The best alternative to Zyte

Struggling to find a practical and reliable alternative to Zyte? From cloud data storage to seamlessly integrated anti-blocking solutions, Apify offers all the necessary tools for high-scale web scraping and browser automation in one single place.

Try before you buy

“After trying out a few web scraping providers such as Zyte, Apify with its active customer support and reliable scraping infrastructure was the best alternative.”

Jon Daniels

Director, Data Engineering

“We were facing a number of structural limits with Scrapy which were severely impacting our product and engineering roadmaps. Now, by using Apify SDK, we’ve saved as much as 90% on Amazon EC2 costs and boosted data collection processes by 60%.”

Charlie Orford

“We selected Apify because of their vast experience with web data collection. The project has been delivered on a short schedule, and our sales teams are now empowered with fresh, unique leads that drive targeted campaigns and strategic outreach.”

Filip Popovic

SVP Transformation & Product & HR

“The developer's swiss army knife. What I absolutely love about Apify is the community and ecosystem around it. Apify Store is a treasure trove of pre-built Actors that save you a ton of time. It's like having a team of experts contributing to your project.”

Jiri Novak

Engineer

Why choose Apify over Zyte?

Run Scrapy spiders in the cloud as Actors

Like Zyte, you can run Scrapy spiders in the cloud. The difference with Apify, is the spiders become Actors. The benefit of that is the Apify platform provides multiple integrations out of the box (Google Drive, Gmail, Slack, Zapier, Make, and more).

Run spiders on Apify

There's no limit to the number of spiders

Zyte offers an unlimited free plan for Scrapy Cloud and $5 per month, but you can only deploy one spider. With the Apify Free Plan, you can deploy multiple spiders (Actors). With the Zyte free plan, scraping jobs are restricted to one hour. There are no such limitations with the Apify Free Plan.

You cannot use the scheduling feature on the Zyte free plan. The Apify Free Plan doesn't have this limitation. The UI also makes it easy for others to interact with Actors you created. So you can share them more easily. That means teams can use the Actors you created.

Anti-blocking and ban handling included in all plans

With Apify, you have access to Apify Proxy, which smartly rotates between datacenter and residential proxies to get the best performance while saving you money. Even in the free plan, you have access to Apify Proxy. With Zyte, you need to pay for a separate service, Ban Handling, to help you avoid blocking.

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Unlimited data retention and multiple storage options

Apify offers a wide range of different storage options: datasets, request queues, and CSV key-value stores, where you can store not only datasets but images, CSVs, and lots more.

Access all areas from the start

Zyte breaks down offerings into many products, and you don't get them all at once. With Apify, you get access to everything, and you're limited just by the amount of credits you have. Get access to all the features of the platform from the very beginning.

Use any library or language

We won't pretend we beat Zyte for Scrapy (they created it, after all!). But with Apify you're not restricted to any particular library or even language. For every other Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript library, you want the Apify platform.

SDKs and templates

Our SDKs let you interact programmatically with the platform. Templates bootstrap your use of crawlers and save you development and deployment time.

Code templates

Crawlee

We admire Zyte for their passion for open source and their Python library, Scrapy. Apify has its own open-source library, Crawlee for Python and Node.js. It was built by people who scrape for a living and use it every day to scrape millions of pages.

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