# Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs Scrapeless (slim)

> Oxylabs Web Scraper API scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapeless's 54.1 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Scrapeless leads on maintenance & community. Both do scraping. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Oxylabs Web Scraper API scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapeless's 54.1 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Scrapeless leads on maintenance & community. Both do scraping.

- Oxylabs Web Scraper API: B 63, rank #372 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/oxylabs-web-scraper.min.md
- Scrapeless: C 54.1, rank #619 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeless.min.md
- Oxylabs Web Scraper API, good for Agents that need parsed Google, Amazon and other large-site results or bulk asynchronous jobs through one API. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 75; Agent ergonomics, 79 against 50; Security & auth, 53 against 35; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35; Transparency & trust, 63 against 53.
- Scrapeless, good for An agent that needs one key for unlocking, a remote browser and AI answer-engine scraping, and is happy to read the pricing JSON rather than llms.txt. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 81 against 72.

| Category | Oxylabs Web Scraper API | Scrapeless |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 66 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 79 | 50 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 53 | 35 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 72 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 53 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Oxylabs Web Scraper API | Scrapeless |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | oxylabs, UAB | Scrapeless (NST Labs Tech) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries` | `https://api.scrapeless.com` |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Oxylabs General Conditions. The MCP server and the Python SDK on GitHub are MIT | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 10 | 25 |
| MCP registry | `io.oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp` | `io.github.scrapeless-ai/scrapeless-mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-05 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-10-14 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 18k PyPI/wk | 169 stars, 423 npm/wk, 216 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (2) |