Scrapfly vs Zyte (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 24, 2026, Scrapfly and Zyte share a 2.4 GPA, neither has a free plan, and Scrapfly starts cheaper, at $30 a month against $100 a month.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded 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.
Scrapfly
Web scraping API with anti-bot unblocking, browsers and AI extraction
Zyte
Web scraping API with ban handling, AI extraction and a SERP endpoint
Which one is for you
Pick Scrapfly if
- Fits if you track rankings on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex or Baidu from your own code
- Works for developers who want scraping, a hosted browser and screenshots on one key
Look elsewhere if
- Watch out: a request costs 1 credit plain, 5 with a browser, 25 on residential proxies and 60 for a full-page screenshot
- Tight if your usage spikes on Discovery, which stops at its quota with no pay-as-you-go overflow
- Pricey if you need a team, since Discovery and Pro are single-user and team management starts at $250 a month
- Tight if your usage swings, as credits reset at renewal and don't roll over
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
| 2.4GPAScrapflyFair | 2.4GPAZyteFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CDiscovery is $30 a month for 200,000 credits, this category's middle. What that buys swings with the request: 1 credit plain, 5 with a browser or the Unblocker, 25 with residential proxies, so 8,000 to 200,000 pages. Pro is $100 for 1 million. | 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: 1,000 credits on sign-up with no card and no time limit, across every product. They don't renew, and at 25 credits on residential proxies that's 40 requests. | 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 | BSearch results from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex and Baidu with positions and SERP features as JSON or CSV, anti-bot unblocking, proxies in more than 190 countries, a cloud browser, a site crawler, AI extraction and screenshots. 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: one flag for unblocking, SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust and Scrapy, and a CLI. No rating on record, and the credit cost of each request changes with its options. | 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, SDKs, a CLI and a hosted MCP server for Claude, Cursor, Cline and Windsurf, plus Zapier, Make, n8n, LangChain, LlamaIndex and CrewAI. 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 | scraping protected sites and several search engines | 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: Scrapfly and Zyte. How we grade
Price against what you get
Scrapfly 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 Scrapfly starts $70 a month lower. Of the other SERP and SEO data APIs on the chart, none scores higher than Scrapfly 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
| Scrapfly | Zyte | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $30 per month for 200,000 API credits | $100 per month minimum commitment |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 1,000 free API credits on sign-up, no card needed and no time limit | $5 of free credit for the first billing month, with no commitment |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Joam Intelligence, LLC | Zyte Group Limited |
| Price read from | scrapfly.io | zyte.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Scrapfly
- A request costs 1 credit as plain HTTP on a datacenter IP, 5 with a browser or the Unblocker, 25 with residential proxies and 60 for a full-page screenshot.
- Discovery stops when its credits run out; only Pro and above continue as pay as you go.
- Credits reset at renewal and do not roll over. Failed requests are not charged.
- Discovery and Pro are single-user accounts; team management starts at Startup for $250 a month.
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
Scrapfly
- Web Scraping API with Unblocker
- One flag handles anti-bot systems, browser rendering, proxy rotation and retries, with residential and datacenter proxies in more than 190 countries.
- Search result scraping
- Send a query with a location and get positions, titles, URLs, snippets and SERP features back as JSON or CSV from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex or Baidu.
- Cloud Browser and Crawler APIs
- Drive a hosted Chromium with Playwright or Puppeteer and keep sessions between calls, or crawl a whole site in one job with path filters and webhooks.
- Data Extraction API
- Turn pages into JSON with ready-made models for products, articles, reviews and jobs, with CSS or XPath templates, or with plain-language AI prompts.
- Screenshot API
- Full-page or viewport captures in PNG, JPEG or WebP, with auto-scroll and scheduled captures sent to a webhook.
- MCP server, CLI and SDKs
- A hosted MCP server for Claude, Cursor, Cline and Windsurf, a command-line tool, and SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust and Scrapy.
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
Scrapfly
Discovery$30
per month for 200,000 API credits
5 concurrent requests, 1 week of logs and one user. Stops at the quota, with no pay-as-you-go overflow.
Pro$100
per month for 1,000,000 API credits
20 concurrent requests, 2 weeks of logs and one user. Extra credits at $3.50 per 10,000.
Startup$250
per month for 2,500,000 API credits
50 concurrent requests, 3 weeks of logs and team management. Extra credits at $2.00 per 10,000.
Enterprise$500
per month for 5,500,000 API credits
100 concurrent requests, 4 weeks of logs, team management and premium support. Extra credits at $1.20 per 10,000.
CustomCustom
Negotiated volume above 5.5 million credits, with committed concurrency, dedicated residential IPs, a BAA and 24/7 support.
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
Scrapfly
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, Scrapfly or Zyte?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Scrapfly is cheaper to start with: $30 a month, against $100 a month for Zyte. Scrapfly starts at $30 per month for 200,000 API credits, and Zyte starts at $100 per month minimum commitment.
Which has a free plan, Scrapfly or Zyte?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Scrapfly 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.