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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Zyte vs Apify

Zyte API vs Apify (Web Scraping platform) for scraping & browser. Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Zyte API compared with Apify (Web Scraping platform) per decision axis
AxisZyte APIApify (Web Scraping platform)Edge
Price$1 per 1000 requests*$0.5 per 1000 requests*—
Success93.14%——
LLM-ready✓✓—
browser✓✓—

* token-/credit-priced — the headline understates real per-unit cost, so no price edge is awarded.

Strengths & caveats
ZyteTop score (93.14%) in Proxyway's independent 2025 benchmark across 15 heavily protected sites; pays only for successful responses and offers AI-driven automatic extraction to structured data. Price is strongly tier-dependent: HTTP $0.13-$1.27/1000, browser rendering $1.01-$16.08/1000, plus separate extraction fees — so it is not directly comparable (the value is a light estimate for an average target). As of August 2026 Zyte no longer publishes tier pricing publicly (login-gated cost estimator), so these June 2026 figures can no longer be re-verified from the page.ApifyBroadest platform: 61,000+ ready-made Actors, full browser automation (Playwright/Puppeteer) and LLM-ready crawlers (Website Content Crawler -> markdown); free tier with $5 credits/month. Price is Compute-Unit-/Actor-dependent and therefore unpredictable (~$0.20/1000 via HTTP up to $0.50-$5.00/1000 with a browser, plus separate proxy and data-transfer fees) — not comparable as a fixed per-request price; no independent aggregate success rate, as results vary per Actor.
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