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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Zyte vs ScrapingBee

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

Head to head
Zyte API compared with ScrapingBee per decision axis
AxisZyte APIScrapingBeeEdge
Price$1 per 1000 requests*$0.099 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.ScrapingBeeCheapest base rate in the field ($0.099/1000 base requests on Startup) and offers AI extraction; simple API with good docs. JS rendering is on by default and costs 5 credits (premium proxy 10, premium+JS 25, stealth proxy 75), so real cost is far higher — hence not comparable; success rate is heavily disputed between benchmarks (84.47% at Proxyway 2025 vs 48% at Scrapeway August 2026), so left null.
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