Comparison

ZenRows vs ScrapingBee – The Best Web Scraping API

ZenRows and ScrapingBee – The Best Web Scraping API both land on Depends.

ZenRows

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if your dev team scrapes protected sites at volume . users praise the anti-bot handling, scalability, and support.

Depends

Confidence: Low

Buy if you regularly pull web data into apps or no-code automations and don't want to run proxies yourself; skip if you need data once.

ZenRows versus ScrapingBee – The Best Web Scraping API
Compare	ZenRows	ScrapingBee – The Best Web Scraping API
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Dev teams scraping anti-bot-protected sites	Developers embedding web data in apps
Who it's not for	Non-technical teams . it's an API/SDK, code required	One-off scrapes . copy-paste or a cheap scraper wins
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed; vendor publishes GDPR, DPA, and information security policy pages.^⁷	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.¹²
Support quality	G2 reviewers praise support; 24/7 claimed	No support evidence in sources.
Public sentiment	Reviews are strongly positive on a small base . users praise scalability, support, and anti-bot handling . with cost the recurring complaint.¹⁵	Only vendor-collected homepage testimonials surfaced; no independent reviews were found in sources reviewed.¹²
Biggest gotcha	Usage-based billing: price per GB plus $0.09 per session hour . bills are hard to predict^⁵	JS rendering, premium proxies, and anti-bot flags burn credits faster . usage costs are opaque until billed.¹²