Zyte API pricing¶
Sign up to get a standard plan with no commitment and some free credit.
Request cost depends on the target website and selected features. Use our cost estimator to calculate costs.
We charge only for successful responses and provide volume discounts.
Plans¶
|
Standard (PAYG) |
Standard (commitment) |
Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
How to enroll? |
Automatic on signup |
Subscriptions page |
|
$5 [1] |
$5 [1] |
$200 |
|
3000 RPM |
3000 RPM |
Custom |
|
$100 / month |
$200-$1000 / month |
Custom |
|
$100-$500 |
Custom |
||
25%-52% |
Custom |
Enterprise plans may also enjoy:
Assistance from expert engineers for onboarding and troubleshooting.
Access to compliance experts (see also Permissions control).
Add-on consultancy to design and scale projects.
Premium 24/7 support and service level agreements (SLAs): 1-hour response time on weekdays, and 8 hours on weekends.
Early access to new features and priority in feature requests.
Initial free credit¶
On sign up, you receive $5 free credit for your first billing month.
After your free credit expires, your account is suspended until you set a spending limit. Set a spending limit before your free credit expires to ensure uninterrupted service.
Standard plans include $5 free credit, while an Enterprise plan includes $200 free credit.
Switching between standard plans does not provide additional free credit. Your initial $5 credit carries over when you change your commitment level.
Request costs¶
The target website and request type (HTTP or browser) determine the request tier and base cost.
Requests using extended geolocations or device residential IPs have different base costs that depend only on request type, plus additional costs based on network consumption.
Additional costs apply for:
Network captures: Based on output size
Screenshots: $0.002 [2]
Automatic extraction: $0.0004-$0.0016 per data type [2] (except serp, which is free)
Custom attributes: Cost depends on the extraction method:
“generate”: Based on inputTokens ($0.002/1k) and outputTokens ($0.01/1k) [2]
Request tiers¶
Zyte API automatically uses the most cost-efficient technology for each website and assigns price tiers accordingly.
There are 5 tiers each for HTTP requests and browser requests. Every combination of target website and request type belongs to a tier that determines the base cost. See Pricing @ zyte.com for tier pricing and distribution data.
Tier assignment is automatic. New combinations start with a temporary tier until enough data is gathered for permanent assignment.
We review tier assignments quarterly. Affected customers receive 2 weeks notice of any tier changes.
Successful responses¶
You are only charged for successful responses. Rate-limiting and unsuccessful responses are free.
Spending limit¶
Your spending limit is the maximum monthly charge for Zyte API usage. When reached, your account is suspended until the next billing month.
You can also define your own spending alerts and limits to track usage and stop spending before you reach this limit.
Enterprise plans have custom spending limits managed through your account manager.
On standard plans, you can either have a $100 spending limit which is pay-as-you-go, or a higher spending limit ($200, $400, $700 or $1000) where you pay 50% of your spending limit as monthly commitment plus additional spend based on actual usage up to your spending limit.
Increasing spending limits:
Takes effect immediately and lifts account suspension
For $200+ limits, you pay the monthly commitment difference immediately
Changes your monthly commitment for future billing cycles
Decreasing spending limits:
Takes effect next billing month
For limits above $1000, contact sales for an Enterprise plan.
Account suspension¶
When you reach your spending limit, or a user-defined spending limit, requests return account suspension responses.
Enterprise plans: Contact your account manager.
Standard plans: Increase your spending limit to immediately resume service.
Spending alerts and limits¶
On top of your plan spending limit, you can define your own spending alerts and spending limits to monitor and control Zyte API usage:
A spending alert emails the people you choose when Zyte API spend reaches a threshold you set. It does not affect your service.
A spending limit is a blocking alert: in addition to notifying you, it lowers your effective spending limit so that Zyte API is suspended for the rest of the billing month once the threshold is reached. Use it to cap spending at a custom amount below your plan spending limit. This limit can only be set by organization owners.
Thresholds
Each alert or limit uses an absolute amount, in your organization’s currency.
A blocking spending limit threshold cannot exceed your plan spending limit. By default, plans allow overage spending beyond the base limit — for example, a $500 plan may permit up to $2,000 in overage, billed on the next invoice. A blocking spending limit lets you cap spending below the plan ceiling to avoid unexpected overage charges.
Scope
You can apply an alert to:
Your whole organization: total Zyte API spend. Organization owners may also configure a blocking spending limit scoped to the whole organization.
A specific domain: spend on requests to a target domain, including subdomains (e.g.
example.comandsubdomain.example.com). Domain alerts are informational only and cannot be configured as blocking limits.
Period: organization-wide alerts
Organization-wide alerts use the Billing cycle period: cumulative spend since the start of the current billing period. For example, if a subscription began on June 1, the billing cycle runs until July 1, and a threshold of $10 triggers a notification if total spend for that period exceeds $10. Each organization can have at most one organization-wide billing cycle alert.
Period: domain alerts
For domain alerts, spend is evaluated over one of:
Last 24 hours: spend in the preceding 24-hour window. For example, a threshold of $10 triggers a notification each day your spend exceeds $10.
Last 7 days: spend in the preceding 7-day window. For example, a threshold of $10 triggers a notification each week your spend exceeds $10.
Notifications
When a threshold is reached, the users you select for the alert receive an email showing the period, your usage, and the threshold, in your organization’s currency.
When a spending limit is reached
Once your organization’s billing-month spend reaches a blocking spending limit, Zyte API requests return account suspension responses for the rest of the billing month. Service resumes automatically at the start of the next billing month. To resume sooner, raise or remove the spending limit, or increase your plan spending limit.
Who can define them
Organization owners and members with permission to manage the organization can create organization-wide spending & domain alerts.
Only organization owners can create blocking limits.
How to define them
Manage your alerts and limits on the Spending alerts page of the Zyte dashboard. Create an alert, choose its scope, threshold, period, and recipients, and enable blocking to turn it into a spending limit.
Monthly commitment¶
Enterprise plans: Custom monthly commitment
$100 spending limit: No monthly commitment (PAYG)
$200+ spending limit: Monthly commitment = 50% of spending limit
Your monthly commitment determines your volume discount.
Monthly commitment is paid at the start of each billing month. If your actual usage exceeds the commitment, you pay the additional spend on your next bill. If usage is below the commitment, no refund is provided.
Example: $200 spending limit = $100 monthly commitment
Month 1: Pay $100 commitment
Actual usage: $150 → Next bill includes $50 additional spend
Actual usage: $80 → Next bill includes $0 additional spend
Volume discount¶
Volume discounts are applied to each request.
Enterprise plans: Custom volume discount
Standard plans: Volume discount based on monthly commitment:
Monthly commitment |
Volume discount |
|---|---|
$100 |
25% |
$200 |
40% |
$350 |
48% |
$500 |
52% |