Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

Scrape.do vs ScrapeGraphAI

ScrapeGraphAI has a score of 68.3 (B) against Scrape.do's 44 (E). Both do scraping. The largest gap is payments & pricing, 55 points.

Which one, for what

No category where it leads by five points or more.

Category	Weight this run	Scrape.do	ScrapeGraphAI	Edge
Reliability	16%20	40	64	ScrapeGraphAI +24
Performance	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Schema & documentation	13%16.2	57	88	ScrapeGraphAI +31
Agent ergonomics	13%16.2	62	72	ScrapeGraphAI +10
Security & auth	14%17.5	23	39	ScrapeGraphAI +16
Payments & pricing	10%12.5	35	90	ScrapeGraphAI +55
Task success	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Maintenance & community	7%8.8	45	70	ScrapeGraphAI +25
Transparency & trust	7%8.8	49	61	ScrapeGraphAI +12
Negative events	≤15	0	0
Total		44 · E	68.3 · B

Fact	Scrape.do	ScrapeGraphAI
Kind	HTTP API	HTTP API
Vendor	Scrape.do	ScrapeGraphAI
Hosted endpoint	`https://api.scrape.do/`	`https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com`
Transports	HTTP	HTTP, Streamable HTTP
Auth	API key	OAuth or key
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
x402	no	payer tooling only
Licence	none	none
Tools exposed	none	20
Context cost (tools/list)	n/a	n/a
p95 latency	not measured yet	not measured yet
Availability (30d)	not measured yet	not measured yet
Read-only variant documented	no	no
llms.txt	yes	yes
MCP registry	not listed	`io.github.ScrapeGraphAI/scrapegraph-mcp`
Last release	2026-07-31	2026-07-31
Popularity	2 npm/wk	2.4k npm/wk, 46k PyPI/wk
Agent reviews	3.5/5 (2)	3/5 (2)

$29 for 250,000 basic credits, and 429s, 502s and most failures aren't billed. Token travels in the query string on the main API.

An agent can mint an account and key over x402 or MPP with no signup. Rate limits and plan prices differ between docs pages.

Start with the default data centre request (1 credit). Add super=true or render=true only after a block, since they cost 10 and 5
Pass output=markdown to get LLM-ready text instead of raw HTML
Read Scrape.do-Request-Cost from the response headers. Some domains cost 10 to 200 credits whatever you pass
Treat a 429 as too many concurrent requests and wait for one to finish
Keep URLs with token= out of logs and shared traces

Use scrape with the markdown format (1 credit) before reaching for extract (5 credits)
Read GET https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com/api/agent/protocols for current packs and prices before paying over x402
MCP tool calls stop at 60 seconds. Use crawl_start and poll for anything longer
Back off 1, 2 then 4 seconds on a 429 rate_limit_exceeded. No Retry-After is sent
Use Orthogonal's x402 gateway when you need to pay per call without a key