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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Zyte vs ScraperAPI

Zyte API vs ScraperAPI for scraping & browser. Success: 93.14% vs 68.95% — edge Zyte Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Zyte API compared with ScraperAPI per decision axis
AxisZyte APIScraperAPIEdge
Price$1 per 1000 requests*$0.149 per 1000 requests*—
Success93.14%68.95%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.ScraperAPILow base rate (~$0.149/1000 credits on Startup) with a simple proxy+rendering API and a generous free tier (1000 credits/month). Lowest independent success rate of the tested set on protected sites (68.95% at Proxyway 2025); credits add up fast (JS 5-10x, anti-bot +10, Google 25, LinkedIn 30) so price is not comparable; barely any LLM-ready output.
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