Announcing powerful new spending controls and usage insights for Zyte API

Managing data costs and usage is more critical than ever - whether you’re running thousands of crawls for enterprise-scale projects or building new agentic workflows.

In response to direct customer feedback, Zyte is rolling out a suite of enhancements to put spending control, transparency, and predictability directly in your hands.

These updates are designed to empower teams to set budgets, avoid billing surprises, and understand exactly where every dollar is going, all from a unified dashboard⁠⁠.

What’s new?

The new features include user-defined spending limits, custom spending alerts, and a dramatically improved usage and cost breakdown dashboard.

Now, you can:

• Set hard spending caps per API key or domain, ensuring you never exceed your intended budget. When a limit is reached, Zyte will automatically block further requests, protecting you from overruns and unexpected charges.
• Create custom spending alerts that notify you as you approach your chosen thresholds (daily, weekly, or monthly) so you’re never caught off guard.
• Access a detailed dashboard that shows your usage and cost breakdown by domain, feature, and time period, including projections and volume discount information. This makes it easy to track trends, attribute costs, and optimize your web data operations⁠⁠.

Why are we upgrading?

These enhancements address a core need for both enterprise and self-serve users: proactive budget control and complete cost visibility.

Unexpected spikes in usage could lead to billing shocks, operational disruptions, or even forced pauses in critical projects.

By letting users set limits, receive early warnings, and see granular breakdowns, Zyte is giving customers the tools to plan, justify, and expand their data operations with confidence⁠⁠.

Who is it for?

These features are invaluable for:

• Finance and operations teams who need to enforce budgets and prevent overspend.
• Data engineers and product managers who want to monitor usage by project, client, or domain.
• Anyone looking to scale their web data extraction without risking unpredictable costs or service interruptions⁠⁠.

Using the controls

Taking advantage of the new features is easy.

• Setting limits: In your Zyte dashboard, navigate to the spending controls section. Here, you can define limits per API key or domain, and set custom alert thresholds. The UI is intuitive and requires no code changes.
• Alerts: Choose your notification preferences - email or in-app - and receive instant alerts as you approach or reach your chosen limits.
• Usage breakdown: The dashboard displays clear, filterable tables and charts, allowing you to drill down by domain, feature, or time period. All data updates in near real-time for maximum accuracy⁠⁠.

Get started now

A range of users will benefit from these enhancements:

• Enterprises managing large, multi-project data pipelines.
• Agencies and SaaS platforms with diverse client portfolios.
• Startups and self-serve users who need to keep costs predictable as they scale⁠⁠.

Log in to your Zyte dashboard today to explore the new spending controls and usage insights.

Set your limits, configure your alerts, and gain the transparency you need to grow your business with confidence.