# Scrapeless vs ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator (slim)

> Scrapeless scores 55.9 (C) to ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator's 50.4 (D) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Scrapeless scores 55.9 (C) on agent readiness against ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator's 50.4 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do scraping.

- Scrapeless: C 55.9, rank #852 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeless.min.md
- ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator: D 50.4, rank #1067 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeops.min.md
- Scrapeless, good for An agent that needs one key for unlocking, a remote browser and AI answer-engine scraping. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 37; Security & auth, 37 against 28; Maintenance & community, 81 against 46.
- ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator, good for Teams that want one key across many proxy APIs, paid only on success, with cost caps per request. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 79 against 50; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35.

| Category | Scrapeless | ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 37 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 66 | 67 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 50 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 37 | 28 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 81 | 46 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 58 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Scrapeless | ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Scrapeless (NST Labs Tech) | ScrapeOps Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scrapeless.com` | `https://mcp.scrapeops.io/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | stdio, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | none |
| Tools exposed | 25 | 3 |
| MCP registry | `io.github.scrapeless-ai/scrapeless-mcp-server` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2026-10 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 169 stars, 423 npm/wk, 216 PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |

Why the edge:
- Maintenance & community, Scrapeless +35: Scrapeless 81 (The official CLI (scrapeless on npm, its own repository) tagged v0.1.0 on 2026-10-20 (30). In the 90 days from 6 August, MCP server v0.5.0 (20 August), v0.6.0 (28 August), v0.6.1 (2 September) and v0.6.3 (8 September), Node SDK v1.12.0 and v1.12.1, Python SDK v1.3.0 and Go SDK v1.3.0 (16 September) and the CLI (20). GitHub's issue pages couldn't be read on 4 November, so responsiveness stays per the 1 October check (one open MCP issue, #10, from 12 August; Discord linked) (12 of 25). Node, Python and Go SDKs are current (15). No CI workflow in the MCP repo; the CLI has one, and the MCP pins @modelcontextprotocol/sdk at ^1.8.0 (4 of 10). 30 + 20 + 12 + 15 + 4 = 81.); ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator 46 (Read for a closed service. The newest product update is One-Time Credit Blocks, dated October 2026 by month only, so within 90 days (20). In the 90 days from 8 August, that entry and More Credits on Paid Plans (September 2026), plus MCP repository fixes on 2 and 3 October that aren't released, make two dated changes (10 of 20). Public changelog by product and support by email. GitHub issues weren't read (8 of 25). The MCP server's server.json names io.github.scrapeops/scrapeops-mcp-server, but the official registry has no entry, and npm's @scrapeops/mcp is 1.0.1 of 1 January 2026 while the repository says 1.1.0 (5 of 15). The MCP repository has tests but no CI workflow (3 of 10). 20 + 10 + 8 + 5 + 3 = 46.)
- Reliability, Scrapeless +33: Scrapeless 70 (Better Stack status page at status.scrapeless.com with four groups, Scrapeless API, Scraping Browser, website and dashboard, and residential proxies (20). Every monitor shows 100 per cent uptime over 90 days and the incident list reports none for September, October or November 2026. The list doesn't page back to August, so the earlier clean reading for August is kept (30). No rate-limit numbers found in the docs. The 30 September concurrency figures came from a script-loaded price file and are struck (0). The Results and Polling page documents 429 as rate limit exceeded with reduce-frequency guidance and a one-minute wait for 500s, with no idempotency keys (10). The pricing page names an Enterprise-level SLA but no SLA document is published (0). The APIs are generally available (10). 20 + 30 + 0 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 70.); ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator 37 (Graded on the hosted lines. No status page was found on scrapeops.io or in the docs, and status.scrapeops.io did not answer (0). No readable incident history (5). Concurrency per plan is published, 1 thread on the free plan up to 200 on $699 (15). 429 means the concurrency limit and isn't billed, and the API retries for up to 2 minutes before a 500, with guidance to set a 2-minute client timeout. No Retry-After or backoff guidance (7 of 15). No SLA; the terms disclaim availability (0). Generally available since July 2022 (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 7 + 0 + 10 = 37.)
- Agent ergonomics, ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator +29: Scrapeless 50 (25 MCP tools, 16 of them browser actions, with no toolsets or read-only subset (15 of 25). crawl_start takes limit and maxDepth, but scrape_markdown and scrape_html take only a URL, with no size or selector control (10 of 20). The MCP returns status_code, a code of rate_limited or api_error, and the upstream message. No API error catalogue found (10 of 20). No readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations and no idempotency guidance (0). Most tools need only a URL, and official SDKs exist for Node and Python (15).); ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator 79 (Three MCP tools (25). Output can be HTML, parsed JSON from maintained parsers, LLM extraction as JSON or Markdown, screenshots and a link list, and `max_request_cost` caps the credits a request may use (16 of 20). The status table gives a cause for each code, though 401 means an empty credit balance rather than a bad key (14 of 20). Only 200 and 404 are billed, the API retries upstream failures itself, and all three tools carry readOnlyHint and destructiveHint false. No idempotency key (16 of 20). Only the key and url are required. Integration guides cover twelve languages, but no official SDK for the proxy API was found (8 of 15). 25 + 16 + 14 + 16 + 8 = 79.)
- Security & auth, Scrapeless +9: Scrapeless 37 (One API token per account, sent in the x-api-token header, which the docs say can be replaced and invalidated from the dashboard or through support. No scopes (20). Agent Browser WebSocket connections pass the token as a URL parameter, a documented option, so less 10 (10 of 30). No read-only mode, and the browser tools can click and type on third-party sites without any confirmation step (5 of 20). The MCP README has a security section that calls web data untrusted by default and warns against passing raw scraped content into prompts, with no in-tool mitigation (10 of 15). Browser sessions are recorded, and we found no request log for the other APIs (5 of 15). security.txt is valid (contact system@scrapeless.com, expires 2030), with no disclosure policy or acknowledgement time, and no bug bounty, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 found (7 of 20). 10 + 5 + 10 + 5 + 7 = 37.); ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator 28 (One account API key with no scopes or documented rotation, sent as the `api_key` query parameter, the only option documented for the endpoint, or as the proxy password with SSL verification off. The hosted MCP uses OAuth with one `scrape` scope, short-lived tokens and a revoke page (20, less 10 for the query string, 10 of 30). Scraping only reads, the tools are annotated read-only and `max_request_cost` caps spend, but POST requests go to targets and there's no read-only key (8 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance for returned pages was found (0 of 15). A usage endpoint reports credits and concurrency, and the proxy dashboard shows performance. No per-call audit log for customers (7 of 15). security.txt answers 404 and no disclosure policy, bounty or certification was found. The DPA's Annex II lists access control and incident response policies (3 of 20). 10 + 8 + 0 + 7 + 3 = 28.)
- Payments & pricing, ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator +5: Scrapeless 35 (No x402, MPP or L402. Crypto top-ups exist but aren't a machine payment protocol (0). The pricing page draws its rate tables by script. The docs publish per-unit rates, Crawl from $1.8 a GB plus $0.09 a browser hour and Web Unlocker from $0.20 per 1,000 URLs, and the Google Search API page gives volume rates below $0.50 per 1,000 on qualifying plans, but no full rate card is readable without script (15 of 20, a partial kept under the in-between rule). The Google Search API page says no credit card is required to start (20). A person signs up in a browser (0). 0 + 15 + 20 + 0 = 35.); ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator 40 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Credit costs per option and all twelve plan prices are public (20). Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card (20). A person signs up in a browser, with SMS verification for sign-ups flagged as higher risk per the subprocessor list (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40.)