# ScrapeAtlas vs Scrapingdog

> ScrapeAtlas scores 63 (B) to Scrapingdog's 39.3 (E) 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 Scrapingdog's 39.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Scrapingdog leads on reliability. 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
- Scrapingdog: grade E, 39.3/100, rank #1109 of 1226. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingdog.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 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | ScrapeAtlas | Scrapingdog | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 42 | 62 | Scrapingdog +20 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 43 | ScrapeAtlas +45 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 44 | ScrapeAtlas +32 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 55 | 5 | ScrapeAtlas +50 |
| 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 | 45 | ScrapeAtlas +25 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 56 | ScrapeAtlas +5 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **63 · B** | **39.3 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | ScrapeAtlas | Scrapingdog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | OD. Media & Technology LLC | Scrapingdog (OpenData Labs) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scrapeatlas.com` | `https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| 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 | 35 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.OnlineDopamine/scrapeatlas` | `io.github.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-28 | 2026-07-31 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-01-13 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2025-07-17 |
| 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 |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 0 stars, 41 npm/wk, 12 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (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.


## For agents

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

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