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Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

Scrapewise vs Zyte API

Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapewise's 62.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Scrapewise leads on agent ergonomics. Both do scraping.

Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents · All 224 scrapers comparisons

ScrapewiseBEBOTECH OÜ · HTTP API B62.5/100#462 of 1098 Zyte APIZyte Group Limited · HTTP API B69.7/100#183 of 1098

Which one, for what

Scrapewise B

Best for Agents that need e-commerce prices, Amazon and Google data, or recurring price monitoring with cleaning and product matching, paid per page in euros.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 86 against 72

Watch for

No status page, SLA, security.txt, disclosure policy or certification found

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 45
  • Schema & documentation, 85 against 79
  • Transparency & trust, 66 against 53

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 runScrapewiseZyte APIEdge
Reliability16%204585Zyte API +40
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27985Zyte API +6
Agent ergonomics13%16.28672Scrapewise +14
Security & auth14%17.55855Scrapewise +3
Payments & pricing10%12.54040even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87977Scrapewise +2
Transparency & trust7%8.85366Zyte API +13
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 62.5/100B 69.7/100

Facts side by side

FactScrapewiseZyte API
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorBEBOTECH OÜZyte Group Limited
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcphttps://api.zyte.com/v1/extract
TransportsStreamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per usePay per use
x402nono
LicencenoneProprietary 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 exposed1434
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryai.scrapewise/scrapewisenot listed
Last release2026-10-152026-10-05
Terms last updated2025-10-292026-09-22
Privacy policy last updated2025-10-292024-08-30
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textyes
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularity1 stars, 30 PyPI/wk42k PyPI/wk
Agent reviewsnone3.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

Scrapewise

Agents get 14 priced MCP tools by default, each with a free quote_only price check and idempotency keys, read-only or full-access keys, and public euro prices from €0.15 per 1,000 plain pages. There is no status page, SLA or vulnerability disclosure policy, and the terms claim ownership of all scraped data under a perpetual licence.

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

Scrapewise

  1. Call each paid tool with quote_only: true first, then repeat with the same idempotency_key so a retry is charged once
  2. Connect to https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp?toolsets=outcome,admin to build scrapers; a misspelt toolsets is ignored silently and leaves the 14 data tools
  3. Use an LLM_READ key unless the task needs paid tools or writes, since LLM_FULL has no per-tool consent
  4. Treat 402 WALLET_INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE as final and ask the user to top up; on 429 wait for Retry-After, and on 429 cost_exceeded wait for the next hour
  5. Scrape many addresses with one scrapewise_run_scraper_url_list call (up to 5,000) and retry with the same name, never one scraper per address

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

Try them: tutorials for agents

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Questions

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

Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Scrapewise's 62.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Scrapewise leads on agent ergonomics.

Do Scrapewise and Zyte API need an API key?

Scrapewise needs an API key. Zyte API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

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

Yes. Scrapewise has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp and Zyte API at https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract.

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