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Decodo vs ScraperAPI

ScraperAPI scores higher on the AgentReady, 66/100 against 53/100. They differ on 11 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Decodo. AI-Ready Proxy & Scraping Solutions.

ScraperAPI. ScraperAPI is a web scraping API service that allows users to collect data from any public website without worrying about proxies, browsers, or CAPTCHA handling.

Where Decodo is ahead

Decodo passes official python sdk and cli available, and ScraperAPI does not. That is adopt, whether an agent can get a key and make its first successful call without a human in the loop.

It also holds operate: structured, predictable output. ScraperAPI misses it.

Where ScraperAPI is ahead

ScraperAPI 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: structured api reference and authentication 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.

What neither does

Both fail openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints 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. ScraperAPI leads 100 to 80. Decodo misses public docs discoverable, llms-full.txt / full agent docs; ScraperAPI misses nothing.

Understand is whether an agent can read the docs and work out how the API behaves before calling it. ScraperAPI leads 46 to 23. Decodo misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; ScraperAPI misses openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt. ScraperAPI leads 65 to 60. Decodo misses no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart; ScraperAPI misses no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, official python sdk, cli available.

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

Pricing

Decodo starts at $2/GB with no free tier. ScraperAPI does not publish one with no free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

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

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