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Web Crawlers · Reviewed 26 Oct 2026

Zyte

AI-powered web scraping platform with APIs and managed data delivery.

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Zyte at a glance
185.1KEstimated total trafficModeled monthly visits1.1KRanking keywordsPublic search sample99/100Technical health15 pages checked0Referring domainsLive backlink summary

Overview

01

Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

Zyte is an all-in-one, AI-powered web scraping platform that provides APIs, cloud hosting for Scrapy scrapers, and managed data delivery services S35. It is used by businesses and individuals who need to automatically extract large amounts of public web data for insights and decision-making, especially when websites lack APIs or have limited access S1. The platform's main practical value is handling the complexities of scraping—such as proxies, JavaScript execution, and anti-bot measures—so users can focus on using the data S1.

02

Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: Zyte is an all-in-one, AI-powered web scraping platform and data delivery service S35.
  • Core purpose: It solves the problem of extracting large amounts of web data automatically, especially when sites lack APIs or have limited access S1.
  • Intended users: Businesses and individuals who need public web data for insights and smarter decisions S1.
  • Product scope: A platform offering Zyte API, Scrapy Cloud hosting, and managed data services S35.
  • Positioning: From access to extraction to delivery, outcomes are Zyte's responsibility S35.
  • Claimed distinction: Their scraping API and IP rotation is the industry leader S35.
03

Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
E-commerce businessesExtract product and pricing information from e-commerce websites to make better pricing and marketing decisions S1.
InvestorsResearch, evaluate, and analyze investment opportunities using web-scraped data S1.
Marketing teamsMonitor competitor pricing and gain deep insights to inform strategies S1.
BrandsMonitor brand and MAP compliance to ensure online prices align with pricing policy S1.
News-dependent companiesMonitor, aggregate, and parse critical industry stories S1.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Web scraping APIZyte API extracts data from websites, handling bans, proxies, and browsers, returning structured JSON S1 S35.
Automatic extractionZyte Automatic Extraction customizes data extraction for different projects S1.
Scrapy Cloud hostingScalable cloud hosting to run Scrapy scrapers S35.
Managed data serviceA managed web data service where Zyte handles data collection and delivery S35.
Session managementManages sessions and cookies for complex scraping tasks S1 S108.
File downloadDownload files up to 100MB with automatic retry and resume S108.
Browser automationAutomate complex user interactions like clicks, form fills, and navigation S108.
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Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
Zyte APIAPIProvides a web scraping API that returns structured JSON data, handling bans and browser actions S1 S35.
Scrapy CloudPlatformHosts and runs Scrapy scrapers in the cloud S35.
MCP ServerAI interfaceAllows Zyte to be used with any MCP client S35.
Client librariesSDKProvides official clients for Python, Node.js, Ruby, and more to integrate Zyte API into code S35.
Google Sheets importHTMLData portabilityOffers a free, no-code option to import HTML data, though limited S1.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
Zyte API pay as you goFrom $0.13 per 1K HTTP responses; $1.01 per 1K browser responses S108Full suite of advanced features S108Five site tiers up to $1.27 (HTTP) and $16.08 (browser) per 1K S108
Zyte API $100$100 minimum, monthly commitment S108From $0.10 per 1K HTTP responses S108Not established
Zyte API $200$200 minimum, monthly commitment S108From $0.08 per 1K HTTP responses S108Not established
Zyte API $500$500 minimum, monthly commitment S108From $0.06 per 1K HTTP responses S108Not established
Scrapy Cloud Professional$9 per unit per month S1081 GB RAM, 1 concurrent crawl, unlimited crawl time S108120-day data retention S108
Scrapy Cloud StarterFree S1081 hour of crawl time, 1 concurrent crawl S1087-day retention S108
Trial$5 free credit for 30 days S108No commitment or subscription S108Not established
EnterpriseContact sales S108Custom S108Volume discounts S108

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
ie.linkedin.com112zyte
crawlera.ai112crawlera
trustpilot.com113zyte
github.com113crawlera
zyteapp.com114zyte
scrapingbee.com114crawlera
g2.com115zyte
hub.docker.com115crawlera
datawookie.dev116zyte
medium.com116crawlera

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

PlatformStatusDiscovered source
G2discovered_not_scrapedhttps://www.g2.com/products/zyte/reviews
Capterradiscovered_not_scrapedhttps://www.capterra.com/p/180165/Zyte/
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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 1.0%
MonthSource
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
otherHome of the all-in-one, AI-powered web scraping platform, and a world-class data delivery team. Your devs or ours?https://www.zyte.com/
integrationsAI Extractionhttps://www.zyte.com/zyte-api/
integrations\playwright
integrationsEnd the pain of parsing. Let AI understand the page and extract the data for you.https://www.zyte.com/zyte-api/ai-extraction/
integrationsTry AI Extractionhttps://www.zyte.com/zyte-api/ai-extraction/
integrationsPick your AI superpowerhttps://www.zyte.com/zyte-api/ai-extraction/
integrationsThree ways to turn any web page into valuable data. Standard schemas are extracted by trained machine-learning models - deterministic and priced for scale. The LLM runs only when you ask for custom fields, so per-page inference cost never becomes your bottleneck.https://www.zyte.com/zyte-api/ai-extraction/

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Competitor gapReview the sampled queries where ie.linkedin.com appears.1 first-page appearances across zyte

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
CapterraZyte Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons / CapterraGrounded web search# Reviews of Zyte Ease of use 4.5 Customer Service 4.4 ... no option. I contacted support, sent a screenshot, they said there is no spending limit without a subscription ... steal your money. I woke up yesterday to a bill 40x times
TrustpilotZyte Reviews / Read Customer Service Reviews of zyte.comGrounded web search## Misleading States no CC required, and then only allows you to trial it by entering a credit card. Also states the below on the payment section: "Start your one month Zyte API On Demand plan with $5 free credit! Enter your credit card details to complete your sign up." It also states you have access to "Scrapy Cloud Hosts and runs spiders," however you can't access it unless you sign up with a credit card for "Zyte API Avoids bans and extracts data." Do not recommend this company with such mis
GetAppZyte 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives / GetAppGrounded web searchTo determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from 43 verified reviews Overall rating 4.4 (43) Value for money 4.2 Features 4.4 Ease of use 4.5 Customer support 4.4 Reviews sentiment 1-2(4) 3-4(10) 5(29)
ProxyPloxZyte Review, Pricing & Alternatives (2026) / ProxyPloxGrounded web searchTrustpilot: 4.0(20) Capterra: 4.4(43) G2: 4.5(110) ... Independent review scores are strong: 4.0 on Trustpilot, 4.5 on G2 and 4.4 on Capterra ... and responsive customer support. The company publishes extensive documentation and an active developer
Software AdviceZyte Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026Grounded web searchZyte 4.4 (43) Pricing Starting at $9.00 per month ... ## Zyte User Reviews Overall Rating 4.4 Ratings Breakdown 5 67% 4 21% 3 2% 2 1 9% Secondary Ratings Ease of Use 4.5 Value for money 4.2 Customer support 4.4 Functionality
ToolRadarZyte Reviews, Pricing & Alternatives (2026) - 4.4/5Grounded web searchthe Web 4.4(165 reviews) Zyte holds an aggregate rating of 4.4 out of 5 from 165 reviews across G2 and Capterra, last checked September 17, 2026. G2 122 reviews 4.4/5 Capterra 43 reviews 4.4/5 Ratings aggregated from independent review platforms.
WebScraping.ccZyte Review (2026) / WebScrapingGrounded web searchThe result is on the record. One Trustpilot reviewer reported a bill about 40x higher than expected. That’s an outlier, not a typical month, but it’s the kind of outlier the ... sits at 3.1/5, and there are allegations that G2 review-gating suppresses the
Thunderbit BlogZyte Review 2026: Pricing, Pros, Cons, and Best AlternativeGrounded web searchI checked independent review sites again before updating this article. As of May 19, 2026, G2 shows Zyte at 4.4/5 from 114 reviews, and Capterra shows 4.4/5 from 43 reviews. That is a solid reputation overall, but the comments are revealing.

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

Independent mentions

  • Zyte on Reddit: Analysis of 8 Discussions (2026) / RedditMaster — How this was measured: This report summarises 8 public Reddit threads collected across 6 subreddits through the Reddit API. Thread counts, subreddit shares, the weekly trend, and the date range are computed from those threads alone. Replies have not been collected for this brand yet, so the sentiment split is derived from thread titles and the question each thread asks, which leaves most threads unlabelled; the labels come from a fixed word list, not from human review. This is a sample of public
  • Web Data Collection: APIs and Managed Data Delivery / Zyte — using their API, I always got 200 ok response from each and every website I tried. Zyte has been a game-changer for our web scraping needs… an excellent choice for both small and large-scale data extraction projects.

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipA managed web data service. Our team builds, runs and maintains the collection, delivering deduplicated, schema-ready data to your warehouse on the cadence you set. Nothing to build, nothing to maintain.source
Contact and supportIf you have an eCommerce data-driven product and you need help with data extraction, contact us heresource
Legal and privacyIan's posts focus heavily on how hedge funds and investors use web-scraped alternative data — product pricing, e-commerce data at scale (up to 100 billion pages), and GDPR-compliant crawling — alongside proxy-managementsource
Security and complianceNot published on the collected pages.—
Uptime and status pageNot published on the collected pages.—
Domain registered1999-02-22—
Domain expires2027-01-31—

Not found on the collected pages: security and compliance, uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
What is Web Scraping? How to Scrape Data from Website ?GuideGuides, comparisons, pricing breakdowns, use cases, and how-to articles. (source)Not dated
How to Plan Your Web Scraping Project Like a Product ManagerGuideMost web scraping projects that collapse don't fail because of technical incompetence. They fail because teams treat data extraction like a coding sprint rather than a product launch. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Zyte offers cloud-based services including Scrapy Cloud hosting S35.S35
Platforms and appsZyte API is accessible via web and supports multiple client libraries S35.S35
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Provides a web scraping API, client SDKs, and an MCP server S1 S35.S1 S35
Data ownership and exportExtracted data is returned in JSON format for ease of use S1.S1
Performance and reliability claimsPre-warmed browser instances for zero-cold-start performance S108.S108
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
Domain registered1999-02-22 — Amazon Registrar, Inc.
Domain expires2027-01-31
TLS certificateAmazon, valid, expires 2027-03-31
Security headersHSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy
Server headerVercel
Mail handled byaspmx.l.google.com, alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
Nameserversns-1756.awsdns-27.co.uk, ns-536.awsdns-03.net

Not measurable: wayback: rate limited by archive.org, ladder stopped after 1 probe(s). A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

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Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 99/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 3
  • Notices: 0

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
warningPage should have one primary H13https://www.zyte.com/zyte-api/
warningTitle length should be reviewed86https://www.zyte.com/join-community/
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.zyte.com/pricing/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200Web Data Collection: APIs and Managed Data Delivery \Zyte11443283 ms
200Web Scraping API - All-in-one Web Scraper \Zyte API32852586 ms
200Fully Managed Web Data Service \Zyte13886850 ms
200Scrapy Cloud - Managed Hosting for Scrapy Spiders \Zyte1940598 ms
200Zyte MCP Server: Web Data Tools for AI Agents \Zyte11621608 ms
200Ecommerce Web Scraping - Product Scraper API \Zyte12035731 ms
200Become part of the community and receive a bi-weekly dosage of all things web scraping11116600 mshttps://www.zyte.com/join-community/
200Website Unblocking, Built Into a Web Scraping API \Zyte API11350567 ms
200AI Data Extraction - Web Scraping AI \Zyte API11244519 ms
200SERP Data Extraction for Search Results at Scale \Zyte12265561 ms
200Zyte API for Enterprise - Managed Web Scraping at Scale \Zyte11059515 ms
200Zyte Skills and Plugins for AI Coding Agents \Zyte11847516 ms
200Pricing \Zyte21891306 ms
200Web Data for AI - Artificial Intelligence Training Data \Zyte12091673 ms
200Job Scraping - Job Board Scraper API \Zyte12450697 ms

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

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Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct56.4%
search30.4%
search organic10.6%
search paid19.8%
social5.1%
social organic4.4%
social paid0.7%
referrals2.8%
paid referrals0.2%
mail2.1%
gen ai1.0%
affiliate2.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention specific competitors, except for a transition guide from Zenrows to Zyte API S1. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed security certifications, uptime statistics, and specific customer names in testimonials. Pricing details for advanced features are not fully disclosed S108.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from zyte.com, including the homepage, pricing page, and blog articles. The evidence catalog includes 15 static and 8 rendered pages, with 4 sitemap requests. External proof search was enabled but no verification requests were made. Limitations: some pages were not fully scraped, and external review profiles were not collected.

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