Home › Alternatives › Zyte Alternatives
✓ last verified 2026-10-02 · every figure read from the provider’s live pricing page on that date · how we verify
Zyte (ex-Scrapinghub) sells managed extraction and its Zyte API; its pricing page currently resists machine verification (we publish only what we can read and date — Zyte’s numbers are pending a manual check). Meanwhile, here is every scraping API whose pricing we have verified.
Zyte alternatives with verified pricing
| Provider | Best verified rate | Plan | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apify | $19.00/mo | Starter | $19 platform usage incl; Free $0 w/ $5 usage; Scale $199; Business $999; -10% annual |
| ScrapingBee | $19.00/mo | Hobby | 75k credits; Freelance $49 for 250k; ex VAT |
| Scrape.do | $29.00/mo | Hobby | 250k credits ($0.11/1k) |
Which one, for what
- ScrapingBee — verified $19/mo entry (75k credits), mature API, JS rendering included — the default swap.
- Scrape.do — verified cheapest per-request at scale ($0.06/1k credits on Advanced).
- Apify — verified $19/mo entry; pick it for the actor marketplace and scheduling, not raw price.
The open-source route (and the names Reddit will give you)
Every paid-API alternatives thread eventually lands on the free option: run it yourself. Scrapy (the Python crawling framework, stewarded by Zyte), Playwright and Puppeteer (browser automation for JS-heavy targets), Firecrawl (crawler output shaped for LLM pipelines) and no-code tools like Octoparse replace the API fee with your time: you own proxy sourcing, retries, CAPTCHA handling and the maintenance every site change forces. Against a verified $19–$29/month API entry, open source usually wins only when scraping is core to the product rather than a task. We name these because they are the real competitor, and we rank none of them because there is no price to verify.
What Reddit adds: r/webscraping and r/proxies threads on this comparison surface the failure stories landing pages omit — billing surprises, support latency, silent limit changes. Weight recent, specific complaints over star averages, then verify prices here, where every number carries a date and source.
Rankings here are computed from verified pricing and published terms. Performance benchmarking is on the methodology roadmap; until it ships, we say so rather than invent scores.
FAQ
Is Zyte more expensive than ScrapingBee?
We don’t publish a comparison until we can verify Zyte’s current rates — its pricing page is JS-rendered and our policy is no unverified numbers. ScrapingBee’s verified entry is $19/mo for 75k credits ($49/mo for 250k); check Zyte’s checkout against that.
What replaced Scrapy Cloud pricing?
Zyte folded products into the Zyte API line. Verification of current tiers is pending; this page updates when we’ve read them from the live page.
What’s the cheapest verified scraping API right now?
Scrape.do at $0.06–$0.11 per 1,000 successful credits depending on tier, verified 2026-10-02.