Cloudflare Bypass Actors: Real 30-Day Failure Rates
Last updated: October 21, 2026 · Data snapshot: October 21, 2026 (trailing 30-day window) · Weekly refresh
Table 1 — Dedicated bypass / unblocker Actors
Actors whose product IS bypassing anti-bot (name or title says bypass/unblock/Cloudflare/captcha), with at least 500 runs in 30 days.
| Bypass Actor | ^Runs/30d | ^Failed | ^Fail rate | ^Users/30d | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| memo23/zillow-scraper-ppe ↗ | 4,820 | 259 | 5.37% | 60 | $1.90/1k |
| scrapeunblocker/scrapeunblocker | 62,086 | 1,936 | 3.12% | 19 | $1.50/1k |
| ecomscrape/cloudflare-web-scraper-ppe | 3,508 | 23 | 0.66% | 39 | PAY_PER_EVENT |
| memo23/carsales-cheerio ↗ | 2,586 | 3 | 0.12% | 24 | PAY_PER_EVENT |
| webunlocker/google-map-scraper-pro-by-webunlocker ↗ | 1,475 | 0 | 0.00% | 6 | $3.00/1k |
| scrapers_lat/cloudflare-bypass-scraper | 1,026 | 0 | 0.00% | 27 | PAY_PER_EVENT |
| memo23/apify-linkedin-search-results-scraper ↗ | 766 | 0 | 0.00% | 52 | PAY_PER_EVENT |
| memo23/land-search-cheerio-ppr ↗ | 529 | 0 | 0.00% | 12 | $2.25/1k |
Table 2 — Scrapers that advertise anti-bot capability (worst 15 by failure rate)
Matched on anti-bot keywords in name/title/description (bypass, unblock, Cloudflare, captcha, anti-bot, challenge, WAF), ≥1,000 runs/30d.
| Scraper advertising anti-bot capability | ^Runs/30d | ^Fail rate | ^Users/30d | ^$/1k |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cunning_soil/tiktok-shop-product-scraper-mobile-api ↗ | 11,637 | 6.65% | 131 | $10 |
| jungle_synthesizer/fastpeoplesearch-people-search-scraper ↗ | 1,057 | 4.82% | 28 | — |
| cryptosignals/linkedin-jobs-scraper ↗ | 1,309 | 3.90% | 37 | $10 |
| memo23/truepeoplesearch-people-search-scraper ↗ | 10,296 | 1.95% | 86 | — |
| memo23/glassdoor-scraper-ppr ↗ | 7,958 | 0.85% | 332 | $4.75 |
| memo23/apify-glassdoor-reviews-scraper ↗ | 98,412 | 0.72% | 83 | $4.75 |
| neatrat/upwork-job-scraper ↗ | 202,669 | 0.53% | 607 | — |
| yumitori/etsy-listings-scraper ↗ | 6,669 | 0.46% | 344 | $8.00 |
| clearpath/zillow-bulk-search-unlimited-scraper ↗ | 1,648 | 0.42% | 19 | — |
| betterdevsscrape/contact-details-extractor ↗ | 3,403 | 0.15% | 73 | — |
| azzouzana/real-estate-au-scraper-pro ↗ | 4,715 | 0.08% | 62 | $0.90 |
| memo23/crunchbase-scraper ↗ | 9,475 | 0.06% | 167 | $8.00 |
| dataovercoffee/Youtube-Channel-Business-Email-Scraper ↗ | 35,493 | 0.01% | 284 | $120 |
| memo23/facebook-marketplace-scraper-ppe ↗ | 83,443 | 0.00% | 321 | $1.50 |
| extractify-labs/flashscore-tennis-matches ↗ | 16,195 | 0.00% | 863 | $1.00 |
Table 3 — Same battlefield, no bypass branding: general-purpose web crawlers (worst 10)
Popular generic crawlers (cheerio/web/website-content scrapers, ≥500 runs/30d) for baseline comparison.
| General-purpose crawler (comparison) | ^Runs/30d | ^Fail rate |
|---|---|---|
| apify/ai-web-scraper | 11,408 | 19.55% |
| memo23/gumtree-cheerio ↗ | 6,309 | 2.62% |
| memo23/google-ad-transparency-scraper-cheerio ↗ | 3,245 | 2.37% |
| memo23/apartments-cheerio-ppe ↗ | 1,779 | 2.36% |
| memo23/apify-indeed-cheerio-keywords-ppr ↗ | 2,544 | 0.86% |
| azzouzana/immobiliare-it-listing-page-scraper-by-search-url ↗ | 9,632 | 0.80% |
| ecomscrape/cloudflare-web-scraper-ppe | 3,508 | 0.66% |
| apify/web-scraper | 300,785 | 0.62% |
| memo23/doordash-reviews-cheerio ↗ | 683 | 0.59% |
| memo23/kleinanzeigen-search-cheerio ↗ | 538 | 0.56% |
Key findings
- Dedicated bypass Actors span 0.00% to 5.37% measured 30-day failure rates — memo23/land-search-cheerio-ppr ran 529 times with 0 failures, while memo23/zillow-scraper-ppe failed 5.37% of 4,820 runs.
- The highest-failure Actor that advertises anti-bot capability is cunning_soil/tiktok-shop-product-scraper-mobile-api at 6.65% of 11,637 runs — more than 120x the general-crawler median.
- Counter-intuitively, the worst performer in the entire comparison is not a bypass Actor: apify/ai-web-scraper failed 19.55% of 11,408 runs — LLM-driven crawling is currently the least reliable way to fetch a page. Meanwhile the most-used general crawler (radeance/similarweb-scraper) fails only 0.00%.
- Bypass cohort median (0.12%) is ~2x the general-crawler median (0.06%): hard targets fail more, but on managed infrastructure the absolute numbers stay low.
- Cheap ≠ unreliable: several sub-$1/1k scrapers in Table 2 run under 1% failure — reliability currently tracks maintenance quality, not price.
How we measure
Cohort: Actors scanned from the public Apify Store API (popularity-sorted top 3,957, 3,032 scraping-related matches) on 2026-10-20. For each Actor we take publicActorRunStats30Days: TOTAL, SUCCEEDED, FAILED, ABORTED, TIMED-OUT over the trailing 30 days. Failure rate = FAILED / TOTAL — a run the user cancelled (ABORTED) or that exceeded its timeout budget (TIMED-OUT) is not counted as a failure; both are small relative to TOTAL in this cohort.
"Dedicated bypass Actor" = name or title matches /bypass|unblock|cloudflare|captcha|anti-?bot/i. "Advertises anti-bot capability" = the same keywords anywhere in the description. General-crawler comparison = name/title matches /web.?scraper|website.?content|cheerio|generic|site.?crawler|html.?scraper|ai-web-scraper/i. Failure = the platform's FAILED terminal status.
Failures have many causes (bad input, target changes, platform incidents) — a high failure rate is a signal, not a verdict. Small-sample Actors (under ~1,000 runs) are excluded from rankings. License: CC BY 4.0 — cite TopScraper with the data snapshot date.
Conclusion
Anti-bot products that sound identical are not identical: measured 30-day failure rates vary by three orders of magnitude inside the same marketplace. If you pick a bypass Actor by screenshots or marketing copy, you are rolling dice; pick by measured failure rate at your volume. The other lesson of this snapshot: the platform absorbs most anti-bot churn — absolute failure rates on managed Apify infrastructure stay below ~5% even for the hardest targets, while the newest paradigms (AI-led crawling) are the current worst performers.
Next snapshot: tracking the same cohort weekly to see which bypass Actors degrade when Cloudflare ships changes — subscribe to the reports index.