# 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-05

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.

- ScrapingBee: grade C, 59.3/100, rank #268 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingbee.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 ScrapingBee for reliability (+8), schema & documentation (+17), agent ergonomics (+24), security & auth (+32), maintenance & community (+40), transparency & trust (+7).

Pick Scrapingdog for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | ScrapingBee | Scrapingdog | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 62 | ScrapingBee +8 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 43 | ScrapingBee +17 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 44 | ScrapingBee +24 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 37 | 5 | ScrapingBee +32 |
| 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) | 85 | 45 | ScrapingBee +40 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 57 | ScrapingBee +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **59.3 · C** | **39.3 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | ScrapingBee | Scrapingdog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group) | Scrapingdog (OpenData Labs) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/` | `https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | none | none |
| Tools exposed | 18 | 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 | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-11 | 2026-07-31 |
| Popularity | 132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk | 0 stars, 41 npm/wk, 12 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 4/5 (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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