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Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

Scrapewise vs ScrapingBee

Scrapewise scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingBee's 59.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingBee leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. 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 ScrapingBeeScrapingBee (Oxylabs group) · HTTP API C59.2/100#594 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

  • Schema & documentation, 79 against 60
  • Agent ergonomics, 86 against 68
  • Security & auth, 58 against 37

Watch for

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

ScrapingBee C

Best for Agents that mix general scraping with ready-made Google, Amazon and YouTube endpoints and want spend capped per call.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 70 against 45
  • Maintenance & community, 85 against 79
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 53

Watch for

remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runScrapewiseScrapingBeeEdge
Reliability16%204570ScrapingBee +25
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27960Scrapewise +19
Agent ergonomics13%16.28668Scrapewise +18
Security & auth14%17.55837Scrapewise +21
Payments & pricing10%12.54040even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87985ScrapingBee +6
Transparency & trust7%8.85363ScrapingBee +10
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 62.5/100C 59.2/100

Facts side by side

FactScrapewiseScrapingBee
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorBEBOTECH OÜScrapingBee (Oxylabs group)
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcphttps://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/
TransportsStreamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingPay per usePaid
x402nono
Tools exposed1418
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryai.scrapewise/scrapewisenot listed
Last release2026-10-152026-09-11
Terms last updated2025-10-292024-07-15
Privacy policy last updated2025-10-292024-07-15
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 textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularity1 stars, 30 PyPI/wk132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/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.

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.

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

ScrapingBee

  1. Send render_js=false for static pages and files. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1
  2. Use mode=auto with max_cost=25 to stop it escalating to 75-credit stealth requests
  3. Keep the MCP URL with ?api_key= out of logs and shared configs
  4. Back off exponentially on 429 from the MCP, since its concurrency is shared across customers
  5. Expect 404 and 410 from the target to be billed. Other failures aren't

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Scrapewise or ScrapingBee?

Scrapewise scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapingBee's 59.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingBee leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

Do Scrapewise and ScrapingBee need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call Scrapewise and ScrapingBee without installing anything?

Yes. Scrapewise has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp and ScrapingBee at https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/.

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