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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Zyte vs Firecrawl

Zyte API vs Firecrawl for scraping & browser. Success: 93.14% vs 69% — edge Zyte Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Zyte API compared with Firecrawl per decision axis
AxisZyte APIFirecrawlEdge
Price$1 per 1000 requests*$0.83 per 1000 requests—
Success93.14%69%Zyte
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.FirecrawlStrongest LLM-ready output (direct markdown/JSON with schema extraction), cheap per page ($0.00083/page on Standard) and 69% success in Scrapeway's August 2026 test — better than ScrapingBee (48%) in that same test. Lower reliability on heavily protected sites than the unblocking specialists; Stealth Mode and /extract can cost up to ~5 credits per request, sharply raising the effective price (the pricing page lists only the 1 credit/page base rate, so the stealth multiplier is not vendor-confirmed).
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