Scrapfly vs ZenRows
Choosing between Scrapfly and ZenRows? Both are scraping & crawling providers you can call through a single Auxiliar key, so the honest answer is usually “use whichever wins the job in front of you” — and with one key and one bill, you don’t have to commit to either.
We ran both on the identical curator-fleet corpus. Scrapfly leads on scraping a page to clean, LLM-ready content (9.48 vs 7.31). On the headline test (scraping a page to clean, LLM-ready content), Scrapfly scored 9.48/10 (anti-bot bypass 100%) versus 7.31/10 for ZenRows. The full measured breakdown is below.
Measured, side by side
Composite score /10 on each shared capability, from the Auxiliar curator fleet — same corpus for both.
| Capability | Scrapfly | ZenRows | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| ScrapeAnti-bot bypass | 9.48100% · #2/10 | 7.3162% · #6/10 | Scrapfly |
| ScreenshotValid image | 8.561.00 · #4/8 | 2.470.25 · #8/8 | Scrapfly |
| Act · declarativeTask success | 7.010.80 · #4/6 | 6.890.80 · #5/6 | Scrapfly |
Beyond the overlap
Capabilities each provider scored on that the other doesn't cover.
Scrapfly also does
- Extract · AI/schema
ZenRows also does
- Extract · CSS rules
Scrapfly — choose if
You want benchmark-leading anti-bot bypass plus the highest AI-extraction accuracy.
ZenRows — choose if
You want one key spanning a scraper API and a full scraping browser, with pay-for-success.
Scrapfly — avoid if
You need crawling or credit rollover — hard targets run ~30 cr/req.
ZenRows — avoid if
You hit sites it blocklists — it errored heavily on *.toscrape.com in the corpus.
One key. Every provider on this page.
Stop juggling signups and invoices. One Auxiliar API key calls all of them — upstream keys injected server-side, usage billed to a single balance. Swap the base URL and go.
curl https://api.auxiliar.ai/serper/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUXILIAR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"q": "latest ai agent news"}'