# ScrapeGraphAI vs Zyte API (slim)

> Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapeGraphAI's 68.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeGraphAI leads on payments & pricing. Both do scraping. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScrapeGraphAI's 68.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeGraphAI leads on payments & pricing. Both do scraping.

- ScrapeGraphAI: B 68.3, rank #208 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapegraphai.min.md
- Zyte API: B 69.7, rank #166 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.min.md
- ScrapeGraphAI, good for LLM pipelines that want prompt-to-JSON extraction and for agents that must pay with a wallet. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 90 against 40.
- 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 64; Security & auth, 55 against 39; Maintenance & community, 77 against 70; Transparency & trust, 66 against 60. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | ScrapeGraphAI | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 64 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 88 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 39 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 90 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 70 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 60 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ScrapeGraphAI | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ScrapeGraphAI | Zyte Group Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com` | `https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for scraping | $2 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| x402 | payer tooling only | no |
| Licence | none | 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 | 20 | 34 |
| MCP registry | `io.github.ScrapeGraphAI/scrapegraph-mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-07-31 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-04 | 2026-09-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-03-15 | 2024-08-30 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes |
| 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 | 2.4k npm/wk, 46k PyPI/wk | 42k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |