ujeebu
vs
Zyte
Ujeebu vs Zyte
Zyte is an enterprise-grade scraping API from the team behind Scrapy and Crawlera, billed purely on usage with no flat plans. Ujeebu covers the same scraping ground but adds flat, predictable monthly pricing, one credit pool across scrape, SERP, AI extraction, screenshots and PDF, and AI-native tooling, so you can forecast cost without a usage commitment.
Key differences.
Cost, side by side.
| Pricing model | Ujeebu | Zyte |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 (5,000 credits, no card) | $5 free credit (first month) |
| Entry | $49/mo (300K credits) | Usage-based (~$1-$8 per 1,000 requests) |
| Mid | $119/mo (1M credits) | Usage-based (commitment required above $100/mo) |
| Scale | $299/mo (3M credits) | Usage-based (~50% of spend limit committed monthly) |
Zyte has no flat monthly plans: you pay per request, roughly $0.001 for a basic HTTP fetch up to $0.008 or more for browser rendering, with volume discounts of 25-52%. A $100 spend limit is true pay-as-you-go, but raising it above $100 requires a monthly commitment of roughly half the limit. Ujeebu credits scale with the work done (1 for a static fetch, more for JS rendering, residential proxies or AI extraction), all on flat monthly tiers.
Feature by feature.
| Feature | Ujeebu | Zyte |
|---|---|---|
| JavaScript rendering | Yes | Yes (browser rendering) |
| Residential proxies | Yes (100+ countries) | Yes |
| Geotargeting | Yes | Yes |
| CAPTCHA solving | Built-in | Yes (automatic anti-ban) |
| Google SERP API | Yes (structured, included) | Yes |
| Article / content extraction | Yes | Yes |
| AI / LLM extraction | Yes (Auto Extract + AI Scraper) | Yes |
| Screenshots | Yes | Yes |
| PDF output | Yes | No |
| MCP server | Yes | Partial (build-your-own pattern) |
| Per-success billing | Yes (failed requests free) | Yes |
| Flat monthly pricing | Yes | No (usage-based only) |
An honest look at each.
ujeebu- Flat, predictable monthly plans with no usage commitment
- One credit pool across scraping, SERP, AI extraction, screenshots and PDF
- AI-native tooling: Auto Extract, AI Scraper and an MCP server
- Generous 5,000-credit free trial, no card required
- Screenshot and PDF output built in
- A blended credit model takes a moment to learn
- No Scrapy Cloud or dedicated managed-scraping service
- Newer brand than Zyte
Zyte- Enterprise-grade infrastructure from the makers of Scrapy and Crawlera
- Strong automatic anti-ban on protected targets
- Scrapy Cloud for managed Scrapy deployments
- Volume discounts of 25-52% at scale
- Custom enterprise solutions and SLAs
- No flat monthly plans: pricing is opaque and usage-based
- Monthly commitment required above the $100 spend limit
- Cost is hard to forecast for smaller or variable workloads
- No PDF output
- MCP is a build-your-own pattern, not a managed offering
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Our take: Zyte for pure usage-based scale, Ujeebu for predictable all-in-one
Zyte is a capable enterprise scraping API, and if you run high, steady volume and want pure usage-based billing it scales well. Ujeebu covers the same scraping ground but adds flat month-to-month pricing you can forecast, one credit pool across scrape, SERP, AI extraction, screenshots and PDF, and AI-native tooling. If you want predictable cost without a usage commitment, and broader endpoints on a single API, Ujeebu is the simpler foundation.