# Bright Data vs Zyte API (slim)

> Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Bright Data's 59.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Bright Data leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do scraping. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Bright Data's 59.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Bright Data leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do scraping.

- Bright Data: C 59.8, rank #487 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data.min.md
- Zyte API: B 69.7, rank #166 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.min.md
- Bright Data, good for Hard targets and site-specific structured data (Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Maps) at volume. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 82 against 72; Maintenance & community, 84 against 77.
- Zyte API, good for An agent or pipeline that fetches protected pages and wants the service to choose proxy and browser per site and to bill only success, and teams already on Scrapy. Ahead on Reliability, 85 against 35; Schema & documentation, 85 against 74; Transparency & trust, 66 against 59.

| Category | Bright Data | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 74 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 82 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 84 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Bright Data | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Bright Data | Zyte Group Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.brightdata.com/request` | `https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Zyte's terms of service. The Python client is BSD 3-Clause, and the Agentic Web Data plugin is under Zyte's own end-user licence |
| Tools exposed | 69 | 34 |
| MCP registry | `io.github.brightdata/brightdata-mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-15 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-16 | 2026-09-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-14 | 2024-08-30 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 2.6k stars | 42k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |