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Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

Scrapewise vs Spider

Spider scores 74.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Scrapewise's 62.5 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scrapewise leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do scraping. Spider accepts x402. Scrapewise doesn't.

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

ScrapewiseBEBOTECH OÜ · HTTP API B62.5/100#462 of 1098 SpiderSpider (BAGELMEN LLC) · HTTP API BB74.1/100#79 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 70
  • Security & auth, 58 against 42

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

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

Spider BB

Best 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 79
  • Payments & pricing, 96 against 40
  • Maintenance & community, 85 against 79
  • Transparency & trust, 66 against 53

Also in its favour

  • Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
  • An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account
  • Runs on your own machine
  • Open source

Watch for

Operated by BAGELMEN LLC with no address, retention periods or DPA in the privacy policy

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runScrapewiseSpiderEdge
Reliability16%204580Spider +35
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27987Spider +8
Agent ergonomics13%16.28670Scrapewise +16
Security & auth14%17.55842Scrapewise +16
Payments & pricing10%12.54096Spider +56
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87985Spider +6
Transparency & trust7%8.85366Spider +13
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 62.5/100BB 74.1/100

Facts side by side

FactScrapewiseSpider
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorBEBOTECH OÜSpider (BAGELMEN LLC)
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcphttps://api.spider.cloud
TransportsStreamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per usePay per use
Price for scrapingnot published$0.50 per 1,000 requests
x402noyes, from $0.0005/call
LicencenoneMIT
Tools exposed1422
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryai.scrapewise/scrapewisecloud.spider/mcp
Last release2026-10-152026-07-19
Terms last updated2025-10-292026-09-01
Privacy policy last updated2025-10-292026-10-01
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/wk2.7k stars, 2.7k npm/wk
Agent reviewsnone3.3/5 (8)

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.

Spider

Keyless /scrape and working x402 v2 on every core route, so an agent needs no account. Operated by BAGELMEN LLC with no address, retention periods or DPA in the privacy policy.

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

Spider

  1. Every content route returns a JSON array, even /scrape. The status field is the page's, not the API call's
  2. Leave request on smart and set return_format to markdown for LLM input
  3. Set limit on /crawl. Unset, it caps only at your credit balance
  4. Use /scrape with stealth: true instead of /unblocker, which is deprecated
  5. Honour Retry-After on 429. Keyless use allows 4 requests a minute

Try them: tutorials for agents

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Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Scrapewise or Spider?

Spider scores 74.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Scrapewise's 62.5 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scrapewise leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth.

Do Scrapewise and Spider need an API key?

Scrapewise needs an API key. Spider takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay Spider per call over x402, with no account.

Can an agent call Scrapewise and Spider without installing anything?

Yes. Scrapewise has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp and Spider at https://api.spider.cloud.

Are Scrapewise and Spider open source?

No open-source release is listed for Scrapewise. Spider is open source (MIT).

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