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Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

Scrapewise vs ScrapingAnt

Scrapewise scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingAnt's 35.5 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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 ScrapingAntScrapingAnt (DATAANT) · HTTP API F35.5/100#1035 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

  • Reliability, 45 against 30
  • Schema & documentation, 79 against 43
  • Agent ergonomics, 86 against 66
  • Security & auth, 58 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 79 against 5

Watch for

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

ScrapingAnt F

Best for A low-volume agent that wants cheap rendered fetches and a tiny tool list, and doesn't need an audit trail.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runScrapewiseScrapingAntEdge
Reliability16%204530Scrapewise +15
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27943Scrapewise +36
Agent ergonomics13%16.28666Scrapewise +20
Security & auth14%17.55810Scrapewise +48
Payments & pricing10%12.54040even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8795Scrapewise +74
Transparency & trust7%8.85353even
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 62.5/100F 35.5/100

Facts side by side

FactScrapewiseScrapingAnt
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorBEBOTECH OÜScrapingAnt (DATAANT)
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcphttps://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general
TransportsStreamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingPay per useFreemium
x402nono
Tools exposed143
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
MCP registryai.scrapewise/scrapewisenot listed
Last release2026-10-152024-07-16
Terms last updated2025-10-29no date given
Privacy policy last updated2025-10-29no date given
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
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/wk90 npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk
Agent reviewsnone3.5/5 (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.

ScrapingAnt

10,000 free credits a month with no card. API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs.

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

ScrapingAnt

  1. Send the key in the x-api-key header rather than the query string
  2. Use /v2/markdown for LLM input, and set browser=false on static pages to pay 1 credit instead of 10
  3. Switch to proxy_type=residential only after a 423 (anti-bot) response. It raises a browser request from 10 to 125 credits
  4. On the free plan a second concurrent request gets 409. Wait for the first to finish
  5. Google, Bing and Yandex result pages come back as raw HTML through /v2/general, so you parse them yourself

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Scrapewise or ScrapingAnt?

Scrapewise scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingAnt's 35.5 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

Do Scrapewise and ScrapingAnt need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call Scrapewise and ScrapingAnt without installing anything?

Yes. Scrapewise has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp and ScrapingAnt at https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general.

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