Zyte alternatives

4 tools to consider instead of Zyte, shown against it.

Zyte Scrapy Bright Data Apify Oxylabs
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.

Pay as you go $0.13–$1.27 per 1,000 requests (HTTP); $1.01–$16.08 per 1,000 (browser-rendered)
$100/month commitment $0.10–$0.95 per 1,000 (HTTP); $0.75–$12.00 per 1,000 (browser-rendered)
$500/month commitment $0.06–$0.61 per 1,000 (HTTP); $0.48–$7.68 per 1,000 (browser-rendered)
Enterprise custom

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.

Free $0/month
Starter $19/month ($17/month billed annually)
Scale $199/month ($179/month billed annually)
Business $999/month ($899/month billed annually)

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.

Residential Proxies from $6/GB
Web Scraper API from $49/month
Web Unblocker from $9.4/month
ISP Proxies from $16/month

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • Zyte API: single endpoint for fetching and unblocking any URL
  • Automatic proxy rotation and anti-bot handling, priced by page difficulty
  • Scrapy Cloud for hosting and scheduling Scrapy spiders
  • AI-assisted data extraction (auto-extract for products, articles)
  • Smart browser rendering only when JavaScript execution is needed
  • Maintainers of the open-source Scrapy framework
  • Managed data-extraction services for custom projects
  • Asynchronous request scheduling and throttling
  • Built-in HTML/XML selectors (CSS and XPath)
  • Item pipelines for cleaning and storing scraped data
  • Middleware system for proxies, retries and custom headers
  • Built-in export to JSON, CSV and XML
  • Extensible with headless-browser middlewares for JS-heavy sites
  • Command-line tooling for generating and running spiders
  • Residential, datacenter, ISP and mobile proxy networks
  • Web Unlocker for automatic CAPTCHA/bot-detection handling
  • Managed Scraping Browser (headless browser as a service)
  • SERP API for search engine results
  • Pre-built Scraper APIs for specific sites (e-commerce, social, maps)
  • Ready-made and custom datasets marketplace
  • Geo-targeting and session control (country, city, sticky sessions)
  • Marketplace of pre-built scraper "Actors" for common sites
  • SDK for building custom Actors (JavaScript/Python, open-source Crawlee core)
  • Built-in rotating proxy pool
  • Scheduling, webhooks and REST/GraphQL API
  • Managed storage for datasets, key-value stores and request queues
  • Headless browser and HTTP-based crawling support
  • Team and usage-based billing dashboard
  • Residential, datacenter, ISP, mobile and SOCKS5 proxy pools
  • Web Scraper API with JavaScript rendering and parsing
  • Web Unblocker for adaptive anti-bot bypass
  • Country/city-level geo-targeting and sticky sessions
  • Pre-built scrapers for e-commerce, SERP and real estate targets
  • Proxy rotation and session management dashboard
  • 24/7 account support on paid plans

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