# Nexscope vs ScrapingBee

> ScrapingBee scores 59.5 (C) to Nexscope's 46.2 (D) for extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nexscope-vs-scrapingbee
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nexscope-vs-scrapingbee.md (~5,650 tokens)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- DNS: dig +short TXT <slug>.grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.<category>. and <a>.vs.<b>. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-11-11

ScrapingBee scores 59.5 (C) on agent readiness against Nexscope's 46.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do extraction.

- Nexscope: grade D, 46.2/100, rank #1191 of 1520. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nexscope.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nexscope.json
- ScrapingBee: grade C, 59.5/100, rank #702 of 1520. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingbee.json
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 533 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Nexscope (D)

Good for: Agents that research ecommerce products, competitors, keywords, sourcing and patents across Amazon, TikTok Shop, Walmart, Temu, 1688 and other marketplaces, and that also make listing images and video, on one credit balance.

Watch for: The MCP connection advertises the full catalogue of 382 tools, with no toolsets or read-only subset

### ScrapingBee (C)

Good for: Agents that mix general scraping with ready-made Google, Amazon and YouTube endpoints and want spend capped per call.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 75 against 39
- Agent ergonomics, 68 against 44
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 35
- Maintenance & community, 75 against 65
- Transparency & trust, 65 against 41

Watch for: remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL


## Why the edge

### Reliability: ScrapingBee +36

- Nexscope (39): Hosted lines, graded on the remote MCP server and the REST API at api.nexscope.ai. No status page is linked from the home page, llms.txt, the API quickstart or the MCP map, and none was found (0). With no page there is no incident history to read (5). The pricing page publishes requests a second and concurrency per plan, the same for API and MCP, with 1 and 1 on the trial, 3 and 2 on Starter, 5 and 4 on Growth, 10 and 8 on Pro (15). The quickstart calls 429 an 'execution admission rate limit' and says to honour `Retry-After` on 429 and 503 when present. No idempotency key exists. The repository says 'Do not blindly retry POST requests' and to check whether a task was created before resubmitting, and the MCP tool pages say a reconnecting client should query existing async work rather than resubmit. SoldFetch earned 15 with idempotency keys and SandBase 11 with keys on some writes, so guidance without keys earns 9 (9 of 15). No SLA, and the terms say 'We cannot guarantee the Service will be available at all times' (0). No beta or preview label on the API or the MCP server (10). 0+5+15+9+0+10 = 39.
- ScrapingBee (75): status.scrapingbee.com, now on incident.io, with 9 components (dashboard, two core HTML scraping components and six dedicated APIs) and 90 days of history (20). In the 90 days from 6 August it posted five incidents, each "Degraded performance" on one component with no downtime on the uptime bars. Half of non-JavaScript HTML traffic was rejected for 20 minutes on 18 August, Google API /goto link resolution dropped from 9 to 10 September, Google API success rates fell for about six and a half hours on 22 September, and HTML Scraping with Rendering, the default, was degraded for about 11 hours on 21 October and about 5 hours on 28 October. Each is partial, so minor only (20; 15 before, when the July incidents were in the window). Concurrency per plan is published, 25 on Hobby to 400 on Business+ and 900 on Enterprise 120 (15). 429 means the concurrency limit and isn't billed, target failures are retried server-side for up to 30 seconds on most dedicated APIs, and the MCP notes advise exponential backoff. No Retry-After or safe-write guidance found (10). No SLA found (0). Generally available (10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 75.

### Agent ergonomics: ScrapingBee +24

- Nexscope (44): Read on the MCP server, with the REST API where a line covers it. The MCP map lists 382 tools and says the category manifests 'narrow metadata for your integration; the MCP connection still advertises the full catalog'. That is more than 30 tools with no toolsets, dynamic loading or read-only subset found (5). Search tools page by `page` (about 20 results), with filters such as marketplace, category node, sort and device per tool, but no general pagination model or field selection, and output size depends on each tool (12 of 20). By default business errors answer HTTP 200 with an outer `code`. The `X-Nexscope-Http-Status: semantic` header maps them to HTTP statuses, the OpenAPI file names codes such as `DATA_IMAGE_DOWNLOAD_FAILED` and `CAPABILITY_BACKEND_UNAVAILABLE` in field text, and MCP errors aren't documented. SandBase earned 16 with typed bridge errors (11 of 20). Data calls only read. No idempotency keys and no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint documented. Async jobs return a `taskId` with a poll tool and a rule not to resubmit, and 1688 order, payment-link, receipt and cancel calls need an explicit JSON `true` confirmation (8 of 20). Few required parameters with defaults on most. No official SDK package, only standard-library clients in the repository for JavaScript and Python, which SoldFetch earned 8 for (8 of 15). 5+12+11+8+8 = 44.
- ScrapingBee (68): 18 MCP tools (15 of 25). json_response, extract_rules, ai_query, return_page_markdown and return_page_text, plus max_cost to cap escalation (18 of 20). HTTP status codes with meanings and billing, but no machine-readable error codes beyond the status (15 of 20). Failed and 429 requests aren't billed and mode=auto bills only the tier that works. No tool annotations found (8 of 20). Only url is required, but render_js defaults on at 5 credits. Official Python and Node SDKs plus a CLI (12 of 15).

### Transparency & trust: ScrapingBee +24

- Nexscope (41): The editorial half. The service is closed. The terms (8 October 2026) name ECOCREATE TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. under Singapore law with no registration number or address. The repository's MIT licence covers client code only, and the documentation and definitions stay copyright Nexscope. Scrapewise earned 15 for closed terms with MIT side code (15 of 30). The privacy policy (8 October 2026) says uploads are not used to train AI models and that connected selling-partner data is deleted or de-identified when no longer needed, but 'this policy does not specify a single deletion deadline for all data', and no DPA was found. SandBase took 12 with no retention periods (10 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices. The terms promise notice of material changes before they take effect where practicable, and the MCP map keeps a legacy v1 beside v2 (3 of 20). Analytics and advertising vendors are named (Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, Ahrefs, Google Ads, X, FirstPromoter), but hosting, AI processing and payment providers only by type, with no data locations. The repository's source notes say supplier references 'are presented as Nexscope', so the data suppliers go unnamed except LinkFox Agent for 1688 authorisation (5 of 20). 15+10+3+5 = 33. The provenance half is computed from the provenance block.
- ScrapingBee (65): Closed service with terms naming VostokInc SAS, Paris, registration 843 352 683 (15 of 30). The privacy policy, effective 15 July 2024, keeps prospect and customer data up to 3 years and links a DPA. It doesn't mention the Oxylabs group or say whether scraped content is stored (18 of 30). The Node SDK changelog dates removals, for example youtubeTranscript() dropped in v2.0.0 on 2026-09-01, and the api_key query parameter is marked deprecated. No standing deprecation policy (10 of 20). Processors described by category, located in the US or EU. No named list (8 of 20).

### Maintenance & community: ScrapingBee +10

- Nexscope (65): Read as a closed service with a public documentation repository. The repository synced the released 1688 procurement contracts on 9 November 2026 and committed again on 10 November (30). No releases or changelog. The dated record is the registry's four versions on 14 and 16 October, repository commits on 8, 9, 20 and 29 October and 2, 9 and 10 November, and source notes dating WooCommerce (29 October) and design search (2 November) additions. SoldFetch earned 10 for dated commits without releases (10 of 20). No public changelog. Support is service@nexscope.ai, WhatsApp and a booked call, untested. The repository's one merged pull request came from the organisation itself, and GitHub's API refused us, so issues weren't read (5 of 15). The official MCP registry lists `io.github.nexscope/ecommerce`, active, latest 1.0.3 of 16 October 2026, read first-hand (15). A CI workflow runs offline catalogue validation and unit tests on standard-library clients with no dependencies. The run results weren't read (5 of 10). 30+10+5+15+5 = 65.
- ScrapingBee (75): CLI v1.6.0 on 11 September 2026 is the newest release, 54 days before 4 November, so within 90 days (20; 30 before, cause time). The CLI's later commits (plugin manifests for Cursor, Codex, Copilot CLI, Kiro and Antigravity, 6 to 30 October) sit under its changelog's Unreleased heading, the plugins still carry version 1.6.0, and the mcp-server repository holds only a README. In the 90 days from 6 August, Python SDK v2.1.1 (6 August, a documentation release) and v2.2.0 and Node SDK v2.0.0 (1 September) at half as SDK tags, CLI v1.6.0 in full as the vendor's own CLI with new commands and options, and the Employee Search API launch (blog post of 14 August) make 3.5 (20). We couldn't read GitHub issues. Dated SDK changelogs and email support (10 of 25). Current official Python and Node SDKs and a CLI. The MCP isn't in the official registry (15). Test workflows run in CI on all three repositories (10). 20 + 20 + 10 + 15 + 10 = 75.

### Payments & pricing: ScrapingBee +5

- Nexscope (35): No x402, MPP or L402 on pricing, the quickstart, the MCP map, llms.txt or the visible OpenAPI paths. Credits come from a subscription or a Data top-up (0). Plans and credits per plan are public without a login ($29 for 30,000, $55 for 75,000, $129 for 150,000), and tool pages show credits per call, such as Amazon Search from 21 credits with a recent average of 30. Many tools on the MCP map list no cost and pricing is marked 'dynamic-credits'. Manifold earned 20 with a cost for every tool (15 of 20). A Free Trial of 1,000 credits for 3 days with 'No credit card required', API and MCP limits included. Creative API keys need a subscription (20). A person signs in through the browser to approve OAuth or create a key, and no keyless or programmatic route was found (0). 0+15+20+0 = 35.
- ScrapingBee (40): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Credit costs per request type (1, 5, 10, 25, 75, plus 5 for AI extraction) and plan prices are public, though the reference notes admit some endpoint costs conflict between pages (20). 1,000-credit trial, no card (20). A person signs up in a browser (0).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Nexscope | ScrapingBee | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 39 | 75 | ScrapingBee +36 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 60 | Nexscope +4 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 44 | 68 | ScrapingBee +24 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 41 | 37 | Nexscope +4 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 40 | ScrapingBee +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 75 | ScrapingBee +10 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 41 | 65 | ScrapingBee +24 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **46.2 · D** | **59.5 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Nexscope | ScrapingBee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | ECOCREATE TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. | ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.nexscope.ai/mcp` | `https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under the Nexscope terms (last updated 8 October 2026), whose contracting party is ECOCREATE TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. of Singapore. The OpenAPI file's licence is 'Proprietary API; use subject to Nexscope Terms'. In github.com/nexscope-ai/nexscope-ecommerce-api only the example clients, validation scripts, tests and workflow are MIT. The API documentation, catalogue, definitions and sample data stay copyright Nexscope | none |
| Tools exposed | 382 | 18 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.nexscope/ecommerce` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-11-09 | 2026-09-11 |
| Terms last updated | not read yet | 2024-07-15 |
| Privacy policy last updated | not read yet | 2024-07-15 |
| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |

## How the scores have moved

### Nexscope

No score change since it was listed.

### ScrapingBee

- +0.1 on 4 November 2026: time
- +0.2 on 27 October 2026: new evidence
- -0.1 on 8 October 2026: checklist

## Verdicts

**Nexscope.** An agent can reach Amazon, TikTok Shop, Temu, 1688 and other marketplace data, plus image and video models, on one credit balance through a remote MCP server with OAuth or a REST API with a public OpenAPI file. The connection loads 382 tools at once, and there is no status page, changelog or idempotency key.

**ScrapingBee.** Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini endpoints next to the general HTML API, with per-endpoint llms files and an auto mode that bills only the tier that works. The hosted MCP's own notes say it takes the key only as ?api_key= in its URL, and no API changelog or security.txt was found.

## Before you call either

### Nexscope

1. Check the outer `code` is 0 before reading `data`, or send `X-Nexscope-Http-Status: semantic` to get HTTP error statuses.
2. Call an image or video tool once, keep the `taskId`, and poll `nexscope_media_task_result`. A second call bills a second job.
3. Read the tool's credit cost before a call. Each tool costs at least 10 credits and some cost over 300.
4. Before you set a 1688 confirmation field to `true`, show the user the preview and get approval.
5. If the server returns 429 or 503, wait for `Retry-After` when present and back off.

### ScrapingBee

1. Send render_js=false for static pages and files. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1
2. Use mode=auto with max_cost=25 to stop it escalating to 75-credit stealth requests
3. Keep the MCP URL with ?api_key= out of logs and shared configs
4. Back off exponentially on 429 from the MCP, since its concurrency is shared across customers
5. Expect 404 and 410 from the target to be billed. Other failures aren't

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Nexscope or ScrapingBee?

ScrapingBee scores 59.5 (C) on agent readiness against Nexscope's 46.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

### Can an agent call Nexscope and ScrapingBee without installing anything?

Yes. Nexscope has a hosted endpoint at https://api.nexscope.ai/mcp and ScrapingBee at https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/.


## For agents

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

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