Zyte API vs ScraperAPI

Zyte API8.5Visit ScraperAPI8.1Visit

Higher score Zyte API #3 in Web Scraping Tools 8.5/10 30-day trial Free trial✓ 0 of 2 features Visit Zyte API

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ScraperAPI #5 in Web Scraping Tools 8.1/10 Free plan · 7-day trial Free planFree trial✓ 0 of 2 features Visit ScraperAPI

• Zyte API fits best

  Developers needing browser rendering and anti-blocking

• ScraperAPI fits best

  Developers needing a flexible scraping API

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Side by side

Feature	Zyte API 8.5/10 Visit ↗	ScraperAPI 8.1/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.5	8.1
Ranking	#3 in Web Scraping Tools	#5 in Web Scraping Tools
Best for	Developers needing browser rendering and anti-blocking	Developers needing a flexible scraping API
Pricing model	Paid	Free plan + paid
Starting price	$100/mo	—
Free plan	—	✓ (best)
Free trial	30 days	7 days
Free trial length	30 days	7 days · no card needed
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud, Self-hosted
Platforms	Web	Web
Support	Tickets, Docs · 24/7	Email, Docs, Community
Integrations	9 integrations	7 integrations
Built for	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Solo, Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Zyte API 0/2 · ScraperAPI 0/2
JavaScript rendering	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Scheduled runs	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Specs
Scraping modes	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Export formats	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Deployment options	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Our review
Pros	Renders pages and supports browser actions, screenshots, and CDP access. Rotates proxies and handles bans, sessions, geolocation, and IP types. Extracts structured data and integrates with Playwright, Puppeteer, and Scrapy.	Combines synchronous and asynchronous scraping with JavaScript rendering Offers proxies, geotargeting, and CAPTCHA and bot-blocker handling Includes crawler jobs, multiple SDKs, and cloud or self-hosted deployment
Cons	No free plan; usage charges vary by target site, request type, and features. Monthly commitment plans start at $100, with volume discounts at higher tiers. Enterprise pricing is custom; premium 24/7 support and SLAs are enterprise-only.	Free plan is limited to 1,000 API credits and 5 concurrent connections Hobby provides US and EU geotargeting; country-level targeting starts at Business Primarily a scraping API, not a standalone browser automation framework
Our verdict	Zyte API is a cloud-hosted web scraping API for developers and data teams working with pages that need browser rendering or more than a basic HTTP fetch. It returns rendered HTML and screenshots, can perform browser actions such as… Read the review →	ScraperAPI is a web-scraping API for developers, data teams, agencies, and businesses that need to retrieve pages, APIs, images, documents, and other files. Its interfaces include REST and asynchronous APIs, proxy access, structured-data… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Zyte API — where it wins

  • Renders pages and supports browser actions, screenshots, and CDP access.
  • Rotates proxies and handles bans, sessions, geolocation, and IP types.
  • Extracts structured data and integrates with Playwright, Puppeteer, and Scrapy.

  Where it doesn't

  • No free plan; usage charges vary by target site, request type, and features.
  • Monthly commitment plans start at $100, with volume discounts at higher tiers.
  • Enterprise pricing is custom; premium 24/7 support and SLAs are enterprise-only.

• ScraperAPI — where it wins

  • Combines synchronous and asynchronous scraping with JavaScript rendering
  • Offers proxies, geotargeting, and CAPTCHA and bot-blocker handling
  • Includes crawler jobs, multiple SDKs, and cloud or self-hosted deployment

  Where it doesn't

  • Free plan is limited to 1,000 API credits and 5 concurrent connections
  • Hobby provides US and EU geotargeting; country-level targeting starts at Business
  • Primarily a scraping API, not a standalone browser automation framework

• Zyte API8.5/10 · 30-day trial

  A flexible scraping API for developers tackling browser-rendered, hard-to-fetch pages.

  Visit Zyte APIFull verdict →
• ScraperAPI8.1/10 · Free plan · 7-day trial

  A flexible scraping API with crawler jobs, SDKs, and cloud or self-hosted deployment.

  Visit ScraperAPIFull verdict →