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Zyte alternatives
4 tools to consider instead of Zyte, shown against it.
| Zyte | Scrapy | Bright Data | Apify | Oxylabs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Vendor | Zyte Group Ltd. | Zyte (open-source project) | Bright Data Ltd. | Apify Technologies s.r.o. | Oxylabs UAB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Open source + paid options | Usage-based | Subscription | Usage-based | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deployment | Cloud | Self-hosted | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Open source | No | Yes (BSD-3-Clause) | No | No | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best for | Teams building on Scrapy who want managed hosting, or anyone wanting a pay-per-request unblocking API. | Engineering teams who want full control of crawl logic and are willing to run and maintain their own infrastructure. | Teams that need IP diversity and anti-blocking infrastructure at scale rather than a scraping library. | Teams that want to rent or run scrapers as managed cloud jobs without operating their own infrastructure. | Teams needing IP diversity at volume for price monitoring, ad verification or large-scale collection. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pricing | Pay-as-you-go per 1,000 requests, priced by page difficulty tier (HTTP response body vs. browser-rendered), with lower rates at $100/$200/$500 monthly minimum-spend commitments; $5 free trial credit.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Free and open source; no vendor pricing. Costs are whatever compute, proxies or hosting a team adds around it. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Per-GB proxy pricing and per-request API pricing, split across separate product pages (proxies, Scraper APIs, Scraping Browser, SERP API, datasets); a free trial is offered on several products. Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted. | Monthly plans include a platform-credit allowance that covers compute, proxy and storage usage; overage is billed on top.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Proxies billed per GB or per port/month; scraper APIs billed as a monthly plan with included request volume; free trials offered on most products.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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