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ZenRows

Scraper API plus a CDP scraping browser on a shared residential pool

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Overall in browser apis
10of 14 · score 65.9
Data coverage
88%
23 of 26 fields sourced

Best for

  • •Cost-sensitive scraping against moderately protected sites
  • •Teams wanting one vendor for both fetch-and-parse and stateful sessions
  • •Migrating off a per-request API without changing pricing shape

Strong on

  • +Residential proxy included 1/14
  • +Per browser-hour $0/browser-hour 1/9

Weak on

  • −Live view No 11/14
    Better: Browserbase: Yes
  • −Session replay No 11/14
    Better: Browserbase: Yes
  • −Agent API No 9/14
    Better: Hyperbrowser: Yes
  • −Human handoff No 9/14
    Better: Browserless: Yes

vs Bright Data Browser API

  • •Ahead on Pricing model: per-credit vs per-gb
  • •Behind on Live view: No vs Yes
  • •Behind on Session replay: No vs Partial

How ZenRows scores among 14 browser apis23 of 26 fields known

Reliability & anti-bot5

Anti-bot pass rate
99.9%
1/3
docs.zenrows.com · 2026-11-07
Stealth mode1st
Yes
1/14
docs.zenrows.com · 2026-07-01
CAPTCHA solving1st
Yes
1/14
· 2026-07-01
Residential proxy1st
included
1/14
Cold start
—

Features10

CDP endpoint1st
Yes
1/14
docs.zenrows.com · 2026-07-01
Playwright1st
Yes
1/14
docs.zenrows.com · 2026-07-01
Puppeteer1st
Yes
1/14
docs.zenrows.com · 2026-07-01
Session persistence
Partial
9/14
Leader: Browserbase · Yes
Live view
No
11/14
Leader: Browserbase · Yes
Session replay
No
11/14
Leader: Browserbase · Yes
Max concurrency1st
1,000 sessions
1/13
docs.zenrows.com · 2026-11-07
File downloads
Partial
10/14
Leader: Browserbase · Yes
Chrome extensions
—
Browser regions
global
7/12
Leader: Hyperbrowser · us-central, us-east, us-west, europe-west, asia-south

Agentic3

Agent API
No
9/14
Leader: Hyperbrowser · Yes
MCP server1st
Yes
1/14
docs.zenrows.com · 2026-11-07
Human handoff
No
9/14
Leader: Browserless · Yes

Pricing3

Pricing model
per-credit
10/14
Leader: Browserbase · per-hour
Per browser-hour1st
$0/browser-hour
1/9
docs.zenrows.com · 2026-11-07
Free tier
Partial
12/14
Leader: Browserbase · Yes

Traction3

GitHub stars
—
Funding stage
seed
8/14
Leader: Cloudflare Browser Rendering · public
Open-source core
No
7/14
Leader: Browserless · Yes

Positioning2

Positioning
Anti-bot scraping API with a CDP browser attached
Launched
2021
10/14
Leader: Browserbase · 2024

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