Geekflare API vs ZenRows (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Geekflare API if

• Fits if you want scraping, screenshots and site checks without juggling several vendors
• Works for small teams that start free and pay $19 once volume grows

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you stay free: 500 credits a month and 1 request per second
• Watch out: credits do not roll over, and requests pause at the limit unless you buy a pack
• Watch out: payments are non-refundable under the terms, with review case by case
• Skip it if you cannot code, as every endpoint is an API call
• Watch out: the Yearly toggle says 2 months free but only monthly prices were read

Pick ZenRows if

• Fits if you scrape protected sites and want Google results from the same credits
• Works for AI agents that need web pages as Markdown or JSON

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want a fixed SERP format, as the result groups vary with what Google or Bing shows
• Watch out: a page costs 1 credit plain, 5 rendered, 10 on premium proxies and 25 with both
• Watch out: residential bandwidth draws 25,000 credits per GB and the Browser 5 credits a minute
• Tight if you're on Free, which stops at 5,000 credits with no top-ups until the next month
• Pricey if your volume grows, as each plan's price steps up with its credit allowance

Geekflare API

• Credits reset each billing cycle and do not roll over to the next month.
• Requests pause at the monthly limit unless you buy a credit pack; packs start at $10 for 7,500 credits and are valid for a year.
• Payments are non-refundable under the terms, with case-by-case review in exceptional cases.
• The pricing page has a Yearly toggle labeled 2 months free; only monthly prices were read.

ZenRows

• A standard page costs 1 credit, 5 with JavaScript rendering, 10 with premium proxies and 25 with both; residential bandwidth is 25,000 credits per GB.
• Search results come from fetching a Google or Bing results address and parsing the page, so the groups returned vary with what the page shows.
• The free plan stops at 5,000 credits until the next month; paid plans can buy top-ups up to ten times a billing period.
• Each paid plan's price rises with its credit allowance, in three steps (five for Scale).

Geekflare API

Web scraping and crawl

Returns markdown, HTML or JSON; a page costs 0.25 credits without a browser, 1 with JavaScript, 5 with a premium proxy and 7 with AI extraction.

Search API

Real-time web results for 2 credits a search, or 5 with an AI-grounded answer.

Screenshots and PDFs

Full-page or viewport captures of a URL at 5 credits each.

Site checks

Lighthouse audits (10 credits), load time tests, broken-link checks and redirect checks share the same credit pool.

Metadata, brand and DNS

Page metadata, brand lookups and DNS record lookups are separate endpoints on the same key.

ZenRows

Fetch

Returns any page as HTML, Markdown, JSON or a screenshot, getting past anti-bot walls, CAPTCHAs and fingerprint checks on protected sites.

Extract

Detects the data on a page and returns it as JSON with no selectors or schema to write. It currently costs nothing on top of the Fetch it uses.

Search results as JSON

Send a Google or Bing results address with a country and get organic results, related questions, videos and other groups back with their positions.

Crawl and Batch

Crawl collects every page behind a starting address, each billed as a Fetch; Batch runs large queued jobs with retries, webhooks and status tracking.

Browser

Drives a real browser for pages that need clicks, forms, logins or a session kept across a long job, billed at 5 credits a minute plus bandwidth.

MCP server, CLI and SDKs

An MCP server for Claude, Cursor and Codex, a command-line tool, and Python, Node and Go SDKs, all published as open source under MIT.

Geekflare API

• Free$0

  500 credits a month, 1 request per second, 1 team member and 7 days of log retention.

• Starter$19

  per month for 20,000 credits

  5 requests per second, 3 team members, 30 days of logs and standard email support.

• Growth$69

  per month for 100,000 credits

  10 requests per second, 5 team members, 30 days of logs and priority email support.

• Business 500K$299

  per month for 500,000 credits

  25 requests per second, 25 team members, 90 days of logs and priority email support.

• Business 1M$499

  per month for 1,000,000 credits

  25 requests per second, 25 team members, 90 days of logs and priority email support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Above 1M credits a month, committed-use pricing and a custom rate limit, arranged through sales.

ZenRows

• Free$0

  5,000 credits a month, refreshed monthly with no rollover or top-ups, 5 concurrent requests and community support.

• Build$16

  per month for 45,000 credits, billed annually ($19 billed monthly)

  20 concurrent requests, email support and top-ups. Rises to $33 a month for 120,000 credits ($39 billed monthly).

• Launch$58

  per month for 250,000 credits, billed annually ($69 billed monthly)

  50 concurrent requests and chat support. Rises to $108 a month for 700,000 credits ($129 billed monthly).

• Growth$166

  per month for 1.2M credits, billed annually ($199 billed monthly)

  100 concurrent requests, priority support and the residential network at scale. Rises to $333 a month for 3M credits ($399 monthly).

• Scale$458

  per month for 5M credits, billed annually ($549 billed monthly)

  200 to 400 concurrent requests and committed capacity options. Rises to $2,499 a month for 45M credits ($2,999 monthly).

• EnterpriseCustom

  Committed volume, 500 to 1,000+ concurrent requests, an SLA, a DPA and a dedicated account manager. Through sales.

Geekflare API

• Annual discount

  Yearly billing is labeled 2 months free

  The subscription plans have a Yearly toggle marked 2 months free.

ZenRows

• Annual discount

  Two months free with annual billing

  Zenrows says paying yearly gives two months free (pay for 10, get 12), shown as a 17% saving, with the year's credits up front.