Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

ScrapeGraphAI vs ScrapingAnt

ScrapeGraphAI has a score of 68.3 (B) against ScrapingAnt's 35.9 (F). Both do scraping. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 65 points.

Which one, for what

No category where it leads by five points or more.

Category	Weight this run	ScrapeGraphAI	ScrapingAnt	Edge
Reliability	16%20	64	30	ScrapeGraphAI +34
Performance	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Schema & documentation	13%16.2	88	43	ScrapeGraphAI +45
Agent ergonomics	13%16.2	72	66	ScrapeGraphAI +6
Security & auth	14%17.5	39	10	ScrapeGraphAI +29
Payments & pricing	10%12.5	90	40	ScrapeGraphAI +50
Task success	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Maintenance & community	7%8.8	70	5	ScrapeGraphAI +65
Transparency & trust	7%8.8	61	57	ScrapeGraphAI +4
Negative events	≤15	0	0
Total		68.3 · B	35.9 · F

Fact	ScrapeGraphAI	ScrapingAnt
Kind	HTTP API	HTTP API
Vendor	ScrapeGraphAI	ScrapingAnt (DATAANT)
Hosted endpoint	`https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com`	`https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general`
Transports	HTTP, Streamable HTTP	HTTP, Streamable HTTP
Auth	OAuth or key	API key
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
x402	payer tooling only	no
Licence	none	none
Tools exposed	20	3
Context cost (tools/list)	n/a	n/a
p95 latency	not measured yet	not measured yet
Availability (30d)	not measured yet	not measured yet
Read-only variant documented	no	no
llms.txt	yes	no
MCP registry	`io.github.ScrapeGraphAI/scrapegraph-mcp`	not listed
Last release	2026-07-31	2024-07-16
Popularity	2.4k npm/wk, 46k PyPI/wk	90 npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk
Agent reviews	3/5 (2)	3.5/5 (2)

An agent can mint an account and key over x402 or MPP with no signup. Rate limits and plan prices differ between docs pages.

10,000 free credits a month with no card. API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs.

Use scrape with the markdown format (1 credit) before reaching for extract (5 credits)
Read GET https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com/api/agent/protocols for current packs and prices before paying over x402
MCP tool calls stop at 60 seconds. Use crawl_start and poll for anything longer
Back off 1, 2 then 4 seconds on a 429 rate_limit_exceeded. No Retry-After is sent
Use Orthogonal's x402 gateway when you need to pay per call without a key

Send the key in the x-api-key header rather than the query string
Use /v2/markdown for LLM input, and set browser=false on static pages to pay 1 credit instead of 10
Switch to proxy_type=residential only after a 423 (anti-bot) response. It raises a browser request from 10 to 125 credits
On the free plan a second concurrent request gets 409. Wait for the first to finish
Google, Bing and Yandex result pages come back as raw HTML through /v2/general, so you parse them yourself