ZILVO VS SCRAP.IO
Zilvo and Scrap.io are closer competitors than they first appear.
Both are built around a simple question: “What businesses exist in this category and geography?”
But the workflow diverges immediately after that.
Scrap.io emphasizes a cloud workflow where you can search large markets, filter businesses before export, and receive enriched fields such as emails and other website data.
Zilvo takes a simpler extraction-first approach. Enter the category and geography, let Zilvo work through the market, remove duplicate businesses and export the result. Then filter the CSV however you need.
Before export
Rating ≥ 4
Reviews ≥ 50
Website required
Qualified output
CSV
Filtered + enriched
30-SECOND VERDICT
Focused extraction
You want category + geography → broad extraction → CSV.
Broader platform
You want search → filter → enrich → export.
Scrap.io is the broader lead-generation product. Zilvo is the simpler extraction product.
CAPABILITY COMPARISON
| Capability | Zilvo | Scrap.io |
|---|---|---|
| Google Maps extraction | Yes | Yes |
| Category + geography | Yes | Yes |
| Large-area extraction | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic geographic subdivision | Yes | Platform handles broad geography |
| Country-scale extraction | Yes | Yes, plan dependent |
| Duplicate removal | Yes | Yes |
| Filter before spending credits | No | Yes |
| Rating/review filters before export | No | Yes |
| Website/email enrichment | No | Yes |
| Social/website information | No secondary crawl | Yes |
| API | No | Yes |
| MCP | No | Yes |
| CSV | Yes | Yes |
| One-time credit packs | Yes | No |
| Required subscription | No | Yes |
| Desktop app | Windows | Cloud |
| Mac | Not yet | Browser |
THE DECISION POINT
Suppose you want dentists in Florida with 4+ stars, 50+ reviews and a website.
With Zilvo
With Scrap.io
Filtering before export is a meaningful advantage for Scrap.io. We shouldn't hide it.
BROAD GEOGRAPHY
Suppose the ask is: Find ice cream shops across the United States.
The simple input remains: Ice cream shop + United States.
Zilvo can divide that geography into smaller markets and postal areas underneath the job, run the searches and remove duplicate establishments.
There is no different Zilvo feature set because the target is a country rather than a city. And there is no Zilvo-imposed maximum number of businesses for the extraction.
One job can continue through
The trade-off is time. Bigger jobs naturally take longer.
SCRAP.IO SCALE
This is important. Scrap.io has specifically positioned itself around country-scale searches.
Its differentiation is not merely scale. Its strongest difference is: filter the market before you export it.
For a recurring lead-generation workflow, that can be extremely valuable.
ENRICHMENT
It can return Maps fields including business name, website, phone, category, ZIP or postal code, address, rating, review count, Maps data and geographic information. Users can optionally retrieve reviews.
“Give me every relevant business in this market and I'll decide what to do with the dataset afterwards.”
It can enrich businesses with website-derived information, including emails and other contact/context fields.
“Give me 5,000 businesses that already have an email address.”
PRICING
No monthly subscription is required for Zilvo. One Zilvo credit covers 2 unique Google Maps businesses.
See Zilvo pricing| Pack | Credits | Approx. unique businesses | Price | Cost / 1,000 unique businesses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 2,500 | 5,000 | $10 | $2.00 |
| Standard | 6,000 | 12,000 | $20 | $1.67 |
| Premium | 20,000 | 40,000 | $50 | $1.25 |
Scrap.io Basic · annual
≈ $3.50
per 1,000 exported businesses
Scrap.io Basic · monthly
≈ $4.90
per 1,000 exported businesses
Zilvo Premium's raw extraction rate is about 64% lower than Scrap.io Basic on annual billing.
Scrap.io includes pre-extraction filtering and enrichment capabilities that Zilvo does not currently provide, so this is a raw extraction cost comparison rather than a complete product-value comparison.
BUYING MODEL
Imagine an agency needs 30,000 businesses this month, but may not need Google Maps extraction again for two months.
With Zilvo, credits are purchased when they are needed. There is no monthly scraper subscription to maintain.
Scrap.io is designed much more like an ongoing prospecting platform. If you're prospecting from Maps every week, that model can make sense. If scraping happens in bursts, Zilvo's one-time model may fit better.
OPERATING MODEL
Zilvo currently runs on Windows desktop. That keeps the interface focused around extraction. But there is no Mac version yet.
Scrap.io runs in the cloud. That gives Scrap.io a significant advantage for Mac users, distributed teams, API users, browser access and automated workflows.
Zilvo
Windows desktop
Scrap.io
Cloud + browser
DECISION GUIDE
PRACTICAL EXAMPLE
Requirement: Find every HVAC company across Texas.
Zilvo approach
Scrap.io approach
The difference isn't really which tool can scrape Google Maps. Both can.
Do you want the broad market first, or do you want to qualify the records before you export them?
FAQ
WANT THE WHOLE MARKET FIRST?
Let it work through the area, remove duplicate businesses and give you the CSV.
500 free credits = up to 1,000 unique Google Maps businesses. No card required.
