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Head to head · Extraction · October 2026 research run

ScrapeAtlas vs ScrapingBee

ScrapeAtlas scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingBee's 59.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingBee leads on reliability and maintenance & community. 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 ScrapingBeeScrapingBee (Oxylabs group) · HTTP API C59.4/100#638 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

  • Schema & documentation, 88 against 60
  • Agent ergonomics, 76 against 68
  • Security & auth, 55 against 37
  • 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

ScrapingBee C

Best for Agents that mix general scraping with ready-made Google, Amazon and YouTube endpoints and want spend capped per call.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 70 against 42
  • Maintenance & community, 85 against 70

Watch for

remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runScrapeAtlasScrapingBeeEdge
Reliability16%204270ScrapingBee +28
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28860ScrapeAtlas +28
Agent ergonomics13%16.27668ScrapeAtlas +8
Security & auth14%17.55537ScrapeAtlas +18
Payments & pricing10%12.55540ScrapeAtlas +15
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87085ScrapingBee +15
Transparency & trust7%8.86165ScrapingBee +4
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 63/100C 59.4/100

Facts side by side

FactScrapeAtlasScrapingBee
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorOD. Media & Technology LLCScrapingBee (Oxylabs group)
Hosted endpointhttps://api.scrapeatlas.comhttps://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyAPI key
PricingPay per usePaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under ScrapeAtlas's Terms of Service. The @scrapeatlas/cli package on npm is MIT with no public source repositorynone
Tools exposed37318
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryio.github.OnlineDopamine/scrapeatlasnot listed
Last release2026-10-282026-09-11
Terms last updated2024-07-15
Privacy policy last updated2024-07-15
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularitynone132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/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.

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.

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.

ScrapingBee

  1. Send render_js=false for static pages and files. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1
  2. Use mode=auto with max_cost=25 to stop it escalating to 75-credit stealth requests
  3. Keep the MCP URL with ?api_key= out of logs and shared configs
  4. Back off exponentially on 429 from the MCP, since its concurrency is shared across customers
  5. Expect 404 and 410 from the target to be billed. Other failures aren't

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, ScrapeAtlas or ScrapingBee?

ScrapeAtlas scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingBee's 59.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingBee leads on reliability and maintenance & community.

Do ScrapeAtlas and ScrapingBee need an API key?

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

Can an agent call ScrapeAtlas and ScrapingBee without installing anything?

Yes. ScrapeAtlas has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scrapeatlas.com and ScrapingBee at https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/.

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