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      "summary": "HTML API that fetches a URL through rotating, premium or stealth proxies with headless rendering, JavaScript scenarios, screenshots and CSS or AI extraction.",
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
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      "pricing": "paid",
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      "docsUrl": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/llms.txt",
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        "scraping.serp"
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        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "proxies",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "closed-source"
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        "strengths": [
          "Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini endpoints next to the general HTML API",
          "Auto mode with a max_cost cap bills only the tier that works, and 429s and failures aren't billed",
          "Per-endpoint llms files plus a reference-notes file that lists 9 known conflicts in its own docs",
          "Seven SDK and CLI releases between 8 July and 11 September 2026, with tests in CI",
          "The official CLI skills tell agents to treat scraped output as data and flag instruction-like content"
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          "JavaScript rendering on by default makes a plain call 5 credits instead of 1",
          "Only a one-off 1,000-credit trial, no monthly free tier",
          "No API changelog, security.txt, bug bounty or certification found",
          "HTML scraper degraded for about 24 hours from 28 July 2026, and dedicated APIs down for about 40 minutes on 24 July"
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        "agentNotes": [
          "Send render_js=false for static pages and files. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1",
          "Use mode=auto with max_cost=25 to stop it escalating to 75-credit stealth requests",
          "Keep the MCP URL with ?api_key= out of logs and shared configs",
          "Back off exponentially on 429 from the MCP, since its concurrency is shared across customers",
          "Expect 404 and 410 from the target to be billed. Other failures aren't"
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          "measured": false
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        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http scrapingbee \"https://mcp.scrapingbee.com/mcp?api_key=$SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY\"",
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          "mcpServers": {
            "scrapingbee": {
              "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.scrapingbee.com/mcp?api_key=${SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY}"
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              "command": "npx"
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        },
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          "item": "Freelance plan",
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          "usd": 49,
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        },
        {
          "item": "Startup plan",
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        },
        {
          "item": "Default request on Hobby",
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        },
        {
          "item": "Request without rendering on Hobby",
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        "privacy": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/privacy-policy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.scrapingbee.com",
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            {
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            {
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            {
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          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:50.718697282Z"
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        "domain": {
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    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrapingbee",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingbee.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Jina Reader for agent ergonomics (+8).\n\nPick ScrapingBee for reliability (+10), schema \u0026 documentation (+17), security \u0026 auth (+5), payments \u0026 pricing (+5), maintenance \u0026 community (+20).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Jina Reader | ScrapingBee | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 70 | ScrapingBee +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 60 | ScrapingBee +17 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 68 | Jina Reader +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 32 | 37 | ScrapingBee +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 40 | ScrapingBee +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 85 | ScrapingBee +20 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 64 | ScrapingBee +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -7 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **45.3 · E** | **59.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Jina Reader | ScrapingBee |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Jina AI (Elastic) | ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://r.jina.ai/` | `https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 18 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-11 |\n| Popularity | 12k stars | 132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Jina Reader.** One URL prefix, no key needed, Markdown back. No price per token in any currency on the public page.\n\n**ScrapingBee.** Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini endpoints next to the general HTML API. remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Jina Reader\n\n1. Prefix the URL, `https://r.jina.ai/https://example.com`, and read the Markdown\n2. Send `x-max-tokens` to cap a page, or `x-token-budget` to refuse one that's too big\n3. Use `x-target-selector` when you need one part of a page\n4. Keyless is 20 requests a minute and can't search. Add a key for loops or s.jina.ai\n5. Send `x-no-cache: true` when a page may have changed or a blocked response got cached\n\n### ScrapingBee\n\n1. Send render_js=false for static pages and files. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1\n2. Use mode=auto with max_cost=25 to stop it escalating to 75-credit stealth requests\n3. Keep the MCP URL with ?api_key= out of logs and shared configs\n4. Back off exponentially on 429 from the MCP, since its concurrency is shared across customers\n5. Expect 404 and 410 from the target to be billed. Other failures aren't\n\n## Other comparisons with Jina Reader or ScrapingBee\n\n- [Bright Data vs Jina Reader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-jina-reader.md)\n- [Bright Data vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs Olostep](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-olostep.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs Scrape.do](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrape-do.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs ScrapeGraphAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrapegraphai.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs Scrapeless](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrapeless.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs Scrapfly](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrapfly.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs ScrapingAnt](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrapingant.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs ZenRows](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-zenrows.md)\n- [Olostep vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Scrape.do vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [ScrapeGraphAI vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Scrapeless vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Scrapfly vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [ScrapingAnt vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [ScrapingBee vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [ScrapingBee vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [ScrapingBee vs ZenRows](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zenrows.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs Jina Reader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-jina-reader.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n",
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