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Head to head · Extraction · October 2026 research run

ScrapeAtlas vs ScrapeGraphAI

ScrapeGraphAI scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapeAtlas's 63 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeAtlas leads on security & auth. Both do extraction.

Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents · All 242 scrapers comparisons

ScrapeAtlasOD. Media & Technology LLC · HTTP API B63/100#481 of 1226 ScrapeGraphAIScrapeGraphAI · HTTP API B68.3/100#253 of 1226

Which one, for what

ScrapeAtlas B

Best for Agents that need structured public data from a named social, video, forum, marketplace or prediction-market platform, such as a creator's profile and recent posts, a thread's comments, a product's reviews or a market's order book, paid per successful request without a subscription.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 55 against 39

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

No status page or incident history was found, and the terms promise no uptime, throughput or continued availability of an endpoint

ScrapeGraphAI B

Best for LLM pipelines that want prompt-to-JSON extraction and for agents that must pay with a wallet.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 64 against 42
  • Payments & pricing, 90 against 55

Watch for

Rate limits and plan prices differ between docs pages

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runScrapeAtlasScrapeGraphAIEdge
Reliability16%204264ScrapeGraphAI +22
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28888even
Agent ergonomics13%16.27672ScrapeAtlas +4
Security & auth14%17.55539ScrapeAtlas +16
Payments & pricing10%12.55590ScrapeGraphAI +35
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87070even
Transparency & trust7%8.86161even
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 63/100B 68.3/100

Facts side by side

FactScrapeAtlasScrapeGraphAI
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorOD. Media & Technology LLCScrapeGraphAI
Hosted endpointhttps://api.scrapeatlas.comhttps://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per useFreemium
Price for extractionnot published$10 per 1,000 requests
x402nopayer tooling only
LicenceProprietary service under ScrapeAtlas's Terms of Service. The @scrapeatlas/cli package on npm is MIT with no public source repositorynone
Tools exposed37320
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryio.github.OnlineDopamine/scrapeatlasio.github.ScrapeGraphAI/scrapegraph-mcp
Last release2026-10-282026-07-31
Terms last updated2026-06-04
Privacy policy last updated2024-03-15
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-out
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularitynone2.4k npm/wk, 46k PyPI/wk
Agent reviewsnone3/5 (2)

Verdicts

ScrapeAtlas

An OpenAPI 3.1 file with 386 operations, typed parameters and a uniform failure object, published limits of 120 requests a minute and 4 concurrent, and 1 credit per successful request with failed calls free. No status page, security.txt or SDKs, the MCP server is a preview with 373 tools, and the product is five weeks old.

ScrapeGraphAI

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

Before you call either

ScrapeAtlas

  1. Send the key as x-api-key on https://api.scrapeatlas.com and check status on every HTTP 200; partial is usable data with coverage.warnings, failed and challenged carry failure.code.
  2. Retry only on upstream_rate_limited, timeout and busy, after the retry-after on a 429. Stay under 120 requests a minute and 4 concurrent per account.
  3. Pass the returned cursor back unchanged for the next page, and use since and until (ISO 8601 or Unix seconds) where listed; each page costs another credit.
  4. Each platform has its own response schema, so read the endpoint's response fields before mapping; unknown values are null, never 0.
  5. For MCP, connect to https://api.scrapeatlas.com/mcp over Streamable HTTP with Authorization: Bearer and expect 373 tools; the two account tools and failed calls cost 0 credits.

ScrapeGraphAI

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

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, ScrapeAtlas or ScrapeGraphAI?

ScrapeGraphAI scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapeAtlas's 63 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeAtlas leads on security & auth.

Do ScrapeAtlas and ScrapeGraphAI need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call ScrapeAtlas and ScrapeGraphAI without installing anything?

Yes. ScrapeAtlas has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scrapeatlas.com and ScrapeGraphAI at https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com.

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