# jevcrawl vs Zyte API (slim)

> 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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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: B 63.7, rank #409 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.min.md
- Zyte API: B 69.7, rank #184 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.min.md
- jevcrawl, 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 Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- 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 68; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 77 against 68; Transparency & trust, 66 against 45. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | jevcrawl | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 68 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 59 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 68 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 45 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |