Scraping API

Zyte API review

A per-success scraping API from the makers of Scrapy, with tiered pricing by site difficulty and automatic extraction.

Visit Zyte APIPricing checked Oct 29, 2026

Starting price

Pay as you go

Pay-as-you-go: No commitment; $0.13-$1.27 per 1K HTTP responses and $1.01-$16.08 per 1K browser-rendered responses depending on site tier. Monthly commitments of $100/$200/$500 lower rates (from $0.06/1K).

Free tier

$5 free credit valid for 30 days

Pricing model

per 1K successful responses, tiered by site difficulty

Best for

Python/Scrapy teams that want a reliable unblocking API and pay-per-success billing.

What it does well

Automatic ban handling and proxy rotation
Browser rendering and actions
AI-powered automatic extraction for products, articles, jobs etc.
Native Scrapy integration and Scrapy Cloud hosting
Pay only for successful responses
Official hosted MCP server

Limitations

Per-site tier pricing makes costs hard to estimate upfront
Browser rendering on hard sites gets expensive (up to ~$16/1K PAYG)
Best value requires a monthly commitment

Capabilities

AI extraction

Structured JSON

JS rendering

Proxies / anti-bot

API

No-code UI

Open source

MCP server

Zyte API alternatives

Tool	Best for	From	Link
Apify Scraping API	Teams that want a ready-made scraper for a popular site (Google Maps, Amazon, social media) or a platform to host their own.	$19/mo	Visit
ScrapingBee Scraping API	Developers who want a predictable, easy scraping API that handles rendering and proxies without managing infrastructure.	$19/mo	Visit
BestAIScraper APIOur product AI extraction API	Developers who just need clean, typed JSON from public pages, without a subscription.	$9 one-time	Try it free
ScraperAPI Scraping API	Developers who want a straightforward proxy+rendering API and structured endpoints for big e-commerce and search sites.	$49/mo	Visit
Firecrawl AI extraction API	Developers building LLM/RAG apps or agents who want clean markdown or JSON from any URL with minimal setup.	$19/mo	Visit

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