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          "Use scrape_markdown for reading pages and save the browser_* tools for clicks and logins, since browser time bills by the hour",
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      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.min.md",
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        "streamable-http"
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          "registry": "npm",
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      "pricingNotes": "10,000 free credits a month, no card, one concurrent request. Enthusiast $19 a month (100,000 credits), Startup $49 (500,000), Business $249 (3M), Business Pro $599 (8M), Custom from $699 (10M+). A plain request on a datacenter proxy costs 1 credit, headless Chrome with JS rendering 10 (the default), Chrome plus residential proxy 125, and the AI extractor adds 1 credit per 30 characters. Failed requests aren't charged. Residential proxies $3 to $6 a GB and datacenter $0.42 to $0.60 a GB, billed separately (https://scrapingant.com/#pricing).",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingant.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Scrapeless for reliability (+45), schema \u0026 documentation (+23), security \u0026 auth (+25), maintenance \u0026 community (+76).\n\nPick ScrapingAnt for agent ergonomics (+16), payments \u0026 pricing (+5).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Scrapeless | ScrapingAnt | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 30 | Scrapeless +45 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 43 | Scrapeless +23 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 66 | ScrapingAnt +16 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 35 | 10 | Scrapeless +25 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 40 | ScrapingAnt +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 5 | Scrapeless +76 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 57 | ScrapingAnt +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **54.3 · C** | **35.9 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Scrapeless | ScrapingAnt |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Scrapeless (NST Labs Tech) | ScrapingAnt (DATAANT) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scrapeless.com` | `https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | none |\n| Tools exposed | 25 | 3 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.scrapeless-ai/scrapeless-mcp-server` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2024-07-16 |\n| Popularity | 169 stars, 423 npm/wk, 216 PyPI/wk | 90 npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Scrapeless.** Hosted streamable HTTP MCP at api.scrapeless.com/mcp with header auth, plus a stdio package, both in the official MCP registry. llms.txt quotes Deep SerpApi at $0.1 per 1,000 while the plan data charges $1 per 1,000 for Google Search.\n\n**ScrapingAnt.** 10,000 free credits a month with no card. API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Scrapeless\n\n1. Use scrape_markdown for reading pages and save the browser_* tools for clicks and logins, since browser time bills by the hour\n2. Call browser_close when done so the session and its billing stop\n3. Set limit on crawl_start. Unset, it defaults to 10,000 pages\n4. Crawls are asynchronous. Call crawl_start, then poll crawl_result with the returned id\n5. Set SCRAPELESS_API_KEY for the stdio server. Older guides use SCRAPELESS_KEY, which still works as a fallback\n\n### ScrapingAnt\n\n1. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header rather than the query string\n2. Use `/v2/markdown` for LLM input, and set `browser=false` on static pages to pay 1 credit instead of 10\n3. Switch to `proxy_type=residential` only after a 423 (anti-bot) response. It raises a browser request from 10 to 125 credits\n4. On the free plan a second concurrent request gets 409. 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