Zenrows alternatives
The highest-scoring alternative to Zenrows is Jina AI at 87/100 on the AgentReady, against 62/100 for Zenrows.
All scored in Web Scraping & Crawling.
What Jina AI does that Zenrows does not
Jina AI passes search discoverable, structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, programmatic credential creation, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, rate-limit behavior predictable, and Zenrows fails them. That is the whole of the gap between the two scores, so if none of those matter to your agent the ranking above overstates the difference.
Why people look for an alternative
Zenrows fails search discoverable, structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable. Each one is a place an unattended run stops, which is usually what sends someone looking in the first place.
What this category actually supports
Across the 19 products scored in Web Scraping & Crawling, scrape a url is offered by 100%, crawl a site is offered by 47%, extract structured data is offered by 32%, map a site is offered by 0%. Anything under half is a gap you should expect to fill yourself whichever one you pick.
An agent can get this list directly: resolve("alternative to Zenrows") over the MCP server, or GET /v1/categories/web-scraping.