AI-powered extraction infrastructure vs managed per-target data APIs.
By Mohammad Shakir, Co-founder & CEO · Published 26 Oct 2026 · Updated 26 Oct 2026
Zyte (the company behind Scrapy) sells serious extraction technology: Zyte API prices per response - roughly $0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000 HTTP responses pay-as-you-go, with browser rendering up to around $16 per 1,000 on hard sites (as of October 2026, no permanent free tier). Its AI extraction is genuinely good at turning pages into records. What it does not sell is the finished feed: you still own the spiders, the schema, the QA and the upkeep. That finished feed is exactly what ScrapeGuys delivers.
| ScrapeGuys | Zyte | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Managed per-target data APIs with an SLA | Extraction API + Scrapy ecosystem your team builds on |
| What you own | One integration; we own collection, parsing, monitoring | Spiders, schemas, QA pipelines and retries |
| Pricing shape | Flat plans, success-based - predictable at volume | Per-response, varies by site difficulty and render mode (Oct 2026: ~$0.13-$16 per 1K) |
| Pricing (Oct 2026) | 1,000 calls free, then $15 / $79 / $319 per month | Pay-as-you-go or $100+ monthly commitments; free trial, no free tier |
| Hard commercial targets | OTAs, quick-commerce apps, marketplaces - productized | Achievable; cost and effort rise with difficulty |
| Hotel-rate specifics | Per-room rates, member pricing, tax-split to final payable price | Generic extraction - rate semantics are your code |
| Output quality control | Field-level checks on our side before data reaches you | Your QA layer |
| Best for | Teams buying outcomes - stable feeds in production | Scrapy-native teams building their own data products |
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