ZenRows compatible

The call, before and after

# Before
curl -G https://api.zenrows.com/v1/ \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=$ZENROWS_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping"

# After
curl -G https://api.specstream.ai/zenrows/v1/ \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=$SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping"

With ZenRows' Python SDK, zenrows 1.13.0, the change is the constructor: client = ZenRowsClient(SPECSTREAM_KEY, base_url="https://api.specstream.ai/zenrows/v1/"). Setting ZENROWS_SCRAPER_BASE_URL to the same address works the same way. client.get(url) then runs as before.

What the route reads, and what it refuses

Read and applied: url, apikey, response_type with markdown or plaintext, json_response, and outputs with links and emails. A page the site does not have comes back as ZenRows' 404 RESP002.

Refused, in ZenRows' own error body: no url gets 400 REQS004, mode=auto together with js_render gets 400 REQS004, a wrong key gets 401 AUTH002, and a host that does not resolve gets 422 RESP001. Every parameter was measured on production on Nov 10, 2026, and the full pass table lists each one and its result.

Every field that comes back

By default the body is the page itself. json_response=true returns html with the page, and outputs returns links and emails. A refused call carries ZenRows' code, status, title, detail, type and instance.

The route does not send the X-Request-Id, X-Request-Cost, Zr-Final-Url and Concurrency-* headers, nor xhr in the JSON form, nor headings and images from outputs.

One price a page, and credit that stays

On ZenRows a JavaScript-rendered request costs 5 credits, a protected one 25, and unused plan credits expire at every renewal. On SpecStream every page read costs $0.0008, which is $0.80 per 1,000, a failed page is not charged, and a busy call gets 429 with Retry-After and charges nothing. Credit you buy never expires.

Scored on the official benchmarks

The SpecStream Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. The Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 SimpleQA Verified questions, 978 of them correct, and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 WideSearch tasks. Every score and its method is on the benchmarks page.

You decide what is kept, on each key

Create the key with zero_retention and a call made with it keeps no request text and no answer after the reply. spend_cap_cents is the most the key can spend.

curl -X POST https://api.specstream.ai/v1/account/keys \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "production", "scopes": ["account:read", "finds:spend"], "spend_cap_cents": 500000, "zero_retention": true}'

Pages, search and rows on one key

The same key reads up to 20 pages or documents a call with the Extract API, searches the web at $5 per 1,000 searches, and runs Deep Search, which returns every match for a request in plain words as structured rows, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, with a source URL on every value. The full comparison is on the ZenRows alternative page.

ScrapingBee

A page API from $19 a month for 75,000 credits, where a default call with JavaScript costs 5 credits and credits don't roll over. SpecStream answers ScrapingBee's call at https://api.specstream.ai/scrapingbee/api/v1/ too, at $0.80 per 1,000 pages.

ScraperAPI

A page API on monthly plans: Hobby is $49 a month for 100,000 API credits, and the balance resets when the subscription renews. SpecStream answers ScraperAPI's call at https://api.specstream.ai/scraperapi too, at $0.80 per 1,000 pages.

Scrapfly

A page API from $30 a month for 200,000 credits, where browser rendering adds 5 credits a request. SpecStream answers Scrapfly's /scrape call too, and its credit never expires.

Firecrawl

Scrape, search and crawl in credits: Hobby is $19 a month for 5,000 credits. SpecStream answers Firecrawl's v2 calls at https://api.specstream.ai/firecrawl, and $19 reads 23,750 pages.