{ "data": { "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": "ZenRows scores 75.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Outcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "zenrows", "name": "ZenRows", "vendor": "ZenRows", "vendorUrl": "https://www.zenrows.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Scraping API (Fetch, formerly Universal Scraper API) with JavaScript rendering, residential proxies and anti-bot bypass, plus Extract for structured JSON, Crawl for following a site's links, Batch for bulk URL jobs and hosted Browser Sessions.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zenrows", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zenrows.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zenrows.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zenrows.json", "dns": "zenrows.grade.anchorterminal.com", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.zenrows.com/v1/", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@zenrows/mcp" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "zenrows" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "zenrows" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The Fetch API takes the key as the apikey query parameter, so it ends up in the request URL. Batch takes it in an X-API-Key header, Crawl and Extract take either, and the hosted MCP at mcp.zenrows.com takes a Bearer header, or OAuth in clients that support it. An account can hold up to 10 keys, each with optional credit caps. The local stdio server reads ZENROWS_API_KEY, and with none set it provisions a Free account through POST https://app.zenrows.com/api/agent/signup, stores the key under ~/.zenrows/ and prints a claim URL, unless ZENROWS_AUTO_SIGNUP=false.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free 5,000 credits a month, no card, 5 concurrent requests. Build from $19 a month (45,000 credits), Launch from $69 (250,000), Growth from $199 (1.2 million), Scale from $549 (5 million), about 17 per cent less billed yearly. A standard request costs 1 credit, JavaScript rendering 5, premium proxies 10, both 25. Browser Sessions and residential proxies cost 25,000 credits a GB plus 5 credits a session-minute. Only successful requests are billed (https://www.zenrows.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$19 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "partial", "evidence": "An agent storefront at agents.zenrows.com sells plans and prepaid credit ($5 minimum) settled over x402 (USDC on Base), MPP or card. It runs on ZeroClick's platform with its own buyer terms and proxies calls through a per-session storefront path. There's no per-call x402 price on api.zenrows.com (https://agents.zenrows.com/llms.txt, checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 63, "popularity": { "githubStars": 21, "npmWeekly": 34642, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.zenrows.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.zenrows.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://www.zenrows.com/openapi.json", "registryName": "io.github.ZenRows/zenrows-mcp", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.extract", "browser.hosted", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.screenshot" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "proxies", "x402", "python", "typescript" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 75.9, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 42, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1268, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 80, "reliability": 87, "schema": 93, "security": 50, "transparency": 79 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-20. MCP v2.15.0, a minor release after v2.14.0, removed extract's automatic fallback to autoparse, so a call on a domain not yet prepared that returned autoparse JSON now returns REQS007, and `fallback_autoparse`, documented with a default of true, is now ignored. The same release stopped returning the page HTML unless `include_html` is set. The commit is a plain `feat`, not marked breaking, the repository keeps no changelog, and the README described the fallback as current until that release, so no advance notice was found. The API's autoparse parameter still works and the new error names the next step, so 3 points, the floor, by the 1 November 2026 rule and as shotstack was read for an unmarked break. https://github.com/ZenRows/zenrows-mcp/commit/c71f9a6d0e16d447f8e4df507bf7e7a485351709" ], "verdict": "No incidents in the 90 days to 1 November 2026 on a six-component Better Stack status page, and an OpenAPI 3.1 file with coded errors. The Fetch API only takes the key in the query string.", "bestFor": "An agent hitting protected sites that wants the service to choose the setup and bill only success, and for agents that must onboard without a human.", "strengths": [ "No incidents in the 90 days to 1 November 2026 on a six-component Better Stack status page", "OpenAPI 3.1 file, 35 coded errors with fixes, and a twelve-month deprecation policy with Sunset headers", "5,000 free credits a month with no card, and a stdio MCP that can provision a free account by itself", "Up to 10 keys per account, each with its own credit cap", "Every MCP tool carries readOnlyHint and destructiveHint, and the scrape tool says when to use extract instead" ], "weaknesses": [ "The Fetch API only takes the key in the query string", "A protected request costs 25 credits, so real costs sit well above the headline rate", "63 MCP tools load at once, 38 of them for the browser", "No prompt-injection guidance for the pages it returns", "x402 runs only through a third-party storefront, and the 2026 product renames aren't in the changelog" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start with mode=auto and let it escalate. Force js_render or premium_proxy only when you know the site needs it", "Prefer the extract tool over scrape when you need fields, since it returns far fewer tokens than a full page", "On REQS007 from extract, read `reason`. Call prepare_domain for domain_not_prepared, or fall back to css_extractor; extract no longer falls back to autoparse", "Read the Concurrency-Remaining response header before fanning out, as extra requests get 429", "On a 402 with AUTH014, only this key hit its cap. Read X-Key-Credits-Remaining and don't tell the user to buy credits", "Set ZENROWS_AUTO_SIGNUP=false in stdio configs so a missing key fails loudly instead of creating an account", "Pass `idempotency_key` to `crawl_create` and `batch_create` so a retried call returns the same job instead of starting and billing a second one" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 75.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 80, "reliability": 87, "schema": 93, "security": 50, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 92, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "lastMoved": "2026-11-01", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.zenrows.com/v1/?apikey=$ZENROWS_API_KEY\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com\u0026mode=auto\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http zenrows https://mcp.zenrows.com/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer $ZENROWS_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "zenrows": { "args": [ "-y", "@zenrows/mcp" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "ZENROWS_API_KEY": "${ZENROWS_API_KEY}", "ZENROWS_AUTO_SIGNUP": "false" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/zenrows" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Build plan (B1)", "unit": "month", "usd": 19, "note": "45,000 credits, 20 concurrent. $16 a month billed yearly" }, { "item": "Launch plan (L1)", "unit": "month", "usd": 69, "note": "250,000 credits, 50 concurrent. $57 a month billed yearly" }, { "item": "Growth plan (G1)", "unit": "month", "usd": 199, "note": "1.2 million credits, 100 concurrent" }, { "item": "Standard request on Build B1", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.42, "note": "1 credit each, successful requests only" }, { "item": "Protected request on Build B1", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 10.56, "note": "JavaScript rendering plus premium proxies, 25 credits each" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "ZENROWS, S.L.", "domain": "zenrows.com", "domainRegistered": "2020-08-05", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.zenrows.com/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.zenrows.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.zenrows.com", "changelog": "https://www.zenrows.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-01", "notes": [ "The privacy policy gives a registered address in Getxo, Bizkaia, Spain, and tax ID B10660298, and the DPA names Zenrows SL with the same number.", "www.zenrows.com/.well-known/security.txt served a file on 1 November 2026 expiring 2027-11-01, with Contact security@zenrows.com and a Policy link to the information security policy. app.zenrows.com's robots.txt now allows /.well-known/.", "The dated changelog is at www.zenrows.com/changelog. The Intercom news page at eu.intercom.news/zenrows stops at 14 July 2026.", "The website returns 403 to plain curl without a browser user agent." ], "score": 92 }, "requirements": { "agentAlone": true, "card": "no", "freeTier": true, "credential": "api-key", "euResidency": "unknown", "trainsOnData": "unknown", "zeroRetention": "unknown", "certifications": [ "SOC 2 Type II", "ISO 27001", "GDPR" ], "dpa": true, "selfHost": "no" }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zenrows.json", "live": { "slug": "zenrows", "probe": { "target": "https://api.zenrows.com/v1/", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:28.283096724Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 400, "lastMs": 346, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 349, "p95ms24h": 788, "samples24h": 250, "samples30d": 8110, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "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": 250 }, { "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": 222 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.zenrows.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T18:56:40.146036833Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.ZenRows/zenrows-mcp", "version": "2.18.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T16:30:45.916990424Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@zenrows/mcp", "version": "2.18.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T20:02:28.950727928Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "zenrows", "version": "2.6.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T20:02:31.001447043Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "zenrows", "version": "1.12.0", "released": "2026-10-30", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T20:02:32.132139739Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 1472, "pypiWeekly": 26152, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://zenrows.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-11-02T15:45:03Z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T15:45:01.401411675Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.zenrows.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T15:18:23.2156123Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "zenrows.com", "registered": "2020-08-05", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/zenrows.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:24:52.056264093Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://eu.intercom.news/zenrows", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-16T22:24:02.345281967Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a9b3543b3e4d" }, { "url": "https://www.zenrows.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:40:09.578402725Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-27T04:07:42.794542723Z", "fingerprint": "db501e9abfd5" }, { "url": "https://www.zenrows.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:40:15.666475798Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-30T06:03:03.347271998Z", "fingerprint": "9b31c87dd86f" }, { "url": "https://www.zenrows.com/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:40:11.719002485Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-27T04:07:44.844845004Z", "fingerprint": "f60343d2a429" }, { "url": "https://www.zenrows.com/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:40:13.804191802Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-27T04:07:46.940493846Z", "fingerprint": "37b38df84d2f" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:28.283096724Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 42, "category": "reliability", "leads": "zenrows", "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": "Better Stack status page with 6 components (Fetch standard, Fetch headless, Proxies, Residential Proxies, Browser Sessions, website) (20). The feed's newest incident is still the AWS outage of 20 October 2025, so nothing in the 90 days to 1 November, with the Fetch service at 99.998 per cent and the website at 100 on 1 November (30). Concurrency per plan is published (5 on Free up to 1,000 or more on Enterprise) and every response carries Concurrency-Limit and Concurrency-Remaining headers (15). The OpenAPI file documents 429 AUTH008 with exponential backoff and Concurrency-Remaining, and says there is no Retry-After (12 of 15). The pricing page lists an SLA under Enterprise, but no terms or figure are published (0). Fetch is generally available. Crawl, launched on 9 October, is still called 'still evolving' in the MCP README (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 45, "b": 87 } }, { "by": 40, "category": "payments", "leads": "zenrows", "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": "x402 and MPP through an agent storefront at agents.zenrows.com run by ZeroClick, which sells Fetch and Extract and proxies calls through its own path, with pay-as-you-go credits at $0.50 per 1,000 (10,000 minimum) per the pricing docs. Nothing on api.zenrows.com itself (20 of 40). Credit weights and plan prices are public, Build B1 $19 for 45,000 credits up to Scale S5 $2,999 for 45 million (20). 5,000 free credits a month, no card (20). With no key set, the stdio MCP and the CLI provision a Free account through POST https://app.zenrows.com/api/agent/signup, which the OpenAPI file documents, and an agent can also buy over x402 at the storefront (20)." }, "scores": { "a": 40, "b": 80 } }, { "by": 23, "category": "transparency", "leads": "zenrows", "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, with ZENROWS, S.L. named in full (Getxo, Spain, tax ID B10660298). The MCP is MIT (15 of 30). The privacy policy, still dated September 2024, keeps account data for the contract plus legal periods. A Data Processing Agreement at /legal/data-processing-agreement, in effect since 1 June 2022 and not read on 1 or 6 October, commits to deletion with a certificate on request, prompt breach notice and liability for sub-processors, with no SCCs or right to object to a new sub-processor. The GDPR page keeps trial and cancelled accounts until deletion is requested. Batch results are kept 14 days, and no retention is stated for Fetch responses (19 of 30). A published versioning policy promises at least twelve months' notice, Deprecation and Sunset headers and a migration guide before a version is retired. The 2026 renames carried no dated notices (15 of 20). The privacy policy names six US recipients with their transfer mechanism (Google, Amplitude, AWS, Stripe, ProfitWell, HubSpot). The GDPR page says the service is 'primarily hosted on Digital Ocean' and sends email through Intercom, neither of which is on that list, and there's no single sub-processor list with locations (16 of 20). 15+19+15+16 = 65." }, "scores": { "a": 56, "b": 79 } }, { "by": 22, "category": "schema", "leads": "zenrows", "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": "OpenAPI 3.1 at www.zenrows.com/openapi.json covers Fetch, Extract, Crawl (added after the 9 October launch), Batch, agent signup and HMAC key rotation, and the 63 MCP tools have typed zod inputs (25). llms.txt with 105 entries linking 240 docs pages on 1 November, each with a Markdown copy (10). The scrape tool says when to prefer extract, when to turn on js_render or premium_proxy, and gives three examples, and the crawl tools say when to wait, page or download. The browser tools are terser (18 of 20). Enums on mode and response_type, URL validation and required fields, but css_extractor is a JSON string and outputs a comma-separated string (12 of 15). Error catalogue of 35 codes such as AUTH004 and RESP002, plus a table of Batch and Extract codes, grouped by HTTP status with fixes, and every OpenAPI operation lists its error responses (15). The API is versioned in the path (v1, never retired), a dated changelog at www.zenrows.com/changelog runs to 9 October 2026, with nothing newer on 1 November, and the MCP has semver tags. The 2026 renames (Universal Scraper API to Fetch, Scraping Browser to Browser Sessions) aren't in it (13 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 71, "b": 93 } }, { "by": 16, "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": "The Fetch API takes the key only as the apikey query parameter, as the OpenAPI security schemes still show on 1 November. Batch, Crawl, the Extract endpoints and the account endpoint take an X-API-Key header, Crawl and Extract the query parameter too, and the hosted MCP a Bearer header or OAuth. An account can hold up to 10 keys, each revocable, with no documented scopes (20, less 10 for the query string, so 10 of 30). Per-key credit caps by billing period, day, week or month stop only the capped key, with alerts at 80 and 100 per cent. There is no read-only subset or confirmation step, though annotations mark the browser tools as not read-only, and since v2.15.1 (21 October) the ones that overwrite or delete page state as destructive (12 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance found in the docs index, the MCP overview, the MCP README, the server instructions or the tool descriptions (0 of 15). X-Request-Id and X-Request-Cost on every response, a free account_usage tool, and an Activity Log listing each Fetch, Extract, Batch and Browser request for up to 60 days per the changelog of 31 July 2026 (13 of 15). security.txt on www.zenrows.com, re-read on 1 November, valid to 1 November 2027 with a security@zenrows.com contact and a linked information security policy. An ISO 27001 certificate linked from the site footer, and SOC 2 Type II claimed. No bug bounty found (15 of 20)." }, "scores": { "a": 66, "b": 50 } }, { "by": 11, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "zenrows", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "@outcrawl/sdk and the PyPI package outcrawl both reached 0.4.15 on 20 October 2026, 13 days before the check, and the Scout mirror was synced on 1 November (30). 21 npm versions since 8 September and 17 PyPI releases since 22 September 2026, with 14 dated tags in outcrawlai/release (20). Scout's pull request #1 of 13 October was answered the same day with an import note and closed, while three pull requests and one issue opened on 18 October had no reply after 15 days; the service has no changelog, support is one email address, and no community channel exists (8 of 25). Not in the official MCP registry; official SDKs in TypeScript and Python current at 0.4.15, with a CLI (15). The three npm packages are published from GitHub Actions with trusted publishing, the TypeScript SDK has zero runtime dependencies and the Python SDK one, and Scout has tests per package, but the mirror has no CI workflows and @outcrawl/mcp has sat at 0.4.3 since 29 September with a tool list that differs from the hosted docs (6 of 10). 30+20+8+15+6 = 79.", "b": "MCP v2.18.0 on 2026-10-30 (30). Seven MCP minor releases from 18 to 30 October alone (v2.12.0 to v2.18.0), and dated changelog entries on 2, 5 and 9 October (20). We couldn't read GitHub issues. PRs are merged within days and the dated changelog on zenrows.com runs to 9 October (15 of 25). In the official MCP registry as io.github.ZenRows/zenrows-mcp, with 2.18.0 published on 30 October and marked latest (15). CI runs typecheck, lint and tests on a Node matrix, and a check that server.json matches the package version (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 79, "b": 90 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl)", "b": "ZenRows", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1", "b": "https://api.zenrows.com/v1/", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$4.90 per 1,000 pages", "b": "not published", "name": "Price for scraping" }, { "a": "no", "b": "payer tooling only", "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": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "29", "b": "63", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.github.ZenRows/zenrows-mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-20", "b": "2026-10-30", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-11-01", "b": "2025-07-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-11-01", "b": "2024-09-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "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": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "948 stars, 53 npm/wk", "b": "21 stars, 35k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.8/5 (8)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "ZenRows scores 75.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Outcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Outcrawl or ZenRows?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Outcrawl and ZenRows need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Outcrawl has a hosted endpoint at https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1 and ZenRows at https://api.zenrows.com/v1/.", "question": "Can an agent call Outcrawl and ZenRows without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 50" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where ZenRows 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, 87 against 45", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 93 against 71", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 80 against 40", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 90 against 79", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 56" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "An agent hitting protected sites that wants the service to choose the setup and bill only success, and for agents that must onboard without a human.", "slug": "zenrows", "watchFor": "The Fetch API only takes the key in the query string" } ], "history": { "outcrawl": null, "zenrows": [ { "causes": [ "event" ], "date": "2026-11-01", "delta": -3, "from": 78.9, "fromGrade": "A", "to": 75.9, "toGrade": "BB" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-27", "delta": 0.1, "from": 78.8, "fromGrade": "A", "to": 78.9, "toGrade": "A" }, { "causes": [ "product", "evidence" ], "date": "2026-10-17", "delta": 4, "from": 74.8, "fromGrade": "BB", "to": 78.8, "toGrade": "A" } ] }, "job": { "capability": "web.scrape", "name": "Scraping" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-zenrows" }, { "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-zenrows.json", "title": "Bright Data vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-zenrows" }, { "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-zenrows.json", "title": "Context.dev vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zenrows" }, { "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" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Jina Reader vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Olostep vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Olostep vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper" }, { "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" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapegraphai.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapeGraphAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapegraphai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeless.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapeless", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeless" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapewise.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapewise", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapewise" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zyte" }, { "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/scrape-do-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "ScrapeGraphAI vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Scrapeless vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapewise-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Scrapewise vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapewise-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Scrapfly vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "ScrapingAnt vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "ScrapingBee vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Scrapingdog vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/spider-cloud-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Spider vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/spider-cloud-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/zenrows-vs-zyte.json", "title": "ZenRows vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/zenrows-vs-zyte" }, { "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-zenrows.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-zenrows" }, { "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/qovia-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Qovia vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qovia-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeatlas-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "ScrapeAtlas vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeatlas-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-outcrawl" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 42, "edge": "zenrows", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "outcrawl": 45, "weight": 16, "zenrows": 87 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 22, "edge": "zenrows", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "outcrawl": 71, "weight": 13, "zenrows": 93 }, { "by": 4, "edge": "outcrawl", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "outcrawl": 83, "weight": 13, "zenrows": 79 }, { "by": 16, "edge": "outcrawl", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "outcrawl": 66, "weight": 14, "zenrows": 50 }, { "by": 40, "edge": "zenrows", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "outcrawl": 40, "weight": 10, "zenrows": 80 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "zenrows", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "outcrawl": 79, "weight": 7, "zenrows": 90 }, { "by": 23, "edge": "zenrows", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "outcrawl": 56, "weight": 7, "zenrows": 79 } ], "summary": "ZenRows scores 75.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Outcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do scraping.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [ { "title": "Extract page titles and links with ZenRows", "tool": "zenrows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/zenrows/" } ], "verdicts": { "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.", "zenrows": "No incidents in the 90 days to 1 November 2026 on a six-component Better Stack status page, and an OpenAPI 3.1 file with coded errors. The Fetch API only takes the key in the query string." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zenrows", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zenrows.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zenrows.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zenrows.min.md" }, "markdown": "ZenRows scores 75.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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- ZenRows: grade BB, 75.9/100, rank #42 of 1268. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zenrows.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zenrows.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 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where ZenRows 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### ZenRows (BB)\n\nGood for: An agent hitting protected sites that wants the service to choose the setup and bill only success, and for agents that must onboard without a human.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 87 against 45\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 93 against 71\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 80 against 40\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 90 against 79\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 56\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: The Fetch API only takes the key in the query string\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: ZenRows +42\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- ZenRows (87): Better Stack status page with 6 components (Fetch standard, Fetch headless, Proxies, Residential Proxies, Browser Sessions, website) (20). The feed's newest incident is still the AWS outage of 20 October 2025, so nothing in the 90 days to 1 November, with the Fetch service at 99.998 per cent and the website at 100 on 1 November (30). Concurrency per plan is published (5 on Free up to 1,000 or more on Enterprise) and every response carries Concurrency-Limit and Concurrency-Remaining headers (15). The OpenAPI file documents 429 AUTH008 with exponential backoff and Concurrency-Remaining, and says there is no Retry-After (12 of 15). The pricing page lists an SLA under Enterprise, but no terms or figure are published (0). Fetch is generally available. Crawl, launched on 9 October, is still called 'still evolving' in the MCP README (10).\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: ZenRows +40\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- ZenRows (80): x402 and MPP through an agent storefront at agents.zenrows.com run by ZeroClick, which sells Fetch and Extract and proxies calls through its own path, with pay-as-you-go credits at $0.50 per 1,000 (10,000 minimum) per the pricing docs. Nothing on api.zenrows.com itself (20 of 40). Credit weights and plan prices are public, Build B1 $19 for 45,000 credits up to Scale S5 $2,999 for 45 million (20). 5,000 free credits a month, no card (20). With no key set, the stdio MCP and the CLI provision a Free account through POST https://app.zenrows.com/api/agent/signup, which the OpenAPI file documents, and an agent can also buy over x402 at the storefront (20).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: ZenRows +23\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- ZenRows (79): Closed service, with ZENROWS, S.L. named in full (Getxo, Spain, tax ID B10660298). The MCP is MIT (15 of 30). The privacy policy, still dated September 2024, keeps account data for the contract plus legal periods. A Data Processing Agreement at /legal/data-processing-agreement, in effect since 1 June 2022 and not read on 1 or 6 October, commits to deletion with a certificate on request, prompt breach notice and liability for sub-processors, with no SCCs or right to object to a new sub-processor. The GDPR page keeps trial and cancelled accounts until deletion is requested. Batch results are kept 14 days, and no retention is stated for Fetch responses (19 of 30). A published versioning policy promises at least twelve months' notice, Deprecation and Sunset headers and a migration guide before a version is retired. The 2026 renames carried no dated notices (15 of 20). The privacy policy names six US recipients with their transfer mechanism (Google, Amplitude, AWS, Stripe, ProfitWell, HubSpot). The GDPR page says the service is 'primarily hosted on Digital Ocean' and sends email through Intercom, neither of which is on that list, and there's no single sub-processor list with locations (16 of 20). 15+19+15+16 = 65.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: ZenRows +22\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- ZenRows (93): OpenAPI 3.1 at www.zenrows.com/openapi.json covers Fetch, Extract, Crawl (added after the 9 October launch), Batch, agent signup and HMAC key rotation, and the 63 MCP tools have typed zod inputs (25). llms.txt with 105 entries linking 240 docs pages on 1 November, each with a Markdown copy (10). The scrape tool says when to prefer extract, when to turn on js_render or premium_proxy, and gives three examples, and the crawl tools say when to wait, page or download. The browser tools are terser (18 of 20). Enums on mode and response_type, URL validation and required fields, but css_extractor is a JSON string and outputs a comma-separated string (12 of 15). Error catalogue of 35 codes such as AUTH004 and RESP002, plus a table of Batch and Extract codes, grouped by HTTP status with fixes, and every OpenAPI operation lists its error responses (15). The API is versioned in the path (v1, never retired), a dated changelog at www.zenrows.com/changelog runs to 9 October 2026, with nothing newer on 1 November, and the MCP has semver tags. The 2026 renames (Universal Scraper API to Fetch, Scraping Browser to Browser Sessions) aren't in it (13 of 15).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Outcrawl +16\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- ZenRows (50): The Fetch API takes the key only as the apikey query parameter, as the OpenAPI security schemes still show on 1 November. Batch, Crawl, the Extract endpoints and the account endpoint take an X-API-Key header, Crawl and Extract the query parameter too, and the hosted MCP a Bearer header or OAuth. An account can hold up to 10 keys, each revocable, with no documented scopes (20, less 10 for the query string, so 10 of 30). Per-key credit caps by billing period, day, week or month stop only the capped key, with alerts at 80 and 100 per cent. There is no read-only subset or confirmation step, though annotations mark the browser tools as not read-only, and since v2.15.1 (21 October) the ones that overwrite or delete page state as destructive (12 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance found in the docs index, the MCP overview, the MCP README, the server instructions or the tool descriptions (0 of 15). X-Request-Id and X-Request-Cost on every response, a free account_usage tool, and an Activity Log listing each Fetch, Extract, Batch and Browser request for up to 60 days per the changelog of 31 July 2026 (13 of 15). security.txt on www.zenrows.com, re-read on 1 November, valid to 1 November 2027 with a security@zenrows.com contact and a linked information security policy. An ISO 27001 certificate linked from the site footer, and SOC 2 Type II claimed. No bug bounty found (15 of 20).\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: ZenRows +11\n\n- Outcrawl (79): @outcrawl/sdk and the PyPI package outcrawl both reached 0.4.15 on 20 October 2026, 13 days before the check, and the Scout mirror was synced on 1 November (30). 21 npm versions since 8 September and 17 PyPI releases since 22 September 2026, with 14 dated tags in outcrawlai/release (20). Scout's pull request #1 of 13 October was answered the same day with an import note and closed, while three pull requests and one issue opened on 18 October had no reply after 15 days; the service has no changelog, support is one email address, and no community channel exists (8 of 25). Not in the official MCP registry; official SDKs in TypeScript and Python current at 0.4.15, with a CLI (15). The three npm packages are published from GitHub Actions with trusted publishing, the TypeScript SDK has zero runtime dependencies and the Python SDK one, and Scout has tests per package, but the mirror has no CI workflows and @outcrawl/mcp has sat at 0.4.3 since 29 September with a tool list that differs from the hosted docs (6 of 10). 30+20+8+15+6 = 79.\n- ZenRows (90): MCP v2.18.0 on 2026-10-30 (30). Seven MCP minor releases from 18 to 30 October alone (v2.12.0 to v2.18.0), and dated changelog entries on 2, 5 and 9 October (20). We couldn't read GitHub issues. PRs are merged within days and the dated changelog on zenrows.com runs to 9 October (15 of 25). In the official MCP registry as io.github.ZenRows/zenrows-mcp, with 2.18.0 published on 30 October and marked latest (15). CI runs typecheck, lint and tests on a Node matrix, and a check that server.json matches the package version (10).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Outcrawl | ZenRows | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 87 | ZenRows +42 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 93 | ZenRows +22 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 79 | Outcrawl +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 50 | Outcrawl +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 80 | ZenRows +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 90 | ZenRows +11 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 79 | ZenRows +23 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.4 · B** | **75.9 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Outcrawl | ZenRows |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl) | ZenRows |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1` | `https://api.zenrows.com/v1/` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| Price for scraping | $4.90 per 1,000 pages | not published |\n| x402 | no | payer tooling only |\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 | none |\n| Tools exposed | 29 | 63 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.ZenRows/zenrows-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-10-30 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-11-01 | 2025-07-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-11-01 | 2024-09-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 948 stars, 53 npm/wk | 21 stars, 35k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.8/5 (8) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Outcrawl\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### ZenRows\n\n- -3.0 on 1 November 2026 (A to BB): negative event\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n- +4.0 on 17 October 2026 (BB to A): product, new evidence\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**ZenRows.** No incidents in the 90 days to 1 November 2026 on a six-component Better Stack status page, and an OpenAPI 3.1 file with coded errors. The Fetch API only takes the key in the query string.\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### ZenRows\n\n1. Start with mode=auto and let it escalate. Force js_render or premium_proxy only when you know the site needs it\n2. Prefer the extract tool over scrape when you need fields, since it returns far fewer tokens than a full page\n3. On REQS007 from extract, read `reason`. Call prepare_domain for domain_not_prepared, or fall back to css_extractor; extract no longer falls back to autoparse\n4. Read the Concurrency-Remaining response header before fanning out, as extra requests get 429\n5. On a 402 with AUTH014, only this key hit its cap. Read X-Key-Credits-Remaining and don't tell the user to buy credits\n6. Set ZENROWS_AUTO_SIGNUP=false in stdio configs so a missing key fails loudly instead of creating an account\n7. Pass `idempotency_key` to `crawl_create` and `batch_create` so a retried call returns the same job instead of starting and billing a second one\n\n## Tutorials\n\n- [Extract page titles and links with ZenRows](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/zenrows/), for ZenRows\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Outcrawl or ZenRows?\n\nZenRows scores 75.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Outcrawl leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Outcrawl and ZenRows need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Outcrawl and ZenRows without installing anything?\n\nYes. Outcrawl has a hosted endpoint at https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1 and ZenRows at https://api.zenrows.com/v1/.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zenrows.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zenrows.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"outcrawl\", \"b\": \"zenrows\"}`. 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