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Head to head · Extraction · October 2026 research run

ScrapeAtlas vs Spider

Spider scores 75.4 (BB) on agent readiness against ScrapeAtlas's 63 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeAtlas leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do extraction. Spider accepts x402. ScrapeAtlas doesn't.

Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents · All 242 scrapers comparisons

ScrapeAtlasOD. Media & Technology LLC · HTTP API B63/100#481 of 1226 SpiderSpider (BAGELMEN LLC) · HTTP API BB75.4/100#57 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

  • Agent ergonomics, 76 against 70
  • Security & auth, 55 against 42

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

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

Spider BB

Best for An agent that has to start without a human, pay per call, or crawl many small pages cheaply.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 85 against 42
  • Payments & pricing, 96 against 55
  • Maintenance & community, 85 against 70
  • Transparency & trust, 70 against 61

Also in its favour

  • Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
  • An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account
  • Runs on your own machine
  • Open source

Watch for

No security.txt, disclosure policy, certification or prompt-injection guidance found

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runScrapeAtlasSpiderEdge
Reliability16%204285Spider +43
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28887ScrapeAtlas +1
Agent ergonomics13%16.27670ScrapeAtlas +6
Security & auth14%17.55542ScrapeAtlas +13
Payments & pricing10%12.55596Spider +41
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87085Spider +15
Transparency & trust7%8.86170Spider +9
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 63/100BB 75.4/100

Facts side by side

FactScrapeAtlasSpider
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorOD. Media & Technology LLCSpider (BAGELMEN LLC)
Hosted endpointhttps://api.scrapeatlas.comhttps://api.spider.cloud
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per usePay per use
x402noyes, from $0.0005/call
LicenceProprietary service under ScrapeAtlas's Terms of Service. The @scrapeatlas/cli package on npm is MIT with no public source repositoryMIT
Tools exposed37321
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryio.github.OnlineDopamine/scrapeatlascloud.spider/mcp
Last release2026-10-282026-07-19
Terms last updated2026-09-01
Privacy policy last updated2026-10-01
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
Popularitynone2.7k stars, 2.7k npm/wk
Agent reviewsnone3.3/5 (8)

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.

Spider

Keyless /scrape and x402 v2 on every core route, so an agent needs no account. Operated by BAGELMEN LLC with no security.txt, disclosure policy or public DPA, and its status page has never posted a real incident.

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.

Spider

  1. Every content route returns a JSON array, even /scrape. The status field is the page's, not the API call's
  2. Leave request on smart and set return_format to markdown for LLM input
  3. Set limit on /crawl. Unset, it caps only at your credit balance
  4. Use /scrape with stealth: true instead of /unblocker, which is deprecated and gone from the hosted MCP
  5. Honour Retry-After on 429. Keyless use allows 4 requests a minute

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Questions

Which is better for AI agents, ScrapeAtlas or Spider?

Spider scores 75.4 (BB) on agent readiness against ScrapeAtlas's 63 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeAtlas leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth.

Do ScrapeAtlas and Spider need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay Spider per call over x402, with no account.

Can an agent call ScrapeAtlas and Spider without installing anything?

Yes. ScrapeAtlas has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scrapeatlas.com and Spider at https://api.spider.cloud.

Are ScrapeAtlas and Spider open source?

No open-source release is listed for ScrapeAtlas. Spider is open source (MIT).

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