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      "slug": "scrapingbee",
      "name": "ScrapingBee",
      "vendor": "ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.scrapingbee.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "web-scrapers",
      "summary": "HTML API that fetches a URL through rotating, premium or stealth proxies with headless rendering, JavaScript scenarios, screenshots and CSS or AI extraction.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingbee.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "scrapingbee"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "scrapingbee"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "scrapingbee-cli"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "The HTML API takes the key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header, and the Python (v2.2.0) and Node (v2.0.0) SDKs send it that way since 1 September 2026. The older api_key query parameter still works but is deprecated. remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP takes the key only as an api_key query parameter in its URL, while the official CLI's AGENTS.md (5 September 2026) says it takes a Bearer header.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Trial of 1,000 credits, no card. Hobby $19 a month (75,000 credits, 25 concurrent), Freelance $49 (250,000, 50), Startup $99 (1 million, 100), Business $249 (3 million, 200), Business+ $599 (8 million, 400), excluding VAT. JavaScript rendering is on by default, so a basic call costs 5 credits, 1 without rendering, 10 or 25 with premium proxies and 75 with stealth proxies. Google search costs 10 credits (https://www.scrapingbee.com/pricing/).",
      "priceSummary": "$19 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 in the pricing page, llms.txt or the HTML API and MCP references (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 18,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 132,
        "npmWeekly": 48527,
        "pypiWeekly": 71721,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/llms.txt",
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        "web.scrape",
        "web.extract",
        "web.search",
        "scraping.proxies",
        "scraping.js-render",
        "scraping.anti-bot",
        "scraping.screenshot",
        "scraping.serp"
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        "hosted",
        "no-card",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "proxies",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "closed-source"
      ],
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      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 59.3,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 268,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 9,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 70,
          "schema": 60,
          "security": 37,
          "transparency": 64
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
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        "verdict": "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.",
        "strengths": [
          "Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini endpoints next to the general HTML API",
          "Auto mode with a max_cost cap bills only the tier that works, and 429s and failures aren't billed",
          "Per-endpoint llms files plus a reference-notes file that lists 9 known conflicts in its own docs",
          "Seven SDK and CLI releases between 8 July and 11 September 2026, with tests in CI",
          "The official CLI skills tell agents to treat scraped output as data and flag instruction-like content"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL",
          "JavaScript rendering on by default makes a plain call 5 credits instead of 1",
          "Only a one-off 1,000-credit trial, no monthly free tier",
          "No API changelog, security.txt, bug bounty or certification found",
          "HTML scraper degraded for about 24 hours from 28 July 2026, and dedicated APIs down for about 40 minutes on 24 July"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send render_js=false for static pages and files. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1",
          "Use mode=auto with max_cost=25 to stop it escalating to 75-credit stealth requests",
          "Keep the MCP URL with ?api_key= out of logs and shared configs",
          "Back off exponentially on 429 from the MCP, since its concurrency is shared across customers",
          "Expect 404 and 410 from the target to be billed. Other failures aren't"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 4,
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            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.3",
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              "tasks"
            ],
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          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 70,
          "schema": 60,
          "security": 37,
          "transparency": 51
        },
        "provenanceScore": 76
      },
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        "http": "curl --get 'https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/' \\\n  --header \"Authorization: Bearer $SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY\" \\\n  --data-urlencode 'url=https://example.com' --data-urlencode 'render_js=false'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http scrapingbee \"https://mcp.scrapingbee.com/mcp?api_key=$SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "scrapingbee": {
              "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.scrapingbee.com/mcp?api_key=${SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY}"
              ],
              "command": "npx"
            }
          }
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/scrapingbee"
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      "area": "web-data",
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          "usd": 19,
          "note": "75,000 credits, 25 concurrent, excluding VAT"
        },
        {
          "item": "Freelance plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 49,
          "note": "250,000 credits, 50 concurrent"
        },
        {
          "item": "Startup plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 99,
          "note": "1 million credits, 100 concurrent"
        },
        {
          "item": "Default request on Hobby",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1.27,
          "note": "JavaScript rendering on by default, 5 credits each"
        },
        {
          "item": "Request without rendering on Hobby",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.25,
          "note": "render_js=false, 1 credit each"
        }
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        "legalEntity": "VostokInc SAS",
        "domain": "scrapingbee.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2019-09-18",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/terms-and-conditions/",
        "privacy": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/privacy-policy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.scrapingbee.com",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
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          "VostokInc is a Paris société par actions simplifiée, registration number 843 352 683, per the legal notices at https://www.scrapingbee.com/legal-notices/.",
          "Owned by the Oxylabs company group since June 2025. The terms still name VostokInc."
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      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.json",
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          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 400,
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          "authRequired": false,
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              "ok": 35
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              "date": "2026-10-01",
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              "ok": 276
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
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              "ok": 248
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
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              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
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              "ok": 272
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 20,
              "ok": 20
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.scrapingbee.com",
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          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
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          {
            "registry": "pypi",
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            "registry": "pypi",
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          "url": "https://scrapingbee.com/.well-known/security.txt",
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          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:50.718697282Z"
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          "url": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/llms.txt",
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          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:13.440450165Z"
        },
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          "domain": "scrapingbee.com",
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          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/scrapingbee.com",
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            "url": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/privacy-policy/",
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            "url": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/terms-and-conditions/",
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      "slug": "scrapingdog",
      "name": "Scrapingdog",
      "vendor": "Scrapingdog (OpenData Labs)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.scrapingdog.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "web-scrapers",
      "summary": "Web scraping API billed by credits.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingdog.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "scrapingdog-mcp"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "scrapingdog-sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "scrapingdog"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "The key goes in the api_key query parameter on every request. The docs show no header option. The MCP server reads SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY from the environment.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free plan of 100 credits with 1 concurrent request, no card (the docs say 200 requests a month). Lite $40 a month (200,000 credits, 5 concurrent), Standard $90 (1M, 50), Pro $200 (3M, 100), Premium $350 (6M, 150), then plans up to $30,000 a month. Annual billing gives 2 months free. A plain request costs 1 credit, JS rendering 5, premium proxy or geotargeting 10, both 25, Google SERP 5 to 10, LinkedIn profiles 10 to 100. Failed requests aren't charged (https://www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/).",
      "priceSummary": "$40 / mo",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 mention on the site, docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
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      "toolCount": 35,
      "popularity": {
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        "npmWeekly": 41,
        "pypiWeekly": 12,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://www.scrapingdog.com/llms.txt",
      "registryName": "io.github.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcp",
      "capabilities": [
        "web.scrape",
        "web.extract",
        "web.search",
        "scraping.proxies",
        "scraping.js-render",
        "scraping.anti-bot",
        "scraping.screenshot",
        "scraping.serp"
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        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "no-card",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "proxies",
        "closed-source",
        "python",
        "typescript"
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      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
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        "score": 39.3,
        "grade": "E",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 425,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 13,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 43,
          "security": 5,
          "transparency": 57
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          "tasks"
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          "date": "2026-10-01"
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          "2026-08-01: the vendor-linked MCP server's web_scrape tool describes dynamic as `(API default: false)`, while https://www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/javascript-rendering/ says rendering is on by default at 5 credits. The MCP omits unset parameters, so a model that trusts the description pays 5 times the plain rate (https://github.com/Darshan972/Scrapingdog-mcp, src/endpoints.ts) (-2)."
        ],
        "verdict": "A plain request is 1 credit, about $0.20 per 1,000 on Lite. API key only travels in the URL query string.",
        "strengths": [
          "A plain request is 1 credit, about $0.20 per 1,000 on Lite",
          "Parsed JSON endpoints for Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, YouTube and more under one key",
          "Terms let you store and redistribute returned data during the subscription, and the privacy policy says API calls aren't stored or logged",
          "Failed requests aren't charged, and a public SLA page compensates downtime in credits",
          "Concurrency per plan is published, from 1 up to 2,200"
        ],
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          "API key only travels in the URL query string",
          "Rendering defaults on at 5 credits, and the MCP's web_scrape description says the default is off",
          "MCP server published 2026-08-01 from a personal account, with 35 tools, no CI, no tags and no release since",
          "No changelog, security.txt or prompt-injection guidance",
          "The free allowance differs between pricing (100 credits) and docs (200 a month)"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Add dynamic=false unless the page needs JavaScript. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1, whatever the MCP description says",
          "Keep request URLs out of logs, since they carry api_key",
          "Set client timeouts above 60 seconds and retry on 429 or timeout. Failures aren't billed",
          "Prefer the parsed endpoints (Google, Amazon) over scraping the raw page when one exists"
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          "kind": "remote",
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        "avgRating": 3,
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            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "E",
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              "tasks"
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          "maintenance": 45,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 43,
          "security": 5,
          "transparency": 37
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        "provenanceScore": 76
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        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add scrapingdog -e SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY=$SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY -- npx -y scrapingdog-mcp",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "scrapingdog": {
              "args": [
                "-y",
                "scrapingdog-mcp"
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              "command": "npx",
              "env": {
                "SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY": "${SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY}"
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        "tool": "https://letme.dev/scrapingdog"
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          "note": "200,000 credits, 5 concurrent"
        },
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          "item": "Standard plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 90,
          "note": "1,000,000 credits, 50 concurrent"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro plan",
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          "usd": 200,
          "note": "3,000,000 credits, 100 concurrent"
        },
        {
          "item": "Plain request on Lite",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.2,
          "note": "1 credit each, dynamic=false"
        },
        {
          "item": "JS-rendered request on Lite",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1,
          "note": "5 credits each, the default"
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      ],
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        "privacy": "https://www.scrapingdog.com/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://stats.uptimerobot.com/SAQkQwbOYj",
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        "securityTxt": "none",
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        "notes": [
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          "The status page is a hosted UptimeRobot page linked from the footer."
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog.json",
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              "date": "2026-10-02",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
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          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
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          "url": "https://scrapingdog.com/.well-known/security.txt",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingdog.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick ScrapingBee for reliability (+8), schema \u0026 documentation (+17), agent ergonomics (+24), security \u0026 auth (+32), maintenance \u0026 community (+40), transparency \u0026 trust (+7).\n\nPick Scrapingdog for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | ScrapingBee | Scrapingdog | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 62 | ScrapingBee +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 43 | ScrapingBee +17 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 44 | ScrapingBee +24 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 37 | 5 | ScrapingBee +32 |\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) | 85 | 45 | ScrapingBee +40 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 57 | ScrapingBee +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **59.3 · C** | **39.3 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | ScrapingBee | Scrapingdog |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group) | Scrapingdog (OpenData Labs) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/` | `https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | 18 | 35 |\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 | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-11 | 2026-07-31 |\n| Popularity | 132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk | 0 stars, 41 npm/wk, 12 PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**Scrapingdog.** A plain request is 1 credit, about $0.20 per 1,000 on Lite. API key only travels in the URL query string.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### ScrapingBee\n\n1. Send render_js=false for static pages and files. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1\n2. Use mode=auto with max_cost=25 to stop it escalating to 75-credit stealth requests\n3. Keep the MCP URL with ?api_key= out of logs and shared configs\n4. Back off exponentially on 429 from the MCP, since its concurrency is shared across customers\n5. Expect 404 and 410 from the target to be billed. Other failures aren't\n\n### Scrapingdog\n\n1. Add dynamic=false unless the page needs JavaScript. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1, whatever the MCP description says\n2. Keep request URLs out of logs, since they carry api_key\n3. Set client timeouts above 60 seconds and retry on 429 or timeout. Failures aren't billed\n4. Prefer the parsed endpoints (Google, Amazon) over scraping the raw page when one exists\n\n## Other comparisons with ScrapingBee or Scrapingdog\n\n- [Bright Data vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Bright Data vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [Olostep vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Olostep vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [Scrape.do vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Scrape.do vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [ScrapeGraphAI vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [ScrapeGraphAI vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [Scrapeless vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Scrapeless vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [Scrapfly vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Scrapfly vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [ScrapingAnt vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [ScrapingAnt vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [ScrapingBee vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [ScrapingBee vs ZenRows](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zenrows.md)\n- [Scrapingdog vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [Scrapingdog vs ZenRows](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-zenrows.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n",
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