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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Zyte vs Browserbase

Zyte API vs Browserbase for scraping & browser. Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Zyte API compared with Browserbase per decision axis
AxisZyte APIBrowserbaseEdge
Price$1 per 1000 requests*$0.05 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.BrowserbasePure cloud-browser infrastructure built for AI agents: full programmable browser automation (Playwright/Puppeteer/CDP), per-hour billing and 25 concurrent browsers from $20/month (100 concurrent on the $99 Startup plan). No ready-made unblocking/anti-bot layer or LLM-ready extraction (raw browser output); billing per browser-hour ($0.10-$0.12/hour) + proxy per GB does not convert to per-request — the $0.05/1000 is a rough light estimate and therefore not comparable; no independent success benchmark.
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