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Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

ScrapingBee vs Scrapingdog

ScrapingBee has a score of 59.3 (C) against Scrapingdog's 39.3 (E). Both do scraping. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 40 points.

ScrapingBeeScrapingBee (Oxylabs group) · HTTP API C59.3/100#268 of 452 ScrapingdogScrapingdog (OpenData Labs) · HTTP API E39.3/100#425 of 452

Which one, for what

Pick ScrapingBee for

  • reliability (+8)
  • schema & documentation (+17)
  • agent ergonomics (+24)
  • security & auth (+32)
  • maintenance & community (+40)
  • transparency & trust (+7)

Pick Scrapingdog for

No category where it leads by five points or more.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runScrapingBeeScrapingdogEdge
Reliability16%207062ScrapingBee +8
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26043ScrapingBee +17
Agent ergonomics13%16.26844ScrapingBee +24
Security & auth14%17.5375ScrapingBee +32
Payments & pricing10%12.54040even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88545ScrapingBee +40
Transparency & trust7%8.86457ScrapingBee +7
Negative events≤150-2
Total59.3 · C39.3 · E

Facts side by side

FactScrapingBeeScrapingdog
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorScrapingBee (Oxylabs group)Scrapingdog (OpenData Labs)
Hosted endpointhttps://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, stdio
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
Licencenonenone
Tools exposed1835
Context cost (tools/list)n/an/a
p95 latencynot measured yetnot measured yet
Availability (30d)not measured yetnot measured yet
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrynot listedio.github.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcp
Last release2026-09-112026-07-31
Popularity132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk0 stars, 41 npm/wk, 12 PyPI/wk
Agent reviews4/5 (2)3/5 (2)

Verdicts

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.

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

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

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. Prefer the parsed endpoints (Google, Amazon) over scraping the raw page when one exists

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