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          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "scrapfly-sdk"
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          "registry": "npm",
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      "pricingNotes": "1,000 free credits on signup, no card. Discovery $30 a month (200,000 credits), Pro $100 (1 million), Startup $250 (2.5 million), Enterprise $500 (5.5 million), custom from $1,200. Annual billing gives 2 months free. A datacenter request costs 1 credit, residential 25, browser rendering adds 5, and the Unblocker can add target-specific fees that aren't published. Extra credits run $5 per 10,000 on Discovery down to $1.20 on Enterprise, and Discovery and Free stop at quota (https://scrapfly.io/pricing).",
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        "scraping.anti-bot",
        "scraping.screenshot"
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          "Hosted MCP with OAuth open to all plans, and API keys restrictable to products since 15 April 2026",
          "MCP tools carry readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and idempotentHint, and mutating vault and alert tools need confirm=true",
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          "Check `retryable` in the error body before retrying, and stop on `ERR::THROTTLE::MAX_API_CREDIT_BUDGET_EXCEEDED`",
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          "item": "Enterprise plan",
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          "registry": "npm",
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      "pricingNotes": "10,000 free credits a month, no card, one concurrent request. Enthusiast $19 a month (100,000 credits), Startup $49 (500,000), Business $249 (3M), Business Pro $599 (8M), Custom from $699 (10M+). A plain request on a datacenter proxy costs 1 credit, headless Chrome with JS rendering 10 (the default), Chrome plus residential proxy 125, and the AI extractor adds 1 credit per 30 characters. Failed requests aren't charged. Residential proxies $3 to $6 a GB and datacenter $0.42 to $0.60 a GB, billed separately (https://scrapingant.com/#pricing).",
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          "Failed requests cost nothing, and the Ant-credits-cost header reports spend per call",
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          "Use `/v2/markdown` for LLM input, and set `browser=false` on static pages to pay 1 credit instead of 10",
          "Switch to `proxy_type=residential` only after a 423 (anti-bot) response. It raises a browser request from 10 to 125 credits",
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                "x-api-key": "${SCRAPINGANT_API_KEY}"
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        },
        {
          "item": "Business plan",
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        },
        {
          "item": "Default browser request on Enthusiast",
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        },
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        {
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        },
        {
          "item": "Datacenter proxy",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingant.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Scrapfly for reliability (+20), schema \u0026 documentation (+52), agent ergonomics (+14), security \u0026 auth (+60), maintenance \u0026 community (+79), transparency \u0026 trust (+20).\n\nPick ScrapingAnt for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Scrapfly | ScrapingAnt | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 30 | Scrapfly +20 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 95 | 43 | Scrapfly +52 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 66 | Scrapfly +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 10 | Scrapfly +60 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 5 | Scrapfly +79 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 57 | Scrapfly +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **69.8 · B** | **35.9 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Scrapfly | ScrapingAnt |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Scrapfly (Joam Intelligence, LLC) | ScrapingAnt (DATAANT) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape` | `https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | 61 | 3 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | `io.scrapfly.mcp/mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-08 | 2024-07-16 |\n| Popularity | 14 stars, 21k npm/wk | 90 npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Scrapfly.** The error catalogue documents HTTP status, retry behaviour and billing for over 100 codes. The MCP server loads 61 tools at once.\n\n**ScrapingAnt.** 10,000 free credits a month with no card. API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Scrapfly\n\n1. Send `X-Scrapfly-Api-Key` as a header rather than `key=` so the key stays out of logs\n2. Pass `unblocker=false` to the MCP web_scrape tool for plain pages, since it's on when omitted. `asp` is the deprecated alias\n3. Set `cost_budget` on each scrape so an Unblocker upgrade can't blow through credits\n4. Check `retryable` in the error body before retrying, and stop on `ERR::THROTTLE::MAX_API_CREDIT_BUDGET_EXCEEDED`\n5. Use web_get_page for a simple fetch and save cloud_browser_open for pages that need clicks\n\n### ScrapingAnt\n\n1. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header rather than the query string\n2. Use `/v2/markdown` for LLM input, and set `browser=false` on static pages to pay 1 credit instead of 10\n3. 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