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Head to head · Extraction · October 2026 research run

ScrapeAtlas vs Scrapingdog

ScrapeAtlas scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapingdog's 39.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Scrapingdog leads on reliability. 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 ScrapingdogScrapingdog (OpenData Labs) · HTTP API E39.3/100#1109 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 43
  • Agent ergonomics, 76 against 44
  • Security & auth, 55 against 5
  • Payments & pricing, 55 against 40
  • Maintenance & community, 70 against 45
  • 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

Scrapingdog E

Best for A budget agent that wants parsed Google, Amazon or LinkedIn results and can keep the key out of logs.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 62 against 42

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine

Watch for

API key only travels in the URL query string

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runScrapeAtlasScrapingdogEdge
Reliability16%204262Scrapingdog +20
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28843ScrapeAtlas +45
Agent ergonomics13%16.27644ScrapeAtlas +32
Security & auth14%17.5555ScrapeAtlas +50
Payments & pricing10%12.55540ScrapeAtlas +15
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87045ScrapeAtlas +25
Transparency & trust7%8.86156ScrapeAtlas +5
Negative events≤150-2
TotalB 63/100E 39.3/100

Facts side by side

FactScrapeAtlasScrapingdog
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorOD. Media & Technology LLCScrapingdog (OpenData Labs)
Hosted endpointhttps://api.scrapeatlas.comhttps://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, stdio
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 exposed37335
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryio.github.OnlineDopamine/scrapeatlasio.github.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcp
Last release2026-10-282026-07-31
Terms last updated2026-01-13
Privacy policy last updated2025-07-17
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 noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularitynone0 stars, 41 npm/wk, 12 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.

Scrapingdog

A plain request is 1 credit, about $0.20 per 1,000 on Lite. API key only travels in the URL query string.

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.

Scrapingdog

  1. Add dynamic=false unless the page needs JavaScript. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1, whatever the MCP description says
  2. Keep request URLs out of logs, since they carry api_key
  3. Set client timeouts above 60 seconds and retry on 429 or timeout. Failures aren't billed
  4. Prefer the parsed endpoints (Google, Amazon) over scraping the raw page when one exists

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, ScrapeAtlas or Scrapingdog?

ScrapeAtlas scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapingdog's 39.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Scrapingdog leads on reliability.

Do ScrapeAtlas and Scrapingdog need an API key?

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

Can an agent call ScrapeAtlas and Scrapingdog without installing anything?

Yes. ScrapeAtlas has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scrapeatlas.com and Scrapingdog at https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape.

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