# ScrapingAnt vs Scrapingdog > Scrapingdog has a score of 39.3 (E) against ScrapingAnt's 35.9 (F). Both do scraping. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 40 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-scrapingdog - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-scrapingdog.md (~1,650 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-scrapingdog.min.md (~330 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-scrapingdog.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - Updated: 2026-10-05 Scrapingdog has a score of 39.3 (E) against ScrapingAnt's 35.9 (F). Both do scraping. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 40 points. - ScrapingAnt: grade F, 35.9/100, rank #440 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingant.json - Scrapingdog: grade E, 39.3/100, rank #425 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingdog.json ## Which one, for what Pick ScrapingAnt for agent ergonomics (+22), security & auth (+5). Pick Scrapingdog for reliability (+32), maintenance & community (+40). ## Score by category | Category | Weight | ScrapingAnt | Scrapingdog | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 62 | Scrapingdog +32 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 43 | even | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 44 | ScrapingAnt +22 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 10 | 5 | ScrapingAnt +5 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 5 | 45 | Scrapingdog +40 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 57 | even | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | | | **Total** | | **35.9 · F** | **39.3 · E** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | ScrapingAnt | Scrapingdog | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API | | Vendor | ScrapingAnt (DATAANT) | Scrapingdog (OpenData Labs) | | Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general` | `https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape` | | Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio | | Auth | API key | API key | | Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | none | none | | Tools exposed | 3 | 35 | | Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a | | p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet | | Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | no | yes | | MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcp` | | Last release | 2024-07-16 | 2026-07-31 | | Popularity | 90 npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk | 0 stars, 41 npm/wk, 12 PyPI/wk | | Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) | ## Verdicts **ScrapingAnt.** 10,000 free credits a month with no card. API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs. **Scrapingdog.** A plain request is 1 credit, about $0.20 per 1,000 on Lite. API key only travels in the URL query string. ## Before you call either ### 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 ### Scrapingdog 1. Add dynamic=false unless the page needs JavaScript. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1, whatever the MCP description says 2. Keep request URLs out of logs, since they carry api_key 3. Set client timeouts above 60 seconds and retry on 429 or timeout. Failures aren't billed 4. 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