Oxylabs SERP Scraper API vs Zyte (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 24, 2026, Oxylabs SERP Scraper API and Zyte share a 2.4 GPA, neither has a free plan, and Oxylabs SERP Scraper API starts cheaper, at $30 a month against $100 a month.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA
They get the same grade on all five counts.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Oxylabs SERP Scraper API
Search results scraping from Oxylabs, billed per successful result
Zyte
Web scraping API with ban handling, AI extraction and a SERP endpoint
Which one is for you
Pick Oxylabs SERP Scraper API if
- Fits if you already pay Oxylabs for proxies and want search results from the same budget
- Works for checking rankings at exact coordinates in many places
Look elsewhere if
- Watch out: results with 2xx or 4xx status codes from the target site count as successful and are billed
- Pricey if you want AI parsing, at $3 per 1,000 parsed pages on every plan
- Skip it if you need results in under a second, which takes the separate /Search endpoint at $1 per 1,000
- Tight if you use other Oxylabs products, since they draw on the same monthly spend
- Watch out: prices exclude VAT and other sales taxes, added where required
Pick Zyte if
- Fits if you already write spiders in Scrapy and want them hosted next to the API
- Works for pulling up to 100 search results per call by country, language or city
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you want the lower rates, which need a commitment of at least $100 a month
- Watch out: Zyte puts each site in one of five price tiers and reviews them every quarter, so a request's cost can change
- Watch out: screenshots ($1.34 per 1,000), AI extraction ($0.27 to $1.07 per 1,000 per data type), actions and residential IPs all cost extra
- Tight if you're only testing, as the $5 credit covers the first month and the account is suspended once it's spent
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAOxylabs SERP Scraper APIFair | 2.4GPAZyteFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CStarter is $30 a month, inside this category's usual range, for about 22,000 rendered Google results at $1.35 per 1,000. That money is shared with every other Oxylabs product you use, and VAT may be added. | CPay as you go needs no commitment: $0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000 plain responses and $1.01 to $16.08 rendered, by the tier Zyte puts a site in. The lower rates start with a $100 monthly commitment, in this category's dearest tenth, where search first pages are $0.63 per 1,000. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan: $5 of welcome credits toward any Oxylabs product, and then it's $30 a month. | CNo free plan: $5 of credit for the first month with no commitment, and the account is suspended when it's spent until you set a spending limit. Scrapy Cloud keeps one free low-resource unit with 1-hour jobs. |
| Features | BGoogle, Bing, Baidu and Yandex, with Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Lens and local results, answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, targeting down to coordinates, a scheduler and cloud delivery. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job. | BBan handling that picks the IP type and browser per site, CAPTCHA solving, scripted browser actions, AI extraction to JSON, a search endpoint with up to 100 results, AI Overview content and city targeting, and Scrapy Cloud hosting. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job. |
| Ease of use | CJudged on how fast a developer gets a first result: parsed JSON for common Google pages and OxyCopilot, which writes requests and parsing rules for you. No rating on record, and other pages need a custom parser. | CJudged on how fast a developer gets a first result: an MCP server for coding agents, and Scrapy if you already use it. No rating on record, and each site's cost depends on one of five tiers that Zyte assigns and reviews every quarter. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, with an API, an MCP server and delivery straight to a cloud storage bucket. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top. | BWeb, with an API, Scrapy, an MCP server for Claude Code, Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code, plus Amazon S3, Google BigQuery and Google Sheets. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top. |
| Best for | search data on the same bill as Oxylabs proxies | scraping sites that block ordinary requests |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Oxylabs SERP Scraper API and Zyte. How we grade
Price against what you get
Oxylabs SERP Scraper API starts at $30 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Zyte starts at $100 a month and scores 2.7.
They score the same, and Oxylabs SERP Scraper API starts $70 a month lower. Of the other SERP and SEO data APIs on the chart, none scores higher than Oxylabs SERP Scraper API for less, and none scores higher than Zyte for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
At a glance
| Oxylabs SERP Scraper API | Zyte | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $30 per month, spent across all Oxylabs products | $100 per month minimum commitment |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | $5 of welcome credits toward any Oxylabs product | $5 of free credit for the first billing month, with no commitment |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Oxylabs | Zyte Group Limited |
| Price read from | oxylabs.io | zyte.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Oxylabs SERP Scraper API
- One subscription now covers all Oxylabs products, so SERP results draw on the same monthly spend as proxies and other scrapers.
- Results with 2xx or 4xx status codes from the target site count as successful and are billed.
- AI parsing costs $3 per 1,000 parsed pages on every plan.
- Prices exclude VAT and other sales taxes, which are added where required.
Zyte
- Without a commitment, pay as you go costs $0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000 HTTP responses and $1.01 to $16.08 per 1,000 rendered ones, up to $100 a month.
- Each site sits in one of five price tiers that Zyte assigns and reviews quarterly, so the cost of a request depends on the site.
- Screenshots ($1.34 per 1,000), automatic extraction ($0.27 to $1.07 per 1,000 per data type), actions and residential IPs cost extra.
- When the $5 free credit runs out, the account is suspended until a spending limit is set.
Key features
Oxylabs SERP Scraper API
- Google and three other engines
- Google, Bing, Baidu and Yandex, with Google targets for web search, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Lens, local, news, images, Scholar, hotels, Trends and ads.
- LLM scrapers
- Collects answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode, priced from $1.50 per 1,000 results on the smaller plans.
- Precise geo-targeting
- Requests can be targeted by location down to coordinates, and Google's continuous scroll is handled without extra parameters.
- Parsing and OxyCopilot
- Parsed JSON for common Google pages, a custom parser for others, and OxyCopilot, an assistant that writes scraping requests and parsing instructions.
- Scheduler and cloud delivery
- Jobs can run on a schedule, and results come back from the API or are saved to a cloud storage bucket of your choice.
- Fast Search API
- For organic results in under a second, Oxylabs sells a separate /Search endpoint at $1 per 1,000 searches; the SERP scraper averages under 10 seconds.
Zyte
- Automatic ban handling
- Zyte API chooses between datacenter and residential IPs and browser rendering for each site, solves CAPTCHAs and rotates IPs, and charges only for successful responses.
- Browser rendering and actions
- Render JavaScript in a headless browser, script clicks, form fills and navigation, keep sessions, take screenshots and download files of up to 100MB.
- AI extraction
- Automatic extraction returns product, article, job and other page types as JSON; custom attributes let you describe extra fields, billed by AI tokens.
- Search results endpoint
- Returns up to 100 organic results in one call, with AI Overview content and country, language or city targeting. Pages 2 to 10 cost about 29% less than page 1.
- Scrapy Cloud
- Hosting for Scrapy spiders: a free low-resource unit with 1-hour jobs and 7 days of data, or $9 a month per unit for unlimited run time and 120 days.
- Zyte MCP
- A remote MCP server lets agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code fetch pages, extract data and run crawls.
Plans
Oxylabs SERP Scraper API
Starter$30
per month, spent across all Oxylabs products
About 22,000 Google results with JavaScript rendering at $1.35 per 1,000. VAT may apply.
Basic$100
per month, spent across all Oxylabs products
About 76,000 rendered Google results at $1.30 per 1,000, or 111,000 without rendering at $0.90.
Flexible$500
per month, spent across all Oxylabs products
About 434,000 rendered Google results at $1.15 per 1,000, or 714,000 without rendering at $0.70.
Enterprise$2,500
per month and up
Rendered Google results at $0.90 per 1,000 and plain ones at $0.50. Sold through sales.
Zyte
Standard, $100 commitment$100
per month minimum commitment
$0.10 to $0.95 per 1,000 HTTP responses and $0.75 to $12.00 per 1,000 browser-rendered ones, by site tier. Search first pages $0.63 per 1,000.
Standard, $200 commitment$200
per month minimum commitment
$0.08 to $0.76 per 1,000 HTTP responses and $0.60 to $9.60 per 1,000 browser-rendered ones. Search first pages $0.51 per 1,000.
Standard, $500 commitment$500
per month minimum commitment
$0.06 to $0.61 per 1,000 HTTP responses and $0.48 to $7.68 per 1,000 browser-rendered ones. Search first pages $0.40 per 1,000.
EnterpriseCustom
Larger volume discounts, $200 of free credit, 10,000 requests a minute, onboarding engineers and 24/7 support with SLAs. Through sales.
Ways to pay less
Oxylabs SERP Scraper API
No public discounts listed.
Zyte
- Education
Free Scrapy Cloud unit for students
Zyte's Scrapy Cloud pricing page says students get the benefits of one purchased unit, normally $9 a month, for free.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Oxylabs SERP Scraper API or Zyte?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Oxylabs SERP Scraper API is cheaper to start with: $30 a month, against $100 a month for Zyte. Oxylabs SERP Scraper API starts at $30 per month, spent across all Oxylabs products, and Zyte starts at $100 per month minimum commitment.
Which has a free plan, Oxylabs SERP Scraper API or Zyte?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Oxylabs SERP Scraper API nor Zyte has a free plan. Both have a free trial.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.