# Spider vs Zyte API (slim)

> Spider scores 74.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Zyte API's 69.7 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Zyte API leads on reliability and security & auth. Both do scraping. Spider accepts x402. Zyte API doesn't. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by…

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Spider scores 74.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Zyte API's 69.7 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Zyte API leads on reliability and security & auth. Both do scraping. Spider accepts x402. Zyte API doesn't.

- Spider: BB 74.1, rank #75 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spider-cloud.min.md
- Zyte API: B 69.7, rank #166 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.min.md
- Spider, good for An agent that has to start without a human, pay per call, or crawl many small pages cheaply. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 96 against 40; Maintenance & community, 85 against 77. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- 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 80; Security & auth, 55 against 42. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Spider | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 42 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 96 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 66 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Spider | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Spider (BAGELMEN LLC) | Zyte Group Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.spider.cloud` | `https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Price for scraping | $0.50 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| x402 | yes, from $0.0005/call | no |
| Licence | MIT | 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 | 22 | 34 |
| MCP registry | `cloud.spider/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-07-19 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-01 | 2026-09-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2024-08-30 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| 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 | 2.7k stars, 2.7k npm/wk | 42k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (8) | none |