# Zyte review (2026): is it worth $100 a month?

> Web scraping API with ban handling, AI extraction and a SERP endpoint

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA.

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.

- **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs
- **Made by:** Zyte Group Limited
- **Website:** https://www.zyte.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you want the lower rates, which need a commitment of at least $100 a month.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Zyte is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $100 per month minimum commitment.

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **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 | $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. |
| 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 https://www.zyte.com/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Zyte before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Free Scrapy Cloud unit for students** (Education): Zyte's Scrapy Cloud pricing page says students get the benefits of one purchased unit, normally $9 a month, for free. Source: https://docs.zyte.com/scrapy-cloud/pricing.html

## 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.

## Good for

- Developers scraping sites that block ordinary requests
- Teams already writing spiders in Scrapy
- Pulling deep search results, up to 100 per call
- Companies that want web data delivered by a managed 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.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. 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.

- **Value for money: C.** Pay 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: C.** No 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: B.** Ban 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: C.** Judged 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: B.** Web, 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.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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.

## Where it stands among SERP and SEO data APIs

- 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.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/seo-data-apis

## Keep it, 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.

- You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Scrapy, Claude Code and Codex CLI among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Scrapy, Claude Code, Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, VS Code, Amazon S3, Google BigQuery, Google Sheets

**Tags:** SERP API, Public API, AI features

## Alternatives

- [ScrapingBee](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrapingbee): Web scraping API with a Google search endpoint, priced by credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zyte)
- [ScraperAPI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scraperapi): Web scraping API with Google search endpoints, priced in API credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zyte)
- [Bright Data SERP API](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bright-data-serp-api): Search results API on Bright Data's proxy network, with AI engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bright-data-serp-api-vs-zyte)
- [Oxylabs SERP Scraper API](https://toolgpa.com/tools/oxylabs-serp-scraper-api): Search results scraping from Oxylabs, billed per successful result. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/oxylabs-serp-scraper-api-vs-zyte)
- [Apify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/apify): Scraping platform with a store of ready-made Actors, Google included. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/apify-vs-zyte)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://www.zyte.com/pricing/
- https://www.zyte.com/
- https://docs.zyte.com/zyte-api/pricing.html
- https://www.zyte.com/serp-scraping/
- https://docs.zyte.com/scrapy-cloud/pricing.html
- https://www.zyte.com/mcp/
- https://www.zyte.com/meet-zyte/

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