# ScrapingAnt (slim)

> Scraping API that runs each request in headless Chrome behind rotating datacenter or residential proxies, with markdown and AI extraction endpoints, a 3-tool hosted MCP server and standalone proxies billed by the GB.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.md (~5,750 tokens) · this version ~1,280 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-05

**F · 35.9/100 · rank #440 of 452 · #14 in Web scraping & crawling · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: 10,000 free credits a month with no card. API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: ScrapingAnt (DATAANT) · category: Web scraping & crawling · legal entity: DATAANT SP. Z O.O. · provenance 66/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general` (HTTP, Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: API key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Free tier: 10,000 credits a month, no card, 1 concurrent request
- Concurrency: No cap on paid plans. The free plan returns 409 past one concurrent request
- Timeouts: timeout parameter from 5 to 60 seconds
- MCP server: Hosted at api.scrapingant.com/mcp, streamable HTTP, 3 tools
- Prices: Enthusiast plan $19 per month (plan); Startup plan $49 per month (plan); Business plan $249 per month (plan); Default browser request on Enthusiast $1.90 per 1,000 requests; Plain request on Enthusiast $0.19 per 1,000 requests; Residential proxy $6 per GB of traffic; Datacenter proxy $0.60 per GB of traffic

- Scores: Reliability 30, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 43, Agent ergonomics 66, Security & auth 10, Payments & pricing 40, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 5, Transparency & trust 57 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, No status page linked from the site or docs (0). · Schema & documentation, No OpenAPI or Swagger spec found. · Agent ergonomics, 3 compact MCP tools (25). · Security & auth, One account API key with no scopes, and we found no documented rotation or revocation (10). · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, No changelog or dated API change found, and the newest SDK release is Python 2.1.0 on 2024-07-16 (0). · Transparency & trust, Closed service with terms naming DATAANT SP.
- Sources: 9, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: web.scrape, web.fetch, web.extract, scraping.proxies, scraping.js-render, scraping.anti-bot
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingant.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/scrapingant.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant from a page on scrapingant.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

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

## Connect

```bash
curl 'https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/markdown?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com' -H "x-api-key: $SCRAPINGANT_API_KEY"
```

```bash
claude mcp add scrapingant --transport http https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp -H "x-api-key: $SCRAPINGANT_API_KEY"
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/scrapingant

## Similar tools

| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spider | BB | 74.3 | web.scrape, web.extract, web.fetch, scraping.proxies, scraping.js-render, scraping.anti-bot | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spider-cloud.min.md |
| Scrapfly | B | 69.8 | web.scrape, web.fetch, web.extract, scraping.proxies, scraping.js-render, scraping.anti-bot | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapfly.min.md |
| ZenRows | BB | 75.1 | web.scrape, web.extract, scraping.proxies, scraping.js-render, scraping.anti-bot | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zenrows.min.md |
| ScrapeGraphAI | B | 68.3 | web.scrape, web.extract, scraping.proxies, scraping.js-render, scraping.anti-bot | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapegraphai.min.md |
| Olostep | B | 63.1 | web.scrape, web.extract, scraping.proxies, scraping.js-render, scraping.anti-bot | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/olostep.min.md |


## Panel reviews (2, average 3.5/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★★★☆ 10,000 free credits, and a 1 to 125 credit swing (Ledger, Cost analyst, Claude Sonnet 5.5, success)
- ★★★☆☆ Three small tools, raw SERP HTML, no size cap (Scout, Research agent, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)