{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "scraperapi", "name": "ScraperAPI", "vendor": "ScraperAPI (saas.group)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.scraperapi.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Web scraping API that fetches a URL through rotating proxies with optional JavaScript rendering and anti-bot bypass, and returns HTML, Markdown, text or parsed JSON. It has async jobs, a crawler, structured data endpoints and an MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scraperapi.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.scraperapi.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scraperapi-mcp-server" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scraperapi-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "scraperapi-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "scraperapi-cli" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from the dashboard after a browser signup. The sync API takes it as the `api_key` query parameter by default or as an `x-sapi-api_key` header. The async, crawler and AI parser APIs take it in the JSON body, and the remote MCP server takes `Authorization: Bearer`. One key per account, regenerated at most once every 24 hours, with no scopes.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with 5 concurrent threads, and 5,000 credits for the first 7 days, no card. Hobby $49 a month (100,000 credits, 20 threads), Startup $149 (1 million, 50), Business $299 (3 million, 100), Scaling $475 (5 million, 200), Professional $975 (10.5 million, 300), Advanced $1,975 (21.5 million, 500), Enterprise custom. Annual billing takes 10% off. A plain request costs 1 credit, rendering or premium proxies 10, Google and Bing 25. Only 200 and 404 responses are charged. Pay-as-you-go overage starts at Scaling (https://www.scraperapi.com/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$49 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the pricing page or llms.txt (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 28, "popularity": { "githubStars": 5, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.scraperapi.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.scraperapi.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.extract", "web.crawl", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.screenshot", "scraping.serp" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "api-key", "mcp", "llms-txt", "proxies", "async-jobs", "webhooks", "cli", "python", "javascript", "php", "ruby", "java", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 52.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 739, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 61, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 67, "security": 29, "transparency": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Only `api_key` and `url` are required, and JavaScript rendering is off by default, so a plain request costs 1 credit", "Failed requests are not charged. Only 200 and 404 responses are billed, and each response carries an `sa-credit-cost` header", "`max_cost` caps the credits one request may spend, and `/account/urlcost` returns the cost of a URL before it is scraped", "The open-source MCP server (MIT) defines 28 typed tools, each with read-only, destructive and idempotent hints", "Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card, plus 5,000 credits for the first 7 days" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page is linked from the home, pricing, support or docs pages, although the pricing page lists a 99.9% uptime guarantee", "The documented default sends the API key in the URL query string. A header alternative, `x-sapi-api_key`, exists", "No OpenAPI file, security.txt, bug bounty, certification or sub-processor list was found", "The site's robots.txt disallows `/terms/`, so the Terms of Use went unread by us", "Google and Bing cost 25 credits a request and LinkedIn 30, and a bypassed anti-bot check adds 10" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "Send the key as the `x-sapi-api_key` header to keep it out of URLs and logs", "Pass `max_cost` on each request, or call `/account/urlcost` first, because domain and anti-bot surcharges vary from 1 to 75 credits", "Use `output_format=markdown` or `text` to cut response size, and `autoparse=true` only on supported domains", "On 429 reduce concurrency to the plan limit (5 on Free, 20 on Hobby). The request is rejected, not queued" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 52.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 61, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 67, "security": 29, "transparency": 35 }, "provenanceScore": 72 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install scraperapi-mcp-server", "http": "curl --request GET \\\n--url 'https://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=API_KEY\u0026url=https://www.example.com'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add scraperapi -- npx mcp-remote https://mcp.scraperapi.com/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer {YOUR_API_KEY}\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "ScraperAPIRemote": { "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.scraperapi.com/mcp", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer {YOUR_API_KEY}" ], "command": "npx" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/scraperapi" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Hobby plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "100,000 credits, 20 concurrent threads" }, { "item": "Startup plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 149, "note": "1 million credits, 50 concurrent threads" }, { "item": "Business plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 299, "note": "3 million credits, 100 concurrent threads" }, { "item": "Plain request on Hobby", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.49, "note": "1 credit each, no rendering" }, { "item": "Rendered request on Hobby", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 4.9, "note": "render=true, 10 credits each" }, { "item": "Google or Bing request on Hobby", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 12.25, "note": "25 credits each" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "ScraperAPI LLC", "domain": "scraperapi.com", "domainRegistered": "2018-05-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.scraperapi.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.scraperapi.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.scraperapi.com/resources/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The legal entity is taken from a November 2025 release note that says the service now operates as ScraperAPI LLC. The privacy policy names ScraperAPI and Saas.group Inc. and carries no date.", "robots.txt disallows `/terms/` for every agent, so the Terms of Use were not read. The link is the one in the site footer.", "No status page is linked from the home, pricing, support or docs pages read on 9 October 2026." ], "score": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.json", "live": { "slug": "scraperapi", "probe": { "target": "https://api.scraperapi.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:23.635021127Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 274, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 292, "p95ms24h": 420, "samples24h": 107, "samples30d": 107, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 22, "ok": 22 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "scraperapi-cli", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:18:21.384773614Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "scraperapi-sdk", "version": "2.0.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:18:20.565772441Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scraperapi-mcp-server", "version": "1.1.1", "released": "2026-07-17", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:18:18.482139053Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scraperapi-sdk", "version": "1.6.1", "released": "2026-07-20", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:18:18.669301731Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 9692, "pypiWeekly": 30, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.scraperapi.com/resources/release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:13.938433175Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "4aebcdd45c58" }, { "url": "https://www.scraperapi.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:48.25707916Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6255ef627810" }, { "url": "https://www.scraperapi.com/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:50.700817252Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "96d859a19f94" }, { "url": "https://www.scraperapi.com/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 0, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:53.81669813Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "blockedByRobots": true } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:23.635021127Z" } }, "answer": "ScrapingBee scores 59.2 (C) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ScraperAPI leads on schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics.", "b": { "slug": "scrapingbee", "name": "ScrapingBee", "vendor": "ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.scrapingbee.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "HTML API that fetches a URL through rotating, premium or stealth proxies with headless rendering, JavaScript scenarios, screenshots and CSS or AI extraction.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingbee.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scrapingbee" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "scrapingbee" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scrapingbee-cli" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "The HTML API takes the key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header, and the Python (v2.2.0) and Node (v2.0.0) SDKs send it that way since 1 September 2026. The older api_key query parameter still works but is deprecated. remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP takes the key only as an api_key query parameter in its URL, while the official CLI's AGENTS.md (5 September 2026) says it takes a Bearer header.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Trial of 1,000 credits, no card. Hobby $19 a month (75,000 credits, 25 concurrent), Freelance $49 (250,000, 50), Startup $99 (1 million, 100), Business $249 (3 million, 200), Business+ $599 (8 million, 400), excluding VAT. JavaScript rendering is on by default, so a basic call costs 5 credits, 1 without rendering, 10 or 25 with premium proxies and 75 with stealth proxies. Google search costs 10 credits (https://www.scrapingbee.com/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$19 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 in the pricing page, llms.txt or the HTML API and MCP references (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 18, "popularity": { "githubStars": 132, "npmWeekly": 48527, "pypiWeekly": 71721, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/", "llmsTxt": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.extract", "web.search", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.screenshot", "scraping.serp" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "proxies", "python", "typescript", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-11", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.2, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 557, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 40, "reliability": 70, "schema": 60, "security": 37, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini endpoints next to the general HTML API. remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL.", "bestFor": "Agents that mix general scraping with ready-made Google, Amazon and YouTube endpoints and want spend capped per call.", "strengths": [ "Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini endpoints next to the general HTML API", "Auto mode with a max_cost cap bills only the tier that works, and 429s and failures aren't billed", "Per-endpoint llms files plus a reference-notes file that lists 9 known conflicts in its own docs", "Seven SDK and CLI releases between 8 July and 11 September 2026, with tests in CI", "The official CLI skills tell agents to treat scraped output as data and flag instruction-like content" ], "weaknesses": [ "remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL", "JavaScript rendering on by default makes a plain call 5 credits instead of 1", "Only a one-off 1,000-credit trial, no monthly free tier", "No API changelog, security.txt, bug bounty or certification found", "HTML scraper degraded for about 24 hours from 28 July 2026, and dedicated APIs down for about 40 minutes on 24 July" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send render_js=false for static pages and files. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1", "Use mode=auto with max_cost=25 to stop it escalating to 75-credit stealth requests", "Keep the MCP URL with ?api_key= out of logs and shared configs", "Back off exponentially on 429 from the MCP, since its concurrency is shared across customers", "Expect 404 and 410 from the target to be billed. Other failures aren't" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 40, "reliability": 70, "schema": 60, "security": 37, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 75 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --get 'https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/' \\\n --header \"Authorization: Bearer $SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY\" \\\n --data-urlencode 'url=https://example.com' --data-urlencode 'render_js=false'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http scrapingbee \"https://mcp.scrapingbee.com/mcp?api_key=$SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "scrapingbee": { "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.scrapingbee.com/mcp?api_key=${SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY}" ], "command": "npx" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/scrapingbee" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Hobby plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 19, "note": "75,000 credits, 25 concurrent, excluding VAT" }, { "item": "Freelance plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "250,000 credits, 50 concurrent" }, { "item": "Startup plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "1 million credits, 100 concurrent" }, { "item": "Default request on Hobby", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1.27, "note": "JavaScript rendering on by default, 5 credits each" }, { "item": "Request without rendering on Hobby", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.25, "note": "render_js=false, 1 credit each" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "VostokInc SAS", "domain": "scrapingbee.com", "domainRegistered": "2019-09-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/terms-and-conditions/", "privacy": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.scrapingbee.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "VostokInc is a Paris société par actions simplifiée, registration number 843 352 683, per the legal notices at https://www.scrapingbee.com/legal-notices/.", "Owned by the Oxylabs company group since June 2025. The terms still name VostokInc." ], "score": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.json", "live": { "slug": "scrapingbee", "probe": { "target": "https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:23.863806102Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 400, "lastMs": 59, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 99.59, "p50ms24h": 50, "p95ms24h": 124, "samples24h": 250, "samples30d": 2458, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 262 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 22, "ok": 22 } ], "outages": [ { "start": "2026-10-06T05:06:59.544908317Z", "end": "2026-10-06T06:01:15.865578543Z", "note": "HTTP 503 server error" } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.scrapingbee.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T00:51:14.03913438Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "scrapingbee", "version": "2.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:18:31.385413577Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scrapingbee", "version": "2.2.0", "released": "2026-09-01", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:18:30.205725546Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scrapingbee-cli", "version": "1.6.0", "released": "2026-09-11", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:18:31.804031315Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 23370, "pypiWeekly": 65578, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://scrapingbee.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:39:24.552990014Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:02:44.948574866Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "scrapingbee.com", "registered": "2019-09-18", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/scrapingbee.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:03.506417474Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:52.524378897Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-05T16:04:25.822209721Z", "fingerprint": "a1908e72b286" }, { "url": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:54.620042348Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ac25595d45e2" }, { "url": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/terms-and-conditions/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:56.605762284Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "22104587a854" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:23.863806102Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "ScraperAPI (saas.group)", "b": "ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.scraperapi.com", "b": "https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "28", "b": "18", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-08-07", "b": "2026-09-11", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2024-07-15", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2024-07-15", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "5 stars", "b": "132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "4/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "ScrapingBee scores 59.2 (C) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ScraperAPI leads on schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, ScraperAPI or ScrapingBee?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do ScraperAPI and ScrapingBee need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. ScraperAPI has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scraperapi.com and ScrapingBee at https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/.", "question": "Can an agent call ScraperAPI and ScrapingBee without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 67 against 60", "Agent ergonomics, 74 against 68" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "scraperapi", "watchFor": "No status page is linked from the home, pricing, support or docs pages, although the pricing page lists a 99.9% uptime guarantee" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 70 against 45", "Security \u0026 auth, 37 against 29", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 61", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 54" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that mix general scraping with ready-made Google, Amazon and YouTube endpoints 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"ScrapeGraphAI vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Scrapeless vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Scrapeless vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zyte.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Scrapfly vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "ScrapingAnt vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "ScrapingBee vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "ScrapingBee vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "ScrapingBee vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zyte.json", "title": "ScrapingBee vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-scraperapi" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 25, "edge": "scrapingbee", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "scraperapi": 45, "scrapingbee": 70, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "scraperapi", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "scraperapi": 67, "scrapingbee": 60, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "scraperapi", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "scraperapi": 74, "scrapingbee": 68, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "scrapingbee", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "scraperapi": 29, "scrapingbee": 37, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "scraperapi": 40, "scrapingbee": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 24, "edge": "scrapingbee", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "scraperapi": 61, "scrapingbee": 85, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "scrapingbee", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "scraperapi": 54, "scrapingbee": 63, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "ScrapingBee scores 59.2 (C) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ScraperAPI leads on schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics. Both do scraping.", "verdicts": { "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.", "scrapingbee": "Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini endpoints next to the general HTML API. remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingbee", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingbee.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingbee.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingbee.min.md" }, "markdown": "ScrapingBee scores 59.2 (C) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ScraperAPI leads on schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics. Both do scraping.\n\n- ScraperAPI: grade D, 52.1/100, rank #739 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scraperapi.json\n- ScrapingBee: grade C, 59.2/100, rank #557 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingbee.json\n- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md\n- All 167 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### ScraperAPI (D)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 67 against 60\n- Agent ergonomics, 74 against 68\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: No status page is linked from the home, pricing, support or docs pages, although the pricing page lists a 99.9% uptime guarantee\n\n### ScrapingBee (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that mix general scraping with ready-made Google, Amazon and YouTube endpoints and want spend capped per call.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 45\n- Security \u0026 auth, 37 against 29\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 61\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 54\n\nWatch for: remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | ScraperAPI | ScrapingBee | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 70 | ScrapingBee +25 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 60 | ScraperAPI +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 68 | ScraperAPI +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 29 | 37 | ScrapingBee +8 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 85 | ScrapingBee +24 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 63 | ScrapingBee +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.1 · D** | **59.2 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | ScraperAPI | ScrapingBee |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | ScraperAPI (saas.group) | ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scraperapi.com` | `https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Tools exposed | 28 | 18 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-08-07 | 2026-09-11 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2024-07-15 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2024-07-15 |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 5 stars | 132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**ScrapingBee.** Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini endpoints next to the general HTML API. remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### ScraperAPI\n\n1. 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\n2. Send the key as the `x-sapi-api_key` header to keep it out of URLs and logs\n3. Pass `max_cost` on each request, or call `/account/urlcost` first, because domain and anti-bot surcharges vary from 1 to 75 credits\n4. Use `output_format=markdown` or `text` to cut response size, and `autoparse=true` only on supported domains\n5. On 429 reduce concurrency to the plan limit (5 on Free, 20 on Hobby). The request is rejected, not queued\n\n### ScrapingBee\n\n1. Send render_js=false for static pages and files. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1\n2. Use mode=auto with max_cost=25 to stop it escalating to 75-credit stealth requests\n3. Keep the MCP URL with ?api_key= out of logs and shared configs\n4. Back off exponentially on 429 from the MCP, since its concurrency is shared across customers\n5. Expect 404 and 410 from the target to be billed. Other failures aren't\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, ScraperAPI or ScrapingBee?\n\nScrapingBee scores 59.2 (C) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ScraperAPI leads on schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics.\n\n### Do ScraperAPI and ScrapingBee need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call ScraperAPI and ScrapingBee without installing anything?\n\nYes. ScraperAPI has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scraperapi.com and ScrapingBee at https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingbee.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingbee.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"scraperapi\", \"b\": \"scrapingbee\"}`. 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