# Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs Spider (slim)

> Spider scores 74.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Oxylabs Web Scraper API's 63 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Oxylabs Web Scraper API leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do scraping. Spider accepts x402. Oxylabs Web Scraper API doesn't. Category…

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Spider scores 74.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Oxylabs Web Scraper API's 63 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Oxylabs Web Scraper API leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do scraping. Spider accepts x402. Oxylabs Web Scraper API doesn't.

- Oxylabs Web Scraper API: B 63, rank #372 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/oxylabs-web-scraper.min.md
- Spider: BB 74.1, rank #75 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spider-cloud.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 Agent ergonomics, 79 against 70; Security & auth, 53 against 42. Also Free to start without a card.
- Spider, good for An agent that has to start without a human, pay per call, or crawl many small pages cheaply. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 87 against 68; Payments & pricing, 96 against 40; Maintenance & community, 85 against 72. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; Open source; No incidents deducted, where Oxylabs Web Scraper API loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Oxylabs Web Scraper API | Spider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 79 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 53 | 42 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 96 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 72 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Oxylabs Web Scraper API | Spider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | oxylabs, UAB | Spider (BAGELMEN LLC) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries` | `https://api.spider.cloud` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for scraping | not published | $0.50 per 1,000 requests |
| x402 | no | yes, from $0.0005/call |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Oxylabs General Conditions. The MCP server and the Python SDK on GitHub are MIT | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 10 | 22 |
| MCP registry | `io.oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp` | `cloud.spider/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-07 | 2026-07-19 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-05 | 2026-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-10-14 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 18k PyPI/wk | 2.7k stars, 2.7k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (8) |