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        "level": "no",
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          "$29 for 250,000 basic credits, and 429s, 502s and most failures aren't billed",
          "Per-domain credit costs published, and each response carries its cost in a header",
          "Free plan of 1,000 requests a month with residential proxies and rendering, no card",
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          "Read `Scrape.do-Request-Cost` from the response headers. Some domains cost 10 to 200 credits whatever you pass",
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          "item": "Business plan",
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          "The .do registry has no RDAP service, so the registration date couldn't be read.",
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        "streamable-http"
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
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      "auth": "api-key",
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      "pricingNotes": "Trial of 1,000 credits, no card. Hobby $19 a month (75,000 credits, 25 concurrent), Freelance $49 (250,000, 50), Startup $99 (1 million, 100), Business $249 (3 million, 200), Business+ $599 (8 million, 400), excluding VAT. JavaScript rendering is on by default, so a basic call costs 5 credits, 1 without rendering, 10 or 25 with premium proxies and 75 with stealth proxies. Google search costs 10 credits (https://www.scrapingbee.com/pricing/).",
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        },
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingbee.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Scrape.do for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\nPick ScrapingBee for reliability (+30), agent ergonomics (+6), security \u0026 auth (+14), payments \u0026 pricing (+5), maintenance \u0026 community (+40), transparency \u0026 trust (+15).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Scrape.do | ScrapingBee | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 70 | ScrapingBee +30 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 60 | ScrapingBee +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 68 | ScrapingBee +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 23 | 37 | ScrapingBee +14 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 40 | ScrapingBee +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 85 | ScrapingBee +40 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 49 | 64 | ScrapingBee +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **44 · E** | **59.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Scrape.do | ScrapingBee |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Scrape.do | ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scrape.do/` | `https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 18 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-07-31 | 2026-09-11 |\n| Popularity | 2 npm/wk | 132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Scrape.do.** $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.\n\n**ScrapingBee.** Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini endpoints next to the general HTML API. remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Scrape.do\n\n1. 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\n2. Pass `output=markdown` to get LLM-ready text instead of raw HTML\n3. Read `Scrape.do-Request-Cost` from the response headers. Some domains cost 10 to 200 credits whatever you pass\n4. Treat a 429 as too many concurrent requests and wait for one to finish\n5. Keep URLs with `token=` out of logs and shared traces\n\n### ScrapingBee\n\n1. Send render_js=false for static pages and files. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1\n2. Use mode=auto with max_cost=25 to stop it escalating to 75-credit stealth requests\n3. Keep the MCP URL with ?api_key= out of logs and shared configs\n4. Back off exponentially on 429 from the MCP, since its concurrency is shared across customers\n5. Expect 404 and 410 from the target to be billed. Other failures aren't\n\n## Other comparisons with Scrape.do or ScrapingBee\n\n- [Bright Data vs Scrape.do](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrape-do.md)\n- [Bright Data vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs Scrape.do](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrape-do.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Olostep vs Scrape.do](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-scrape-do.md)\n- [Olostep vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Scrape.do vs ScrapeGraphAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapegraphai.md)\n- [Scrape.do vs Scrapeless](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapeless.md)\n- [Scrape.do vs Scrapfly](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapfly.md)\n- [Scrape.do vs ScrapingAnt](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingant.md)\n- [Scrape.do vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [Scrape.do vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [Scrape.do vs ZenRows](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-zenrows.md)\n- [ScrapeGraphAI vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Scrapeless vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Scrapfly vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [ScrapingAnt vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [ScrapingBee vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [ScrapingBee vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [ScrapingBee vs ZenRows](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zenrows.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs Scrape.do](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrape-do.md)\n",
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