Key takeaways
The TL;DR. 4 headline facts about Zenrows pulled from our test rig + their public documentation.
- ▸50M+ IPs across 190+ countries.
- ▸Pricing starts at $75.00/mo.
- ▸99.2% rig-tested success rate, 1.1s average response.
- ▸Headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, founded 2021.
The verdict
Independent nightly benchmarks since March 2024 — here's where Zenrows lands.
- One subscription unlocks Scraper API, Scraping Browser, and Residential Proxies with no add-on fees
- Strong anti-bot bypass for Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX, and Akamai out of the box
- Pay only for successful requests on protected targets
- One-line drop-in replacement for existing Puppeteer/Playwright code
- 55M+ residential IPs with geotargeting across 185+ countries
- Free 14-day trial with 1,000 requests and no credit card required
- Developer-first tooling with interactive request builder and clear docs
- Pricing is in euros, so USD cost fluctuates with exchange rates
- Confusing basic-vs-protected results credit accounting burns allowance fast
- Protected-result limits are low relative to basic-result headlines
- Chat support gated behind the higher Startup tier
- Site itself sits behind an aggressive Cloudflare challenge
Pricing C+ · Performance A+ · Pool quality A · Support B+ · Ethics B
Each axis is graded A+ to D using our standard rubric: how we score →
Who should not use Zenrows?+
What we think after testing Zenrows
Editorial review by Maya Cortez · last tested May 31, 2026
ZenRows positions itself as an all-in-one web scraping toolkit, and the pitch holds up better than most. Instead of juggling separate proxy, browser, and unblocker subscriptions, you buy one plan and spend the allowance across the Universal Scraper API, the Scraping Browser, or auto-rotating Residential Proxies. That flexibility is genuinely useful for teams whose workload shifts between simple HTML pulls and heavily-defended targets. The headline 99.93% success rate is a marketing figure, but the underlying stack — advanced fingerprinting, rotating residential IPs across 185+ countries, automatic WAF and CAPTCHA handling — is real and competently engineered.
The Universal Scraper API is the centerpiece. A single endpoint takes a URL plus parameters like `js_render` and `premium_proxy`, and it handles Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX, and Akamai without manual tuning. Crucially, you only pay for successful requests on protected targets, which is a fair model in a category where competitors bill for failures. The Scraping Browser is a smart addition: a one-line drop-in for existing Puppeteer or Playwright code that routes through ZenRows' anti-detection infrastructure.
Pricing is where friction creeps in. Plans are denominated in euros (Developer, Startup, Business), which means USD costs float with exchange rates. The basic-results-vs-protected-results credit split is also non-obvious: a plan's headline 250K basic results can collapse to roughly 10K protected ones, so anti-bot-heavy projects burn allowance fast. A free 14-day trial with 1,000 requests and no credit card lets you validate before committing, which partly offsets the opacity.
For developers who want anti-bot bypass to just work and value consolidating tooling, ZenRows is a strong, mature choice with solid documentation and an interactive request builder. Heavy scrapers on protected sites should model their protected-result consumption carefully and compare effective per-request cost against pay-as-you-go rivals before scaling. Bottom line: A capable, well-rounded scraping platform that earns its price for teams prioritizing reliability and consolidation over the absolute cheapest per-request economics.
E-commerce Trend Intelligence: Automated Web Scraping Workflow [Webinar]
Watch our hands-on walkthrough of Zenrows — dashboard, API, real workload, the bits the marketing pages skip.
Live performance
Numbers from our continuous test rig — same workloads, every month.
Targets tested: Google SERP US/UK/IN, Amazon US/UK/DE, Walmart, eBay, Cloudflare-fronted retailers. Concurrency: 200. Run nightly since Mar 2024. Full data in our methodology page →
Performance vs the market
How Zenrows compares to the directory-wide average across our four standard target panels. = market average, bar fill = Zenrows.
Sample size: 120+ providers with published benchmark data. Bars show this provider's measured rate; the vertical tick is the directory-wide average.
IP pool size — ranked
Where Zenrows ranks against the largest networks in the directory. Bars are scaled to 226M.
Bars rank total advertised IP pool size. Zenrows publishes 50M+ IPs — see the full breakdown in the specs above.
Pricing
From $75.00/GB. Detailed plan breakdown not yet published.
View plans on Zenrows →Features & integrations
What's included out of the box.
SDK, API & integrations
Languages, endpoints and tooling shipped out of the box.
Code examples
Drop-in snippets to start using Zenrows from your stack. Replace USER, PASS and the gateway with what you get from your dashboard.
# pip install requests
import requests
proxy = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
resp = requests.get(
"https://httpbin.org/ip",
proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy},
timeout=10,
)
print(resp.json())// npm install undici
import { fetch, ProxyAgent } from "undici";
const dispatcher = new ProxyAgent("http://USER:[email protected]:7777");
const resp = await fetch("https://httpbin.org/ip", { dispatcher });
console.log(await resp.json());curl -x http://USER:[email protected]:7777 \
https://httpbin.org/ip \
--max-time 10# scrapy-rotating-proxies works with any provider gateway
# settings.py:
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
"scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware": 400,
}
HTTP_PROXY = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
HTTPS_PROXY = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"// npm install playwright
import { chromium } from "playwright";
const browser = await chromium.launch({
proxy: {
server: "http://gate.zenrows.com:7777",
username: "USER",
password: "PASS",
},
});
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto("https://httpbin.org/ip");
console.log(await page.locator("body").innerText());
await browser.close();Independent benchmarks
Last run 2026-05-16
Compliance & privacy
Auditable certifications, sourcing and data-handling posture.
Support & account
How they pick up the phone — and who answers.
Company & resources
Who builds and operates this product.
Key markets covered
190+ countries served.
Zenrows vs alternatives
How Zenrows stacks up against the closest providers in our directory. Tap any column header to read that review.
How to get started with Zenrows
A 5-minute walkthrough from sign-up to your first successful request. Total setup time: ~10 minutes.
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1
Create an account and confirm email
Create a Zenrows account at https://www.zenrows.com/?fpr=affinco. Self-serve access is usually available immediately.
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2
Choose your proxy mix
Use the dashboard to choose between residential / datacenter / mobile. Start with the smallest plan to validate your workload before scaling.
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3
Set up your proxy auth
Set up either an IP-whitelist auth or username:password pair from the dashboard. Save the proxy hostname + port into your scraper or browser config.
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4
Tune rotation policy for your target
Decide between rotating-on-every-request (best for SERP scraping) or sticky sessions (best for account-based workflows).
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5
Validate against your real target
Run 100-500 test requests against your real target before paying for volume. Compare success rate to Zenrows's claimed rate before committing to an annual plan.
Stuck? Check Zenrows's documentation or email us.
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