# Microlink vs ScrapeGraphAI (slim)

> Microlink scores 65.9 (B) to ScrapeGraphAI's 63.6 (B) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Microlink scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapeGraphAI's 63.6 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeGraphAI leads on payments & pricing. Both do scraping.

- Microlink: B 65.9, rank #395 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/microlink.min.md
- ScrapeGraphAI: B 63.6, rank #507 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapegraphai.min.md
- Microlink, good for Agents that need link previews, screenshots, PDFs, metadata or a page as Markdown from one GET. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 82 against 72; Maintenance & community, 86 against 40; Transparency & trust, 75 against 61. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.
- ScrapeGraphAI, good for LLM pipelines that want prompt-to-JSON extraction and for agents that must pay with a wallet. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 90 against 47.

| Category | Microlink | ScrapeGraphAI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 52 | 49 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 89 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 82 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 44 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 47 | 90 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 40 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Microlink | ScrapeGraphAI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Microlink Labs, S.L. | ScrapeGraphAI |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.microlink.io/mcp` | `https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com` |
| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for scraping | not published | $2 per 1,000 requests |
| x402 | no | payer tooling only |
| Tools exposed | 24 | 20 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.ScrapeGraphAI/scrapegraph-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-31 | 2026-07-31 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-06-04 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2024-03-15 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 805 npm/wk | 2.4k npm/wk, 46k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |

Why the edge:
- Maintenance & community, Microlink +46: Microlink 86 (@microlink/mcp 2.8.17 and microlink.io 1.1.4 on 31 October 2026, and October changelog entries for the API (30). 31 MCP releases tagged since 17 September and the October changelog's API changes (20). No open issues on microlinkhq/microlink, a monthly changelog, and email and feedback-form support (18 of 25). Not in the official MCP registry under its own namespace, though the server card names io.microlink/mcp; the JavaScript SDK is current (8 of 15). Lint, tests and coverage run on pull requests (10). 30 + 20 + 18 + 8 + 10 = 86.); ScrapeGraphAI 40 (The newest changelog entry is still v3.5.0 of 30 July 2026 and the newest scrapegraph-py tag v2.3.2 of 31 July, 94 and 93 days before 1 November. scrapegraph-js has no tag after v2.0.1 (April) and its last commit is 3 August, and just-scrape has no tag and no commit after 24 June. Inside 180 days (10, 20 before, cause time). Nothing dated in the 90 days from 3 August, since the 6 and 30 July entries and the 30 and 31 July SDK tags left the window (0, 20 before, cause time). Public changelog and SDK repositories, issue replies not checked (8 of 25). Current Python SDK. The JavaScript SDK's last tag is v2.0.1 from April, with commits to 3 August (12 of 15). The Python SDK runs CI, CodeQL and dependency review (10). 10 + 0 + 8 + 12 + 10 = 40.)
- Payments & pricing, ScrapeGraphAI +43: Microlink 47 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plans are public and the Pro price is stated per 1,000 requests ($1.07), but Business and Enterprise are on request (15 of 20). Free key with 25 requests a day, no card (20). The free endpoint and hosted MCP server answer 5 requests a day with no key or signup, and the MCP checkout tools let an agent start a purchase that a person completes (12 of 20). 0 + 15 + 20 + 12 = 47.); ScrapeGraphAI 90 (x402 on ScrapeGraphAI's own domain mints an account, key and credits. The protocols endpoint read on 1 November prices the packs at 4 USDC for 1,000 credits, 32 for 10,000 and 120 for 50,000 (5, 40 and 150 before), below the pricing page's $5, $40 and $150 by card, with USDC on Base for x402 and InFlow for MPP. Orthogonal's gateway at x402.orth.sh/scrapegraph takes per-call x402 on scrape, extract, search, crawl and monitor with no ScrapeGraphAI key, per the 1 October check. Per-call payment only through a third party, so 30 (30 of 40). Credit costs per operation, plans and non-expiring top-up packs are public (20). Free plan of 500 credits with no card (20). An agent can buy a key over x402 or MPP with no human signup (20). 30 + 20 + 20 + 20 = 90.)
- Transparency & trust, Microlink +14: Microlink 75 (The API is closed under terms naming Microlink Labs, S.L. with its registry details, and the SDK, MCP server and the libraries behind it are MIT (20 of 30). The DPA, updated 30 October 2026, gives cache retention of 24 hours by default up to 31 days, logs 15 days and deletion within 15 days, but the privacy policy is undated, names no controller and gives no periods (20 of 30). The terms promise advance notice before a paid feature is materially reduced, and the changelog records changes by month, with no notice period (10 of 20). Subprocessors list updated 16 October 2026, with services, data types and locations (18 of 20). 20 + 20 + 10 + 18 = 68.); ScrapeGraphAI 61 (The hosted API and hosted MCP server are closed, while the SDKs, the older MCP server and the scrapegraphai library are MIT (20 of 30). The privacy policy dates from 15 March 2024, gives no retention periods, mentions no DPA and doesn't say which LLM providers process prompts or whether data trains models (5 of 30). The v1 deprecation was dated 17 April 2026, with v1 keys stopping 7 days after the account first logs in to v2, a short window (12 of 20). Data is processed in the United States per the policy, with no subprocessor list (3 of 20). Not re-read on 1 November. 20 + 5 + 12 + 3 = 40.)
- Agent ergonomics, Microlink +10: Microlink 82 (24 MCP tools in @microlink/mcp 2.8.17 with no toolset filter found (15 of 25). `filter` selects fields, `embed` returns one field as the body, and Markdown and text tools return only page content (18 of 20). Error codes such as EAUTH, ERATE, ECONCURRENCY, EPRO and EPROXYNEEDED with documented fixes (19 of 20). Every tool but microlink_function sets readOnlyHint true and destructiveHint false, and calls are reads with a cache and `force` to refresh. No idempotentHint (18 of 20). Only `url` is required; official JavaScript SDK (@microlink/mql) and CLI, with examples in seven languages but no other official SDK found (12 of 15). 15 + 18 + 19 + 18 + 12 = 82.); ScrapeGraphAI 72 (20 tools on the hosted MCP server with no tool filtering found (15 of 25). Format selection and paginated crawl pages and history (17 of 20). One error shape with type and message, 402 when credits run out (17 of 20). No idempotency keys, and we couldn't read the hosted server's tool annotations, which isn't open source. The older open-source server annotated every tool (8 of 20). Official Python and JavaScript SDKs, and a scrape needs only a URL (15). Not re-read on 1 November. 15 + 17 + 17 + 8 + 15 = 72.)