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    "a": {
      "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": "Outcrawl scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Qovia's 61.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Qovia leads on schema \u0026 documentation and payments \u0026 pricing.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "qovia",
      "name": "Qovia",
      "vendor": "Qovia",
      "vendorUrl": "https://qovia.ai",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "web-scrapers",
      "summary": "Qovia is a hosted API that returns posts, comments, creator profiles, hot lists and product reviews from Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, Bilibili, TikTok, YouTube, X and other platforms as one JSON envelope, with a cross-platform search and a remote MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qovia",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qovia.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qovia.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qovia.json",
      "dns": "qovia.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "repo": "https://github.com/qovia/qovia-mcp",
      "license": "Proprietary hosted service under a one-paragraph Terms of Service summary that defers to a signed agreement. The qovia/qovia-mcp repository (setup guide, examples, Python client) and the qovia package on PyPI are MIT; the service's source is not public",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.qovia.ai",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "qovia"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "An API key created in the console (prefix `sk-qovia-` plus 43 characters), sent as `Authorization: Bearer` or `x-api-key` to https://api.qovia.ai; the docs say the key is read from those two headers only, never from the URL or a cookie, and browser requests from other sites are refused by CORS. A key carries one or more scopes chosen at creation (`*`, `search`, `raw:*` or `raw:\u003cplatform\u003e` for each of 24 platform groups), an optional expiry, and is revoked in the console; the server stores a hash and shows the full key once. 30 failed authentications from one IP in a minute answer 429 `too_many_auth_failures`. The MCP server at https://api.qovia.ai/mcp takes the same key as a Bearer header; its `search_endpoints` and `get_endpoint` tools need no key, `call_endpoint` and `get_account` do. No OAuth metadata is served (404 on /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource per the 1 November listing check).",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "50 trial calls for a new account, counted only when a call returns data, then a prepaid balance in USD topped up by card or Alipay through Stripe (4.4 per cent plus $0.30 fee) or USDT on TRC-20 (2 per cent plus $0.30), no monthly fee (1 November 2026). Only an HTTP 200 with a non-empty result is charged; empty results, errors, timeouts and upstream failures are refunded. Cross-platform search is $5 per 1,000 calls. Raw endpoints are priced per endpoint, from $0.5 per 1,000 (8 Douyin, 5 Bilibili and 2 Xingtu endpoints) through $1 (61 endpoints), $1.5 (Cili Juxing, Huahuo), $2 (3 Instagram), $5 (WeChat, Xiaohongshu, 1 Pugongying), $10 (11 Xingtu, 10 Pugongying), $13.5 (Taobao reviews) to $19.5 (JD.com reviews); Tieba, Fliggy and the six coming-soon endpoints are on a tiered $1.5 rate that drops to $1 after 5,000,000 billed calls in a month. Top-ups are non-refundable except within 7 days when the vendor confirms a paid endpoint cannot be used. Datasets and bulk or custom data are quoted. Five Actors by the same vendor on the Apify Store are paid through Apify per section.",
      "priceSummary": "$5 / 1k req",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on qovia.ai, in the docs, llms.txt, the OpenAPI file or the repository (checked 2026-11-01). Top-ups take card and Alipay through Stripe or USDT on TRC-20 from a console session; USDT is a payment method, not a machine payment protocol. The only route without a Qovia account is the vendor's five Actors on the Apify Store (profile `qovia`, Qovia Data), paid through Apify.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 141,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 0,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-11-01"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://qovia.ai/docs/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://qovia.ai/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://qovia.ai/openapi.json",
      "registryName": "ai.qovia/qovia",
      "capabilities": [
        "web.extract",
        "social.analytics",
        "web.search"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "official",
        "closed-source",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "mcp",
        "python",
        "free-trial",
        "prepaid",
        "usage-priced",
        "api-key",
        "beta",
        "new"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-28",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 61.2,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 493,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1268,
        "categoryRank": 14,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 77,
          "maintenance": 77,
          "payments": 55,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 30
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-11-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "An OpenAPI 3.1 file with 144 operations, one envelope and 20 error codes, per-endpoint prices with failed and empty calls refunded, scoped keys and a four-tool MCP server that keeps the catalogue out of context. No status page, no legal entity, one-paragraph terms and privacy pages, and a product ten days old at the check.",
        "bestFor": "Agents that need structured public data from Chinese platforms (Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, Bilibili, Kuaishou, Zhihu, WeChat official accounts, Taobao and JD reviews) or the Xingtu and Pugongying creator marketplaces, with TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Reddit beside them, paid per successful call from a prepaid balance.",
        "strengths": [
          "A public OpenAPI 3.1 file with 144 operations, patterns or enums on parameters, a response example on every operation and the error responses declared on each",
          "One envelope on every call, `request_id`, `data` and `meta` with the charge and balance, and 20 error codes sorted into not charged and refunded, with `Retry-After` on the retryable ones",
          "Only HTTP 200 with a non-empty result is charged; empty results, 404s, timeouts and upstream failures are refunded, and 50 trial calls come with a new account",
          "API keys carry per-platform scopes and an optional expiry, are read from headers only, and the docs tell users to give AI tools a separate scoped key",
          "The MCP server loads four tools by default and lets an agent find, read and call any of 137 endpoints, with `?tools=` subsets for direct tools; listed in the official registry under ai.qovia/qovia",
          "Published limits of 60 and 600 requests a minute with `X-RateLimit-*` headers, and a documented empty-call throttle"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No status page, incident history or SLA; the terms promise nothing about uptime and the Python client is the only retry guidance beyond `Retry-After`",
          "The terms and privacy policy are one paragraph each, name no legal entity, address, retention period or subprocessor, and say a signed agreement governs",
          "Every endpoint is marked `beta` in the OpenAPI file while the docs call it Live, and the API version is 0.1.0",
          "No security.txt, disclosure policy beyond a SECURITY.md, bug bounty or certification; the only support channels are Telegram, WhatsApp, WeChat and one mailbox",
          "Every response is third-party platform content and the docs carry no guidance on treating it as untrusted; four endpoint groups read login-gated creator marketplaces",
          "The changelog has two dated days, the domain is four months old, and the GitHub account was created the week of the request with nine forked lists beside the one repository"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send `Authorization: Bearer sk-qovia-...` to https://api.qovia.ai and check `meta.empty` on every HTTP 200; `data` may be `null` or an empty structure and nothing is charged for it.",
          "Branch on `error.code`, never on `message`. Retry only `rate_limited`, `too_many_unbilled`, `endpoint_busy`, `upstream_busy` and `too_many_auth_failures` after `Retry-After`; `endpoint_unavailable` has none and will not clear.",
          "Stay under 60 requests a minute (600 after the first top-up) across every key on the account, and keep empty or not-found calls under 80 per cent of the last 10 minutes or expect 429 `too_many_unbilled`.",
          "Pass the previous page's `cursor` (and `search_id` on Douyin and Zhihu search) back unchanged and stop when `has_more` is false; each page is a separate charge, and unknown parameters answer 400.",
          "For MCP, connect to https://api.qovia.ai/mcp over Streamable HTTP; call `search_endpoints` then `get_endpoint` before `call_endpoint`, or add `?tools=douyin,kuaishou` for typed direct tools. Catalogue tools need no key."
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 61.2
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 77,
          "maintenance": 77,
          "payments": 55,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 23
        },
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            "maintenance": "2026-11-01",
            "payments": "2026-11-01",
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            "schema": "2026-11-01",
            "security": "2026-11-01",
            "transparency": "2026-11-01"
          },
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          "oldest": "2026-11-01",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install qovia",
        "http": "curl \"https://api.qovia.ai/v1/raw/weibo/hot_search\" -H \"Authorization: Bearer $QOVIA_API_KEY\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http qovia https://api.qovia.ai/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer $QOVIA_API_KEY\""
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.extract",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/qovia"
      },
      "area": "web-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Cross-platform search",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 5,
          "note": "POST /v1/search, successful non-empty calls only, pricing page and OpenAPI file checked 1 November 2026"
        },
        {
          "item": "Lowest raw endpoints (Douyin, Bilibili, Xingtu keywords)",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.5,
          "note": "15 fixed-price endpoints at $0.0005 a successful call"
        },
        {
          "item": "Most raw endpoints (TikTok, YouTube, X, Reddit, Weibo, Zhihu, Kuaishou and others)",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1,
          "note": "61 fixed-price endpoints at $0.001 a successful call"
        },
        {
          "item": "Tiered raw endpoints (Tieba, Fliggy, coming-soon platforms)",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1.5,
          "note": "$1 per 1,000 after 5,000,000 billed calls in a calendar month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Xiaohongshu and WeChat endpoints",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 5,
          "note": "11 fixed-price endpoints at $0.005 a successful call"
        },
        {
          "item": "Xingtu and Pugongying creator marketplace endpoints",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 10,
          "note": "21 fixed-price endpoints at $0.01 a successful call"
        },
        {
          "item": "JD.com product reviews",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 19.5,
          "note": "the dearest endpoint; Taobao and Tmall reviews are $13.5"
        },
        {
          "item": "Apify Store, Xingtu Actor premium section",
          "unit": "record",
          "usd": 0.06,
          "note": "per creator per section, paid through Apify with no Qovia account; basic sections $0.01, video sections $0.03"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "",
        "domain": "qovia.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2026-07-04",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://qovia.ai/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://qovia.ai/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://qovia.ai/changelog/",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-11-01",
        "notes": [
          "No legal entity is named anywhere read. The terms and privacy pages are one paragraph each, say Delaware law governs and that the signed agreement governs where it differs, and name no company, address or jurisdiction beyond the state. The footer reads © 2026 QoviaAI, a brand name, not an entity, so legalEntity is left empty.",
          "RDAP for qovia.ai gives a registration date of 2026-07-04 through GoDaddy with a Domains By Proxy registrant and Cloudflare nameservers. The Wayback Machine's only capture before the check is the home page of 11 September 2026, which advertised sign-up with a free 1,000 calls a month, 25+ platforms, a 99.95 per cent enterprise SLA and a team@ mailbox; none of those claims is on the current site.",
          "firstReleased is the changelog's first dated entry, 21 October 2026, when the search, Xiaohongshu, WeChat, Taobao and JD endpoints are recorded as live; the remaining platforms are dated 22 October, the registry entry is 22 October and the GitHub account and repository were created on 23 October 2026. The 11 September page sold an API key but dates nothing live.",
          "https://qovia.ai/.well-known/security.txt, https://qovia.ai/security.txt and https://api.qovia.ai/.well-known/security.txt answer 404. The repository's SECURITY.md gives a Telegram handle and a mailbox for reports and says it covers qovia.ai and api.qovia.ai.",
          "api.qovia.ai has no robots.txt (404); only its OAuth metadata (404) and /mcp (405 on GET) were touched, both by the 1 November listing check. qovia.ai's robots.txt disallows /console/, /account/, /order/ and /admin/ and their /zh/ twins, which were not fetched."
        ],
        "score": 36
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qovia.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "qovia",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.qovia.ai",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:15.38389847Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 200,
          "lastMs": 487,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 494,
          "p95ms24h": 593,
          "samples24h": 250,
          "samples30d": 266,
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              "probes": 44,
              "ok": 44
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-11-02",
              "probes": 222,
              "ok": 222
            }
          ]
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "mcp-registry",
            "name": "ai.qovia/qovia",
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          },
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "qovia",
            "version": "0.1.1",
            "released": "2026-10-27",
            "seenAt": "2026-11-02T19:45:27.985857412Z"
          }
        ],
        "pypiWeekly": 254,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://qovia.ai/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T15:44:07.849426722Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://qovia.ai/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T15:17:48.976224262Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://qovia.ai/changelog/",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:23:47.144170728Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          },
          {
            "url": "https://qovia.ai/privacy/",
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            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:23:49.328376701Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "6713947e7188"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://qovia.ai/terms/",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:23:51.257778245Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          "repo": "qovia/qovia-mcp",
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          "stars": 0,
          "archived": false,
          "issuesEnabled": true,
          "pushedAt": "2026-11-01T09:41:18Z",
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    "edges": [
      {
        "by": 26,
        "category": "transparency",
        "leads": "outcrawl",
        "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. The Terms of Service is one paragraph that names no legal entity, address or liability terms, says Delaware law governs and that the page is a summary with the signed agreement governing; the repository's client is MIT. Between the closed and unclear bands (7 of 30). The privacy policy is one paragraph. Account information is used to deliver and bill, personal information is not sold, requests and results are not resold, deletion requests go to the support mailbox, and the agreement governs where it differs. No retention periods, no subprocessors, no DPA, and no statement about the cache the prov.source flag implies; the SECURITY.md repeats the same points (8 of 30). A 410 endpoint_disabled code exists for retired endpoints and the changelog is dated, but there is no deprecation policy or notice period and nothing is marked deprecated (5 of 20). Stripe is named on the pricing page as the card and Alipay processor; no other provider, data location or transfer basis is stated (3 of 20). 7+8+5+3 = 23."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 56,
          "b": 30
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 15,
        "category": "schema",
        "leads": "qovia",
        "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "API reading, with the MCP server described. An OpenAPI 3.1 document at https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json lists 62 operations over 51 paths with a summary each and the same 11 status codes, generated from the vendor's capability registry, but every request body is an untyped object marked `additionalProperties: true` with a pointer to the docs, every 200 response is an untyped object, and `Error` is the only schema; the typed shapes live in the SDK declarations and in the MCP server's zod schemas, which were read in the 0.4.3 npm package rather than from the hosted server (15 of 25). llms.txt and a 525 KB llms-full.txt on the docs, a Markdown twin of every page and an llms.txt on the site (10). The MCP descriptions each end with a `Not for:` clause naming the better tool and most with a `Cost:` clause, the OpenAPI summaries say when not to use a route, and the capability pages say which neighbour to use instead (18 of 20). Scrape formats are an enum of eight, event levels and record kinds are enums, `caps.budget` is required, and the SDK types bound every option, while the OpenAPI bodies carry none of it (10 of 15). curl, TypeScript and Python examples on every page, 20 worked programs, a 31-row error table with meanings and a retryable list, and MCP errors with a `recovery` string, though the closed union is sized 24, 31, 45 and 22 on different pages (13 of 15). `/v1` in the path and 1.0.0 in the OpenAPI file, but no changelog or release notes anywhere; the record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and 14 dated tags in the outcrawlai/release repository (5 of 15). 15+10+18+10+13+5 = 71.",
          "b": "An OpenAPI 3.1.0 file (version 0.1.0, 1 MB) is public at qovia.ai/openapi.json with 144 paths and 144 operations, two security schemes, typed query parameters, a response example on every operation and the error responses declared on each. The data payload itself is typed only as object, array or null with per-endpoint examples, and the MCP call_endpoint tool takes a free params object, so 22 of 25 (22). llms.txt (75 KB, one line per endpoint with price and status) and llms-full.txt (331 KB, the whole documentation as text) are served, and the quickstart's billing, limits and error sections are in both (10). Every operation has a summary and a description; most say what the data holds, how to page, which ids to pass, which fields are unavailable and what answers 404 or empty, and the MCP server's instructions say to find, read then call. Guidance on when not to use an endpoint is thin, mostly pointers such as replies coming from another endpoint (16 of 20). 321 parameters, 75 with enums, patterns on ids, min and max on strings and integers, 117 operations with one required parameter and 16 with none, the POST body typed with additionalProperties false, and unknown parameters rejected with 400 (14 of 15). A response example on all 144 operations, 20 error codes with every message variant listed, response headers documented per error, and cURL, Python, JavaScript and raw HTTP samples; the examples are catalogue samples the docs say are not live data (14 of 15). Paths are under /v1, a 410 endpoint_disabled code exists for retired endpoints, and the changelog is dated, but it has two days (21 and 22 October 2026), nothing is marked deprecated and no notice period is stated (10 of 15). 22+10+16+14+14+10 = 86."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 71,
          "b": 86
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 15,
        "category": "payments",
        "leads": "qovia",
        "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI file, the docs, the pricing pages or the terms (0). Per-unit rates published without a login, 1 credit a page, 5 credits per 10 search results, 1 credit a browser minute, 2,000 credits a GB and 1 credit a monitor check, with the dollar rate per plan ($4.90 per 1,000 credits on Builder down to about $3.20 on Scale), top-up prices per 10,000 and an estimate of about 15 credits a minute for agent runs (20). Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card, on a person's first workspace (20). A person signs in with Google, GitHub, an email code or a magic link behind reCAPTCHA, and MCP's OAuth consent needs that browser sign-in; no keyless route, no programmatic key creation (0). 0+20+20+0 = 40.",
          "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 on Qovia's own endpoints; USDT on TRC-20 is a top-up method from a console session, not a machine payment protocol. The vendor's five Actors on the Apify Store under the profile qovia (Qovia Data, the same Telegram handle and mailbox as the site), such as the Xingtu Actor at $0.01 to $0.06 a section, can be paid through Apify, whose prepaid token is sold over x402, so partial credit for a third-party route on part of the catalogue (10 of 40). Per-call prices are published without a login, per endpoint in the OpenAPI file, llms.txt and the docs, search at $5 and raw endpoints from $0.5 to $19.5 per 1,000, with the tier rule and payment fees stated (20). 50 trial calls for a new account, counted only when a call returns data; the quickstart says to top up when they run out and the docs ask for no card at sign-up, though no account was created to confirm it (20). A person signs up in a browser and creates a key; the MCP catalogue tools work without a key but data calls do not, and the Apify route reaches four platforms without a Qovia account (5 of 20). 10+20+20+5 = 55."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 40,
          "b": 55
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 6,
        "category": "ergonomics",
        "leads": "outcrawl",
        "name": "Agent ergonomics",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "API reading. Scrape returns main content only by default with `formats` picking markdown, html, rawHtml, links, screenshots or schema JSON, search renders page bodies only on request, agent events take a `level` and an `after` cursor, the MCP server shows request bodies up to a character limit and says when it truncated, and the MCP surface is 29 tools with no toolsets (20 of 25). Cursor pagination on crawl results, agent results and downloads, `limit`, depth and path filters on crawl, status, outcome, task and age filters on sessions, and usage grouped by hour, day, month or capability (20). One error envelope with a closed `code`, `details` such as the cap that stopped a run, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, a documented list of codes safe to retry, and on MCP a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag per error (18 of 20). No idempotency key on any route, a repeated agent, crawl or monitor submit runs twice, and `concurrency_limit` carries no retry hint; cancel is idempotent, `integration_changed` (409) guards updates, and the npm MCP package sets readOnlyHint on GET tools, destructiveHint on DELETE tools and idempotentHint on either, which the hosted server was not read to confirm (10 of 20). Scrape needs a URL alone, agent runs need `caps.budget` on the API and SDKs with the MCP server defaulting it, and official SDKs exist in TypeScript and Python beside a CLI (15). 20+20+18+10+15 = 83.",
          "b": "API reading. Responses come in fixed page sizes per endpoint, from about 5 comments on Xiaohongshu to 100 Fliggy reviews, with limit only on Bilibili danmaku and no field selection; the record shape is compact and shared across posts, notes and videos. The MCP server loads four tools by default, keeps the catalogue out of context until search_endpoints and get_endpoint are called, and ?tools= selects platforms or everything, which on the MCP reading would score 25 (18 of 25). Cursor pagination with has_more on most lists, search_id on Douyin and Zhihu search, page numbers on Weibo, Xiaohongshu and Bilibili, sort options on several, and the cross-platform search filters by platform, content type, sentiment and whole-day date windows up to 90 days (17 of 20). One error object with 20 codes, request_id on every answer, the retryable set marked, refunded codes separated from never-charged ones, and MCP tool errors carrying error.code, the HTTP status and retry_after_seconds (19 of 20). All calls are reads, failed and empty calls are refunded, Retry-After is declared and the Python client retries; no readOnlyHint or other annotation appears in the vendor's 28 October tools/list snapshot (14 of 20). One required parameter on 117 of 144 operations and defaults set on the server, but the only official SDK is the Python client; Node and curl are examples (9 of 15). 18+17+19+14+9 = 77."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 83,
          "b": 77
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 6,
        "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": "API keys with scopes chosen at creation (every endpoint, search, every raw endpoint or one of 24 platform groups), an optional expiry, revocation in the console and hashed storage; the docs say the key is read from the Authorization or x-api-key header only, never the URL or a cookie, and 30 failed authentications from one IP in a minute are throttled. No OAuth and no rotation feature beyond creating another key (24 of 30). The whole surface is read-only retrieval, scopes restrict a key to platforms, the two MCP catalogue tools need no key, and the docs and SECURITY.md tell users to give AI tools a separate scoped key (17 of 20). Every response is third-party platform text, and the only related statement is that error messages never contain the data source's own text; nothing on treating returned content as untrusted (3 of 15). request_id is the usage record ID on every answer, the console lists every charge in a usage log, X-Qovia-Charged and X-Qovia-Balance headers report each call, and GET /v1/account returns the key's scopes and balance at no charge; no exportable audit log or per-call endpoint was found (11 of 15). No security.txt on qovia.ai or api.qovia.ai (404), no bug bounty, SOC 2 or ISO 27001; the repository's SECURITY.md names a Telegram handle and a mailbox for reports covering both hosts (5 of 20). 24+17+3+11+5 = 60."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 66,
          "b": 60
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 5,
        "category": "reliability",
        "leads": "outcrawl",
        "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": "Hosted reading, for the REST API with the MCP server described. No public status page was found. https://qovia.ai/status/ answers 404, status.qovia.ai does not resolve and neither the docs nor the footer links one (0). No readable incident history, so 5 by the rubric (5). Limits are published with numbers on the quickstart's rate-limits section, 60 requests a minute per account before the first top-up and 600 after on a sliding 60-second window, with X-RateLimit-Limit and X-RateLimit-Remaining headers, a 64 KiB body cap, an empty-call throttle (50 calls in 10 minutes with over 80 per cent empty, not found or rejected) and a per-second cap per endpoint without a number (15). Retry-After is declared on too_many_auth_failures, rate_limited, too_many_unbilled, endpoint_busy and upstream_busy, the error table marks the retryable codes, the docs say a 503 endpoint_unavailable carries none and will not clear, and the Python client retries 429 and 503 honouring the header. Every operation is a read, including POST /v1/search, and a failed or timed-out call is refunded, so idempotency keys are not needed (15). No SLA. The terms summary says nothing about uptime and the pricing FAQ excludes outages, rate limits and platform changes from refunds; the 11 September 2026 archived home page advertised a 99.95 per cent enterprise SLA that the current pages have dropped (0). The endpoints are sold and labelled Live on the docs and coverage pages, but every one of the 143 carries x-qovia-status beta in the OpenAPI file, the API version is 0.1.0 and the MCP server reports 0.1.0 (5 of 10). 0+5+15+15+0+5 = 40."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 45,
          "b": 40
        }
      }
    ],
    "facts": [
      {
        "a": "HTTP API",
        "b": "HTTP API",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl)",
        "b": "Qovia",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1",
        "b": "https://api.qovia.ai",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
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  "markdown": "Outcrawl scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Qovia's 61.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Qovia leads on schema \u0026 documentation and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do extraction.\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- Qovia: grade C, 61.2/100, rank #493 of 1268. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qovia.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qovia.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- Reliability, 45 against 40\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 77\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 60\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 56 against 30\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer\n\n### Qovia (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that need structured public data from Chinese platforms (Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, Bilibili, Kuaishou, Zhihu, WeChat official accounts, Taobao and JD reviews) or the Xingtu and Pugongying creator marketplaces, with TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Reddit beside them, paid per successful call from a prepaid balance.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 71\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 55 against 40\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history or SLA; the terms promise nothing about uptime and the Python client is the only retry guidance beyond `Retry-After`\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Outcrawl +26\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- Qovia (30): Closed service. The Terms of Service is one paragraph that names no legal entity, address or liability terms, says Delaware law governs and that the page is a summary with the signed agreement governing; the repository's client is MIT. Between the closed and unclear bands (7 of 30). The privacy policy is one paragraph. Account information is used to deliver and bill, personal information is not sold, requests and results are not resold, deletion requests go to the support mailbox, and the agreement governs where it differs. No retention periods, no subprocessors, no DPA, and no statement about the cache the prov.source flag implies; the SECURITY.md repeats the same points (8 of 30). A 410 endpoint_disabled code exists for retired endpoints and the changelog is dated, but there is no deprecation policy or notice period and nothing is marked deprecated (5 of 20). Stripe is named on the pricing page as the card and Alipay processor; no other provider, data location or transfer basis is stated (3 of 20). 7+8+5+3 = 23.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Qovia +15\n\n- Outcrawl (71): API reading, with the MCP server described. An OpenAPI 3.1 document at https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json lists 62 operations over 51 paths with a summary each and the same 11 status codes, generated from the vendor's capability registry, but every request body is an untyped object marked `additionalProperties: true` with a pointer to the docs, every 200 response is an untyped object, and `Error` is the only schema; the typed shapes live in the SDK declarations and in the MCP server's zod schemas, which were read in the 0.4.3 npm package rather than from the hosted server (15 of 25). llms.txt and a 525 KB llms-full.txt on the docs, a Markdown twin of every page and an llms.txt on the site (10). The MCP descriptions each end with a `Not for:` clause naming the better tool and most with a `Cost:` clause, the OpenAPI summaries say when not to use a route, and the capability pages say which neighbour to use instead (18 of 20). Scrape formats are an enum of eight, event levels and record kinds are enums, `caps.budget` is required, and the SDK types bound every option, while the OpenAPI bodies carry none of it (10 of 15). curl, TypeScript and Python examples on every page, 20 worked programs, a 31-row error table with meanings and a retryable list, and MCP errors with a `recovery` string, though the closed union is sized 24, 31, 45 and 22 on different pages (13 of 15). `/v1` in the path and 1.0.0 in the OpenAPI file, but no changelog or release notes anywhere; the record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and 14 dated tags in the outcrawlai/release repository (5 of 15). 15+10+18+10+13+5 = 71.\n- Qovia (86): An OpenAPI 3.1.0 file (version 0.1.0, 1 MB) is public at qovia.ai/openapi.json with 144 paths and 144 operations, two security schemes, typed query parameters, a response example on every operation and the error responses declared on each. The data payload itself is typed only as object, array or null with per-endpoint examples, and the MCP call_endpoint tool takes a free params object, so 22 of 25 (22). llms.txt (75 KB, one line per endpoint with price and status) and llms-full.txt (331 KB, the whole documentation as text) are served, and the quickstart's billing, limits and error sections are in both (10). Every operation has a summary and a description; most say what the data holds, how to page, which ids to pass, which fields are unavailable and what answers 404 or empty, and the MCP server's instructions say to find, read then call. Guidance on when not to use an endpoint is thin, mostly pointers such as replies coming from another endpoint (16 of 20). 321 parameters, 75 with enums, patterns on ids, min and max on strings and integers, 117 operations with one required parameter and 16 with none, the POST body typed with additionalProperties false, and unknown parameters rejected with 400 (14 of 15). A response example on all 144 operations, 20 error codes with every message variant listed, response headers documented per error, and cURL, Python, JavaScript and raw HTTP samples; the examples are catalogue samples the docs say are not live data (14 of 15). Paths are under /v1, a 410 endpoint_disabled code exists for retired endpoints, and the changelog is dated, but it has two days (21 and 22 October 2026), nothing is marked deprecated and no notice period is stated (10 of 15). 22+10+16+14+14+10 = 86.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Qovia +15\n\n- Outcrawl (40): No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI file, the docs, the pricing pages or the terms (0). Per-unit rates published without a login, 1 credit a page, 5 credits per 10 search results, 1 credit a browser minute, 2,000 credits a GB and 1 credit a monitor check, with the dollar rate per plan ($4.90 per 1,000 credits on Builder down to about $3.20 on Scale), top-up prices per 10,000 and an estimate of about 15 credits a minute for agent runs (20). Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card, on a person's first workspace (20). A person signs in with Google, GitHub, an email code or a magic link behind reCAPTCHA, and MCP's OAuth consent needs that browser sign-in; no keyless route, no programmatic key creation (0). 0+20+20+0 = 40.\n- Qovia (55): No x402, MPP or L402 on Qovia's own endpoints; USDT on TRC-20 is a top-up method from a console session, not a machine payment protocol. The vendor's five Actors on the Apify Store under the profile qovia (Qovia Data, the same Telegram handle and mailbox as the site), such as the Xingtu Actor at $0.01 to $0.06 a section, can be paid through Apify, whose prepaid token is sold over x402, so partial credit for a third-party route on part of the catalogue (10 of 40). Per-call prices are published without a login, per endpoint in the OpenAPI file, llms.txt and the docs, search at $5 and raw endpoints from $0.5 to $19.5 per 1,000, with the tier rule and payment fees stated (20). 50 trial calls for a new account, counted only when a call returns data; the quickstart says to top up when they run out and the docs ask for no card at sign-up, though no account was created to confirm it (20). A person signs up in a browser and creates a key; the MCP catalogue tools work without a key but data calls do not, and the Apify route reaches four platforms without a Qovia account (5 of 20). 10+20+20+5 = 55.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Outcrawl +6\n\n- Outcrawl (83): API reading. Scrape returns main content only by default with `formats` picking markdown, html, rawHtml, links, screenshots or schema JSON, search renders page bodies only on request, agent events take a `level` and an `after` cursor, the MCP server shows request bodies up to a character limit and says when it truncated, and the MCP surface is 29 tools with no toolsets (20 of 25). Cursor pagination on crawl results, agent results and downloads, `limit`, depth and path filters on crawl, status, outcome, task and age filters on sessions, and usage grouped by hour, day, month or capability (20). One error envelope with a closed `code`, `details` such as the cap that stopped a run, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, a documented list of codes safe to retry, and on MCP a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag per error (18 of 20). No idempotency key on any route, a repeated agent, crawl or monitor submit runs twice, and `concurrency_limit` carries no retry hint; cancel is idempotent, `integration_changed` (409) guards updates, and the npm MCP package sets readOnlyHint on GET tools, destructiveHint on DELETE tools and idempotentHint on either, which the hosted server was not read to confirm (10 of 20). Scrape needs a URL alone, agent runs need `caps.budget` on the API and SDKs with the MCP server defaulting it, and official SDKs exist in TypeScript and Python beside a CLI (15). 20+20+18+10+15 = 83.\n- Qovia (77): API reading. Responses come in fixed page sizes per endpoint, from about 5 comments on Xiaohongshu to 100 Fliggy reviews, with limit only on Bilibili danmaku and no field selection; the record shape is compact and shared across posts, notes and videos. The MCP server loads four tools by default, keeps the catalogue out of context until search_endpoints and get_endpoint are called, and ?tools= selects platforms or everything, which on the MCP reading would score 25 (18 of 25). Cursor pagination with has_more on most lists, search_id on Douyin and Zhihu search, page numbers on Weibo, Xiaohongshu and Bilibili, sort options on several, and the cross-platform search filters by platform, content type, sentiment and whole-day date windows up to 90 days (17 of 20). One error object with 20 codes, request_id on every answer, the retryable set marked, refunded codes separated from never-charged ones, and MCP tool errors carrying error.code, the HTTP status and retry_after_seconds (19 of 20). All calls are reads, failed and empty calls are refunded, Retry-After is declared and the Python client retries; no readOnlyHint or other annotation appears in the vendor's 28 October tools/list snapshot (14 of 20). One required parameter on 117 of 144 operations and defaults set on the server, but the only official SDK is the Python client; Node and curl are examples (9 of 15). 18+17+19+14+9 = 77.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Outcrawl +6\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- Qovia (60): API keys with scopes chosen at creation (every endpoint, search, every raw endpoint or one of 24 platform groups), an optional expiry, revocation in the console and hashed storage; the docs say the key is read from the Authorization or x-api-key header only, never the URL or a cookie, and 30 failed authentications from one IP in a minute are throttled. No OAuth and no rotation feature beyond creating another key (24 of 30). The whole surface is read-only retrieval, scopes restrict a key to platforms, the two MCP catalogue tools need no key, and the docs and SECURITY.md tell users to give AI tools a separate scoped key (17 of 20). Every response is third-party platform text, and the only related statement is that error messages never contain the data source's own text; nothing on treating returned content as untrusted (3 of 15). request_id is the usage record ID on every answer, the console lists every charge in a usage log, X-Qovia-Charged and X-Qovia-Balance headers report each call, and GET /v1/account returns the key's scopes and balance at no charge; no exportable audit log or per-call endpoint was found (11 of 15). No security.txt on qovia.ai or api.qovia.ai (404), no bug bounty, SOC 2 or ISO 27001; the repository's SECURITY.md names a Telegram handle and a mailbox for reports covering both hosts (5 of 20). 24+17+3+11+5 = 60.\n\n### Reliability: Outcrawl +5\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- Qovia (40): Hosted reading, for the REST API with the MCP server described. No public status page was found. https://qovia.ai/status/ answers 404, status.qovia.ai does not resolve and neither the docs nor the footer links one (0). No readable incident history, so 5 by the rubric (5). Limits are published with numbers on the quickstart's rate-limits section, 60 requests a minute per account before the first top-up and 600 after on a sliding 60-second window, with X-RateLimit-Limit and X-RateLimit-Remaining headers, a 64 KiB body cap, an empty-call throttle (50 calls in 10 minutes with over 80 per cent empty, not found or rejected) and a per-second cap per endpoint without a number (15). Retry-After is declared on too_many_auth_failures, rate_limited, too_many_unbilled, endpoint_busy and upstream_busy, the error table marks the retryable codes, the docs say a 503 endpoint_unavailable carries none and will not clear, and the Python client retries 429 and 503 honouring the header. Every operation is a read, including POST /v1/search, and a failed or timed-out call is refunded, so idempotency keys are not needed (15). No SLA. The terms summary says nothing about uptime and the pricing FAQ excludes outages, rate limits and platform changes from refunds; the 11 September 2026 archived home page advertised a 99.95 per cent enterprise SLA that the current pages have dropped (0). The endpoints are sold and labelled Live on the docs and coverage pages, but every one of the 143 carries x-qovia-status beta in the OpenAPI file, the API version is 0.1.0 and the MCP server reports 0.1.0 (5 of 10). 0+5+15+15+0+5 = 40.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Outcrawl | Qovia | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 40 | Outcrawl +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 86 | Qovia +15 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 77 | Outcrawl +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 60 | Outcrawl +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 55 | Qovia +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 77 | Outcrawl +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 30 | Outcrawl +26 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.4 · B** | **61.2 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Outcrawl | Qovia |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl) | Qovia |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1` | `https://api.qovia.ai` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\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 hosted service under a one-paragraph Terms of Service summary that defers to a signed agreement. The qovia/qovia-mcp repository (setup guide, examples, Python client) and the qovia package on PyPI are MIT; the service's source is not public |\n| Tools exposed | 29 | 141 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.qovia/qovia` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-10-28 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-11-01 | not read yet |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-11-01 | not read yet |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Popularity | 948 stars, 53 npm/wk | 0 stars |\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**Qovia.** An OpenAPI 3.1 file with 144 operations, one envelope and 20 error codes, per-endpoint prices with failed and empty calls refunded, scoped keys and a four-tool MCP server that keeps the catalogue out of context. No status page, no legal entity, one-paragraph terms and privacy pages, and a product ten days old at the check.\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### Qovia\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer sk-qovia-...` to https://api.qovia.ai and check `meta.empty` on every HTTP 200; `data` may be `null` or an empty structure and nothing is charged for it.\n2. Branch on `error.code`, never on `message`. Retry only `rate_limited`, `too_many_unbilled`, `endpoint_busy`, `upstream_busy` and `too_many_auth_failures` after `Retry-After`; `endpoint_unavailable` has none and will not clear.\n3. Stay under 60 requests a minute (600 after the first top-up) across every key on the account, and keep empty or not-found calls under 80 per cent of the last 10 minutes or expect 429 `too_many_unbilled`.\n4. Pass the previous page's `cursor` (and `search_id` on Douyin and Zhihu search) back unchanged and stop when `has_more` is false; each page is a separate charge, and unknown parameters answer 400.\n5. For MCP, connect to https://api.qovia.ai/mcp over Streamable HTTP; call `search_endpoints` then `get_endpoint` before `call_endpoint`, or add `?tools=douyin,kuaishou` for typed direct tools. Catalogue tools need no key.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Outcrawl or Qovia?\n\nOutcrawl scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Qovia's 61.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Qovia leads on schema \u0026 documentation and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Outcrawl and Qovia need an API key?\n\nOutcrawl takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Qovia needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Outcrawl and Qovia without installing anything?\n\nYes. Outcrawl has a hosted endpoint at https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1 and Qovia at https://api.qovia.ai.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-qovia.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-qovia.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"outcrawl\", \"b\": \"qovia\"}`. 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