Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

Scrape.do vs ScrapingAnt

Scrape.do has a score of 44 (E) against ScrapingAnt's 35.9 (F). Both do scraping. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 40 points.

Which one, for what

Category	Weight this run	Scrape.do	ScrapingAnt	Edge
Reliability	16%20	40	30	Scrape.do +10
Performance	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Schema & documentation	13%16.2	57	43	Scrape.do +14
Agent ergonomics	13%16.2	62	66	ScrapingAnt +4
Security & auth	14%17.5	23	10	Scrape.do +13
Payments & pricing	10%12.5	35	40	ScrapingAnt +5
Task success	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Maintenance & community	7%8.8	45	5	Scrape.do +40
Transparency & trust	7%8.8	49	57	ScrapingAnt +8
Negative events	≤15	0	0
Total		44 · E	35.9 · F

Fact	Scrape.do	ScrapingAnt
Kind	HTTP API	HTTP API
Vendor	Scrape.do	ScrapingAnt (DATAANT)
Hosted endpoint	`https://api.scrape.do/`	`https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general`
Transports	HTTP	HTTP, Streamable HTTP
Auth	API key	API key
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
x402	no	no
Licence	none	none
Tools exposed	none	3
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	no
MCP registry	not listed	not listed
Last release	2026-07-31	2024-07-16
Popularity	2 npm/wk	90 npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk
Agent reviews	3.5/5 (2)	3.5/5 (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.

10,000 free credits a month with no card. API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs.

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

Send the key in the x-api-key header rather than the query string
Use /v2/markdown for LLM input, and set browser=false on static pages to pay 1 credit instead of 10
Switch to proxy_type=residential only after a 423 (anti-bot) response. It raises a browser request from 10 to 125 credits
On the free plan a second concurrent request gets 409. Wait for the first to finish
Google, Bing and Yandex result pages come back as raw HTML through /v2/general, so you parse them yourself