{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "outcrawl", "name": "Outcrawl", "vendor": "Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl)", "vendorUrl": "https://outcrawl.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Outcrawl is a hosted web layer for AI agents with scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers over CDP and agent runs on one credit balance, reached through a REST API, TypeScript and Python SDKs, a CLI and a remote MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/outcrawl.json", "dns": "outcrawl.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/outcrawlai/scout", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@outcrawl/sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "outcrawl" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Two bearer credentials. An API key shaped `ock_\u003ckeyId\u003e.\u003csecret\u003e` is minted in the console, shown once, stored as a digest, scoped to one workspace and revocable within a minute; it works on the REST API and the MCP server as `Authorization: Bearer`, with no per-key scopes or read-only keys documented. An OAuth 2.1 access token `oat_...` comes from signing in, through the authorization code flow with PKCE S256 and dynamic client registration for MCP clients (the server at https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp answers 401 with protected-resource metadata naming https://outcrawl.ai/api/auth) or the RFC 8628 device flow for the CLI, with scopes `api` and `offline_access`, access tokens of one hour and refresh for 30 days while in use; removing a member from a workspace cuts their tokens off at once. Console sign-in is Google, GitHub, an email code or a magic link behind reCAPTCHA.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 1,000 credits a month, no card, 2 concurrent browsers and 120 requests a minute, on a person's first workspace only. Builder $49 a month for 10,000 credits (5 browsers, 300 requests a minute), Pro $199 for 50,000 (25, 1,500), Scale $799 for 250,000 (100, 6,000), Enterprise custom with a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime SLA. Rates in credits are the same on every plan, 1 a page for scrape, crawl and rendered search results, 5 per 10 search results, 1 a minute of browser time, 2,000 a GB of proxy traffic, 1 a monitor check, and agent runs at model usage plus browser time plus proxy usage, about 15 credits a minute as the vendor's estimate. Extra credits cost $49.00 per 10,000 on Builder and Free, $39.80 on Pro and $31.96 on Scale, never expire, and auto top-up is capped monthly. Every response carries a `usage` object with its cost; a cached scrape answer bills the same credit as a live fetch, a cancelled crawl keeps billing the pages it fetched, and a search every engine refuses bills nothing (https://outcrawl.ai/pricing and https://outcrawl.ai/docs/billing/pricing, checked 2026-11-02).", "priceSummary": "$4.90 / 1k pages", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI file, llms-full.txt, the pricing pages or the terms (checked 2026-11-02). Plans and top-ups are paid by card through Stripe in the console.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 29, "popularity": { "githubStars": 948, "npmWeekly": 53, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-02" }, "docsUrl": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.crawl", "web.extract", "web.search", "browser.hosted", "browser.control", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.screenshot" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "oauth", "api-key", "cli", "python", "typescript", "proxies", "browser", "agents", "credits", "free-tier", "no-card", "freemium", "no-status-page", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-20", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 456, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1268, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 71, "security": 66, "transparency": 56 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-02" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago.", "bestFor": "Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.", "strengths": [ "Per-unit rates published without a login, 1 credit a page or browser minute and 5 credits per 10 search results, with the dollar cost per plan and every response carrying its own `usage`", "Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card, 2 concurrent browsers and 120 requests a minute, usable over the API, the SDKs, the CLI and MCP", "OAuth 2.1 with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, device code for the CLI, a revocation endpoint and one-hour access tokens, beside workspace-scoped keys shown once and stored as a digest", "A closed error union in one envelope with a documented list of codes safe to retry, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, and MCP errors that carry a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag", "MCP tool descriptions that each name what the tool is not for and which tool is, with secrets and integrations kept off the MCP surface and agent runs capped by a required or defaulted budget", "Scout, the agent behind the hosted agent, is published under Apache-2.0 with its tests, and the SDKs and MCP package are MIT" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer", "The OpenAPI file types no request or response body; its error enum has 45 codes while the errors page lists 31 and llms.txt says 24, and the registry is called 62, 50 and 46 rows on different pages", "No idempotency key or safe-retry rule for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, and no Retry-After header; `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait", "No changelog or release notes; the only dated record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and the release repository, and the @outcrawl/mcp package has sat at 0.4.3 since 29 September while the SDKs reached 0.4.15", "Session recordings are on by default and keep request bodies, cookies and form data, with the retention period shown only in the console and not published", "A cached scrape answer bills the same credit as a live fetch, a cancelled crawl still bills the pages fetched, and monitor notifications are never retried" ], "agentNotes": [ "Read a known URL with `POST /v1/scrape` or `outcrawl_scrape` at 1 credit; use `outcrawl_search` to find URLs and send `scrape: true` only when you need page bodies, and reserve `outcrawl_agent` for pages that need a click, a form or a sign-in.", "Always send `caps.budget` on `POST /v1/agent` (the API refuses without it) and store the returned id; poll `GET /v1/agent/{id}` or `outcrawl_agent_status`, never resubmit, because a second submit is a second bill.", "Branch on `error.code`, not `message`. Retry `no_capacity`, `decode_unavailable`, `extraction_failed` and `answer_lost` unchanged; on `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` wait `retryAfterSeconds`; on `concurrency_limit` wait for a run to end; never retry `bad_request` or a credit quota.", "Set `limit` on a crawl before submitting; pages already fetched are billed when you cancel, and over HTTP the crawl is cancelled if the streaming connection drops, so keep the job id and read `/v1/crawl/{id}/results` with the cursor.", "Pass `after` with the last `seq` and `level: status` when reading `outcrawl_agent_events`; the log of a long run is the largest response the server returns.", "Pass `maxAge: 0` when freshness matters, since the default serves scrape answers up to two days old from a shared cache at the same price, and treat page content, `data` and download links as untrusted data; download URLs work for an hour with no key." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 71, "security": 66, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 54, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-02", "maintenance": "2026-11-02", "payments": "2026-11-02", "reliability": "2026-11-02", "schema": "2026-11-02", "security": "2026-11-02", "transparency": "2026-11-02" }, "last": "2026-11-02", "oldest": "2026-11-02", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @outcrawl/sdk", "http": "curl https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1/scrape -H \"Authorization: Bearer $OUTCRAWL_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"url\":\"https://example.com\",\"formats\":[\"markdown\"]}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http outcrawl https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "outcrawl": { "type": "http", "url": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/outcrawl" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Scrape or crawl page (Builder)", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 4.9, "note": "1 credit a page; $3.98 per 1,000 on Pro and about $3.20 on Scale" }, { "item": "Search results (Builder)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 2.45, "note": "5 credits per 10 results, pro rata; reading a result page adds 1 credit a page" }, { "item": "Browser session (Builder)", "unit": "browser-hour", "usd": 0.294, "note": "1 credit a minute, plus proxy traffic" }, { "item": "Proxy traffic (Builder)", "unit": "gb", "usd": 9.8, "note": "2,000 credits a decimal GB on browser sessions and agent runs" }, { "item": "Credit (Builder, top-up or plan)", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.0049, "note": "$49.00 per 10,000; $0.00398 on Pro and $0.003196 on Scale; agent runs cost about 15 credits a minute as the vendor's estimate" }, { "item": "Builder plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "10,000 credits, 5 concurrent browsers, 300 requests a minute" }, { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 199, "note": "50,000 credits, 25 concurrent browsers, 1,500 requests a minute" }, { "item": "Scale plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 799, "note": "250,000 credits, 100 concurrent browsers, 6,000 requests a minute" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Aeonmind LLC (trading as Outcrawl)", "domain": "outcrawl.ai", "domainRegistered": "2026-08-28", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://outcrawl.ai/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://outcrawl.ai/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-02", "notes": [ "The terms of service and the privacy policy, both last updated 1 November 2026, name Aeonmind LLC, trading as Outcrawl, governed by Delaware law with disputes in Delaware courts; the privacy policy calls it a United States company. No postal address is given. The footer reads © 2026 Aeonmind LLC and Scout's licence notice names the same company.", "RDAP at rdap.identitydigital.services gives a registration date of 2026-08-28 for outcrawl.ai, last changed 2026-09-02, with Cloudflare nameservers. The REST API and the MCP server are on api.outcrawl.ai and the OAuth authorization server on outcrawl.ai.", "firstReleased is 2026-09-08, the first npm publish of @outcrawl/sdk 0.1.0, which is also the day the outcrawlai GitHub organisation was created; PyPI's first release followed on 22 September 2026 and the Wayback Machine's first copy of the home page is 15 October 2026. lastRelease is 2026-10-20, version 0.4.15 on npm and PyPI.", "https://outcrawl.ai/.well-known/security.txt and https://api.outcrawl.ai/.well-known/security.txt answer 404. The security page has a responsible disclosure section with security@outcrawl.ai, a 90-day window and a no-legal-action statement for good-faith reports. /status, /changelog, /blog and /about on outcrawl.ai answer 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer; no changelog or release notes exist on either host.", "robots.txt on outcrawl.ai allows every named crawler and `*`, disallows /console, /admin, /api/ and /og/ (except PNG and JPG files), and carries `Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes`. api.outcrawl.ai disallows /play/, /replay/, /v1/, /mcp, /connect, /agent, /internal/ and /operator/; none of those paths was fetched, and the OAuth metadata documents were read as the listing check allowed.", "The vendor's own benchmark claim of 92.5 per cent pages reached, the 'orders of magnitude' cost language in tool descriptions and the human input model measurements are the vendor's claims. No MCP registry entry exists for outcrawl (search answers an empty list)." ], "score": 54 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.json", "live": { "slug": "outcrawl", "probe": { "target": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:12.60527246Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 326, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 415, "p95ms24h": 695, "samples24h": 33, "samples30d": 33, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 33, "ok": 33 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@outcrawl/sdk", "version": "0.4.15", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T19:40:27.502289569Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "outcrawl", "version": "0.4.15", "released": "2026-10-20", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T19:40:28.458855358Z" } ], "githubStars": 948, "npmWeekly": 54, "pypiWeekly": 36, "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:12.60527246Z" } }, "answer": "Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Outcrawl leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "zyte", "name": "Zyte API", "vendor": "Zyte Group Limited", "vendorUrl": "https://www.zyte.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Zyte API is a hosted web scraping API from Zyte Group Limited of Cork, Ireland. One endpoint returns a page's HTTP body, browser-rendered HTML, a screenshot or extracted structured data, with ban avoidance handled by the service.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zyte.json", "dns": "zyte.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/zytedata/python-zyte-api", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "zyte-api" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scrapy-zyte-api" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from the Zyte dashboard, sent as the HTTP Basic username with an empty password. An organisation can hold several keys, and an owner can put a blocking spending limit on each. The Stats API takes a separate dashboard key. Zyte MCP signs in with OAuth (scope `zapi:read` in its metadata) and then calls the API with a dedicated key, `mcp_access_key`. CDP browser sessions need a paid plan or spending limit and business verification.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$5 free credit for the first billing month on signup, with no card per the site, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. After that, pay-as-you-go from $0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000 successful HTTP requests and $1.01 to $16.08 per 1,000 browser requests, by the target site's tier (1 to 5). Screenshots add $1.34 per 1,000 and automatic extraction $0.27 to $1.07 per 1,000. Monthly commitments of $100 to $500 take 25 to 52 per cent off. Failed, banned and rate-limited requests are free (https://www.zyte.com/pricing/, https://docs.zyte.com/zyte-api/pricing.md).", "priceSummary": "$0.13 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "The official Python client documents x402 payment with an Ethereum key against `https://api-x402.zyte.com/v1/` (`python-zyte-api`, `docs/use/x402.rst`, since 0.8.0 of 7 August 2025). One unauthenticated POST to `/v1/extract` on that host on 2026-10-09 returned 401 `/auth/not-valid` with `WWW-Authenticate: Basic` and no 402 challenge. docs.zyte.com and the pricing page don't mention x402 (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 34, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 41866, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.zyte.com/zyte-api/get-started.html", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.zyte.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.zyte.com/zyte-api/usage/reference.md", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.proxies", "web.extract", "scraping.screenshot", "browser.hosted", "search.serp" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage-based", "free-trial", "no-card", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "proxies", "python", "status-page", "iso-27001", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-26", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 203, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1268, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 40, "reliability": 85, "schema": 85, "security": 55, "transparency": 67 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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, no dated API changelog was found, and the Python client's raised `brotli` floor for CVE-2026-111497, a flaw in brotli, is merged but unreleased.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0.3 contract for `/v1/extract` printed in the reference, with 51 enums and request examples, plus llms.txt and Markdown twins of the docs pages", "Only successful responses are billed. Rate-limited, banned and failed requests are free, per the pricing page and the terms", "429, 503 and 520 responses carry `Retry-After`, and the docs publish a backoff table for each retry", "Blocking spend limits can be set per API key, and the MCP server uses its own key, `mcp_access_key`, signed in over OAuth", "Status page with ten components and incident history, ISO 27001 certification and a list of 36 sub-processors with addresses" ], "weaknesses": [ "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", "No dated changelog or deprecation policy for the API was found in the 150-page docs sitemap, and the terms allow changes with or without notice", "The terms let Zyte use Service Data, data feeds and code from the services for product development and product training", "The official client documents x402 at `api-x402.zyte.com`, but our unauthenticated requests there on 9 October and 1 November 2026 got 401 and no payment challenge", "Zyte MCP lists 34 tools, 26 of them for Scrapy Cloud, and some delete schedules and collections with no undo", "No security.txt, no paid bug bounty, and one official client language (Python)", "The Python client raised its `brotli` floor for CVE-2026-111497, a flaw in brotli, on 26 October, with no release since 0.11.0 of 23 July" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "Ask for `httpResponseBody` before `browserHtml`. Browser requests cost about eight to thirteen times more per tier", "Retry 429, 503 and 520 after the `Retry-After` seconds, with backoff. They aren't billed. Don't retry 400, 401, 422 or 451", "Read `statusCode` in a 200 response. A target site's 404 comes back as a successful, billed Zyte API response", "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 69.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 40, "reliability": 85, "schema": 85, "security": 55, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 76, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "lastMoved": "2026-10-27", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install zyte-api", "http": "curl \\\n --user YOUR_ZYTE_API_KEY: \\\n --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n --data '{\"url\": \"https://toscrape.com\", \"httpResponseBody\": true}' \\\n --compressed \\\n https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http zyte https://mcp.zyte.com/v1/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "zyte": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.zyte.com/v1/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/zyte" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "HTTP request, tier 1 site, pay-as-you-go", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.13, "note": "Tiers 2 to 5 cost $0.23, $0.44, $0.70 and $1.27" }, { "item": "HTTP request, tier 5 site, pay-as-you-go", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1.27, "note": "Only successful responses are billed" }, { "item": "Browser request, tier 1 site, pay-as-you-go", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1.01, "note": "Tiers 2 to 5 cost $2.01, $4.02, $8.04 and $16.08" }, { "item": "Browser request, tier 5 site, pay-as-you-go", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 16.08, "note": "Actions and network capture cost extra" }, { "item": "Screenshot, added to a browser request", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1.34, "note": "Pay-as-you-go price" }, { "item": "HTTP request, tier 1 site, $500 commitment", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.06, "note": "52 per cent volume discount" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Zyte Group Limited", "domain": "zyte.com", "domainRegistered": "1999-02-22", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.zyte.com/terms-policies/terms-of-service/", "privacy": "https://www.zyte.com/terms-policies/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.zyte.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The terms of service (last updated 22 September 2026) define Zyte as Zyte Group Limited, an Irish company, number 492771, with a notice address at 12 South Mall, Cork. They contain a Zyte API Terms section, so they govern the API.", "The privacy policy is dated 30 August 2024 and covers the websites and the services. It says it does not apply to personal data a customer collects with the services.", "www.zyte.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. Reports go through the responsible disclosure programme page, which pays no rewards.", "No dated changelog for the API was found. The Python client and the agent plugin each keep one in their repository.", "RDAP at Verisign gives a registration date of 1999-02-22 for zyte.com.", "The API answers at api.zyte.com and the MCP server at mcp.zyte.com. Its OAuth metadata names auth.app.zyte.com as the authorisation server." ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.json", "live": { "slug": "zyte", "probe": { "target": "https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:29.129875888Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 352, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 355, "p95ms24h": 940, "samples24h": 250, "samples30d": 6154, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 169, "ok": 169 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 222, "ok": 222 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.zyte.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T21:13:33.112937794Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scrapy-zyte-api", "version": "0.36.0", "released": "2026-08-20", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T20:03:09.218036163Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "zyte-api", "version": "0.11.0", "released": "2026-07-23", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T20:03:09.012441613Z" } ], "githubStars": 30, "pypiWeekly": 44791, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://zyte.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T15:45:43.620641658Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.zyte.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T15:18:26.661386841Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "zyte.com", "registered": "1999-02-22", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/zyte.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:21:07.081929004Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.zyte.com/zyte-api/pricing.md", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:16:20.981891839Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-24T02:17:08.882124443Z", "fingerprint": "c8c695a7b7fe" }, { "url": "https://www.zyte.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:40:21.628761653Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d8f74b8aaa20" }, { "url": "https://www.zyte.com/terms-policies/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:40:24.041827123Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-28T04:57:29.069673348Z", "fingerprint": "f1be15fc0d51" }, { "url": "https://www.zyte.com/terms-policies/terms-of-service/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:40:26.037750403Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-28T04:57:30.894458709Z", "fingerprint": "9c1743b91467" } ], "github": { "repo": "zytedata/python-zyte-api", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T09:41:11.19839569Z", "stars": 30, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-27T08:25:43Z", "openIssues": 1, "openPRs": 2, "issuesOpened90d": 1, "issuesClosed90d": 8, "prsMerged90d": 14, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 28, "success": 21, "failure": 7, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-27T08:27:40Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 1, "medianDays": 8.6 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:29.129875888Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 40, "category": "reliability", "leads": "zyte", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Hosted reading, for the REST API with the MCP server that shares its limits. No public status page was found. None is linked from the site or the docs, https://outcrawl.ai/status answers 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer (0). No readable incident history, so the floor (5). Rate limits are published with numbers on the pricing page and in the docs, 120, 300, 1,500 and 6,000 requests a minute by plan and 2, 5, 25 and 100 concurrent browsers, shared between the API and the MCP server (15). Over the per-minute ceiling the API answers `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` and `retryAfterSeconds`, read from the SDK error class and the worked examples, the errors page lists four codes as safe to retry unchanged, and `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait for a run to end; no Retry-After header is documented and no idempotency key or safe-retry rule exists for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, which the agent tool's own description says bill twice on a repeat (10 of 15). An SLA exists only on Enterprise, a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime figure with service credits and terms priced per contract, so half credit for a published figure without published terms (5 of 10). No beta or preview label on the API, the MCP server or the CLI, and the OpenAPI file says version 1.0.0, though both SDKs are at 0.4.15 and the domain is nine weeks old (10). 0+5+15+10+5+10 = 45.", "b": "Graded as a hosted API. status.zyte.com runs on Atlassian Statuspage with ten components and incident history (20). In the 90 days to 1 November 2026 its history feed lists two Zyte API incidents, both degraded browser rendering with higher latency and 520 errors, on 10 to 11 September and 13 September, neither marked as an outage, and three incidents outside the API, Scrapy Cloud periodic jobs on 17 August and the web dashboard and Scrapy Cloud periodic jobs down from 28 to 30 October, which Zyte says affected no other product. All partial, so minor (20 of 30). Rate limits are published as 3,000 requests a minute per key on standard plans and a custom limit on Enterprise, though per-site limits aren't (15). 429, 503 and 520 carry `Retry-After`, and the docs give a backoff table and say which responses to retry, per the 9 October check (15). Enterprise plans list service level agreements for support response times. No uptime SLA is published (5 of 10). Zyte API is generally available, and Zyte MCP carries no beta label on 1 November (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 45, "b": 85 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "schema", "leads": "zyte", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "API reading, with the MCP server described. An OpenAPI 3.1 document at https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json lists 62 operations over 51 paths with a summary each and the same 11 status codes, generated from the vendor's capability registry, but every request body is an untyped object marked `additionalProperties: true` with a pointer to the docs, every 200 response is an untyped object, and `Error` is the only schema; the typed shapes live in the SDK declarations and in the MCP server's zod schemas, which were read in the 0.4.3 npm package rather than from the hosted server (15 of 25). llms.txt and a 525 KB llms-full.txt on the docs, a Markdown twin of every page and an llms.txt on the site (10). The MCP descriptions each end with a `Not for:` clause naming the better tool and most with a `Cost:` clause, the OpenAPI summaries say when not to use a route, and the capability pages say which neighbour to use instead (18 of 20). Scrape formats are an enum of eight, event levels and record kinds are enums, `caps.budget` is required, and the SDK types bound every option, while the OpenAPI bodies carry none of it (10 of 15). curl, TypeScript and Python examples on every page, 20 worked programs, a 31-row error table with meanings and a retryable list, and MCP errors with a `recovery` string, though the closed union is sized 24, 31, 45 and 22 on different pages (13 of 15). `/v1` in the path and 1.0.0 in the OpenAPI file, but no changelog or release notes anywhere; the record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and 14 dated tags in the outcrawlai/release repository (5 of 15). 15+10+18+10+13+5 = 71.", "b": "The reference prints an OpenAPI 3.0.3 document for `POST /v1/extract`, though the Search API's `/v1/search` is documented in tables outside it (25). docs.zyte.com has an llms.txt and Markdown twins of its pages (10). The operation description states which output fields can be combined and which can't, and field descriptions give defaults (17 of 20). Inputs are typed, with 51 enums and required fields marked. `customAttributes` takes a free-form schema (13 of 15). The spec has a dozen request examples, and each error status has a problem+json example (15). The path is versioned `/v1` and the spec says 1.0.0, but we found no dated changelog for the API in the docs sitemap of 150 pages (5 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 71, "b": 85 } }, { "by": 11, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "outcrawl", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "API reading. Scrape returns main content only by default with `formats` picking markdown, html, rawHtml, links, screenshots or schema JSON, search renders page bodies only on request, agent events take a `level` and an `after` cursor, the MCP server shows request bodies up to a character limit and says when it truncated, and the MCP surface is 29 tools with no toolsets (20 of 25). Cursor pagination on crawl results, agent results and downloads, `limit`, depth and path filters on crawl, status, outcome, task and age filters on sessions, and usage grouped by hour, day, month or capability (20). One error envelope with a closed `code`, `details` such as the cap that stopped a run, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, a documented list of codes safe to retry, and on MCP a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag per error (18 of 20). No idempotency key on any route, a repeated agent, crawl or monitor submit runs twice, and `concurrency_limit` carries no retry hint; cancel is idempotent, `integration_changed` (409) guards updates, and the npm MCP package sets readOnlyHint on GET tools, destructiveHint on DELETE tools and idempotentHint on either, which the hosted server was not read to confirm (10 of 20). Scrape needs a URL alone, agent runs need `caps.budget` on the API and SDKs with the MCP server defaulting it, and official SDKs exist in TypeScript and Python beside a CLI (15). 20+20+18+10+15 = 83.", "b": "Graded on the REST API, with the MCP server noted. A request names the outputs it wants, so an agent can ask for extracted fields or `pageContent` in place of full HTML, but HTML and bodies come whole, up to 10 MB. Zyte MCP lists 34 tools at once, 26 of them for Scrapy Cloud, recounted from its docs on 1 November (15 of 25). No pagination applies to a single-URL call. Search takes `maxResults` from 10 to 100, and the Stats API pages and filters (14 of 20). Errors are problem+json with a stable `type` path, and the docs say which to retry and which to fix (20). Calls are reads, failed and rate-limited requests are free, and retries are safe. We could not read the MCP tool annotations, which need a sign-in (14 of 20). A call needs only `url` and one output flag. The only official client is Python, with a Scrapy plugin (9 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 83, "b": 72 } }, { "by": 11, "category": "security", "leads": "outcrawl", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "OAuth 2.1 for MCP clients and the CLI with authorization code, PKCE S256, dynamic public-client registration, device code, one-hour access tokens, 30-day refresh, introspection and revocation endpoints and private_key_jwt, but one functional scope, `api`; API keys shaped `ock_\u003ckeyId\u003e.\u003csecret\u003e` are shown once, stored as a digest, scoped to a workspace and revoked within a minute, with no per-key scopes, expiry or read-only keys; nothing documents a secret in a query string (25 of 30). No read-only key or scope. The MCP surface omits secrets, integrations, replay export and sharing and the wallet on purpose, rules are classified enforced or guidance on the call that sets them, agent runs need or default a budget, purchases above `approvalAbove` pause for a person's yes, and `control` hands a person the browser; monitor and profile deletes rely on destructiveHint alone (15 of 20). Every tool returns untrusted page content. The platform page says a page could ask the agent to act and that is why credentials never reach the model, secrets are substituted below the model, integrations are human-only and a run cannot be redirected mid-task, but there is no guidance to treat scraped text as data and no classifier (8 of 15). Every response carries `usage`, `/v1/usage` groups spend by hour, day or capability, agent events log every step, sessions keep the request list, console, HAR and a digest of failures, secrets record which runs used them and purchases are listed per run; there is no per-call log for scrape, search or crawl beyond the aggregate (12 of 15). No security.txt on either host (404), no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, no bug bounty; the security page has a responsible disclosure route at security@outcrawl.ai with a 90-day window and a no-legal-action statement (6 of 20). 25+15+8+12+6 = 66.", "b": "API keys are revocable, an organisation can hold several, and none travels in a URL. Keys carry no permission scopes. Zyte MCP signs in over OAuth and works through its own key, `mcp_access_key` (22 of 30). An owner can set a blocking spending limit per key. We found no read-only mode, and the MCP docs warn that the agent can delete schedules and collections with no undo, leaving approval to the MCP client (8 of 20). The API returns untrusted web content, and the only guidance found is to review what the agent asks to do (2 of 15). The Stats API and dashboard break usage down by key, domain and request type, requests can be tagged, and each response has a `request-id`. No per-request log for the operator was found (10 of 15). ISO 27001 certification per the trust centre, a responsible disclosure programme with a hall of fame and no rewards, penetration test reports under NDA, and no security.txt (www.zyte.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 1 November) (13 of 20)." }, "scores": { "a": 66, "b": 55 } }, { "by": 11, "category": "transparency", "leads": "zyte", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed hosted service under terms last updated 1 November 2026 that name Aeonmind LLC, trading as Outcrawl, Delaware law and a liability cap; the SDKs and the MCP package are MIT and Scout, the agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only mirror of a private repository (20 of 30). The privacy policy (1 November 2026) and the security page (8 October 2026) agree with each other and the docs on recordings, secrets, downloads and subprocessors. Recordings are on by default and hold request bodies, cookies and form data, deleted after a plan period shown only in the console, downloads are kept 7 days, run files are destroyed at run end, PostHog site recordings go after 30 days, and account data is kept for a limited unspecified period after closure; no DPA was found and no recording retention figure is published (20 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices; the terms say prices may change for future usage and material changes are emailed, and no changelog exists (3 of 20). Twelve subprocessors named with their purposes, infrastructure mainly in the United States with Cloudflare edge locations, analytics only after consent, but the AI model providers and captcha-solving services that see page content are unnamed (15 of 20). 20+20+3+15 = 58.", "b": "A closed service with terms last updated on 22 September 2026 (unchanged on 1 November) that name Zyte Group Limited and contain a Zyte API section. The Python client is BSD 3-Clause (15 of 30). The privacy policy (30 August 2024), a DPA and a sub-processor list are public, with retention stated for support tickets (4 years) and invoices (7 years). Retention of request data and scraped content isn't stated, and the terms let Zyte use Service Data for product development and product training (17 of 30). Site tier changes get two weeks' notice and the Smart Proxy Manager retirement was announced with a date, but there is no standing API deprecation policy and the terms allow changes with or without notice (10 of 20). The sub-processor list names 36 companies with addresses and purposes, and the privacy policy names the United States and Ireland as processing locations (16 of 20)." }, "scores": { "a": 56, "b": 67 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl)", "b": "Zyte Group Limited", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1", "b": "https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$4.90 per 1,000 pages", "b": "not published", "name": "Price for scraping" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror", "b": "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", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "29", "b": "34", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-20", "b": "2026-10-26", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-11-01", "b": "2026-09-22", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-11-01", "b": "2024-08-30", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "948 stars, 53 npm/wk", "b": "42k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.8/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Outcrawl leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Outcrawl or Zyte API?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Outcrawl and Zyte API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Outcrawl has a hosted endpoint at https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1 and Zyte API at https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract.", "question": "Can an agent call Outcrawl and Zyte API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 83 against 72", "Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 55" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.", "slug": "outcrawl", "watchFor": "No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 85 against 45", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 71", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 67 against 56" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "zyte", "watchFor": "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" } ], "history": { "outcrawl": null, "zyte": [ { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-27", "delta": 0, "from": 69.7, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 69.7, "toGrade": "B" } ] }, "job": { "capability": "web.scrape", "name": "Scraping" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Context.dev vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Context.dev vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zyte.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Jina Reader vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Jina Reader vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Olostep vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Olostep vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapegraphai.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapeGraphAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapegraphai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeless.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapeless", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeless" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapewise.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapewise", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapewise" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-zyte.json", "title": "ScrapeGraphAI vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Scrapeless vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zyte.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapewise-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Scrapewise vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapewise-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Scrapfly vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-zyte.json", "title": "ScrapingAnt vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zyte.json", "title": "ScrapingBee vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Scrapingdog vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/spider-cloud-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Spider vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/spider-cloud-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/zenrows-vs-zyte.json", "title": "ZenRows vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/zenrows-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-qovia.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Qovia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-qovia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeatlas.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapeAtlas", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeatlas" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qovia-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Qovia vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qovia-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeatlas-vs-zyte.json", "title": "ScrapeAtlas vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeatlas-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-outcrawl" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 40, "edge": "zyte", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "outcrawl": 45, "weight": 16, "zyte": 85 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "zyte", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "outcrawl": 71, "weight": 13, "zyte": 85 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "outcrawl", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "outcrawl": 83, "weight": 13, "zyte": 72 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "outcrawl", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "outcrawl": 66, "weight": 14, "zyte": 55 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "outcrawl": 40, "weight": 10, "zyte": 40 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "outcrawl", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "outcrawl": 79, "weight": 7, "zyte": 77 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "zyte", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "outcrawl": 56, "weight": 7, "zyte": 67 } ], "summary": "Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Outcrawl leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth. Both do scraping.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [ { "title": "Retrieve and decode HTML with Zyte", "tool": "zyte", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/zyte/" } ], "verdicts": { "outcrawl": "One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago.", "zyte": "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, no dated API changelog was found, and the Python client's raised `brotli` floor for CVE-2026-111497, a flaw in brotli, is merged but unreleased." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zyte", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zyte.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zyte.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zyte.min.md" }, "markdown": "Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Outcrawl leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth. Both do scraping.\n\n- Outcrawl: grade B, 62.4/100, rank #456 of 1268. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/outcrawl.json\n- Zyte API: grade B, 69.7/100, rank #203 of 1268. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zyte.json\n- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md\n- All 284 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Outcrawl (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 72\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 55\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer\n\n### Zyte API (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 85 against 45\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 71\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 67 against 56\n\nWatch 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\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Zyte API +40\n\n- Outcrawl (45): Hosted reading, for the REST API with the MCP server that shares its limits. No public status page was found. None is linked from the site or the docs, https://outcrawl.ai/status answers 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer (0). No readable incident history, so the floor (5). Rate limits are published with numbers on the pricing page and in the docs, 120, 300, 1,500 and 6,000 requests a minute by plan and 2, 5, 25 and 100 concurrent browsers, shared between the API and the MCP server (15). Over the per-minute ceiling the API answers `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` and `retryAfterSeconds`, read from the SDK error class and the worked examples, the errors page lists four codes as safe to retry unchanged, and `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait for a run to end; no Retry-After header is documented and no idempotency key or safe-retry rule exists for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, which the agent tool's own description says bill twice on a repeat (10 of 15). An SLA exists only on Enterprise, a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime figure with service credits and terms priced per contract, so half credit for a published figure without published terms (5 of 10). No beta or preview label on the API, the MCP server or the CLI, and the OpenAPI file says version 1.0.0, though both SDKs are at 0.4.15 and the domain is nine weeks old (10). 0+5+15+10+5+10 = 45.\n- Zyte API (85): Graded as a hosted API. status.zyte.com runs on Atlassian Statuspage with ten components and incident history (20). In the 90 days to 1 November 2026 its history feed lists two Zyte API incidents, both degraded browser rendering with higher latency and 520 errors, on 10 to 11 September and 13 September, neither marked as an outage, and three incidents outside the API, Scrapy Cloud periodic jobs on 17 August and the web dashboard and Scrapy Cloud periodic jobs down from 28 to 30 October, which Zyte says affected no other product. All partial, so minor (20 of 30). Rate limits are published as 3,000 requests a minute per key on standard plans and a custom limit on Enterprise, though per-site limits aren't (15). 429, 503 and 520 carry `Retry-After`, and the docs give a backoff table and say which responses to retry, per the 9 October check (15). Enterprise plans list service level agreements for support response times. No uptime SLA is published (5 of 10). Zyte API is generally available, and Zyte MCP carries no beta label on 1 November (10).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Zyte API +14\n\n- Outcrawl (71): API reading, with the MCP server described. An OpenAPI 3.1 document at https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json lists 62 operations over 51 paths with a summary each and the same 11 status codes, generated from the vendor's capability registry, but every request body is an untyped object marked `additionalProperties: true` with a pointer to the docs, every 200 response is an untyped object, and `Error` is the only schema; the typed shapes live in the SDK declarations and in the MCP server's zod schemas, which were read in the 0.4.3 npm package rather than from the hosted server (15 of 25). llms.txt and a 525 KB llms-full.txt on the docs, a Markdown twin of every page and an llms.txt on the site (10). The MCP descriptions each end with a `Not for:` clause naming the better tool and most with a `Cost:` clause, the OpenAPI summaries say when not to use a route, and the capability pages say which neighbour to use instead (18 of 20). Scrape formats are an enum of eight, event levels and record kinds are enums, `caps.budget` is required, and the SDK types bound every option, while the OpenAPI bodies carry none of it (10 of 15). curl, TypeScript and Python examples on every page, 20 worked programs, a 31-row error table with meanings and a retryable list, and MCP errors with a `recovery` string, though the closed union is sized 24, 31, 45 and 22 on different pages (13 of 15). `/v1` in the path and 1.0.0 in the OpenAPI file, but no changelog or release notes anywhere; the record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and 14 dated tags in the outcrawlai/release repository (5 of 15). 15+10+18+10+13+5 = 71.\n- Zyte API (85): The reference prints an OpenAPI 3.0.3 document for `POST /v1/extract`, though the Search API's `/v1/search` is documented in tables outside it (25). docs.zyte.com has an llms.txt and Markdown twins of its pages (10). The operation description states which output fields can be combined and which can't, and field descriptions give defaults (17 of 20). Inputs are typed, with 51 enums and required fields marked. `customAttributes` takes a free-form schema (13 of 15). The spec has a dozen request examples, and each error status has a problem+json example (15). The path is versioned `/v1` and the spec says 1.0.0, but we found no dated changelog for the API in the docs sitemap of 150 pages (5 of 15).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Outcrawl +11\n\n- Outcrawl (83): API reading. Scrape returns main content only by default with `formats` picking markdown, html, rawHtml, links, screenshots or schema JSON, search renders page bodies only on request, agent events take a `level` and an `after` cursor, the MCP server shows request bodies up to a character limit and says when it truncated, and the MCP surface is 29 tools with no toolsets (20 of 25). Cursor pagination on crawl results, agent results and downloads, `limit`, depth and path filters on crawl, status, outcome, task and age filters on sessions, and usage grouped by hour, day, month or capability (20). One error envelope with a closed `code`, `details` such as the cap that stopped a run, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, a documented list of codes safe to retry, and on MCP a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag per error (18 of 20). No idempotency key on any route, a repeated agent, crawl or monitor submit runs twice, and `concurrency_limit` carries no retry hint; cancel is idempotent, `integration_changed` (409) guards updates, and the npm MCP package sets readOnlyHint on GET tools, destructiveHint on DELETE tools and idempotentHint on either, which the hosted server was not read to confirm (10 of 20). Scrape needs a URL alone, agent runs need `caps.budget` on the API and SDKs with the MCP server defaulting it, and official SDKs exist in TypeScript and Python beside a CLI (15). 20+20+18+10+15 = 83.\n- Zyte API (72): Graded on the REST API, with the MCP server noted. A request names the outputs it wants, so an agent can ask for extracted fields or `pageContent` in place of full HTML, but HTML and bodies come whole, up to 10 MB. Zyte MCP lists 34 tools at once, 26 of them for Scrapy Cloud, recounted from its docs on 1 November (15 of 25). No pagination applies to a single-URL call. Search takes `maxResults` from 10 to 100, and the Stats API pages and filters (14 of 20). Errors are problem+json with a stable `type` path, and the docs say which to retry and which to fix (20). Calls are reads, failed and rate-limited requests are free, and retries are safe. We could not read the MCP tool annotations, which need a sign-in (14 of 20). A call needs only `url` and one output flag. The only official client is Python, with a Scrapy plugin (9 of 15).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Outcrawl +11\n\n- Outcrawl (66): OAuth 2.1 for MCP clients and the CLI with authorization code, PKCE S256, dynamic public-client registration, device code, one-hour access tokens, 30-day refresh, introspection and revocation endpoints and private_key_jwt, but one functional scope, `api`; API keys shaped `ock_\u003ckeyId\u003e.\u003csecret\u003e` are shown once, stored as a digest, scoped to a workspace and revoked within a minute, with no per-key scopes, expiry or read-only keys; nothing documents a secret in a query string (25 of 30). No read-only key or scope. The MCP surface omits secrets, integrations, replay export and sharing and the wallet on purpose, rules are classified enforced or guidance on the call that sets them, agent runs need or default a budget, purchases above `approvalAbove` pause for a person's yes, and `control` hands a person the browser; monitor and profile deletes rely on destructiveHint alone (15 of 20). Every tool returns untrusted page content. The platform page says a page could ask the agent to act and that is why credentials never reach the model, secrets are substituted below the model, integrations are human-only and a run cannot be redirected mid-task, but there is no guidance to treat scraped text as data and no classifier (8 of 15). Every response carries `usage`, `/v1/usage` groups spend by hour, day or capability, agent events log every step, sessions keep the request list, console, HAR and a digest of failures, secrets record which runs used them and purchases are listed per run; there is no per-call log for scrape, search or crawl beyond the aggregate (12 of 15). No security.txt on either host (404), no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, no bug bounty; the security page has a responsible disclosure route at security@outcrawl.ai with a 90-day window and a no-legal-action statement (6 of 20). 25+15+8+12+6 = 66.\n- Zyte API (55): API keys are revocable, an organisation can hold several, and none travels in a URL. Keys carry no permission scopes. Zyte MCP signs in over OAuth and works through its own key, `mcp_access_key` (22 of 30). An owner can set a blocking spending limit per key. We found no read-only mode, and the MCP docs warn that the agent can delete schedules and collections with no undo, leaving approval to the MCP client (8 of 20). The API returns untrusted web content, and the only guidance found is to review what the agent asks to do (2 of 15). The Stats API and dashboard break usage down by key, domain and request type, requests can be tagged, and each response has a `request-id`. No per-request log for the operator was found (10 of 15). ISO 27001 certification per the trust centre, a responsible disclosure programme with a hall of fame and no rewards, penetration test reports under NDA, and no security.txt (www.zyte.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 1 November) (13 of 20).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Zyte API +11\n\n- Outcrawl (56): Closed hosted service under terms last updated 1 November 2026 that name Aeonmind LLC, trading as Outcrawl, Delaware law and a liability cap; the SDKs and the MCP package are MIT and Scout, the agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only mirror of a private repository (20 of 30). The privacy policy (1 November 2026) and the security page (8 October 2026) agree with each other and the docs on recordings, secrets, downloads and subprocessors. Recordings are on by default and hold request bodies, cookies and form data, deleted after a plan period shown only in the console, downloads are kept 7 days, run files are destroyed at run end, PostHog site recordings go after 30 days, and account data is kept for a limited unspecified period after closure; no DPA was found and no recording retention figure is published (20 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices; the terms say prices may change for future usage and material changes are emailed, and no changelog exists (3 of 20). Twelve subprocessors named with their purposes, infrastructure mainly in the United States with Cloudflare edge locations, analytics only after consent, but the AI model providers and captcha-solving services that see page content are unnamed (15 of 20). 20+20+3+15 = 58.\n- Zyte API (67): A closed service with terms last updated on 22 September 2026 (unchanged on 1 November) that name Zyte Group Limited and contain a Zyte API section. The Python client is BSD 3-Clause (15 of 30). The privacy policy (30 August 2024), a DPA and a sub-processor list are public, with retention stated for support tickets (4 years) and invoices (7 years). Retention of request data and scraped content isn't stated, and the terms let Zyte use Service Data for product development and product training (17 of 30). Site tier changes get two weeks' notice and the Smart Proxy Manager retirement was announced with a date, but there is no standing API deprecation policy and the terms allow changes with or without notice (10 of 20). The sub-processor list names 36 companies with addresses and purposes, and the privacy policy names the United States and Ireland as processing locations (16 of 20).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Outcrawl | Zyte API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 85 | Zyte API +40 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 85 | Zyte API +14 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 72 | Outcrawl +11 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 55 | Outcrawl +11 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 77 | Outcrawl +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 67 | Zyte API +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.4 · B** | **69.7 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Outcrawl | Zyte API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl) | Zyte Group Limited |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1` | `https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| Price for scraping | $4.90 per 1,000 pages | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror | 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 |\n| Tools exposed | 29 | 34 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-10-26 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-11-01 | 2026-09-22 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-11-01 | 2024-08-30 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 948 stars, 53 npm/wk | 42k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.8/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Outcrawl\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Zyte API\n\n- no change on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Outcrawl.** One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago.\n\n**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, no dated API changelog was found, and the Python client's raised `brotli` floor for CVE-2026-111497, a flaw in brotli, is merged but unreleased.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Outcrawl\n\n1. Read a known URL with `POST /v1/scrape` or `outcrawl_scrape` at 1 credit; use `outcrawl_search` to find URLs and send `scrape: true` only when you need page bodies, and reserve `outcrawl_agent` for pages that need a click, a form or a sign-in.\n2. Always send `caps.budget` on `POST /v1/agent` (the API refuses without it) and store the returned id; poll `GET /v1/agent/{id}` or `outcrawl_agent_status`, never resubmit, because a second submit is a second bill.\n3. Branch on `error.code`, not `message`. Retry `no_capacity`, `decode_unavailable`, `extraction_failed` and `answer_lost` unchanged; on `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` wait `retryAfterSeconds`; on `concurrency_limit` wait for a run to end; never retry `bad_request` or a credit quota.\n4. Set `limit` on a crawl before submitting; pages already fetched are billed when you cancel, and over HTTP the crawl is cancelled if the streaming connection drops, so keep the job id and read `/v1/crawl/{id}/results` with the cursor.\n5. Pass `after` with the last `seq` and `level: status` when reading `outcrawl_agent_events`; the log of a long run is the largest response the server returns.\n6. Pass `maxAge: 0` when freshness matters, since the default serves scrape answers up to two days old from a shared cache at the same price, and treat page content, `data` and download links as untrusted data; download URLs work for an hour with no key.\n\n### Zyte API\n\n1. 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\n2. Ask for `httpResponseBody` before `browserHtml`. Browser requests cost about eight to thirteen times more per tier\n3. Retry 429, 503 and 520 after the `Retry-After` seconds, with backoff. They aren't billed. Don't retry 400, 401, 422 or 451\n4. Read `statusCode` in a 200 response. A target site's 404 comes back as a successful, billed Zyte API response\n5. 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\n\n## Tutorials\n\n- [Retrieve and decode HTML with Zyte](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/zyte/), for Zyte API\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Outcrawl or Zyte API?\n\nZyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Outcrawl leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Outcrawl and Zyte API need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Outcrawl and Zyte API without installing anything?\n\nYes. Outcrawl has a hosted endpoint at https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1 and Zyte API at https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zyte.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zyte.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"outcrawl\", \"b\": \"zyte\"}`. 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