# Scrapewise vs Spider

> Spider scores 74.1 (BB) to Scrapewise's 62.5 (B) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-16

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.

- Scrapewise: grade B, 62.5/100, rank #462 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapewise.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapewise.json
- Spider: grade BB, 74.1/100, rank #79 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spider-cloud.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/spider-cloud.json
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 224 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Scrapewise (B)

Good 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)

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 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

| Category | Weight | Scrapewise | Spider | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 80 | Spider +35 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 87 | Spider +8 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 70 | Scrapewise +16 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 42 | Scrapewise +16 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 96 | Spider +56 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 85 | Spider +6 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 66 | Spider +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **62.5 · B** | **74.1 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Scrapewise | Spider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | BEBOTECH OÜ | Spider (BAGELMEN LLC) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp` | `https://api.spider.cloud` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | 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 | 14 | 22 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `ai.scrapewise/scrapewise` | `cloud.spider/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-07-19 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-10-29 | 2026-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-10-29 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 1 stars, 30 PyPI/wk | 2.7k stars, 2.7k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (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

## Tutorials

- [Save a page as Markdown with Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/spider-cloud/), for Spider

## 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).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapewise-vs-spider-cloud.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapewise-vs-spider-cloud.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "scrapewise", "b": "spider-cloud"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare scrapewise spider-cloud`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapewise.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/spider-cloud.json

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