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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Schedule and share Actors
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.
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.
Crawlee
We admire Zyte for their passion for open source and their Python library, Scrapy. Apify has its own open-source library, Crawlee. It was built by people who scrape for a living and use it every day to scrape millions of pages.
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ApifyUnlimited Free Plan
Library of pre-built web scrapers
1,500+
Host code in the cloud
Available data export formats
CSV, HTML, JSON, XML, or RSS Feed
Developer Community
Newsletter and Discord Community with 7,200+ developers
Scrape dynamic web pages (using headless browsers)
Geolocation Targeting
Geolocation targeting available for every country in all plans - including free
Usage-based pricing
Platform CU
High-scale enterprise plans
Store data in the cloud
Proxy rotation, browser emulation, CAPTCHA bypass
API Access
Full-fledged platform API
Schedule one-off or repeating extractions
All plans
Native integration with third-party tools
Zapier, Make, Gmail, Google Drive, Slack, Github LangChain, and more
Open-Source contributions
Crawlee (Full-stack Node.js web scraping library)
Monetization programs for developers
Scheduling
Set extractions to run on schedule and process recurring jobs programmatically.
Storage
Store datasets from web extractions in cloud storage. Search for data, images, and text, and export to multiple file formats.
Apify Store
Access hundreds of ready-made Actors to kickstart your data extraction or automation project.
Proxies
Monitor web scraper health, set a custom geolocation, and monitor traffic across IP addresses.
Complete API
Run, stop, and manage web extractions using a full-featured API. Export data from extractions and integrate into your tech stack.
Ready for scale
The Apify platform automatically scales up resources to run as many Actors as you want. Forget about managing physical servers.
Ready for enterprise
Get a complete end-to-end solution built by Apify for all your web scraping, data extraction, and web automation needs.
ScalableProcess millions of records, integrate Apify into your tech stack, and get the data you need.
ReliableData cleansing, Service Level Agreement & support team ensures clean data on time, every time
TrustworthyWith 7+ years of experience supporting enterprise customers, our team ensures project success.