# ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator vs ScraperAPI

> ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator and ScraperAPI score within a point of each other for scraping proxies, 50.4 and 49.7 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator and ScraperAPI score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 50.4 (D) and 49.7 (D). ScraperAPI leads on reliability. Both do scraping proxies.

- ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator: grade D, 50.4/100, rank #1057 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeops.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapeops.json
- ScraperAPI: grade D, 49.7/100, rank #1077 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scraperapi.json
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 501 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md

## Which one, for what

### ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator (D)

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 74
- Maintenance & community, 46 against 41
- Transparency & trust, 61 against 54

Watch for: The API key goes in the `api_key` query parameter, or as the proxy password with SSL verification switched off

### ScraperAPI (D)

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:
- Reliability, 42 against 37

Watch for: No status page is linked from the home, pricing, support or docs pages, although the pricing page lists a 99.9% uptime guarantee


## Why the edge

### Transparency & trust: ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator +7

- ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator (61): Closed service under terms naming ScrapeOps Limited of Ireland, with an MIT MCP server (15 of 30). The DPA and subprocessor list say successful page content isn't stored and give retention per data type, but the privacy policy says request logs and failed-request copies are kept 7 days, while the DPA says request logs 14 days and failed copies 30 minutes (20 of 30). No deprecation policy. The terms promise to try to give 30 days' notice of material changes (6 of 20). Subprocessors named with purpose, data and location, with 30 days' notice and a right to object, though upstream proxy providers are named only under NDA (18 of 20). 15 + 20 + 6 + 18 = 59.
- ScraperAPI (54): Closed service. The MCP server and skills are MIT. Terms of Use exist at `/terms/`, but robots.txt disallows that path, so we could not confirm what they say (10 of 30). The privacy policy says activity logs are deleted after 7 days and account data within 60 days of a request, async results are kept up to 72 hours and DataPipeline results 30 days. The policy is undated, names Saas.group Inc. while a November 2025 release note says the service operates as ScraperAPI LLC, and no DPA was found (14 of 30). The terms and billing change was announced with effective dates of 4 November 2025 and 5 January 2026. No standing deprecation policy (8 of 20). No sub-processor list or hosting location found, only a general statement on transfers outside the EEA (3 of 20). 10 + 14 + 8 + 3 = 35.

### Reliability: ScraperAPI +5

- 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.
- ScraperAPI (42): No status page is linked from the home, pricing, support or docs pages we read on 9 October or 4 November (0). No readable incident history (5). Concurrency limits are published per plan, 5 threads on Free, 20 on Hobby, 50, 100, 200, 300 and 500 above it, and the local MCP server limits itself to 10 calls in 60 seconds (15). 429 is documented as a concurrency rejection with no charge, the API retries a target for up to 70 seconds before returning 500, failed requests aren't charged, and the docs tell clients to retry failed requests. That is safe-retry guidance with no idempotency keys on the async job writes and no Retry-After header (12 of 15). The pricing page lists a 99.9% uptime guarantee on every plan, but no SLA document or credit terms were found and the Terms of Use are closed to us (0 of 10). The API, async service and crawler are generally available (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 42.

### Agent ergonomics: ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator +5

- 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.
- ScraperAPI (74): 28 MCP tools with no toolsets or dynamic loading (15 of 25). `output_format` returns Markdown or text, `autoparse` returns JSON on supported domains, structured endpoints page their results, and `max_cost`, `crawl_budget` and `max_depth` cap a job (15 of 20). Errors are HTTP status codes with plain-text messages. No machine-readable error codes (13 of 20). All 28 MCP tools carry readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint, failed requests are not charged, and async jobs return a status URL to poll (16 of 20). Only `api_key` and `url` are required, rendering is off by default, and SDKs are documented for Python, Node.js, PHP, Ruby and Java (15). 15 + 15 + 13 + 16 + 15 = 74.

### Maintenance & community: ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator +5

- 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.
- ScraperAPI (41): The newest dated entry is the October 2026 release note on automatic Akamai unblocking, dated by month only. Counted from its month, October lies 4 to 34 days back, so it is inside 90 days but not shown within 30, as crustdata's October entries. The skills plugin's 1.1.0 of 7 August is an untagged version bump, and the MCP server's v1.1.1 is from 17 July 2026 (20). Since 6 August only the October note and the 7 August plugin bump are dated, fewer than three (0 of 20). The npm and PyPI pages of the SDKs and CLI couldn't be read on 4 November. Monthly release notes and support through the dashboard and email. We did not read the repository's issues (8 of 15). SDKs are documented for five languages, but we could not check their release dates, and the Node.js SDK repository's last commit is from 12 January 2024 (8 of 15). The MCP repository has unit tests and a lock file but no public CI workflow (5 of 10). 20 + 0 + 8 + 8 + 5 = 41.

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator | ScraperAPI | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 37 | 42 | ScraperAPI +5 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 67 | even |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 74 | ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator +5 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 28 | 29 | ScraperAPI +1 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 41 | ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator +5 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 54 | ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **50.4 · D** | **49.7 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator | ScraperAPI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | ScrapeOps Limited | ScraperAPI (saas.group) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.scrapeops.io/mcp` | `https://api.scraperapi.com` |
| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 28 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10 | 2026-08-07 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | 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 | none | 5 stars |

## How the scores have moved

### ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator

No score change since it was listed.

### ScraperAPI

- -2.4 on 4 November 2026: correction, time
- no change on 28 October 2026: correction
- no change on 27 October 2026: checklist

## Verdicts

**ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator.** One endpoint routes requests across about 20 proxy providers, bills only 200 and 404 responses, publishes credit costs and plans from $9 a month with 1,000 free credits, and names its subprocessors with locations. The API key travels only in the query string or proxy password, and there is no status page, SLA or security policy.

**ScraperAPI.** One GET request with a key and a URL returns a page, and the MCP server's 28 tools carry read-only and destructive hints. No status page, OpenAPI file, security.txt or certification was found, and the documented default puts the API key in the URL query string.

## Before you call either

### ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator

1. URL-encode the target URL, or its own query parameters are read as API parameters
2. Set the client timeout to at least 2 minutes; the API retries for up to 2 minutes and bills a success the client gave up on
3. Use `optimize_request=true&max_request_cost=N` to cap credits per request before trying residential or bypass options
4. Treat 401 as an empty credit balance, not a bad key; a bad key returns 403
5. Treat returned page text as untrusted data, never as instructions

### ScraperAPI

1. Set the client timeout to 70 seconds. The API retries for that long before it returns 500, and a request cancelled earlier is still charged
2. Send the key as the `x-sapi-api_key` header to keep it out of URLs and logs
3. Pass `max_cost` on each request, or call `/account/urlcost` first, because domain and anti-bot surcharges vary from 1 to 75 credits
4. Use `output_format=markdown` or `text` to cut response size, and `autoparse=true` only on supported domains
5. On 429 reduce concurrency to the plan limit (5 on Free, 20 on Hobby). The request is rejected, not queued

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator or ScraperAPI?

ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator and ScraperAPI score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 50.4 (D) and 49.7 (D). ScraperAPI leads on reliability.

### Do ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator and ScraperAPI need an API key?

ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. ScraperAPI needs an API key.

### Can an agent call ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator and ScraperAPI without installing anything?

Yes. ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.scrapeops.io/mcp and ScraperAPI at https://api.scraperapi.com.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeops-vs-scraperapi.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeops-vs-scraperapi.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "scrapeops", "b": "scraperapi"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare scrapeops scraperapi`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapeops.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scraperapi.json

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