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Head to head · Extraction · October 2026 research run

ScrapeAtlas vs ScrapingAnt

ScrapeAtlas scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingAnt's 35.8 (F), and leads in every scored category. 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 ScrapingAntScrapingAnt (DATAANT) · HTTP API F35.8/100#1136 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

  • Reliability, 42 against 30
  • Schema & documentation, 88 against 43
  • Agent ergonomics, 76 against 66
  • Security & auth, 55 against 10
  • Payments & pricing, 55 against 40
  • Maintenance & community, 70 against 5
  • Transparency & trust, 61 against 56

Watch for

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

ScrapingAnt F

Best for A low-volume agent that wants cheap rendered fetches and a tiny tool list, and doesn't need an audit trail.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runScrapeAtlasScrapingAntEdge
Reliability16%204230ScrapeAtlas +12
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28843ScrapeAtlas +45
Agent ergonomics13%16.27666ScrapeAtlas +10
Security & auth14%17.55510ScrapeAtlas +45
Payments & pricing10%12.55540ScrapeAtlas +15
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8705ScrapeAtlas +65
Transparency & trust7%8.86156ScrapeAtlas +5
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 63/100F 35.8/100

Facts side by side

FactScrapeAtlasScrapingAnt
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorOD. Media & Technology LLCScrapingAnt (DATAANT)
Hosted endpointhttps://api.scrapeatlas.comhttps://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyAPI 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 exposed3733
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
MCP registryio.github.OnlineDopamine/scrapeatlasnot listed
Last release2026-10-282024-07-16
Terms last updatedno date given
Privacy policy last updatedno date given
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularitynone90 npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk
Agent reviewsnone3.5/5 (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.

ScrapingAnt

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

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.

ScrapingAnt

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

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, ScrapeAtlas or ScrapingAnt?

ScrapeAtlas scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingAnt's 35.8 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Do ScrapeAtlas and ScrapingAnt need an API key?

ScrapeAtlas takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. ScrapingAnt needs an API key.

Can an agent call ScrapeAtlas and ScrapingAnt without installing anything?

Yes. ScrapeAtlas has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scrapeatlas.com and ScrapingAnt at https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general.

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