What ZenRows does

ZenRows is a SaaS web scraping and structured data extraction platform founded in 2021 and headquartered in the Basque Country, Spain. The company sells an integrated toolkit comprising the Universal Scraper API (a single REST endpoint for protected-site extraction), the Scraping Browser (a cloud-based Puppeteer/Playwright-compatible infrastructure), and a 55M+ residential IP proxy network spanning 185+ countries. Core technology revolves around AI-assisted anti-bot bypass that emulates fingerprints, rotates proxies, solves CAPTCHAs, and renders JavaScript to defeat Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX, and Akamai protections, with a publicly claimed 99.93% success rate on the most protected targets.

The commercial product surface is horizontal and broad: the Universal Scraper API is supplemented by add-on modules (AI Web Unblocker, Proxy Rotator, WAF Bypass, CAPTCHA Bypass, Headless Browser, Screenshot API) and ~13 industry-specific or use-case packages spanning e-commerce, real estate, SERP, logistics, job boards, social media, price monitoring, lead generation, sentiment analysis, market research, and LLM training data. The platform natively integrates with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Clay, Zapier, Make, n8n, Scrapy, Pipedream, Flowise, and Lindy, making it a common web data substrate for both AI-agent stacks and no-code automation.

ZenRows monetizes via tiered monthly subscriptions ($69 Developer to $2,999 Business 3K), with usage-based multipliers for JS rendering and premium proxies, pay-per-success billing where failed requests are free, and custom Enterprise contracts with dedicated account managers and 99.9%-99.99% uptime SLAs. Distribution is digital-first and self-serve, augmented by an enterprise sales motion, supported by an SEO-driven developer content engine. The company is venture-backed via a single €1.1M seed round in June 2022 led by 4Founders Capital, has 11-50 employees, is ISO 27001 certified, and reports 2,000+ customers across SMB, mid-market, and enterprise segments globally.

Name

ZenRows

Legal name

ZenRows

Website

https://zenrows.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ZenRows is a SaaS web scraping platform that provides AI-powered anti-bot bypass, residential proxy rotation, and structured data extraction APIs. It serves developers, AI/RAG teams, e-commerce operators, and sales intelligence platforms across 2,000+ SMB and enterprise customers globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Web Scraping and Data Extraction APIs

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518), Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Data & Analytics Operations Outsourcing (DataOps / MLOps) (BPAEAMAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

AI/ML Solution Integration & MLOps Enablement (BPAEAAAJ)

Keywords

• Web scraping api
• Anti-bot bypass
• Residential proxies
• Headless browser infrastructure
• Web data extraction

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Universal Scraper API (SaaS): Subscription-based SaaS with tiered plans (Developer $69/mo to Business 3K $2,999/mo). Bills monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually with discounts up to 10% for annual. Plans include all products (APIs, Scraping Browser, Residential Proxies). Extra usage purchases available at 15% of plan value. Enterprise custom pricing.
2. Usage-based / Pay-per-Success API: Pricing scales with request complexity: basic requests at standard rate; JS rendering at 5x cost; premium proxies at 10x cost; both JS and proxies at 25x cost. On the Business 300 plan: basic $0.10/1K requests, JS $0.50/1K, Proxies $1.00/1K, Both $2.50/1K. Only charged for successful requests. Failed requests are free.
3. Enterprise Contracts: Custom enterprise tier with dedicated account manager, premium SLAs, priority premium support, advanced analytics, flexible pricing, and custom concurrent requests. Wire transfer payment option for enterprise customers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

ZenRows provides a subscription-based SaaS Universal Scraper API that turns any website into structured data by combining anti-bot bypass (Cloudflare, DataDome, Akamai, PerimeterX), auto-rotating residential proxies, JavaScript rendering, and CAPTCHA solving into a single pay-per-success endpoint. The platform is sold to developers and data teams who need LLM-ready web data for AI training, RAG systems, e-commerce scraping, lead generation, and market intelligence, with a complementary Scraping Browser product for Puppeteer/Playwright and a standalone Residential Proxies network.

Product overview

ZenRows is a web data automation platform offering a unified toolkit for web scraping with anti-bot bypass capabilities. The portfolio consists of three core products: (1) Universal Scraper API - the flagship single API for all web scraping needs, (2) Scraping Browser - cloud infrastructure extending Puppeteer/Playwright with anti-detection, and (3) Residential Proxies - a 55M+ IP network with geotargeting. These core products are augmented by specialized modules including AI Web Unblocker, Proxy Rotator, WAF Bypass, CAPTCHA Bypass, Headless Browser, and Screenshot API. ZenRows also provides industry-specific solutions for e-commerce, real estate, SERP, logistics, job boards, and social media, as well as use-case solutions for AI/LLM training, lead generation, price monitoring, sentiment analysis, and market research.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Universal Scraper API A single REST API endpoint (api.zenrows.com/v1/) that bundles anti-bot bypass, auto-rotating residential proxies, JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA solving, and structured data extraction. Marketed to developers and data teams that need to scrape protected sites (Amazon, Google, Cloudflare-protected portals) and want JSON, Markdown, HTML, or screenshot output without writing parsers.
• Scraping Browser Cloud-based Puppeteer and Playwright infrastructure that adds anti-detection, residential proxy rotation, and CAPTCHA bypass behind a one-line drop-in replacement. Targets developers already running headless browser automation who need to scale scraping of JavaScript-heavy SPAs without managing their own browser farms.
• Residential Proxies An auto-rotating residential IP network covering 55M+ IPs across 185+ countries with geolocation targeting, smart retry on failure, and a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Sold independently to customers who only need proxy infrastructure and bundled into higher ZenRows plans.

Quantifiable outcome

• 99.93% average success rate on protected sites
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration14 records

AI capability6 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• ClayflagshipTechnology or IntegrationClay, a data enrichment platform, has native integration with ZenRows. Clay customers use ZenRows as their primary data enrichment tool for scraping and data extraction. ZenRows is featured prominently as a core integration on Clay's platform.
• LangChainflagshipTechnology or IntegrationZenRows integrates natively with LangChain, an open-source framework for developing applications powered by language models. ZenRows provides web data access for LangChain-based AI agents and RAG systems.
• LlamaIndexcoreTechnology or IntegrationZenRows integrates with LlamaIndex, a data framework for connecting custom data sources to large language models. ZenRows enables LlamaIndex users to scrape and ingest web data into LLM pipelines.
• ZapiercoreTechnology or IntegrationZenRows provides a native Zapier integration allowing non-technical users to incorporate web scraping into their automation workflows without writing code.
• Make (formerly Integromat)coreTechnology or IntegrationZenRows integrates with Make's visual automation platform, enabling users to build scraping workflows visually without coding.
• n8ncoreTechnology or IntegrationZenRows integrates with n8n, an open-source workflow automation platform. Users can incorporate ZenRows scraping into automated workflows.
• ScrapycoreTechnology or IntegrationZenRows integrates with Scrapy, the popular Python web scraping framework. Users can combine Scrapy's crawling capabilities with ZenRows' anti-bot bypass.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Smartproxy: Smartproxy sells residential, mobile, and datacenter proxies alongside a Site Unblocker scraping API. It targets the same SMB and mid-market developer buyer as ZenRows and competes on proxy scale, geo coverage, and price-per-GB.
• Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub): Zyte provides the Scrapy framework, the Zyte API (formerly Scrapinghub API), and enterprise data extraction services. It competes directly with ZenRows on anti-bot extraction at scale and shares overlap with ZenRows' Scrapy integration and Python SDK positioning.
• Diffbot: Diffbot offers a Knowledge Graph and web scraping APIs that turn web pages into structured entities and JSON output, including a Lead Graph for sales intelligence. It overlaps with ZenRows on structured data extraction for AI/ML pipelines and CRM enrichment, with native LLM/RAG integrations.
• Bright Data: Bright Data is the largest web data platform, offering residential proxies, scraping APIs, and a hosted data marketplace. It directly competes with ZenRows on anti-bot bypass, proxy network scale, and enterprise data delivery, and has been the named defendant in multiple high-profile scraping lawsuits that shape the regulatory landscape ZenRows also faces.
• Oxylabs: Oxylabs provides residential and datacenter proxies alongside Web Unblocker and Scraper APIs targeting the same anti-bot bypass and structured data extraction use cases as ZenRows. It is a direct head-to-head competitor with significant enterprise sales coverage and a large proxy footprint.
• ScraperAPI: ScraperAPI offers a simple proxy-and-scraping API with rotating proxies, headless browser rendering, and structured data output. It is one of the closest price-and-feature competitors to ZenRows' Developer and Startup tiers and serves the same developer-led SMB and startup audience.
• Apify: Apify operates a cloud platform for web scraping and automation 'actors,' with a marketplace of prebuilt scrapers and an open SDK. It overlaps with ZenRows' Universal Scraper API and Scraping Browser for developers building and scaling scraping workflows, with comparable self-serve, usage-based pricing.
• Browserless: Browserless provides hosted headless browser infrastructure for Puppeteer and Playwright at scale, similar to ZenRows' Scraping Browser product. It is a direct competitor in the cloud browser automation category, particularly for stealth and anti-detection scraping workloads.

Emerging players

• NimbleWay: NimbleWay is a web data platform combining residential proxies, a Web Unblocker, and structured scraper APIs. It is a newer entrant competing on similar anti-bot bypass and AI-ready data positioning as ZenRows, often pitched to AI and e-commerce intelligence teams.
• Octoparse: Octoparse offers a no-code web scraping tool with cloud extraction services, targeting non-technical business users in e-commerce, real estate, and market research. It overlaps with ZenRows' no-code positioning (Zapier, Make, n8n integrations) and industry-solution pages, but from a lower-code entry point.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/zenrowshq
• Facebookfacebook.com/zenrows
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/zenrows

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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