Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

ScrapeGraphAI vs Scrapingdog

ScrapeGraphAI has a score of 68.3 (B) against Scrapingdog's 39.3 (E). Both do scraping. The largest gap is payments & pricing, 50 points.

Which one, for what

No category where it leads by five points or more.

Category	Weight this run	ScrapeGraphAI	Scrapingdog	Edge
Reliability	16%20	64	62	ScrapeGraphAI +2
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	44	ScrapeGraphAI +28
Security & auth	14%17.5	39	5	ScrapeGraphAI +34
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	45	ScrapeGraphAI +25
Transparency & trust	7%8.8	61	57	ScrapeGraphAI +4
Negative events	≤15	0	-2
Total		68.3 · B	39.3 · E

Fact	ScrapeGraphAI	Scrapingdog
Kind	HTTP API	HTTP API
Vendor	ScrapeGraphAI	Scrapingdog (OpenData Labs)
Hosted endpoint	`https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com`	`https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape`
Transports	HTTP, Streamable HTTP	HTTP, stdio
Auth	OAuth or key	API key
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
x402	payer tooling only	no
Licence	none	none
Tools exposed	20	35
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	yes
MCP registry	`io.github.ScrapeGraphAI/scrapegraph-mcp`	`io.github.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcp`
Last release	2026-07-31	2026-07-31
Popularity	2.4k npm/wk, 46k PyPI/wk	0 stars, 41 npm/wk, 12 PyPI/wk
Agent reviews	3/5 (2)	3/5 (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.

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

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

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