Zenrows benchmarks four scraping APIs against DataDome, Cloudflare, and Akamai

Zenrows published a benchmark testing four web scraping APIs with 800 requests against DataDome, Cloudflare, and Akamai, finding two APIs failed to return any usable pages from the DataDome target.

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Anti-bot & Blocking Primary source analysis / significance 3

Briefing

Zenrows: Zenrows published a benchmark testing four web scraping APIs with 800 requests against DataDome, Cloudflare, and Akamai, finding two APIs failed to return any usable pages from the DataDome target.

Why it matters

This benchmark provides a rare head-to-head comparison of scraping API performance against major anti-bot systems, which is critical for practitioners building AI agents that rely on reliable web data. The complete failure of two APIs against DataDome highlights the wide variance in evasion capability and underscores the need for rigorous testing before choosing a vendor.

Sources

Primary source · Zenrows · 2026-10-01 — Best Web Scraping API for AI Agents in 2026

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Topics: Zenrows, DataDome, Cloudflare, Akamai, web-scraping-api, anti-bot, benchmark, datadome, cloudflare, akamai, ai-agents