# Scrapeless vs ScraperAPI (slim)

> Scrapeless scores 54.1 (C) to ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Scrapeless scores 54.1 (C) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScraperAPI leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do scraping.

- Scrapeless: C 54.1, rank #693 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeless.min.md
- ScraperAPI: D 52.1, rank #739 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.min.md
- Scrapeless, good for An agent that needs one key for unlocking, a remote browser and AI answer-engine scraping, and is happy to read the pricing JSON rather than llms.txt. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 45; Security & auth, 35 against 29; Maintenance & community, 81 against 61.
- ScraperAPI, good for Agents that want a single GET to fetch pages through proxies, with parsed JSON for Amazon, Google, Walmart, eBay and Redfin and a batch API of up to 50,000 URLs. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 74 against 50; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35.

| Category | Scrapeless | ScraperAPI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 66 | 67 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 50 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 35 | 29 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 81 | 61 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 53 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Scrapeless | ScraperAPI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Scrapeless (NST Labs Tech) | ScraperAPI (saas.group) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scrapeless.com` | `https://api.scraperapi.com` |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | none |
| Tools exposed | 25 | 28 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.scrapeless-ai/scrapeless-mcp-server` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2026-08-07 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 169 stars, 423 npm/wk, 216 PyPI/wk | 5 stars |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |