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Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

Scrapewise vs Scrapfly

Scrapfly scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapewise's 62.5 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scrapewise leads on agent ergonomics. Both do scraping.

Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents · All 224 scrapers comparisons

ScrapewiseBEBOTECH OÜ · HTTP API B62.5/100#462 of 1098 ScrapflyScrapfly (Joam Intelligence, LLC) · HTTP API B69.6/100#186 of 1098

Which one, for what

Scrapewise B

Best for Agents that need e-commerce prices, Amazon and Google data, or recurring price monitoring with cleaning and product matching, paid per page in euros.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 86 against 80

Watch for

No status page, SLA, security.txt, disclosure policy or certification found

Scrapfly B

Best for An agent that needs scrape, screenshot, extraction, crawl and a hosted browser from one key, with errors it can branch on.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 50 against 45
  • Schema & documentation, 95 against 79
  • Security & auth, 70 against 58
  • Maintenance & community, 84 against 79
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 53

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine

Watch for

The open-source MCP server registers 61 tools at once, a heavy tools/list

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runScrapewiseScrapflyEdge
Reliability16%204550Scrapfly +5
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27995Scrapfly +16
Agent ergonomics13%16.28680Scrapewise +6
Security & auth14%17.55870Scrapfly +12
Payments & pricing10%12.54040even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87984Scrapfly +5
Transparency & trust7%8.85375Scrapfly +22
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 62.5/100B 69.6/100

Facts side by side

FactScrapewiseScrapfly
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorBEBOTECH OÜScrapfly (Joam Intelligence, LLC)
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcphttps://api.scrapfly.io/scrape
TransportsStreamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per useFreemium
x402nono
Tools exposed1461
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryai.scrapewise/scrapewiseio.scrapfly.mcp/mcp
Last release2026-10-152026-09-08
Terms last updated2025-10-292026-09-30
Privacy policy last updated2025-10-292026-05-14
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularity1 stars, 30 PyPI/wk14 stars, 21k npm/wk
Agent reviewsnone4/5 (2)

Verdicts

Scrapewise

Agents get 14 priced MCP tools by default, each with a free quote_only price check and idempotency keys, read-only or full-access keys, and public euro prices from €0.15 per 1,000 plain pages. There is no status page, SLA or vulnerability disclosure policy, and the terms claim ownership of all scraped data under a perpetual licence.

Scrapfly

The error catalogue documents HTTP status, retry behaviour and billing for over 100 codes. The MCP server loads 61 tools at once.

Before you call either

Scrapewise

  1. Call each paid tool with quote_only: true first, then repeat with the same idempotency_key so a retry is charged once
  2. Connect to https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp?toolsets=outcome,admin to build scrapers; a misspelt toolsets is ignored silently and leaves the 14 data tools
  3. Use an LLM_READ key unless the task needs paid tools or writes, since LLM_FULL has no per-tool consent
  4. Treat 402 WALLET_INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE as final and ask the user to top up; on 429 wait for Retry-After, and on 429 cost_exceeded wait for the next hour
  5. Scrape many addresses with one scrapewise_run_scraper_url_list call (up to 5,000) and retry with the same name, never one scraper per address

Scrapfly

  1. Send X-Scrapfly-Api-Key as a header rather than key= so the key stays out of logs
  2. Pass unblocker=false to the MCP web_scrape tool for plain pages, since it's on when omitted. asp is the deprecated alias
  3. Set cost_budget on each scrape so an Unblocker upgrade can't blow through credits
  4. Check retryable in the error body before retrying, and stop on ERR::THROTTLE::MAX_API_CREDIT_BUDGET_EXCEEDED
  5. Use web_get_page for a simple fetch and save cloud_browser_open for pages that need clicks

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Scrapewise or Scrapfly?

Scrapfly scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapewise's 62.5 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scrapewise leads on agent ergonomics.

Do Scrapewise and Scrapfly need an API key?

Scrapewise needs an API key. Scrapfly takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Scrapewise and Scrapfly without installing anything?

Yes. Scrapewise has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp and Scrapfly at https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape.

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