a single GET to fetch pages through proxies, with parsed JSON for Amazon, Google, Walmart, eBay and Redfin and a batch API of up to 50,000 URLs. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 67 against 43; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Jina Reader loses 7 points for them.

| Category | Jina Reader | ScraperAPI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 43 | 67 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 32 | 29 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 65 | 61 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 58 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Jina Reader | ScraperAPI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Jina AI (Elastic) | ScraperAPI (saas.group) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://r.jina.ai/` | `https://api.scraperapi.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |
| Tools exposed | none | 28 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-08-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-04 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-07 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 12k stars | 5 stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |