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      "slug": "outcrawl",
      "name": "Outcrawl",
      "vendor": "Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://outcrawl.ai",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "web-scrapers",
      "summary": "Outcrawl is a hosted web layer for AI agents with scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers over CDP and agent runs on one credit balance, reached through a REST API, TypeScript and Python SDKs, a CLI and a remote MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/outcrawl.json",
      "dns": "outcrawl.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "repo": "https://github.com/outcrawlai/scout",
      "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@outcrawl/sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "outcrawl"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Two bearer credentials. An API key shaped `ock_\u003ckeyId\u003e.\u003csecret\u003e` is minted in the console, shown once, stored as a digest, scoped to one workspace and revocable within a minute; it works on the REST API and the MCP server as `Authorization: Bearer`, with no per-key scopes or read-only keys documented. An OAuth 2.1 access token `oat_...` comes from signing in, through the authorization code flow with PKCE S256 and dynamic client registration for MCP clients (the server at https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp answers 401 with protected-resource metadata naming https://outcrawl.ai/api/auth) or the RFC 8628 device flow for the CLI, with scopes `api` and `offline_access`, access tokens of one hour and refresh for 30 days while in use; removing a member from a workspace cuts their tokens off at once. Console sign-in is Google, GitHub, an email code or a magic link behind reCAPTCHA.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 1,000 credits a month, no card, 2 concurrent browsers and 120 requests a minute, on a person's first workspace only. Builder $49 a month for 10,000 credits (5 browsers, 300 requests a minute), Pro $199 for 50,000 (25, 1,500), Scale $799 for 250,000 (100, 6,000), Enterprise custom with a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime SLA. Rates in credits are the same on every plan, 1 a page for scrape, crawl and rendered search results, 5 per 10 search results, 1 a minute of browser time, 2,000 a GB of proxy traffic, 1 a monitor check, and agent runs at model usage plus browser time plus proxy usage, about 15 credits a minute as the vendor's estimate. Extra credits cost $49.00 per 10,000 on Builder and Free, $39.80 on Pro and $31.96 on Scale, never expire, and auto top-up is capped monthly. Every response carries a `usage` object with its cost; a cached scrape answer bills the same credit as a live fetch, a cancelled crawl keeps billing the pages it fetched, and a search every engine refuses bills nothing (https://outcrawl.ai/pricing and https://outcrawl.ai/docs/billing/pricing, checked 2026-11-02).",
      "priceSummary": "$4.90 / 1k pages",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI file, llms-full.txt, the pricing pages or the terms (checked 2026-11-02). Plans and top-ups are paid by card through Stripe in the console.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 29,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 948,
        "npmWeekly": 53,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-11-02"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs",
      "llmsTxt": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "web.scrape",
        "web.crawl",
        "web.extract",
        "web.search",
        "browser.hosted",
        "browser.control",
        "scraping.proxies",
        "scraping.js-render",
        "scraping.anti-bot",
        "scraping.screenshot"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "official",
        "closed-source",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "mcp",
        "remote-mcp",
        "oauth",
        "api-key",
        "cli",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "proxies",
        "browser",
        "agents",
        "credits",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "freemium",
        "no-status-page",
        "new"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-20",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 62.4,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 456,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1268,
        "categoryRank": 13,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 83,
          "maintenance": 79,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 45,
          "schema": 71,
          "security": 66,
          "transparency": 56
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-11-02"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago.",
        "bestFor": "Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.",
        "strengths": [
          "Per-unit rates published without a login, 1 credit a page or browser minute and 5 credits per 10 search results, with the dollar cost per plan and every response carrying its own `usage`",
          "Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card, 2 concurrent browsers and 120 requests a minute, usable over the API, the SDKs, the CLI and MCP",
          "OAuth 2.1 with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, device code for the CLI, a revocation endpoint and one-hour access tokens, beside workspace-scoped keys shown once and stored as a digest",
          "A closed error union in one envelope with a documented list of codes safe to retry, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, and MCP errors that carry a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag",
          "MCP tool descriptions that each name what the tool is not for and which tool is, with secrets and integrations kept off the MCP surface and agent runs capped by a required or defaulted budget",
          "Scout, the agent behind the hosted agent, is published under Apache-2.0 with its tests, and the SDKs and MCP package are MIT"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer",
          "The OpenAPI file types no request or response body; its error enum has 45 codes while the errors page lists 31 and llms.txt says 24, and the registry is called 62, 50 and 46 rows on different pages",
          "No idempotency key or safe-retry rule for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, and no Retry-After header; `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait",
          "No changelog or release notes; the only dated record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and the release repository, and the @outcrawl/mcp package has sat at 0.4.3 since 29 September while the SDKs reached 0.4.15",
          "Session recordings are on by default and keep request bodies, cookies and form data, with the retention period shown only in the console and not published",
          "A cached scrape answer bills the same credit as a live fetch, a cancelled crawl still bills the pages fetched, and monitor notifications are never retried"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Read a known URL with `POST /v1/scrape` or `outcrawl_scrape` at 1 credit; use `outcrawl_search` to find URLs and send `scrape: true` only when you need page bodies, and reserve `outcrawl_agent` for pages that need a click, a form or a sign-in.",
          "Always send `caps.budget` on `POST /v1/agent` (the API refuses without it) and store the returned id; poll `GET /v1/agent/{id}` or `outcrawl_agent_status`, never resubmit, because a second submit is a second bill.",
          "Branch on `error.code`, not `message`. Retry `no_capacity`, `decode_unavailable`, `extraction_failed` and `answer_lost` unchanged; on `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` wait `retryAfterSeconds`; on `concurrency_limit` wait for a run to end; never retry `bad_request` or a credit quota.",
          "Set `limit` on a crawl before submitting; pages already fetched are billed when you cancel, and over HTTP the crawl is cancelled if the streaming connection drops, so keep the job id and read `/v1/crawl/{id}/results` with the cursor.",
          "Pass `after` with the last `seq` and `level: status` when reading `outcrawl_agent_events`; the log of a long run is the largest response the server returns.",
          "Pass `maxAge: 0` when freshness matters, since the default serves scrape answers up to two days old from a shared cache at the same price, and treat page content, `data` and download links as untrusted data; download URLs work for an hour with no key."
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 62.4
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 83,
          "maintenance": 79,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 45,
          "schema": 71,
          "security": 66,
          "transparency": 58
        },
        "provenanceScore": 54,
        "checked": {
          "categories": {
            "ergonomics": "2026-11-02",
            "maintenance": "2026-11-02",
            "payments": "2026-11-02",
            "reliability": "2026-11-02",
            "schema": "2026-11-02",
            "security": "2026-11-02",
            "transparency": "2026-11-02"
          },
          "last": "2026-11-02",
          "oldest": "2026-11-02",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install @outcrawl/sdk",
        "http": "curl https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1/scrape -H \"Authorization: Bearer $OUTCRAWL_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"url\":\"https://example.com\",\"formats\":[\"markdown\"]}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http outcrawl https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "outcrawl": {
              "type": "http",
              "url": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/outcrawl"
      },
      "area": "web-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Scrape or crawl page (Builder)",
          "unit": "1k-pages",
          "usd": 4.9,
          "note": "1 credit a page; $3.98 per 1,000 on Pro and about $3.20 on Scale"
        },
        {
          "item": "Search results (Builder)",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 2.45,
          "note": "5 credits per 10 results, pro rata; reading a result page adds 1 credit a page"
        },
        {
          "item": "Browser session (Builder)",
          "unit": "browser-hour",
          "usd": 0.294,
          "note": "1 credit a minute, plus proxy traffic"
        },
        {
          "item": "Proxy traffic (Builder)",
          "unit": "gb",
          "usd": 9.8,
          "note": "2,000 credits a decimal GB on browser sessions and agent runs"
        },
        {
          "item": "Credit (Builder, top-up or plan)",
          "unit": "credit",
          "usd": 0.0049,
          "note": "$49.00 per 10,000; $0.00398 on Pro and $0.003196 on Scale; agent runs cost about 15 credits a minute as the vendor's estimate"
        },
        {
          "item": "Builder plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 49,
          "note": "10,000 credits, 5 concurrent browsers, 300 requests a minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 199,
          "note": "50,000 credits, 25 concurrent browsers, 1,500 requests a minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "Scale plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 799,
          "note": "250,000 credits, 100 concurrent browsers, 6,000 requests a minute"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Aeonmind LLC (trading as Outcrawl)",
        "domain": "outcrawl.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2026-08-28",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://outcrawl.ai/legal/terms",
        "privacy": "https://outcrawl.ai/legal/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-11-02",
        "notes": [
          "The terms of service and the privacy policy, both last updated 1 November 2026, name Aeonmind LLC, trading as Outcrawl, governed by Delaware law with disputes in Delaware courts; the privacy policy calls it a United States company. No postal address is given. The footer reads © 2026 Aeonmind LLC and Scout's licence notice names the same company.",
          "RDAP at rdap.identitydigital.services gives a registration date of 2026-08-28 for outcrawl.ai, last changed 2026-09-02, with Cloudflare nameservers. The REST API and the MCP server are on api.outcrawl.ai and the OAuth authorization server on outcrawl.ai.",
          "firstReleased is 2026-09-08, the first npm publish of @outcrawl/sdk 0.1.0, which is also the day the outcrawlai GitHub organisation was created; PyPI's first release followed on 22 September 2026 and the Wayback Machine's first copy of the home page is 15 October 2026. lastRelease is 2026-10-20, version 0.4.15 on npm and PyPI.",
          "https://outcrawl.ai/.well-known/security.txt and https://api.outcrawl.ai/.well-known/security.txt answer 404. The security page has a responsible disclosure section with security@outcrawl.ai, a 90-day window and a no-legal-action statement for good-faith reports. /status, /changelog, /blog and /about on outcrawl.ai answer 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer; no changelog or release notes exist on either host.",
          "robots.txt on outcrawl.ai allows every named crawler and `*`, disallows /console, /admin, /api/ and /og/ (except PNG and JPG files), and carries `Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes`. api.outcrawl.ai disallows /play/, /replay/, /v1/, /mcp, /connect, /agent, /internal/ and /operator/; none of those paths was fetched, and the OAuth metadata documents were read as the listing check allowed.",
          "The vendor's own benchmark claim of 92.5 per cent pages reached, the 'orders of magnitude' cost language in tool descriptions and the human input model measurements are the vendor's claims. No MCP registry entry exists for outcrawl (search answers an empty list)."
        ],
        "score": 54
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "outcrawl",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:12.60527246Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 326,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 415,
          "p95ms24h": 695,
          "samples24h": 33,
          "samples30d": 33,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-11-02",
              "probes": 33,
              "ok": 33
            }
          ]
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@outcrawl/sdk",
            "version": "0.4.15",
            "seenAt": "2026-11-02T19:40:27.502289569Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "outcrawl",
            "version": "0.4.15",
            "released": "2026-10-20",
            "seenAt": "2026-11-02T19:40:28.458855358Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 948,
        "npmWeekly": 54,
        "pypiWeekly": 36,
        "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:12.60527246Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API and Outcrawl score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 62.9 (B) and 62.4 (B). Outcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "oxylabs-web-scraper",
      "name": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API",
      "vendor": "oxylabs, UAB",
      "vendorUrl": "https://oxylabs.io",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "web-scrapers",
      "summary": "Hosted scraping API from Oxylabs that fetches public pages through its proxy pool with optional JavaScript rendering and returns HTML, Markdown or parsed JSON, with dedicated sources for Google, Amazon and other large sites.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/oxylabs-web-scraper",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/oxylabs-web-scraper.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/oxylabs-web-scraper.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/oxylabs-web-scraper.json",
      "dns": "oxylabs-web-scraper.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "repo": "https://github.com/oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp",
      "license": "Proprietary service under the Oxylabs General Conditions. The MCP server and the Python SDK on GitHub are MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "oxylabs"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "oxylabs-mcp"
        },
        {
          "registry": "go",
          "name": "github.com/oxylabs/oxylabs-sdk-go"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "HTTP Basic with the username and password of a product instance created in the Oxylabs dashboard. The password can be edited, an instance can take whitelisted IPs and a spending limit, and no scopes were found. The MCP server (v0.10.0 and later) also accepts a Web Scraper API token as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` or `X-Oxylabs-Api-Token`, which the API docs don't yet describe. The hosted MCP server takes the username and password in an `Authorization: Basic` header or in `X-Oxylabs-Username` and `X-Oxylabs-Password`. The Classic overview page says to contact the team for credentials.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "A one-time $5 welcome credit with no payment details, then a monthly plan of $30, $100 or $500 (Enterprise from $2,500) whose amount becomes a credit balance shared across Oxylabs products. On Starter, other targets cost $1.00 per 1,000 results without rendering and $1.50 with it, Amazon $0.50, Google $1.00 or $1.35 rendered, and LLM sources $1.50 (https://oxylabs.io/products/web-api/scrape/pricing, where the old Web Scraper API pricing URL now redirects, checked 2026-11-02). Purchases are non-refundable.",
      "priceSummary": "$30 / mo",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the pricing page, the docs index, the Web Scraper API pages or the MCP repository (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 10,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": 17594,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://developers.oxylabs.io/products/web-scraper-api",
      "llmsTxt": "https://developers.oxylabs.io/llms.txt",
      "registryName": "io.oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp",
      "capabilities": [
        "web.scrape",
        "web.extract",
        "scraping.proxies",
        "scraping.js-render",
        "scraping.anti-bot",
        "search.serp"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "no-card",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "proxies",
        "python",
        "go",
        "closed-source",
        "status-page",
        "soc2"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-29",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 62.9,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 441,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1268,
        "categoryRank": 11,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 79,
          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 75,
          "schema": 68,
          "security": 53,
          "transparency": 64
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-11-02"
        },
        "negative": -3,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-03-18. The changelog announced that the `domain` parameter for Google sources was no longer available, with no earlier notice in the changelog. The MCP server's Google search tool still listed `domain` at v0.9.3 (7 September 2026). Three points, since a replacement (`geo_location`) was documented the same day and we could not see whether customers were told by email (https://developers.oxylabs.io/changelog)."
        ],
        "verdict": "Dedicated parsed sources, three integration methods and an official MCP server with four read-only scraping tools, released twice in late October 2026. Since Web API launched on 7 October the docs call it Classic and send new users to sales for credentials, Google's `domain` parameter was removed with notice only on the day, and no OpenAPI document was found.",
        "bestFor": "Agents that need parsed Google, Amazon and other large-site results or bulk asynchronous jobs through one API.",
        "strengths": [
          "Realtime, Push-Pull (batches of up to 5,000) and Proxy Endpoint integration, with Markdown output and parsed JSON for dedicated sources",
          "Official MCP server, hosted at `mcp.oxylabs.io` or run locally, whose four scraping tools carry `readOnlyHint`; v0.10.2 shipped on 29 October 2026",
          "Results with 5xx or 6xx codes and 429 responses are not billed, and faulted jobs can be retried at no cost",
          "ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and a SOC 2 Type 2 report covering Scraper API are listed in the trust centre",
          "Per-plan job rates are published, and each response carries `x-ratelimit` limit and remaining headers"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Google's `domain` parameter was announced as gone on 18 March 2026 with no earlier changelog notice",
          "No OpenAPI document found. The contract is prose parameter tables and a Postman collection",
          "Relabelled Classic on 7 October 2026 with no end date, its overview sends new users to sales for credentials, and the MCP docs page now covers only Web API",
          "The vulnerability disclosure programme is paused except for critical issues, and no security.txt or bug bounty was found",
          "The Proxy Endpoint needs TLS verification switched off, and the General Conditions bar monitoring availability or performance without written consent"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send `\"markdown\": true` for page reading. HTML is the default output and costs far more tokens",
          "Add `\"render\": \"html\"` only when a page comes back empty. Rendered results cost $1.50 per 1,000 against $1.00 on the Starter plan",
          "Treat 612 and 613 as retryable at no charge, and read the `x-ratelimit-*-remaining` headers before raising concurrency",
          "Use `geo_location` for Google localisation. The `domain` parameter was removed in March 2026",
          "Pin `oxylabs-mcp` to 0.10.1 or later. Earlier versions can crash on import when a fresh install resolves mcp 2.x"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 3,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 62.9
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 79,
          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 75,
          "schema": 68,
          "security": 53,
          "transparency": 42
        },
        "provenanceScore": 85,
        "checked": {
          "categories": {
            "ergonomics": "2026-11-02",
            "maintenance": "2026-11-02",
            "payments": "2026-11-02",
            "reliability": "2026-11-02",
            "schema": "2026-11-02",
            "security": "2026-11-02",
            "transparency": "2026-11-02"
          },
          "last": "2026-11-02",
          "lastMoved": "2026-11-02",
          "oldest": "2026-11-02",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install oxylabs",
        "http": "curl 'https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries' \\\n  --user 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' \\\n  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n  -d '{\"source\": \"universal\", \"url\": \"https://sandbox.oxylabs.io/\", \"markdown\": true}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http oxylabs https://mcp.oxylabs.io/mcp \\\n  --header \"Authorization: Basic $(echo -n 'YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_PASSWORD' | base64)\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "oxylabs": {
              "args": [
                "oxylabs-mcp"
              ],
              "command": "uvx",
              "env": {
                "OXYLABS_PASSWORD": "YOUR_PASSWORD",
                "OXYLABS_USERNAME": "YOUR_USERNAME"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/oxylabs-web-scraper"
      },
      "area": "web-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Starter plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 30,
          "note": "Credit balance shared across Oxylabs products, expires each cycle, VAT may apply"
        },
        {
          "item": "Other targets without rendering, Starter",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1,
          "note": "Per 1,000 billable results"
        },
        {
          "item": "Other targets with JavaScript rendering, Starter",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1.5,
          "note": "Per 1,000 billable results"
        },
        {
          "item": "Amazon without rendering, Starter",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.5,
          "note": "Per 1,000 billable results"
        },
        {
          "item": "Google without rendering, Starter",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1,
          "note": "$1.35 with rendering"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "oxylabs, UAB",
        "domain": "oxylabs.io",
        "domainRegistered": "2015-11-30",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://oxylabs.io/legal/v1-oxylabs-general-conditions",
        "privacy": "https://oxylabs.io/legal/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://uptime.oxylabs.io",
        "changelog": "https://developers.oxylabs.io/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-11-02",
        "notes": [
          "The General Conditions of the oxylabs, UAB Services Agreement name a Lithuanian company registered at Švitrigailos str. 32, Vilnius, and were last updated on 5 October 2026. They are linked from the trust centre, not from the site footer.",
          "The privacy policy was last reviewed on 22 October 2026 and does not name the controlling entity. It covers registration and self-service use as well as the website.",
          "https://oxylabs.io/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The vulnerability disclosure policy gives security@oxylabs.io and says the programme is paused except for critical issues.",
          "RDAP gives a registration date of 2015-11-30 for oxylabs.io.",
          "The API answers on realtime.oxylabs.io and data.oxylabs.io, and the hosted MCP server on mcp.oxylabs.io."
        ],
        "score": 85
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/oxylabs-web-scraper.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "oxylabs-web-scraper",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:12.80477336Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 102,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 99.6,
          "uptime30d": 99.92,
          "p50ms24h": 103,
          "p95ms24h": 166,
          "samples24h": 250,
          "samples30d": 6154,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-09",
              "probes": 169,
              "ok": 169
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-10",
              "probes": 247,
              "ok": 247
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-11",
              "probes": 247,
              "ok": 247
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-12",
              "probes": 247,
              "ok": 247
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-13",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-14",
              "probes": 249,
              "ok": 249
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-15",
              "probes": 253,
              "ok": 253
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-16",
              "probes": 252,
              "ok": 252
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-17",
              "probes": 253,
              "ok": 253
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-18",
              "probes": 256,
              "ok": 256
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-19",
              "probes": 255,
              "ok": 255
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-20",
              "probes": 252,
              "ok": 252
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-21",
              "probes": 253,
              "ok": 253
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-22",
              "probes": 253,
              "ok": 253
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-23",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-24",
              "probes": 251,
              "ok": 251
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-25",
              "probes": 250,
              "ok": 250
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-26",
              "probes": 252,
              "ok": 252
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-27",
              "probes": 249,
              "ok": 249
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-28",
              "probes": 250,
              "ok": 246
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-29",
              "probes": 249,
              "ok": 249
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-30",
              "probes": 249,
              "ok": 249
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-31",
              "probes": 251,
              "ok": 251
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-11-01",
              "probes": 249,
              "ok": 249
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-11-02",
              "probes": 222,
              "ok": 221
            }
          ],
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            {
              "start": "2026-10-28T06:38:25.688447591Z",
              "end": "2026-10-28T06:55:00.16149851Z",
              "note": "timed out"
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        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://uptime.oxylabs.io",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T21:13:17.217158894Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp",
            "version": "v0.10.2",
            "released": "2026-10-29",
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          {
            "registry": "mcp-registry",
            "name": "io.oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp",
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          },
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "oxylabs",
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          "url": "https://oxylabs.io/.well-known/security.txt",
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        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://developers.oxylabs.io/llms.txt",
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          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T15:17:41.543529236Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "oxylabs.io",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:26:42.02839894Z"
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          {
            "url": "https://developers.oxylabs.io/changelog",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
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          },
          {
            "url": "https://oxylabs.io/products/scraper-api/web/pricing",
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          {
            "url": "https://oxylabs.io/legal/v1-oxylabs-general-conditions",
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            "status": 200,
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          "repo": "oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp",
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        "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:12.80477336Z"
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    "edges": [
      {
        "by": 30,
        "category": "reliability",
        "leads": "oxylabs-web-scraper",
        "name": "Reliability",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Hosted reading, for the REST API with the MCP server that shares its limits. No public status page was found. None is linked from the site or the docs, https://outcrawl.ai/status answers 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer (0). No readable incident history, so the floor (5). Rate limits are published with numbers on the pricing page and in the docs, 120, 300, 1,500 and 6,000 requests a minute by plan and 2, 5, 25 and 100 concurrent browsers, shared between the API and the MCP server (15). Over the per-minute ceiling the API answers `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` and `retryAfterSeconds`, read from the SDK error class and the worked examples, the errors page lists four codes as safe to retry unchanged, and `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait for a run to end; no Retry-After header is documented and no idempotency key or safe-retry rule exists for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, which the agent tool's own description says bill twice on a repeat (10 of 15). An SLA exists only on Enterprise, a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime figure with service credits and terms priced per contract, so half credit for a published figure without published terms (5 of 10). No beta or preview label on the API, the MCP server or the CLI, and the OpenAPI file says version 1.0.0, though both SDKs are at 0.4.15 and the domain is nine weeks old (10). 0+5+15+10+5+10 = 45.",
          "b": "Graded on the Web Scraper API (Classic) surface. Status page at uptime.oxylabs.io on incident.io with separate components for Scraper APIs Push-Pull and Real-Time (20). Its feed lists two incidents since 4 August 2026, a Datacenter Proxies outage on 13 August that doesn't touch this API and, on 26 October, 12 minutes (05:34 to 05:46 on the page's clock) on both Scraper API components and Web Unblocker. The page labels it a full outage, but its own text says users \"may experience degraded performance, intermittent errors, or timeouts\", so we read it as partial and minor (20 of 30). Job rates per plan are published, from 10 a second on the free trial to 100 on Business and Corporate, with rendered-job limits (15). 429 is not billed, responses carry `x-ratelimit` limit and remaining headers, and 612 and 613 faults can be retried at no cost. No Retry-After or backoff guidance was found for this API (10 of 15). No SLA is published. The General Conditions promise reasonable efforts (0). Generally available (10)."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 45,
          "b": 75
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 13,
        "category": "security",
        "leads": "outcrawl",
        "name": "Security \u0026 auth",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "OAuth 2.1 for MCP clients and the CLI with authorization code, PKCE S256, dynamic public-client registration, device code, one-hour access tokens, 30-day refresh, introspection and revocation endpoints and private_key_jwt, but one functional scope, `api`; API keys shaped `ock_\u003ckeyId\u003e.\u003csecret\u003e` are shown once, stored as a digest, scoped to a workspace and revoked within a minute, with no per-key scopes, expiry or read-only keys; nothing documents a secret in a query string (25 of 30). No read-only key or scope. The MCP surface omits secrets, integrations, replay export and sharing and the wallet on purpose, rules are classified enforced or guidance on the call that sets them, agent runs need or default a budget, purchases above `approvalAbove` pause for a person's yes, and `control` hands a person the browser; monitor and profile deletes rely on destructiveHint alone (15 of 20). Every tool returns untrusted page content. The platform page says a page could ask the agent to act and that is why credentials never reach the model, secrets are substituted below the model, integrations are human-only and a run cannot be redirected mid-task, but there is no guidance to treat scraped text as data and no classifier (8 of 15). Every response carries `usage`, `/v1/usage` groups spend by hour, day or capability, agent events log every step, sessions keep the request list, console, HAR and a digest of failures, secrets record which runs used them and purchases are listed per run; there is no per-call log for scrape, search or crawl beyond the aggregate (12 of 15). No security.txt on either host (404), no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, no bug bounty; the security page has a responsible disclosure route at security@outcrawl.ai with a 90-day window and a no-legal-action statement (6 of 20). 25+15+8+12+6 = 66.",
          "b": "A username and password per product instance over HTTP Basic, with an editable password, optional IP whitelisting and several instances per account. The MCP server's v0.10.0 (15 October 2026) adds Web Scraper API tokens sent as a Bearer header, but the API docs still describe only the username and password, and no scopes were found (20 of 30). The Proxy Endpoint puts the pair in the proxy URL and needs TLS verification switched off, which we note without the query-string deduction. Scraping is read-only apart from POST requests to targets, callbacks and uploads to the customer's bucket, each instance can take a spending limit that disables it, and every MCP tool is marked read-only (10 of 20). No guidance on untrusted page content was found in the Web Scraper API docs, the MCP README or the agent skill (2 of 15). `GET /v2/stats` and the dashboard report usage by day and source, and jobs accept client notes. No per-request access log was found (7 of 15). ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2 for Scraper API and yearly penetration tests per the trust centre (per the 8 October check, not re-read on 2 November). The disclosure programme is still paused except for critical issues sent to security@oxylabs.io, security.txt returns 404 and no bug bounty was found. That is above the 12 given for certification claims with no disclosure route (fireworks-inference, people-data-labs), because a route for critical issues and penetration tests are published (14 of 20)."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 66,
          "b": 53
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 8,
        "category": "transparency",
        "leads": "oxylabs-web-scraper",
        "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Closed hosted service under terms last updated 1 November 2026 that name Aeonmind LLC, trading as Outcrawl, Delaware law and a liability cap; the SDKs and the MCP package are MIT and Scout, the agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only mirror of a private repository (20 of 30). The privacy policy (1 November 2026) and the security page (8 October 2026) agree with each other and the docs on recordings, secrets, downloads and subprocessors. Recordings are on by default and hold request bodies, cookies and form data, deleted after a plan period shown only in the console, downloads are kept 7 days, run files are destroyed at run end, PostHog site recordings go after 30 days, and account data is kept for a limited unspecified period after closure; no DPA was found and no recording retention figure is published (20 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices; the terms say prices may change for future usage and material changes are emailed, and no changelog exists (3 of 20). Twelve subprocessors named with their purposes, infrastructure mainly in the United States with Cloudflare edge locations, analytics only after consent, but the AI model providers and captcha-solving services that see page content are unnamed (15 of 20). 20+20+3+15 = 58.",
          "b": "Closed service under public General Conditions naming oxylabs, UAB of Vilnius, still last updated 5 October 2026, with MIT clients (15 of 30). The privacy policy was last reviewed on 22 October 2026 and still doesn't name the controller or say anything about scraped content. Clause 4.3.9 of the General Conditions lets Oxylabs keep data gathered through Web API and Web Unblocker and use it at its discretion, and it is unclear whether Web API there includes this Classic API. A DPA is published and Push-Pull results are kept for at least 24 hours (14 of 30). No deprecation policy. Removals appear in the changelog on the day they take effect, and the General Conditions give 14 days' notice of contract changes (6 of 20). The DPA says the sub-processor list is available on request. The privacy policy names some vendors, and data locations are given only as the EEA and the US (7 of 20)."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 56,
          "b": 64
        }
      }
    ],
    "facts": [
      {
        "a": "HTTP API",
        "b": "HTTP API",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl)",
        "b": "oxylabs, UAB",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1",
        "b": "https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP",
        "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "OAuth or key",
        "b": "API key",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Freemium",
        "b": "Pay per use",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "$4.90 per 1,000 pages",
        "b": "not published",
        "name": "Price for scraping"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror",
        "b": "Proprietary service under the Oxylabs General Conditions. The MCP server and the Python SDK on GitHub are MIT",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "29",
        "b": "10",
        "name": "Tools exposed"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "not listed",
        "b": "io.oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp",
        "name": "MCP registry"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-10-20",
        "b": "2026-10-29",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-11-01",
        "b": "2026-10-05",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-11-01",
        "b": "2024-10-14",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      },
      {
        "a": "948 stars, 53 npm/wk",
        "b": "18k PyPI/wk",
        "name": "Popularity"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "3/5 (4)",
        "name": "Agent reviews"
      }
    ],
    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API and Outcrawl score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 62.9 (B) and 62.4 (B). Outcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Outcrawl or Oxylabs Web Scraper API?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Outcrawl takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Oxylabs Web Scraper API needs an API key.",
        "question": "Do Outcrawl and Oxylabs Web Scraper API need an API key?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Yes. Outcrawl has a hosted endpoint at https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1 and Oxylabs Web Scraper API at https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries.",
        "question": "Can an agent call Outcrawl and Oxylabs Web Scraper API without installing anything?"
      }
    ],
    "goodFor": [
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 53"
        ],
        "also": [
          "No incidents deducted, where Oxylabs Web Scraper API loses 3 points for them"
        ],
        "goodFor": "Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.",
        "slug": "outcrawl",
        "watchFor": "No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer"
      },
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Reliability, 75 against 45",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 56"
        ],
        "also": [
          "Runs on your own machine"
        ],
        "goodFor": "Agents that need parsed Google, Amazon and other large-site results or bulk asynchronous jobs through one API.",
        "slug": "oxylabs-web-scraper",
        "watchFor": "Google's `domain` parameter was announced as gone on 18 March 2026 with no earlier changelog notice"
      }
    ],
    "history": {
      "outcrawl": null,
      "oxylabs-web-scraper": [
        {
          "causes": [
            "reliability",
            "product"
          ],
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          "delta": -0.2,
          "from": 63.1,
          "fromGrade": "B",
          "to": 62.9,
          "toGrade": "B"
        },
        {
          "causes": [
            "method"
          ],
          "date": "2026-10-27",
          "delta": 0.1,
          "from": 63,
          "fromGrade": "B",
          "to": 63.1,
          "toGrade": "B"
        }
      ]
    },
    "job": {
      "capability": "web.scrape",
      "name": "Scraping"
    },
    "others": [
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json",
        "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-outcrawl.json",
        "title": "Bright Data vs Outcrawl",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-outcrawl"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json",
        "title": "Bright Data vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-outcrawl.json",
        "title": "Context.dev vs Outcrawl",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-outcrawl"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json",
        "title": "Context.dev vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper"
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json",
        "title": "jevcrawl vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-outcrawl.json",
        "title": "Jina Reader vs Outcrawl",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-outcrawl"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json",
        "title": "Jina Reader vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-outcrawl.json",
        "title": "Olostep vs Outcrawl",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-outcrawl"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json",
        "title": "Olostep vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper"
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrape-do.json",
        "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrape.do",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrape-do"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapegraphai.json",
        "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapeGraphAI",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapegraphai"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeless.json",
        "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapeless",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeless"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scraperapi.json",
        "title": "Outcrawl vs ScraperAPI",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scraperapi"
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapewise.json",
        "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapewise",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapewise"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapfly.json",
        "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapfly",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapfly"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingant.json",
        "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapingAnt",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingant"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingbee.json",
        "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapingBee",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingbee"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingdog.json",
        "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapingdog",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingdog"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-spider-cloud.json",
        "title": "Outcrawl vs Spider",
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zenrows.json",
        "title": "Outcrawl vs ZenRows",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zenrows"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zyte.json",
        "title": "Outcrawl vs Zyte API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zyte"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrape-do.json",
        "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs Scrape.do",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrape-do"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapegraphai.json",
        "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs ScrapeGraphAI",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapegraphai"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapeless.json",
        "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs Scrapeless",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapeless"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scraperapi.json",
        "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs ScraperAPI",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scraperapi"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapewise.json",
        "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs Scrapewise",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapewise"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapfly.json",
        "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs Scrapfly",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapfly"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapingant.json",
        "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs ScrapingAnt",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapingant"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapingbee.json",
        "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs ScrapingBee",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapingbee"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapingdog.json",
        "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs Scrapingdog",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapingdog"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-spider-cloud.json",
        "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs Spider",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-spider-cloud"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-zenrows.json",
        "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs ZenRows",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-zenrows"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-zyte.json",
        "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs Zyte API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-zyte"
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-outcrawl.json",
        "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs Outcrawl",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-outcrawl"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-outcrawl.json",
        "title": "Diffbot vs Outcrawl",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-outcrawl"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json",
        "title": "Diffbot vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json",
        "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-qovia.json",
        "title": "Outcrawl vs Qovia",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-qovia"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeatlas.json",
        "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapeAtlas",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeatlas"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-qovia.json",
        "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs Qovia",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-qovia"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapeatlas.json",
        "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs ScrapeAtlas",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrapeatlas"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-outcrawl.json",
        "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Outcrawl",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-outcrawl.json",
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      "outcrawl": "One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago.",
      "oxylabs-web-scraper": "Dedicated parsed sources, three integration methods and an official MCP server with four read-only scraping tools, released twice in late October 2026. Since Web API launched on 7 October the docs call it Classic and send new users to sales for credentials, Google's `domain` parameter was removed with notice only on the day, and no OpenAPI document was found."
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  "markdown": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API and Outcrawl score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 62.9 (B) and 62.4 (B). Outcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do scraping.\n\n- Outcrawl: grade B, 62.4/100, rank #456 of 1268. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/outcrawl.json\n- Oxylabs Web Scraper API: grade B, 62.9/100, rank #441 of 1268. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/oxylabs-web-scraper.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/oxylabs-web-scraper.json\n- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md\n- All 284 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Outcrawl (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 53\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Oxylabs Web Scraper API loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer\n\n### Oxylabs Web Scraper API (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that need parsed Google, Amazon and other large-site results or bulk asynchronous jobs through one API.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 75 against 45\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 56\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Google's `domain` parameter was announced as gone on 18 March 2026 with no earlier changelog notice\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Oxylabs Web Scraper API +30\n\n- Outcrawl (45): Hosted reading, for the REST API with the MCP server that shares its limits. No public status page was found. None is linked from the site or the docs, https://outcrawl.ai/status answers 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer (0). No readable incident history, so the floor (5). Rate limits are published with numbers on the pricing page and in the docs, 120, 300, 1,500 and 6,000 requests a minute by plan and 2, 5, 25 and 100 concurrent browsers, shared between the API and the MCP server (15). Over the per-minute ceiling the API answers `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` and `retryAfterSeconds`, read from the SDK error class and the worked examples, the errors page lists four codes as safe to retry unchanged, and `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait for a run to end; no Retry-After header is documented and no idempotency key or safe-retry rule exists for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, which the agent tool's own description says bill twice on a repeat (10 of 15). An SLA exists only on Enterprise, a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime figure with service credits and terms priced per contract, so half credit for a published figure without published terms (5 of 10). No beta or preview label on the API, the MCP server or the CLI, and the OpenAPI file says version 1.0.0, though both SDKs are at 0.4.15 and the domain is nine weeks old (10). 0+5+15+10+5+10 = 45.\n- Oxylabs Web Scraper API (75): Graded on the Web Scraper API (Classic) surface. Status page at uptime.oxylabs.io on incident.io with separate components for Scraper APIs Push-Pull and Real-Time (20). Its feed lists two incidents since 4 August 2026, a Datacenter Proxies outage on 13 August that doesn't touch this API and, on 26 October, 12 minutes (05:34 to 05:46 on the page's clock) on both Scraper API components and Web Unblocker. The page labels it a full outage, but its own text says users \"may experience degraded performance, intermittent errors, or timeouts\", so we read it as partial and minor (20 of 30). Job rates per plan are published, from 10 a second on the free trial to 100 on Business and Corporate, with rendered-job limits (15). 429 is not billed, responses carry `x-ratelimit` limit and remaining headers, and 612 and 613 faults can be retried at no cost. No Retry-After or backoff guidance was found for this API (10 of 15). No SLA is published. The General Conditions promise reasonable efforts (0). Generally available (10).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Outcrawl +13\n\n- Outcrawl (66): OAuth 2.1 for MCP clients and the CLI with authorization code, PKCE S256, dynamic public-client registration, device code, one-hour access tokens, 30-day refresh, introspection and revocation endpoints and private_key_jwt, but one functional scope, `api`; API keys shaped `ock_\u003ckeyId\u003e.\u003csecret\u003e` are shown once, stored as a digest, scoped to a workspace and revoked within a minute, with no per-key scopes, expiry or read-only keys; nothing documents a secret in a query string (25 of 30). No read-only key or scope. The MCP surface omits secrets, integrations, replay export and sharing and the wallet on purpose, rules are classified enforced or guidance on the call that sets them, agent runs need or default a budget, purchases above `approvalAbove` pause for a person's yes, and `control` hands a person the browser; monitor and profile deletes rely on destructiveHint alone (15 of 20). Every tool returns untrusted page content. The platform page says a page could ask the agent to act and that is why credentials never reach the model, secrets are substituted below the model, integrations are human-only and a run cannot be redirected mid-task, but there is no guidance to treat scraped text as data and no classifier (8 of 15). Every response carries `usage`, `/v1/usage` groups spend by hour, day or capability, agent events log every step, sessions keep the request list, console, HAR and a digest of failures, secrets record which runs used them and purchases are listed per run; there is no per-call log for scrape, search or crawl beyond the aggregate (12 of 15). No security.txt on either host (404), no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, no bug bounty; the security page has a responsible disclosure route at security@outcrawl.ai with a 90-day window and a no-legal-action statement (6 of 20). 25+15+8+12+6 = 66.\n- Oxylabs Web Scraper API (53): A username and password per product instance over HTTP Basic, with an editable password, optional IP whitelisting and several instances per account. The MCP server's v0.10.0 (15 October 2026) adds Web Scraper API tokens sent as a Bearer header, but the API docs still describe only the username and password, and no scopes were found (20 of 30). The Proxy Endpoint puts the pair in the proxy URL and needs TLS verification switched off, which we note without the query-string deduction. Scraping is read-only apart from POST requests to targets, callbacks and uploads to the customer's bucket, each instance can take a spending limit that disables it, and every MCP tool is marked read-only (10 of 20). No guidance on untrusted page content was found in the Web Scraper API docs, the MCP README or the agent skill (2 of 15). `GET /v2/stats` and the dashboard report usage by day and source, and jobs accept client notes. No per-request access log was found (7 of 15). ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2 for Scraper API and yearly penetration tests per the trust centre (per the 8 October check, not re-read on 2 November). The disclosure programme is still paused except for critical issues sent to security@oxylabs.io, security.txt returns 404 and no bug bounty was found. That is above the 12 given for certification claims with no disclosure route (fireworks-inference, people-data-labs), because a route for critical issues and penetration tests are published (14 of 20).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Oxylabs Web Scraper API +8\n\n- Outcrawl (56): Closed hosted service under terms last updated 1 November 2026 that name Aeonmind LLC, trading as Outcrawl, Delaware law and a liability cap; the SDKs and the MCP package are MIT and Scout, the agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only mirror of a private repository (20 of 30). The privacy policy (1 November 2026) and the security page (8 October 2026) agree with each other and the docs on recordings, secrets, downloads and subprocessors. Recordings are on by default and hold request bodies, cookies and form data, deleted after a plan period shown only in the console, downloads are kept 7 days, run files are destroyed at run end, PostHog site recordings go after 30 days, and account data is kept for a limited unspecified period after closure; no DPA was found and no recording retention figure is published (20 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices; the terms say prices may change for future usage and material changes are emailed, and no changelog exists (3 of 20). Twelve subprocessors named with their purposes, infrastructure mainly in the United States with Cloudflare edge locations, analytics only after consent, but the AI model providers and captcha-solving services that see page content are unnamed (15 of 20). 20+20+3+15 = 58.\n- Oxylabs Web Scraper API (64): Closed service under public General Conditions naming oxylabs, UAB of Vilnius, still last updated 5 October 2026, with MIT clients (15 of 30). The privacy policy was last reviewed on 22 October 2026 and still doesn't name the controller or say anything about scraped content. Clause 4.3.9 of the General Conditions lets Oxylabs keep data gathered through Web API and Web Unblocker and use it at its discretion, and it is unclear whether Web API there includes this Classic API. A DPA is published and Push-Pull results are kept for at least 24 hours (14 of 30). No deprecation policy. Removals appear in the changelog on the day they take effect, and the General Conditions give 14 days' notice of contract changes (6 of 20). The DPA says the sub-processor list is available on request. The privacy policy names some vendors, and data locations are given only as the EEA and the US (7 of 20).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Outcrawl | Oxylabs Web Scraper API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 75 | Oxylabs Web Scraper API +30 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 68 | Outcrawl +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 79 | Outcrawl +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 53 | Outcrawl +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 82 | Oxylabs Web Scraper API +3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 64 | Oxylabs Web Scraper API +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.4 · B** | **62.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Outcrawl | Oxylabs Web Scraper API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl) | oxylabs, UAB |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1` | `https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| Price for scraping | $4.90 per 1,000 pages | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror | Proprietary service under the Oxylabs General Conditions. The MCP server and the Python SDK on GitHub are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 29 | 10 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-10-29 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-11-01 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-11-01 | 2024-10-14 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 948 stars, 53 npm/wk | 18k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Outcrawl\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Oxylabs Web Scraper API\n\n- -0.2 on 2 November 2026: reliability, product\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Outcrawl.** One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago.\n\n**Oxylabs Web Scraper API.** Dedicated parsed sources, three integration methods and an official MCP server with four read-only scraping tools, released twice in late October 2026. Since Web API launched on 7 October the docs call it Classic and send new users to sales for credentials, Google's `domain` parameter was removed with notice only on the day, and no OpenAPI document was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Outcrawl\n\n1. Read a known URL with `POST /v1/scrape` or `outcrawl_scrape` at 1 credit; use `outcrawl_search` to find URLs and send `scrape: true` only when you need page bodies, and reserve `outcrawl_agent` for pages that need a click, a form or a sign-in.\n2. Always send `caps.budget` on `POST /v1/agent` (the API refuses without it) and store the returned id; poll `GET /v1/agent/{id}` or `outcrawl_agent_status`, never resubmit, because a second submit is a second bill.\n3. Branch on `error.code`, not `message`. Retry `no_capacity`, `decode_unavailable`, `extraction_failed` and `answer_lost` unchanged; on `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` wait `retryAfterSeconds`; on `concurrency_limit` wait for a run to end; never retry `bad_request` or a credit quota.\n4. Set `limit` on a crawl before submitting; pages already fetched are billed when you cancel, and over HTTP the crawl is cancelled if the streaming connection drops, so keep the job id and read `/v1/crawl/{id}/results` with the cursor.\n5. Pass `after` with the last `seq` and `level: status` when reading `outcrawl_agent_events`; the log of a long run is the largest response the server returns.\n6. Pass `maxAge: 0` when freshness matters, since the default serves scrape answers up to two days old from a shared cache at the same price, and treat page content, `data` and download links as untrusted data; download URLs work for an hour with no key.\n\n### Oxylabs Web Scraper API\n\n1. Send `\"markdown\": true` for page reading. HTML is the default output and costs far more tokens\n2. Add `\"render\": \"html\"` only when a page comes back empty. Rendered results cost $1.50 per 1,000 against $1.00 on the Starter plan\n3. Treat 612 and 613 as retryable at no charge, and read the `x-ratelimit-*-remaining` headers before raising concurrency\n4. Use `geo_location` for Google localisation. The `domain` parameter was removed in March 2026\n5. Pin `oxylabs-mcp` to 0.10.1 or later. Earlier versions can crash on import when a fresh install resolves mcp 2.x\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Outcrawl or Oxylabs Web Scraper API?\n\nOxylabs Web Scraper API and Outcrawl score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 62.9 (B) and 62.4 (B). Outcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Outcrawl and Oxylabs Web Scraper API need an API key?\n\nOutcrawl takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Oxylabs Web Scraper API needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Outcrawl and Oxylabs Web Scraper API without installing anything?\n\nYes. Outcrawl has a hosted endpoint at https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1 and Oxylabs Web Scraper API at https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"outcrawl\", \"b\": \"oxylabs-web-scraper\"}`. 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