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The Zyte Insider’s Guide

Everything we know about Zyte in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.

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ToolGPAOctober 2026

Zyte

The Insider’s Guide

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

Zyte, as pictured on zyte.com

Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among SERP and SEO data APIs, read from Zyte’s own pages.

Made by Zyte Group Limited · checked Oct 23, 2026 · toolgpa.com

2.4GPA

Contents

  1. 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
  2. 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
  3. 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
  4. 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
  5. 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
  6. 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
  7. 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it

ToolGPA put this guide together from Zyte’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Zyte’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 23, 2026.

Part 01 · Overview

Welcome

What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first

2.4

GPA, above 16 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade

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.

To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Zyte, taken from its own pages and our grades.

Judged on how fast a developer gets a first result: an MCP server for coding agents, and Scrapy if you already use it.
From our grade for ease of use
  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    Paid plans start at $100 a month

    As its pricing page puts it: $100 per month minimum commitment.

  3. 3

    You can try it first

    $5 of free credit for the first billing month, with no commitment

  4. 4

    It runs on Web

    Web.

  5. 5

    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.

  6. 6

    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.

  7. 7

    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.

  8. 8

    A 2.4 GPA, above 16 of 38

    That is against the other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.

  9. 9

    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.

Zyte at a glance

Pricing
Free trial, from $100 per month minimum commitment
Free plan
No
Free trial
$5 of free credit for the first billing month, with no commitment
Runs on
Web
Made by
Zyte Group Limited
Category
SERP & SEO Data APIs
Our grade
2.4 GPA, fair

The report card

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.

ToolGPA report cardZyteGraded Oct 24, 2026
SubjectGradeComment
Value for moneyCPay 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 trialCNo 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.
FeaturesBBan 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 useCJudged 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 integrationsBWeb, 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.
Grade point averageFair, out of 4.02.4

An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.

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 it 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

Good to know

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.

Part 02 · Pricing

What it costs

Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved

$100

A month to start

Zyte is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $100 per month minimum commitment.

  • 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.

Trying it first

$5 of free credit for the first billing month, with no commitment

Read from zyte.com on Oct 23, 2026.

Ways to pay less

  • 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.

    Stated on docs.zyte.com

Part 03 · Features

What it does

Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it

1

Place it runs: Web

Web scraping API with ban handling, AI extraction and a SERP endpoint. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: public API, AI features, sERP API.

Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job.
From our grade for 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.

Where it runs

  • Web

What it works with

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

Zyte is made by Zyte Group Limited.

Part 04 · Standing

Where it stands

Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own

16/38

Other SERP and SEO data APIs it is graded above

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
  • CFree plan and trialAbove 2 of 38
  • BFeaturesAbove 26 of 38
  • CEase of useAbove 0 of 38
  • BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 9 of 38

Price against what you get

Each dot is one of 26 SERP and SEO data APIs. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Zyte is the marked dot.

C2.0B3.0A4.0$2$5$10$20$50$100$200$500More for lessCosts more, scores moreCosts less, scores lessCosts more, scores lessZyteSerpBaseApifyZenserpScrape.do

What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →

Keep it, or make your own?

Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.

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.

Part 05 · Alternatives

The alternatives

The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side

ScrapingBee, ScraperAPI, Bright Data SERP API, Oxylabs SERP Scraper API and Apify

The 5 tools Zyte is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.

Part 06 · Questions

Quick answers

The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two

15

Questions, each answered in a line or two

The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.

Is Zyte free?

No, Zyte is a paid product, but you can try it first. $5 of free credit for the first billing month, with no commitment.

How much does Zyte cost?

Zyte lists 4 plans. Standard, $100 commitment: $100 per month minimum commitment.

What platforms does Zyte work on?

Zyte is available on Web.

Does Zyte offer any discounts?

Zyte publicly lists the following: Free Scrapy Cloud unit for students.

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.

What does Zyte integrate with?

Zyte's listing names Scrapy, Claude Code, Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, VS Code, Amazon S3, Google BigQuery and Google Sheets.

Does Zyte have a student discount?

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.

Who makes Zyte?

Zyte is made by Zyte Group Limited.

What are the alternatives to Zyte?

The closest alternatives to Zyte in our directory are ScrapingBee, ScraperAPI, Bright Data SERP API, Oxylabs SERP Scraper API and Apify.

How does Zyte compare with other 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.

Is Zyte good value for money?

ToolGPA grades Zyte C for value for money. 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.

Could I make my own version of Zyte?

To replace Zyte you would be making search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked.

Where this guide comes from

The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Zyte’s own pages on Oct 23, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 24, 2026. 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.

Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Zyte Group Limited. Prices change, so check zyte.com before you buy.

Part 07 · About

About ToolGPA

Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it

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