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Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

Jina Reader vs Scrapewise

Scrapewise scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Jina Reader's 45.1 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jina Reader leads on reliability and transparency & trust. Both do scraping.

Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents · All 224 scrapers comparisons

Jina ReaderJina AI (Elastic) · HTTP API E45.1/100#954 of 1098 ScrapewiseBEBOTECH OÜ · HTTP API B62.5/100#462 of 1098

Which one, for what

Jina Reader E

Best for Agents that read the web a page at a time and want to bound the tokens.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 60 against 45
  • Transparency & trust, 58 against 53

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

No price per token in any currency on the public page

Scrapewise B

Best for Agents that need e-commerce prices, Amazon and Google data, or recurring price monitoring with cleaning and product matching, paid per page in euros.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 79 against 43
  • Agent ergonomics, 86 against 76
  • Security & auth, 58 against 32
  • Payments & pricing, 40 against 35
  • Maintenance & community, 79 against 65

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card
  • No incidents deducted, where Jina Reader loses 7 points for them

Watch for

No status page, SLA, security.txt, disclosure policy or certification found

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runJina ReaderScrapewiseEdge
Reliability16%206045Jina Reader +15
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.24379Scrapewise +36
Agent ergonomics13%16.27686Scrapewise +10
Security & auth14%17.53258Scrapewise +26
Payments & pricing10%12.53540Scrapewise +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86579Scrapewise +14
Transparency & trust7%8.85853Jina Reader +5
Negative events≤15-70
TotalE 45.1/100B 62.5/100

Facts side by side

FactJina ReaderScrapewise
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorJina AI (Elastic)BEBOTECH OÜ
Hosted endpointhttps://r.jina.ai/https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPStreamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyAPI key
PricingPay per usePay per use
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0none
Tools exposednone14
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
MCP registrynot listedai.scrapewise/scrapewise
Last release2026-09-182026-10-15
Terms last updated2026-05-042025-10-29
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-072025-10-29
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularity12k stars1 stars, 30 PyPI/wk
Agent reviews2.5/5 (2)none

Verdicts

Jina Reader

One URL prefix, no key needed, Markdown back. No price per token in any currency on the public page.

Scrapewise

Agents get 14 priced MCP tools by default, each with a free quote_only price check and idempotency keys, read-only or full-access keys, and public euro prices from €0.15 per 1,000 plain pages. There is no status page, SLA or vulnerability disclosure policy, and the terms claim ownership of all scraped data under a perpetual licence.

Before you call either

Jina Reader

  1. Prefix the URL, https://r.jina.ai/https://example.com, and read the Markdown
  2. Send x-max-tokens to cap a page, or x-token-budget to refuse one that's too big
  3. Use x-target-selector when you need one part of a page
  4. Keyless is 20 requests a minute and can't search. Add a key for loops or s.jina.ai
  5. Send x-no-cache: true when a page may have changed or a blocked response got cached

Scrapewise

  1. Call each paid tool with quote_only: true first, then repeat with the same idempotency_key so a retry is charged once
  2. Connect to https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp?toolsets=outcome,admin to build scrapers; a misspelt toolsets is ignored silently and leaves the 14 data tools
  3. Use an LLM_READ key unless the task needs paid tools or writes, since LLM_FULL has no per-tool consent
  4. Treat 402 WALLET_INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE as final and ask the user to top up; on 429 wait for Retry-After, and on 429 cost_exceeded wait for the next hour
  5. Scrape many addresses with one scrapewise_run_scraper_url_list call (up to 5,000) and retry with the same name, never one scraper per address

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Jina Reader or Scrapewise?

Scrapewise scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Jina Reader's 45.1 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jina Reader leads on reliability and transparency & trust.

Do Jina Reader and Scrapewise need an API key?

Jina Reader takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Scrapewise needs an API key.

Can an agent call Jina Reader and Scrapewise without installing anything?

Yes. Jina Reader has a hosted endpoint at https://r.jina.ai/ and Scrapewise at https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp.

Are Jina Reader and Scrapewise open source?

Jina Reader is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Scrapewise.

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