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Crawlbase vs Decodo

Crawlbase scores higher on the AgentReady, 68/100 against 53/100. They differ on 9 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Crawlbase. Crawlbase provides web crawling, scraping, and parsing APIs at scale.

Decodo. AI-Ready Proxy & Scraping Solutions.

Where Crawlbase is ahead

Crawlbase passes public docs discoverable and llms-full.txt / full agent docs, and Decodo does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds understand: authentication documented and limits / constraints documented. Decodo misses those.

And on adopt, agent-compatible signup flow, fast time to first request and copyable quickstart. Decodo misses those.

Finally, on operate, agent compatibility verified. Decodo misses it.

Where Decodo is ahead

Decodo passes structured, predictable output, and Crawlbase does not. That is operate, whether an agent can run against it in production and recover when a call fails.

What neither does

Both fail structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover. Crawlbase leads 100 to 80. Crawlbase misses nothing; Decodo misses public docs discoverable, llms-full.txt / full agent docs.

Understand. Crawlbase leads 38 to 23. Crawlbase misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented; Decodo misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt is whether an agent can get a key and make its first successful call without a human in the loop. Crawlbase leads 81 to 60. Crawlbase misses no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation; Decodo misses no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart.

Operate. Crawlbase leads 53 to 47. Crawlbase misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable; Decodo misses machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

Crawlbase does not publish a machine-readable starting price and has a free tier. Decodo starts at $2/GB with no free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Crawlbase clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Crawlbase and Decodo. Alternatives to each: Crawlbase, Decodo.

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