# ScraperAPI vs Spider (slim)

> Spider scores 74.1 (BB) to ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Spider scores 74.1 (BB) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do scraping. Spider accepts x402. ScraperAPI doesn't.

- ScraperAPI: D 52.1, rank #739 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.min.md
- Spider: BB 74.1, rank #76 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spider-cloud.min.md
- 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. Also Free to start without a card.
- Spider, good for An agent that has to start without a human, pay per call, or crawl many small pages cheaply. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 45; Schema & documentation, 87 against 67; Security & auth, 42 against 29; Payments & pricing, 96 against 40; Maintenance & community, 85 against 61; Transparency & trust, 66 against 54. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; Open source.

| Category | ScraperAPI | Spider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 45 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 29 | 42 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 96 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 61 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ScraperAPI | Spider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ScraperAPI (saas.group) | Spider (BAGELMEN LLC) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scraperapi.com` | `https://api.spider.cloud` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for scraping | not published | $0.50 per 1,000 requests |
| x402 | no | yes, from $0.0005/call |
| Licence | none | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 28 | 22 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `cloud.spider/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-08-07 | 2026-07-19 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 5 stars | 2.7k stars, 2.7k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (8) |