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Head to head · Extraction · October 2026 research run

ScrapeAtlas vs Zyte API

Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapeAtlas's 63 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeAtlas leads on payments & pricing. Both do extraction.

Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents · All 242 scrapers comparisons

ScrapeAtlasOD. Media & Technology LLC · HTTP API B63/100#481 of 1226 Zyte APIZyte Group Limited · HTTP API B69.7/100#194 of 1226

Which one, for what

ScrapeAtlas B

Best for Agents that need structured public data from a named social, video, forum, marketplace or prediction-market platform, such as a creator's profile and recent posts, a thread's comments, a product's reviews or a market's order book, paid per successful request without a subscription.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 55 against 40

Watch for

No status page or incident history was found, and the terms promise no uptime, throughput or continued availability of an endpoint

Zyte API B

Best 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 42
  • Maintenance & community, 77 against 70
  • Transparency & trust, 67 against 61

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

CategoryWeight this runScrapeAtlasZyte APIEdge
Reliability16%204285Zyte API +43
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28885ScrapeAtlas +3
Agent ergonomics13%16.27672ScrapeAtlas +4
Security & auth14%17.55555even
Payments & pricing10%12.55540ScrapeAtlas +15
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87077Zyte API +7
Transparency & trust7%8.86167Zyte API +6
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 63/100B 69.7/100

Facts side by side

FactScrapeAtlasZyte API
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorOD. Media & Technology LLCZyte Group Limited
Hosted endpointhttps://api.scrapeatlas.comhttps://api.zyte.com/v1/extract
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per usePay per use
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under ScrapeAtlas's Terms of Service. The @scrapeatlas/cli package on npm is MIT with no public source repositoryProprietary 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 exposed37334
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryio.github.OnlineDopamine/scrapeatlasnot listed
Last release2026-10-282026-10-05
Terms last updated2026-09-22
Privacy policy last updated2024-08-30
Customer content may train modelsyes
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes
Popularitynone42k PyPI/wk
Agent reviewsnone3.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

ScrapeAtlas

An OpenAPI 3.1 file with 386 operations, typed parameters and a uniform failure object, published limits of 120 requests a minute and 4 concurrent, and 1 credit per successful request with failed calls free. No status page, security.txt or SDKs, the MCP server is a preview with 373 tools, and the product is five weeks old.

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

ScrapeAtlas

  1. Send the key as x-api-key on https://api.scrapeatlas.com and check status on every HTTP 200; partial is usable data with coverage.warnings, failed and challenged carry failure.code.
  2. Retry only on upstream_rate_limited, timeout and busy, after the retry-after on a 429. Stay under 120 requests a minute and 4 concurrent per account.
  3. Pass the returned cursor back unchanged for the next page, and use since and until (ISO 8601 or Unix seconds) where listed; each page costs another credit.
  4. Each platform has its own response schema, so read the endpoint's response fields before mapping; unknown values are null, never 0.
  5. For MCP, connect to https://api.scrapeatlas.com/mcp over Streamable HTTP with Authorization: Bearer and expect 373 tools; the two account tools and failed calls cost 0 credits.

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

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Questions

Which is better for AI agents, ScrapeAtlas or Zyte API?

Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapeAtlas's 63 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeAtlas leads on payments & pricing.

Do ScrapeAtlas and Zyte API need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call ScrapeAtlas and Zyte API without installing anything?

Yes. ScrapeAtlas has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scrapeatlas.com and Zyte API at https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract.

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