The short version
- Choose Scrape.do if you need cheap, high-volume fetching from protected sites, or parsed JSON from Google, Amazon and other targets its ready-made APIs cover.
- Choose SarvCrawl if you want whole sites and their documents as clean markdown, chunked, embedded and searchable.
SarvCrawl and Scrape.do, side by side
| SarvCrawl | Scrape.do | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Crawl-to-knowledge-base API | Proxy-rotating web scraping API with ready-made scraper APIs |
| Best for | Content you want to search — web pages and documents together | Volume fetching from protected sites at a low unit price |
| Output | Markdown, HTML, JSON, links, images | Raw HTML or markdown, JSON with network requests, screenshots |
| JavaScript rendering | Yes, where a page needs it | Yes (render=true, at extra credits) |
| Documents | PDF, Office, EPUB, images and audio; OCR for scans | Not documented |
| Chunking, embeddings, search | Built in (search on paid plans) | Not offered |
| Anti-bot and proxies | Not the focus | Core feature: rotating datacenter, residential and mobile proxies, WAF and CAPTCHA bypass |
| Pricing | 1 billion free tokens, no card; paid plans | 1,000 free credits; Hobby $29/mo for 250,000 credits |
| Hosting and licence | Hosted, or self-host: Apache-2.0 with an AGPL-3.0 engine | Hosted, proprietary |
| Integrations | REST, Node, Python, CLI, n8n, 21 MCP tools | API, n8n, Zapier |
Where they really differ
Scrape.do is an unblocking API: one URL per request, routed through datacenter, residential or mobile proxies, with headless rendering when you ask for it and ready-made scrapers that return parsed JSON for targets like Google, Amazon and YouTube. You only pay for successful requests, and a response header tells you what each one cost.
Credits scale with options: 1 for a datacenter request, 5 with rendering, 10 on residential or mobile proxies and 25 with both, with higher rates for some specific domains. For protected pages at volume, that is an inexpensive way to get HTML or markdown back.
It fetches pages; following links across a site, parsing documents and making the result searchable are yours to build. SarvCrawl does those parts, and does not compete on proxies.
Using both
Fetch protected targets through Scrape.do, and crawl the documentation and reference sites you want an assistant to answer from with SarvCrawl.
SarvCrawl vs Scrape.do: questions
Is SarvCrawl a Scrape.do alternative?
For public content you want crawled and searchable, yes. For fetching protected sites through rotating proxies at a low unit price, Scrape.do is the better fit.
Does Scrape.do crawl whole sites?
It fetches one URL per request, with an async mode for batches. SarvCrawl's crawl endpoint follows links from a root URL, bounded by depth, page limit and exclude paths.
How is Scrape.do priced?
Plans include a monthly credit pool, from $29 for 250,000, with each request costing 1 to 25 credits depending on proxy type and rendering, more for some domains.
Can SarvCrawl search what I fetch with Scrape.do?
Yes, if you upload it. Files such as CSV, PDF and Office documents uploaded to a knowledge base are parsed, chunked and embedded like crawled pages.