# Jina Reader vs Zyte API (slim)

> Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Jina Reader's 45.1 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do scraping. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Jina Reader's 45.1 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do scraping.

- Jina Reader: E 45.1, rank #774 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader.min.md
- Zyte API: B 69.7, rank #166 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.min.md
- Jina Reader, good for Agents that read the web a page at a time and want to bound the tokens. Also 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 60; Schema & documentation, 85 against 43; Security & auth, 55 against 32; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35; Maintenance & community, 77 against 65; Transparency & trust, 66 against 58. Also Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Jina Reader loses 7 points for them.

| Category | Jina Reader | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 43 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 32 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 65 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 58 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Jina Reader | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Jina AI (Elastic) | Zyte Group Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://r.jina.ai/` | `https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract` |
| 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 | none | 34 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-04 | 2026-09-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-07 | 2024-08-30 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 12k stars | 42k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |