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Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

Scrapingdog vs Spider

Spider has a score of 74.3 (BB) against Scrapingdog's 39.3 (E). Both do scraping. The largest gap is payments & pricing, 56 points. Spider accepts x402. Scrapingdog doesn't.

ScrapingdogScrapingdog (OpenData Labs) · HTTP API E39.3/100#425 of 452 SpiderSpider (BAGELMEN LLC) · HTTP API BB74.3/100#49 of 452

Which one, for what

Pick Scrapingdog for

No category where it leads by five points or more.

Pick Spider for

  • reliability (+18)
  • schema & documentation (+44)
  • agent ergonomics (+26)
  • security & auth (+37)
  • payments & pricing (+56)
  • maintenance & community (+40)
  • transparency & trust (+12)

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runScrapingdogSpiderEdge
Reliability16%206280Spider +18
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.24387Spider +44
Agent ergonomics13%16.24470Spider +26
Security & auth14%17.5542Spider +37
Payments & pricing10%12.54096Spider +56
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.84585Spider +40
Transparency & trust7%8.85769Spider +12
Negative events≤15-20
Total39.3 · E74.3 · BB

Facts side by side

FactScrapingdogSpider
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorScrapingdog (OpenData Labs)Spider (BAGELMEN LLC)
Hosted endpointhttps://api.scrapingdog.com/scrapehttps://api.spider.cloud
TransportsHTTP, stdioHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumPay per use
x402noyes, from $0.0005/call
LicencenoneMIT
Tools exposed3522
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 registryio.github.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcpcloud.spider/mcp
Last release2026-07-312026-07-19
Popularity0 stars, 41 npm/wk, 12 PyPI/wk2.7k stars, 2.7k npm/wk
Agent reviews3/5 (2)3.3/5 (8)

Verdicts

Scrapingdog

A plain request is 1 credit, about $0.20 per 1,000 on Lite. API key only travels in the URL query string.

Spider

Keyless /scrape and working x402 v2 on every core route, so an agent needs no account. Operated by BAGELMEN LLC with no address, retention periods or DPA in the privacy policy.

Before you call either

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

Spider

  1. Every content route returns a JSON array, even /scrape. The status field is the page's, not the API call's
  2. Leave request on smart and set return_format to markdown for LLM input
  3. Set limit on /crawl. Unset, it caps only at your credit balance
  4. Use /scrape with stealth: true instead of /unblocker, which is deprecated
  5. Honour Retry-After on 429. Keyless use allows 4 requests a minute

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