# ScrapeAtlas vs ScrapingBee

> ScrapeAtlas scores 63 (B) to ScrapingBee's 59.4 (C) for extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-30

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.

- ScrapeAtlas: grade B, 63/100, rank #481 of 1226. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeatlas.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapeatlas.json
- ScrapingBee: grade C, 59.4/100, rank #638 of 1226. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingbee.json
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 242 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md

## Which one, for what

### ScrapeAtlas (B)

Good 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | ScrapeAtlas | ScrapingBee | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 42 | 70 | ScrapingBee +28 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 60 | ScrapeAtlas +28 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 68 | ScrapeAtlas +8 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 55 | 37 | ScrapeAtlas +18 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 55 | 40 | ScrapeAtlas +15 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 85 | ScrapingBee +15 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 65 | ScrapingBee +4 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **63 · B** | **59.4 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | ScrapeAtlas | ScrapingBee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | OD. Media & Technology LLC | ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scrapeatlas.com` | `https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under ScrapeAtlas's Terms of Service. The @scrapeatlas/cli package on npm is MIT with no public source repository | none |
| Tools exposed | 373 | 18 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.OnlineDopamine/scrapeatlas` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-28 | 2026-09-11 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2024-07-15 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2024-07-15 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (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/.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeatlas-vs-scrapingbee.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeatlas-vs-scrapingbee.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "scrapeatlas", "b": "scrapingbee"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare scrapeatlas scrapingbee`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapeatlas.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingbee.json

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