# jevcrawl vs Zyte API

> Zyte scores 69.7 (B) to jevcrawl's 63.7 (B) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-15

Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against jevcrawl's 63.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. jevcrawl leads on agent ergonomics. Both do scraping.

- jevcrawl: grade B, 63.7/100, rank #409 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json
- Zyte API: grade B, 69.7/100, rank #184 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zyte.json
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 204 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md

## Which one, for what

### jevcrawl (B)

Good for: An agent that must find one answer several clicks deep on a documentation or help site and wants a few thousand tokens back instead of whole pages.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 72

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine
- Open source

Watch for: First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer

### Zyte API (B)

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 68
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 77 against 68
- Transparency & trust, 66 against 45

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: Request price depends on the target site's tier, from $0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000 HTTP requests and $1.01 to $16.08 with a browser on pay-as-you-go


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | jevcrawl | Zyte API | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 85 | Zyte API +17 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 85 | Zyte API +4 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 72 | jevcrawl +8 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 55 | jevcrawl +4 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | Zyte API +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 77 | Zyte API +9 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 66 | Zyte API +21 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **63.7 · B** | **69.7 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | jevcrawl | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | Zyte Group Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | 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 | 3 | 34 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2024-08-30 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk | 42k PyPI/wk |

## Verdicts

**jevcrawl.** Three compact, typed MCP tools return verbatim passages with source URLs, cost and stop reasons, and errors arrive as codes with instructions. The project is three days old and alpha, it depends on TypeSafe's paid Jev API, which is in early access with no free tier found, and it does not block crawls of private or local addresses.

**Zyte API.** One POST endpoint with an OpenAPI 3 contract picks proxies, browser rendering and extraction per site, bills only successful responses, and sends problem+json errors with Retry-After. Prices vary by target site across five tiers, so cost per request isn't known before the site is assigned one, and no dated API changelog was found.

## Before you call either

### jevcrawl

1. Phrase `goal` as one specific question and start with `max_pages` between 10 and 30
2. Check `stats.stopped_because` and `stats.degraded`, and read `uncertain` before reporting that something is missing
3. Use `scrape` without a goal when you need a whole page, since it makes no paid Jev call and needs no key
4. Handle `{"error": code, "message": ...}` results, for example `auth_error` means `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` is missing or rejected
5. Pages in `stats.needs_js_urls` were not read. Tell the user rather than guessing their content

### Zyte API

1. Send the API key as the Basic auth username with an empty password to `https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract`. Set only one of `httpResponseBody` or `browserHtml`, or one extraction field
2. Ask for `httpResponseBody` before `browserHtml`. Browser requests cost about eight to thirteen times more per tier
3. Retry 429, 503 and 520 after the `Retry-After` seconds, with backoff. They aren't billed. Don't retry 400, 401, 422 or 451
4. Read `statusCode` in a 200 response. A target site's 404 comes back as a successful, billed Zyte API response
5. Have the owner set a blocking spending limit on the key you use. A 403 `/auth/account-suspended` means the limit or the trial month ended

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, jevcrawl or Zyte API?

Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against jevcrawl's 63.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. jevcrawl leads on agent ergonomics.

### Do jevcrawl and Zyte API need an API key?

jevcrawl needs an API key. Zyte API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call jevcrawl and Zyte API without installing anything?

jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Zyte API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract.

### Are jevcrawl and Zyte API open source?

jevcrawl is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Zyte API.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zyte.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zyte.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "jevcrawl", "b": "zyte"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare jevcrawl zyte`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zyte.json

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