specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
generated: '2026-08-29'
method: searched
source: https://docs.zyte.com/zyte-api/pricing.html
also_source:
  - https://docs.zyte.com/scrapy-cloud/pricing.html
  - https://www.zyte.com/pricing/
provider: Zyte
providerId: zyte
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-08-29'
tags:
  - Crawling
  - Data Extraction
  - Scraping
description: >-
  Zyte's published plans, harvested from the provider's own pricing
  documentation on 2026-08-29. This file REPLACES a 2026-05-04 scaffold whose
  tiers and quotas were invented defaults. Zyte does not sell request bundles;
  it sells consumption with a spending ceiling, and the tier you are on is
  defined by that ceiling plus the monthly commitment that buys your volume
  discount. Per-request price depends on the target website's assigned tier
  (5 HTTP tiers and 5 browser tiers) and on which features the request turns
  on, so no single unit price exists.
currency: USD
billing_model: consumption-with-spending-limit
plan_count: 5
plans:
  - id: zyte-api-standard-payg
    name: Standard (pay-as-you-go)
    product: Zyte API
    type: payg
    price: '0.00'
    billing_period: month
    enrollment: Automatic on signup
    signup: https://app.zyte.com/account/signup/zyteapi
    initial_free_credit: '5.00'
    monthly_commitment: '0.00'
    spending_limit: '100.00'
    volume_discount: null
    rate_limit: 3000 RPM
    note: >-
      Free credit is $5 for the first billing month and is shared across all
      standard plans — switching plans does not grant more.
  - id: zyte-api-standard-commitment
    name: Standard (commitment)
    product: Zyte API
    type: committed
    billing_period: month
    enrollment: Subscriptions page (https://app.zyte.com/o/subscriptions/overview)
    initial_free_credit: '5.00'
    rate_limit: 3000 RPM
    commitment_ladder:
      - spending_limit: '200.00'
        monthly_commitment: '100.00'
        volume_discount: 25%
      - spending_limit: '400.00'
        monthly_commitment: '200.00'
        volume_discount: 40%
      - spending_limit: '700.00'
        monthly_commitment: '350.00'
        volume_discount: 48%
      - spending_limit: '2500.00'
        monthly_commitment: '500.00'
        volume_discount: 52%
    note: >-
      Commitment is paid at the start of the billing month. Usage above it is
      billed the following month; usage below it is not refunded.
  - id: zyte-api-enterprise
    name: Enterprise
    product: Zyte API
    type: enterprise
    price: contact-sales
    contact: https://www.zyte.com/zyte-web-scraping-api/#form
    initial_free_credit: '200.00'
    monthly_commitment: custom
    spending_limit: custom
    volume_discount: custom
    rate_limit: 10000 RPM
    includes:
      - Onboarding and troubleshooting from Zyte engineers
      - Access to compliance experts
      - Add-on consultancy
      - 'Premium 24/7 support and SLAs: 1-hour weekday response, 8-hour weekend'
      - Early access to new features and priority on feature requests
  - id: scrapy-cloud-free
    name: Scrapy Cloud Free
    product: Scrapy Cloud
    type: freemium
    price: '0.00'
    billing_period: month
    includes:
      - One low-resource unit (half the resources of a regular unit)
      - Job data retained up to 7 days
      - Jobs run up to 1 hour
    excludes:
      - Job scheduling
      - Docker deployment
  - id: scrapy-cloud-units
    name: Scrapy Cloud Units
    product: Scrapy Cloud
    type: metered
    price: '9.00'
    unit: unit
    billing_period: month
    includes:
      - Each purchased unit has twice the resources of the free low-resource unit
      - Job data retained up to 120 days
      - Unlimited job run time
      - Job scheduling
      - Docker deployment
    note: >-
      Students get the benefits of one purchased unit free
      (https://www.zyte.com/scrapy-cloud-student-backpack/).
request_costs:
  model: >-
    Base cost is set by the request tier, which is assigned automatically per
    (target website, request type). There are 5 HTTP tiers and 5 browser tiers.
    Tier assignment is reviewed quarterly with 2 weeks notice of change.
  estimator: https://app.zyte.com/o/cost-estimator
  add_ons:
    - item: Screenshot
      price: '0.002'
    - item: Automatic extraction (per data type)
      price: 0.0004-0.0016
      note: '`serp` extraction is free.'
    - item: 'Custom attributes, method "extract"'
      price: '0.001'
    - item: 'Custom attributes, method "generate" — input tokens'
      price: 0.002 per 1k tokens
    - item: 'Custom attributes, method "generate" — output tokens'
      price: 0.01 per 1k tokens
    - item: Actions
      price: metered on CPU and network consumption
    - item: Network captures
      price: metered on output size
    - item: Extended geolocations / device residential IPs
      price: different base cost plus network consumption
  billing_rule: >-
    Only successful responses are charged. Rate-limiting responses (429/503)
    and unsuccessful responses (4xx/5xx/520/521) are free.
  add_on_note: Add-on prices are quoted before the volume discount.
alternative_payment:
  protocol: x402
  detail: >-
    The zyte-api Python client can pay per request over x402 with an Ethereum
    key (`pip install "zyte-api[x402]"`, `zyte-api --eth-key ...`) instead of a
    Zyte account API key — a machine-payable path onto the API that bypasses
    plan enrollment entirely.
  source: https://python-zyte-api.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ref/cli.html