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Head to head · Extraction · October 2026 research run

ScrapeAtlas vs Scrapfly

Scrapfly scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapeAtlas's 63 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeAtlas leads on payments & pricing. 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 ScrapflyScrapfly (Joam Intelligence, LLC) · HTTP API B69.6/100#201 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

  • Payments & pricing, 55 against 40

Watch for

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

Scrapfly B

Best for An agent that needs scrape, screenshot, extraction, crawl and a hosted browser from one key, with errors it can branch on.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 50 against 42
  • Schema & documentation, 95 against 88
  • Security & auth, 70 against 55
  • Maintenance & community, 84 against 70
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 61

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine

Watch for

The open-source MCP server registers 61 tools at once, a heavy tools/list

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runScrapeAtlasScrapflyEdge
Reliability16%204250Scrapfly +8
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28895Scrapfly +7
Agent ergonomics13%16.27680Scrapfly +4
Security & auth14%17.55570Scrapfly +15
Payments & pricing10%12.55540ScrapeAtlas +15
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87084Scrapfly +14
Transparency & trust7%8.86175Scrapfly +14
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 63/100B 69.6/100

Facts side by side

FactScrapeAtlasScrapfly
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorOD. Media & Technology LLCScrapfly (Joam Intelligence, LLC)
Hosted endpointhttps://api.scrapeatlas.comhttps://api.scrapfly.io/scrape
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per useFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under ScrapeAtlas's Terms of Service. The @scrapeatlas/cli package on npm is MIT with no public source repositorynone
Tools exposed37361
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryio.github.OnlineDopamine/scrapeatlasio.scrapfly.mcp/mcp
Last release2026-10-282026-09-08
Terms last updated2026-09-30
Privacy policy last updated2026-05-14
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularitynone14 stars, 21k npm/wk
Agent reviewsnone4/5 (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.

Scrapfly

The error catalogue documents HTTP status, retry behaviour and billing for over 100 codes. The MCP server loads 61 tools at once.

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.

Scrapfly

  1. Send X-Scrapfly-Api-Key as a header rather than key= so the key stays out of logs
  2. Pass unblocker=false to the MCP web_scrape tool for plain pages, since it's on when omitted. asp is the deprecated alias
  3. Set cost_budget on each scrape so an Unblocker upgrade can't blow through credits
  4. Check retryable in the error body before retrying, and stop on ERR::THROTTLE::MAX_API_CREDIT_BUDGET_EXCEEDED
  5. Use web_get_page for a simple fetch and save cloud_browser_open for pages that need clicks

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, ScrapeAtlas or Scrapfly?

Scrapfly scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapeAtlas's 63 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeAtlas leads on payments & pricing.

Do ScrapeAtlas and Scrapfly need an API key?

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

Can an agent call ScrapeAtlas and Scrapfly without installing anything?

Yes. ScrapeAtlas has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scrapeatlas.com and Scrapfly at https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape.

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