Zyte Review
Web scraping API that unblocks, renders, and extracts data from any site, priced per successful request
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Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub) is a web data extraction company built around Zyte API, an HTTP endpoint that takes a URL and returns the page's HTML or extracted data while handling IP rotation, headless browser rendering, and anti-bot blocking on your behalf. You send requests and get back content; Zyte deals with proxies, CAPTCHAs, and site-specific blocking rules.
Alongside the API, Zyte runs Scrapy Cloud, a hosting platform for spiders built on the open-source Scrapy framework the company's founders created, and Zyte Data, a managed service where Zyte's own team builds and maintains the scrapers and hands you clean structured feeds instead of raw pages.
Billing is per successful request rather than per seat, with the rate depending on whether the target site needs a plain HTTP fetch or full browser rendering, and on how complex that particular site is to scrape.
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Who it's for
- ✓ Developers who want a single API call to handle proxy rotation, browser rendering, and anti-bot bypassing instead of building that stack themselves
- ✓ Data teams already using Scrapy who want managed hosting and monitoring for their spiders
- ✓ Ops teams that would rather buy a managed data feed than write and maintain scraping code
Who should look elsewhere
- ✗ Teams that want a flat monthly subscription with predictable bills regardless of usage
- ✗ Small one-off scraping jobs where a free tool or browser extension would do
- ✗ Anyone who needs a hard, enforced spending cap without setting up a monthly commitment plan first
Pros
- + Per-request pricing means you don't pay for failed or blocked requests
- + Handles proxy rotation, headless browser rendering, and CAPTCHA/anti-bot bypass in one API instead of separate tools
- + Scrapy Cloud and the Web Scraping Copilot VS Code extension give existing Scrapy users a direct path from local development to hosted spiders
- + 15+ years of scraping-specific infrastructure and per-domain blocking rules, which shows up as fewer failed requests on hard sites
Cons
- – Browser-rendered requests cost up to roughly 13x the equivalent HTTP request, so costs scale fast on JavaScript-heavy sites
- – Zyte API and Zyte Data are paid only, with just a $5 signup credit for the first billing month; the genuinely free plan lives on the separate Scrapy Cloud product and caps crawls at 1 hour
- – Multiple Trustpilot reviewers report bills far above what they expected and say the advertised spending-limit feature didn't work as described on pay-as-you-go accounts
- – Several reviewers describe slow support, with response times of days rather than hours
Zyte pricing
You pay for what you consume rather than a per-seat fee, so cost scales with usage.
| Plan | Price | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| Pay as you go | Free | No monthly minimum · $100/month spending cap · 3,000 requests per minute |
| Standard $100 | $100/mo | $100 monthly commitment · 25% volume discount on request pricing · 3,000 requests per minute |
| Standard $200 | $200/mo | $200 monthly commitment · 40% volume discount · 3,000 requests per minute |
| Standard $500 | $500/mo | $500 monthly commitment · 52% volume discount · 3,000 requests per minute |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom volume discounts · 10,000 requests per minute · $200 free credit to start · Custom spending limits |
Zyte API bills per successful request, not per seat. Pay-as-you-go HTTP requests run $0.13-$1.27 per 1,000 depending on site complexity; that drops to $0.06-$0.61 per 1,000 with a $500/month commitment (a 52% volume discount), which is where the $0.06 headline price comes from. Browser-rendered requests cost $1.01-$16.08 per 1,000 pay-as-you-go, or $0.48-$7.68 per 1,000 at the $500 tier. Screenshots cost $0.002 each, and automatic extraction adds $0.0004-$0.0016 per data type. Failed or rate-limited requests aren't charged. Zyte Data (managed extraction) and Scrapy Cloud (spider hosting) are separate products with their own pricing on the same page: Zyte Data starts at $500/month for AI-supported schemas or $1,000/month for a fully custom plan; Scrapy Cloud has a genuinely free-forever Starter plan (unlimited projects and requests, 1-hour crawl runtime, 1 concurrent crawl) plus a $9-per-unit/month Professional plan for unlimited runtime and concurrency.
Pricing verified July 17, 2026 · source
How Zyte's pricing compares
Zyte next to its closest alternatives on entry price, billing, and whether pricing is public.
| Tool | Starting price | Billing | Free option | Pricing disclosed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zyte | Usage-based | usage-based | Yes | Partly public |
| Apify | $29/mo | tiered | Yes | Partly public |
| Bright Data | Usage-based | usage-based | Yes | Partly public |
| ScrapingBee | $49/mo | usage-based | Trial (1,000 API credits, no credit card required) | Partly public |
| Firecrawl | $19/mo | tiered | Yes | Partly public |
| Octoparse | $69/mo | tiered | Yes | Partly public |
| Browse AI | $19/mo | tiered | Yes | Public |
Is Zyte still actively developed?
Last significant update: November 2025. Zyte launched Web Scraping Copilot, a free VS Code extension that uses AI to generate and maintain Scrapy spiders from natural-language prompts, with optional one-click deploy to Zyte API and Scrapy Cloud.
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Zyte FAQ
Does Zyte have a free plan?+
Zyte API and Zyte Data are paid only, with new accounts getting a $5 credit to use within the first 30 days. Scrapy Cloud, Zyte's spider-hosting product, does have a genuinely free-forever Starter plan with unlimited projects and requests, but crawls are capped at 1 hour with 1 concurrent run.
How much does Zyte API cost per request?+
Plain HTTP requests run from about $0.06 to $1.27 per 1,000 depending on site complexity and your commitment tier. Requests that need a headless browser cost roughly 8-13 times more per 1,000, from about $0.48 to $16.08.
Can I cap my spending on Zyte?+
Pay-as-you-go accounts have a $100 monthly spending cap by default, and standard/enterprise plans support custom limits. Some Trustpilot reviewers say a spending-limit feature they expected didn't apply to their account and led to unexpectedly large bills.
What's the difference between Zyte API and Zyte Data?+
Zyte API is a self-serve endpoint you call from your own code. Zyte Data is a managed service where Zyte's team builds and maintains the scraper for you and delivers a structured data feed instead of an API you integrate yourself.