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Zyte: cost, fit and limits
Zyte is a web data extraction company, operated by Zyte Group Limited, that sells an API for fetching and extracting web pages, a managed data delivery service and Scrapy Cloud for running crawlers, with AI extraction and an MCP server for agents.
What to know first
Zyte prices per 1,000 requests, and the rate depends on how hard a site is to access. Pay as you go starts at $0.13 per 1,000 simple HTTP responses and reaches $16.08 per 1,000 for browser-rendered requests on the hardest tier. Monthly commitments of $100, $200 and $500 lower those rates. A $5 trial credit lasts 30 days. The pages read do not confirm the headquarters country.
Zyte at a glance
| Maker | Zyte Group Limited, Not confirmed on the pages read |
|---|---|
| Free plan | No |
| Entry price | Pay as you go from $0.13 per 1,000 simple HTTP requests |
| API access | Yes |
| Category | Best AI Web Scraping Tools in 2026, rank 8 of 12 |
| Website | zyte.com |
Who Zyte is best for
Teams scraping protected retail sites
Zyte API escalates to the least costly access strategy only when needed and bills on success, so easy pages stay cheap while hard ones draw the higher rates.
Companies that want delivered data
Zyte Data supplies managed, deduplicated, schema-ready data to a warehouse on a chosen schedule, for teams that would rather buy a feed than run crawlers.
Scrapy users
Scrapy Cloud runs and scales crawlers without owning servers, and Zyte lists Scrapy, the open-source framework, among its tools, so existing spiders move over easily.
Zyte plans and pricing
| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Pay as you go | No minimum; HTTP from $0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000, browser from $1.01 to $16.08 | The full suite of advanced features, billed on success only, with no overage penalties and no monthly minimum or commitment to sign. |
| $100 minimum | $100 per month commitment | HTTP responses from $0.10 to $0.95 per 1,000 and browser-rendered requests from $0.75 to $12.00 per 1,000. |
| $200 minimum | $200 per month commitment | HTTP responses from $0.08 to $0.76 per 1,000 and browser-rendered requests from $0.60 to $9.60 per 1,000. |
| $500 minimum | $500 per month commitment | HTTP responses from $0.06 to $0.61 per 1,000 and browser-rendered requests from $0.48 to $7.68 per 1,000. |
| Enterprise | Contact sales, no prices shown | Further discounts based on volume usage, with no prices shown on the page, so a quote comes from the sales team. |
Checked October 2026.
What Zyte does
- Tiered access pricing
- Pay-as-you-go rates run from Simple at $0.13 through Easy, Moderate and Complex to Advanced at $1.27 per 1,000 HTTP responses, so the price follows the target site's defenses.
- Automatic ban handling
- Proxy rotation and ban handling are automatic, and the least costly access strategy is tried first, escalating only when a site blocks the request, so billing tracks success.
- Extraction options
- Requests can return browser-rendered pages, raw HTTP bodies or structured extraction such as product data, with options for screenshots, geolocation and device type per request.
- Session and download tools
- Captcha handling, session management, Instant Browsers and large downloads of files up to 100 MB are listed among the advanced features included in every pay-as-you-go request.
- AI Extraction and MCP
- AI Extraction is listed as a product beside Zyte API, the homepage describes Agentic Web Data as a product line, and a Zyte MCP Server serves compatible AI agents.
How Zyte handles your data
The trust center says customer data sits on servers from ISO 27001 certified cloud providers and that Zyte is itself ISO 27001 certified. It says Zyte is committed to GDPR compliance and offers a Data Processing Agreement, with subprocessors listed in Annex III of that agreement. Retention follows Zyte's own data retention policy with no specific period. The page names no hosting region or data center location and does not say whether customer data trains AI models. No SOC 2 statement was found.
Where Zyte falls short in practice
- Cost depends on the target. The pricing page gives rates per 1,000 requests by access type, not request allowances per plan, so a buyer must classify target sites to estimate a bill.
- Extras may cost more. Some advanced features may incur additional usage-based costs on top of the listed per-1,000 rates, and the page does not itemize them, so the first invoice can differ from a calculation done only from the rate table.
- Headquarters not confirmed. The pages read name Zyte Group Limited but give no country, so a buyer with jurisdiction rules should ask for the contracting entity and its governing law before signing.
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Zyte: common questions
How does Zyte price a scraping job?
By the thousand requests, set by how difficult the target site is. Pay as you go runs from $0.13 per 1,000 simple HTTP responses to $1.27 on the Advanced tier, and browser rendering from $1.01 to $16.08. You pay only for successful requests.
Does Zyte have a free trial?
Yes. The pricing page offers $5 of free credit with no commitment or subscription, valid for 30 days. It is enough to test a few thousand simple requests, or far fewer browser-rendered ones, so pick a hard target site to see realistic costs.
Which monthly commitment lowers the price most?
The $500 monthly minimum has the lowest listed rates, from $0.06 per 1,000 simple HTTP responses and from $0.48 per 1,000 browser-rendered requests. The $100 and $200 minimums sit between that and pay as you go. Enterprise discounts are quoted by sales.
Is Zyte ISO 27001 certified?
The trust center says Zyte is ISO 27001 certified and that its cloud hosting providers hold the same certification. No SOC 2 statement was found on the pages read. Ask Zyte for the certificate and its scope if your vendor review requires evidence.
Can Zyte feed an AI agent?
Zyte lists a Zyte MCP Server for MCP-compatible AI agents, an AI Extraction product and an Agentic Web Data product line. The pages read do not detail how those products are priced or limited, so confirm that with Zyte before building an agent around them.