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The first 12 comparable products for 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages a month at a 95% success rate. Sorted by the published bill and amount, never by who pays us; the full category route includes every relevant product.

Exact12 substitutions priced0 cheaper than Zyte APILatest recorded source date 2026-07-26

The datum line

Not comparable hereWhat the rechecked Zyte API price gives for this job. Older prices do not produce comparative deltas.

The substitution

Pages per month100,000
JavaScript renderingrequired
Assumed success rate95%
Alternatives without a total0

Zyte API has no exact bill for this workload, so the deltas below are absent rather than estimated. Each alternative still carries its own published figure and state.

Priced alternatives

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The baseline is a standard successful page. JavaScript, screenshots, AI extraction, and token use remain separate workloads rather than being folded into one advertised rate. (Zyte API pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.)

Every scraping API is checked for eligibility before the engine prices its offers. Each alternative keeps its sourced switching reason and public-price state.

Who should stay with Zyte API

Stay when one integration genuinely uses Zyte’s target-difficulty routing together with browser rendering, screenshots, or automatic extraction. Zyte separates HTTP and browser-rendered rates across five target tiers, then meters screenshots, extraction, and extraction tokens as distinct add-ons. Its standard rate limit is 3,000 requests per minute. That is a coherent incumbent when the real workload needs those routes and the observed request rate fits that limit. (Zyte API pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.)

The success boundary is part of that stay decision. Zyte can bill an API HTTP 200 when the target returns a non-ban bad status, a browser action fails, extraction properties are missing, or returned content does not match expectations. Stay only when monitoring and budgets already account for that definition. (Zyte API error handling, retrieved 2026-07-26.)

What a switch does not preserve

ZenRows does not reproduce Zyte’s five difficulty tiers or its recorded screenshot, AI-extraction, and token meters. Its published model uses fixed basic, JavaScript, premium-proxy, and protected credit modes, while Scraping Browser adds browser time and plan-specific bandwidth. A low standard-page total therefore does not price the complete Zyte workload. (ZenRows pricing documentation, retrieved 2026-07-26; Zyte API pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.)

ScrapingBee offers an additive AI-query charge, but its reviewed meter is request-based rather than Zyte’s separate input-token and output-token treatment. It also uses fixed proxy and stealth credit modes instead of Zyte’s target-difficulty ladder. (ScrapingBee credit guide, retrieved 2026-07-26; Zyte API pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.)

The deciding condition

Split one billing period by target tier, HTTP versus browser rendering, screenshots, automatic extraction, and token-bearing extraction. Stay if those non-baseline routes are material and peak traffic remains within 3,000 requests per minute. If the workload is only standard HTTP pages with no add-ons, the comparison table is much closer to the real decision. If not, price every route before switching. (Zyte API pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.)