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Zenrows

Bilbao, ES · Founded 2021 · 20 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors

ZenRows Extract is a web scraping tool that converts supported websites into typed JSON without requiring custom parsers or CSS selectors, reading a page's DOM to automatically detect and return fields such as prices, ratings, contacts, and listings. It maintains prebuilt extractors for specific sites (e.g. e-commerce, travel, real estate, and professional profiles) and offers a css_extractor option for unsupported pages.

Also known as ZenRows

Founders & leadership

Zenrows was founded in 2021 by Ander Rodriguez Varela, Aurken Bilbao, and Ander Rodriguez.

ARAnder Rodriguez Varela
Ander Rodriguez VarelainCo-Founder
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Aurken BilbaoCo-founder & CEO
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Ander RodriguezCo-founder & Director of Technology

Investors · 5

Also in the syndicate · 3

4Founders CapitalleadBynd VCJavi López

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Zenrows provides web data infrastructure aimed at AI agents, data teams and automation workflows. The platform is organized around four primitives: Fetch, which retrieves any page — static, JavaScript-rendered or protected by anti-bot systems — and returns it as HTML, Markdown, JSON or a screenshot; Extract, which produces structured JSON automatically on supported sites without a user-defined schema or parser; Batch, which processes thousands of URLs asynchronously as a single managed job with queues, retries, webhooks and status tracking; and Browser Sessions, which drive a real browser for interactive flows such as clicks, form fills, logins and persistent session state from a user's own Puppeteer or Playwright code.

Each primitive is exposed through several surfaces: a single REST API endpoint, a command-line interface, an MCP server, and typed SDKs for Python, Node.js and Go. An Agent Toolkit packages skills, templates and MCP wiring so coding agents and AI IDEs — including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, VS Code, Zed, JetBrains and Gemini CLI — can call the primitives as native tools. The company also lists integrations with AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Flowise, Hermes, Google ADK, OpenAI), automation platforms (n8n, Zapier, Make, Clay) and developer tooling (Playwright, Puppeteer, Scrapy, Selenium).

Marketed use cases include supplying live web access to AI agents, pricing intelligence, competitive intelligence and change monitoring, lead enrichment from company pages and professional profiles, and marketplace catalog collection. Access to protected sources is handled by a configurable protection level that routes requests through a residential network, fingerprinting and retry logic, described by the company as a Recovery Engine, without changes to user code.

Founding story

Zenrows was founded in 2021 by Aurken Bilbao and Ander Rodriguez to build a proprietary SaaS automating the extraction, structuring and storage of web data. The founders' stated aim was to reduce the technical knowledge required to run data automation and no-code tooling so that companies without in-house technical talent could use it.

Business model

Self-service SaaS sold on usage-based subscription plans, complemented by an enterprise motion with a sales team, SLAs and dedicated account management.

Subscriptions priced by monthly credit allowance rather than dollars per request: a permanently free tier with 5,000 credits per month and no card, then paid tiers at $16/month (45K credits), $57/month (250K credits), $165/month (1.2M credits) and $456/month (5M credits), plus a custom enterprise tier. One credit equals a standard successful page; JavaScript rendering costs 5 credits, premium proxies 10, both together 25, residential bandwidth 25,000 credits per GB, and Browser Sessions bill bandwidth plus 5 credits per minute. Failed requests are not charged (404 and 410 count as successful). Higher plans add concurrency (5 to 200 concurrent requests, 400–1,000+ on enterprise) and support levels. Annual billing is discounted at roughly 17% (pay for 10 months, get 12), and paid plans allow up to four credit top-ups per billing period with rollover. Extract adds no cost beyond the Fetch request it consumes, and Batch bills at the Fetch per-request rate.

Traction

The website reports more than 900 million requests per month, a sustained rate of 369 requests per second, 100% Fetch uptime over a trailing 90 days, and usage by teams at over 2,000 companies including Microsoft, Dell, IBM, Slack, Clay, EY, eBay and Nokia.

Latest developments

Recent product additions include the Extract and Batch primitives, the Zenrows MCP server for connecting AI assistants and IDEs to live web data, an Agent Toolkit with skills, plugins and one-command setup, and Adaptive Stealth Mode for success-rate optimization. The company publishes benchmark comparisons against competing scraping APIs and offers enterprise terms covering SLAs, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and DPAs.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

Market position

Positions itself in the web scraping/web data API category against Firecrawl, Scrapfly, Zyte, ScraperAPI, Apify, Bright Data and Oxylabs, emphasizing access to anti-bot-protected pages and agent-native delivery through MCP. At its 2022 round its investor described it as democratizing access to web data for data-driven organizations.

Emphasis on retrieving pages that block ordinary tools (anti-bot systems, CAPTCHAs, fingerprinting, JavaScript-only rendering), schema-free automatic extraction on supported sites, a single shared credit balance across all primitives, billing only for successful requests, and shipping every primitive in agent-ready form through MCP, CLI and SDKs.

Technology

A single API endpoint fronts a stack that handles anti-bot walls, CAPTCHAs and fingerprint checks, JavaScript rendering, residential proxy routing and automatic retries, with an Adaptive Stealth Mode parameter for balancing success rate against cost. Extract reads supported pages to return typed JSON without user-written selectors; outputs include clean Markdown for RAG pipelines. Delivery surfaces include REST API, CLI (npx @zenrows/cli), MCP server (npx @zenrows/mcp), and Python, Node.js and Go SDKs.

Go-to-market

Product-led: a free tier of 5,000 monthly credits with no card, one-command installation into AI coding tools via CLI and MCP, published SDKs and documentation, and an AI-searchable docs site. This is paired with a high-volume technical content program — the company blog publishes benchmarks and comparison guides against Firecrawl, Apify, Bright Data, Zyte and ScraperAPI, plus tutorials on scraping, anti-bot bypass and agent frameworks — a partners program, and a "talk to sales" path for enterprise buyers.

Developers and AI agents, plus data engineering, product and go-to-market teams running web data workflows in production; sectors referenced include e-commerce, marketing, real estate and finance, and at the time of its 2022 round the customer base was described as international startups and enterprises. The site states the platform is used by teams at more than 2,000 companies, naming Microsoft, Dell, IBM, Slack, Clay, EY, eBay and Nokia.

Geography

Headquartered in Bilbao, Spain, serving customers internationally; the 2022 funding was used in part for further international expansion.

History

The company was bootstrapped from its 2021 founding until 2022, when it raised a first round of €1.1 million led by 4Founders Capital with Athos Capital, Bynd VC and angel investor Javi López participating; proceeds were directed at platform capabilities, marketing and sales, and international expansion. The product has since broadened from web scraping APIs into a platform of four primitives — Fetch, Extract, Batch and Browser Sessions — with Extract and Batch marked as new, and an agent-oriented layer including an MCP server introduced in 2026 alongside features such as Adaptive Stealth Mode.

Compiled by commissioned research from 7 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Companies with teams using the platformJan 20262,000 companies
Entry paid plan priceJan 2026$16
Fetch uptime (trailing 90 days)Jan 2026100%
Free tier monthly creditsJan 20265,000 credits/month
Requests processed per monthJan 2026900,000,000 requests/month
Sustained request rateJan 2026369 requests/second

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Competitors · 3

by search overlap

Companies competing with Zenrows for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

Timeline · 3

launches, deals, and filings
Mar 2026
Introducing Zenrows MCP, a connector for AI web scraping

Company blog post announcing the Zenrows MCP server, which exposes its scraping infrastructure to MCP-compatible AI tools, with 1,000 free URLs to start.

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Mar 2026
Adaptive Stealth Mode released

A single request parameter intended to select the best success rate at the lowest credit cost for scraping pipelines.

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Jan 2022
Zenrows raises €1.1M in its first funding round led by 4Founders Capital

Zenrows, bootstrapped until then, closed a first round of €1,100,000 led by 4Founders Capital, with Athos Capital, Bynd VC and angel investor Javi López (Erasmusu) participating. Funds were allocated to extending platform capabilities, marketing and sales, and international expansion.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Research sources · 7

primary sources listed

7 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Zenrows do?
Zenrows is a web data platform that lets agents and applications fetch, extract and batch-process pages, including anti-bot-protected sites.
Who founded Zenrows?
Zenrows was founded by Ander Rodriguez Varela, Aurken Bilbao, Ander Rodriguez in 2021.
Who are Zenrows's investors?
Zenrows's investors include Athos Capital, Bynd Venture Capital.
Where is Zenrows headquartered?
Zenrows is headquartered in Bilbao, ES.