# Jina Reader vs Scrapewise

> Scrapewise scores 62.5 (B) to Jina Reader's 45.1 (E) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-16

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.

- Jina Reader: grade E, 45.1/100, rank #954 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jina-reader.json
- Scrapewise: grade B, 62.5/100, rank #462 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapewise.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapewise.json
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 224 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Jina Reader (E)

Good 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Jina Reader | Scrapewise | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 45 | Jina Reader +15 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 79 | Scrapewise +36 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 86 | Scrapewise +10 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 32 | 58 | Scrapewise +26 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 40 | Scrapewise +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 79 | Scrapewise +14 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 53 | Jina Reader +5 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -7 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **45.1 · E** | **62.5 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Jina Reader | Scrapewise |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Jina AI (Elastic) | BEBOTECH OÜ |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://r.jina.ai/` | `https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |
| Tools exposed | none | 14 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.scrapewise/scrapewise` |
| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-10-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-04 | 2025-10-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-07 | 2025-10-29 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 12k stars | 1 stars, 30 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (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.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrapewise.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrapewise.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "jina-reader", "b": "scrapewise"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare jina-reader scrapewise`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jina-reader.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapewise.json

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