Zyte review (2026): is it worth $100 a month?
Web scraping API with ban handling, AI extraction and a SERP endpoint
Zyte report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 24, 2026
Best for scraping sites that block ordinary requests
Zyte API picks plain requests, residential IPs or a headless browser for each site, bills only successful responses, and has a search endpoint that returns up to 100 results a call. What a request costs depends on a price tier Zyte gives each site, the lower rates need a $100 monthly commitment, and screenshots, extraction and residential IPs cost extra.
Who Zyte is for
- 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
Who Zyte is not for
- 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
Why Zyte gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyPay 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.
- CFree plan and trialNo 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.
- BFeaturesBan 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.
- CEase of useJudged 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.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb, 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.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Zyte's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Zyte's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 16 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 14.
It stands best on features (B, above 26 of 38) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $100 a month, against a middle price of $29.49 for the category: 23 of the 25 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 39 SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, cut by the letter each got. Zyte’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 1 of 38, level with 19
- CFree plan and trialAbove 2 of 38, level with 32
- BFeaturesAbove 26 of 38, level with 11
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 38, level with 36
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 9 of 38, level with 29
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 26 SERP and SEO data APIs. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
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
Keep Zyte, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Zyte you would be making search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
It costs $1,200 a year.
What you could not
- Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked.
- It plugs into other products, Scrapy, Claude Code and Codex CLI among them, and has an API.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Zyte’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Zyte?
Zyte makes Zyte API, a web scraping API that picks the access method each site needs (plain requests, residential IPs or a headless browser) and bills only successful responses, priced by how hard the site is. It also has a search endpoint that returns up to 100 results per call, Scrapy Cloud hosting for spiders built on Scrapy, the open-source framework it maintains, and a managed data service.
Worth knowing
- 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
- 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.
Zyte pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, Zyte is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $100 per month minimum commitment.
- Starts at
- $100 per month minimum commitment
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- $5 of free credit for the first billing month, with no commitment
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Standard, $100 commitment | $100per 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 | $200per 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 | $500per 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. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Larger volume discounts, $200 of free credit, 10,000 requests a minute, onboarding engineers and 24/7 support with SLAs. Through sales. |
Read from zyte.com on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Zyte before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- EducationFree 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.
Stated on docs.zyte.com
Works with
- Scrapy
- Claude Code
- Codex CLI
- GitHub Copilot CLI
- VS Code
- Amazon S3
- Google BigQuery
- Google Sheets
Zyte alternatives
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Common questions
Does Zyte have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Zyte is listed for Web.
Does Zyte have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Zyte is listed for Web.
Is Zyte open source?
Zyte is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Does Zyte have an API?
Yes. Zyte offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026.