What are the best Zenrows alternatives in 2026?

The main Zenrows alternatives in 2026 are ScrapingBee, ScraperAPI, Scrapfly, Bright Data’s Web Unlocker API, Zyte API, Firecrawl and ScrapeUnblocker, and which one fits depends on what your Zenrows requests cost today. Zenrows’ pricing documentation lists 1 credit for a standard request, 5 with JavaScript rendering, 10 with Premium Proxies and 25 with both, so its $99 Launch L2 plan covers 500,000 standard requests or 20,000 protected ones. ScrapeUnblocker charges one credit per request with browser rendering always included: €1.00 per 1,000 on pay as you go, down to about €0.55 on its €1,000 Ultimate plan. No option costs least for every site.

How do the main Zenrows alternatives price a request?

They split into credit APIs, where options multiply the cost, and APIs with one price per request or per site tier. Figures come from each provider’s own pages, in its own currency; ScrapeUnblocker publishes this page.

Provider	Pricing model	Entry price	Free usage
Zenrows	1, 5, 10 or 25 credits per successful request	$19 a month (Build B1, 45,000 credits)	5,000 credits a month
ScrapingBee	1 to 75 credits per request	$49 a month (Freelance, 250,000 credits)	1,000 credits
ScraperAPI	1 to 75 credits per request	$49 a month (Hobby, 100,000 credits)	7-day trial, 5,000 credits
Scrapfly	1 to 30 credits in its billing matrix	$30 a month (Discovery, 200,000 credits)	1,000 credits
Firecrawl	1 credit per page, more for options	$19 a month (Hobby, 5,000 credits)	1,000 credits a month
Bright Data Web Unlocker API	Per request	$1.50 per 1,000, pay as you go	5,000 requests a month
Zyte API	Per site tier	$1.01 to $16.08 per 1,000 rendered, pay as you go	$5 credit
ScrapeUnblocker	1 credit per request	€1.00 per 1,000, pay as you go; plans from €29	500 requests on signup

Which alternative fits your Zenrows workload?

Your request mix decides it: credit APIs cost less on standard pages, while a flat per-request price is easier to predict on protected ones.

• Mostly standard requests (1 credit). Launch L2 works out to about $0.20 per 1,000 standard requests, so staying on a credit API usually makes sense.
• Mostly protected requests (25 credits). Launch L2 works out to about $4.95 per 1,000; Bright Data lists $1.50, and ScrapeUnblocker about €0.75 on its €99 Pro plan.
• Country targeting. Zenrows’ proxy_country requires Premium Proxies (10 credits); ScrapeUnblocker includes it in the one-credit request.
• No monthly plan. Zenrows’ pricing documentation says pay-as-you-go is not available on a zenrows.com account today; Bright Data, Zyte API and ScrapeUnblocker list it.
• Markdown, screenshots, batch jobs or a hosted browser. Zenrows offers all four. ScrapingBee, Scrapfly, Firecrawl and Bright Data list Markdown and screenshots; ScrapeUnblocker returns Markdown with markdown=true but offers none of the other three.

What has ScrapeUnblocker measured on protected sites?

ScrapeUnblocker’s own 2026 benchmark averaged 97.0% content-verified success across 14 protected targets at 6,000 calls each; it is not a head-to-head test with Zenrows. Per-site figures are published on each scraper page: 99.9% on G2 (12.1 s average) and 95.5% on Allegro (14.0 s), each over 6,000 calls. A request looks like this:

curl -X POST "https://api.scrapeunblocker.com/getPageSource?url=https%3A%2F%2Fallegro.pl%2F" \
  -H "x-scrapeunblocker-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Zenrows and ScrapeUnblocker both say they do not bill failed requests. Zenrows counts a target’s 404 and 410 as successful results, and ScrapeUnblocker bills them too, returned with an X-Origin-Status header. Run the same 50 to 100 URLs through Zenrows’ free credits and ScrapeUnblocker’s 500 free requests, and compare cost per page with real content. Full details: ScrapeUnblocker vs. Zenrows.

Sources

• Zenrows pricing and pricing documentation, viewed 9 October 2026; Fetch documentation, viewed 24 September 2026
• ScrapingBee pricing, ScraperAPI pricing, Scrapfly pricing and Firecrawl pricing, viewed 9 October 2026
• Bright Data Web Unlocker pricing and Zyte pricing, viewed 9 October 2026
• ScrapeUnblocker pricing, errors and billing, country targeting and 2026 benchmark

Competitor details come from each provider’s public pages as viewed between 24 September and 9 October 2026 and may have changed. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners; ScrapeUnblocker is not affiliated with them.