replacing Zyte
Web scraping API and data extraction platform — Zyte pricing: Free $5 trial credit; metered from about $0.06 per 1,000 successful responses. Below: 3 free, self-hostable open source projects that cover the same ground, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
There are 3 open source Zyte alternatives tracked on this registry, against Zyte pricing of Free $5 trial credit; metered from about $0.06 per 1,000 successful responses. The most-adopted is Crawl4AI with 84,048 GitHub stars under Apache-2.0, written in Python. Together the set has 231,351 stars across 1 language and 2 licences. All 3 are free to self-host with no licence fee, and 3 of 3 received a commit in the last 90 days. 3 head-to-head Zyte comparisons are available.
The open source projects below are free to self-host. If you would rather pay for a managed service, these are the hosted products in the same space — listed with the vendor's own pricing.
Crawl4AI is an open-source web crawler and scraper designed to prepare website content for large language model (LLM) workflows. It lives in the Python ecosystem and targets data extraction for RAG, agents, and AI pipelines. Unlike many tools that require API keys or paid subscriptions, Crawl4AI provides direct, self-hosted access to web content with output structured specifically for LLM consumption.
Apache-2.0 · Python · Zyte vs Crawl4AI →
Scrapling is an open-source Python framework for web scraping that spans the whole range from one fetch to a concurrent crawl. Its parser learns from website changes and automatically relocates your elements when pages update, so a selector that worked before a redesign can still find the same data afterward. Its fetchers are built to bypass anti-bot systems such as Cloudflare Turnstile out of the box, and its spider framework scales to concurrent, multi-session crawls with pause and resume, automatic proxy rotation, and a crawl speed that adapts to how fast each website responds and backs off when the site starts blocking.
BSD-3-Clause · Python · Zyte vs Scrapling →
Scrapy is a web scraping framework written in Python, distributed under the BSD-3-Clause license, and described in its own README as a tool to extract structured data from websites. It is cross-platform and requires Python 3.10 or newer. The project is maintained by Zyte, formerly known as Scrapinghub, together with a broader group of contributors, and it lives in the Python ecosystem as an installable library rather than a hosted service. Its repository is roughly seventeen years old, which places it among the longer-running projects in the web scraping space.
BSD-3-Clause · Python · Zyte vs scrapy →
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last updated nightly · ranking method: github stars, live-tracked
Crawl4AI is the most-starred open source alternative to Zyte in this registry, with 84,048 GitHub stars. 3 alternatives are compared here in total.
Yes. Every project listed on this page is open source and free to self-host — there is no licence fee. Some projects also sell a managed hosted version, but the self-hosted path costs nothing.
Compare licence terms, community size (stars), primary language and release activity. A fast-moving project with a compatible licence and an active maintainer base matters more than raw star count when you are committing to a migration.