# Scrapfly vs Zyte API (slim)

> Zyte API and Scrapfly score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 69.7 (B) and 69.6 (B). Scrapfly leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do scraping. Category scores, facts, verdicts…

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Zyte API and Scrapfly score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 69.7 (B) and 69.6 (B). Scrapfly leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do scraping.

- Scrapfly: B 69.6, rank #167 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapfly.min.md
- Zyte API: B 69.7, rank #166 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.min.md
- Scrapfly, good for An agent that needs scrape, screenshot, extraction, crawl and a hosted browser from one key, with errors it can branch on. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 95 against 85; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 72; Security & auth, 70 against 55; Maintenance & community, 84 against 77; Transparency & trust, 75 against 66. Also Runs on your own machine.
- 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 50.

| Category | Scrapfly | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 95 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 70 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 84 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Scrapfly | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Scrapfly (Joam Intelligence, LLC) | Zyte Group Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape` | `https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| 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 | 61 | 34 |
| MCP registry | `io.scrapfly.mcp/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-08 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-14 | 2024-08-30 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 14 stars, 21k npm/wk | 42k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |