Zyte

Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub) is the most established name in web scraping infrastructure, founded in 2010 by the creators of Scrapy, the world's most popular open-source web scraping framework. The Cork, Ireland-based company rebranded from Scrapinghub to Zyte in 2021 to reflect its expanded focus on full-stack web data extraction beyond proxy management.

The Zyte platform is best known for Zyte API — a unified scraping endpoint that combines headless browser execution, automatic anti-bot bypass, residential proxy routing, and structured-data extraction in a single API call. For teams that want to replace dozens of brittle scraping scripts with a single managed pipeline, Zyte API is the canonical solution.

Underneath Zyte API sits Zyte Smart Proxy Manager (formerly Crawlera) — the proxy intelligence layer that powers some of the largest scraping operations on the public web. It automatically rotates IPs, handles CAPTCHA, retries failed requests with different fingerprints, and learns target-specific routing rules over time.

Pricing is API-credit-based rather than per-GB, which suits Zyte's product positioning: $29 per month entry, $450 per month for serious volume, and custom pricing for enterprises. Most customers see 70–95% lower error rates compared to building their own proxy and headless-browser stack, which is what justifies the premium pricing.

Zyte's developer DNA shows everywhere — first-class Scrapy integration, native SDKs for Python and Node.js, and one of the best technical-documentation sets in the proxy and scraping space. The Scrapy Cloud product also lets teams deploy and schedule Scrapy spiders directly to Zyte infrastructure without managing servers.

For data teams, ML engineers, and price-intelligence platforms that need production-grade scraping at scale without operating the underlying infrastructure, Zyte remains the most credible end-to-end choice in the industry — particularly for Python shops already invested in the Scrapy ecosystem.