# Scrapewise vs Zyte API

> Zyte scores 69.7 (B) to Scrapewise's 62.5 (B) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-16

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.

- Scrapewise: grade B, 62.5/100, rank #462 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapewise.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapewise.json
- Zyte API: grade B, 69.7/100, rank #183 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zyte.json
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 224 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Scrapewise (B)

Good 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)

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 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

| Category | Weight | Scrapewise | Zyte API | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 85 | Zyte API +40 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 85 | Zyte API +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 72 | Scrapewise +14 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 55 | Scrapewise +3 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 77 | Scrapewise +2 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 66 | Zyte API +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **62.5 · B** | **69.7 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Scrapewise | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | BEBOTECH OÜ | Zyte Group Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp` | `https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | 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 | 14 | 34 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `ai.scrapewise/scrapewise` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-10-29 | 2026-09-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-10-29 | 2024-08-30 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | 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 | 1 stars, 30 PyPI/wk | 42k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.8/5 (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

## Tutorials

- [Retrieve and decode HTML with Zyte](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/zyte/), for Zyte API

## 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.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapewise-vs-zyte.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapewise-vs-zyte.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "scrapewise", "b": "zyte"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare scrapewise zyte`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapewise.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zyte.json

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