The best alternative to Zyte

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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