5 Best Oxylabs Alternatives in 2026

Looking for an alternative to Oxylabs for web scraping? In this article, I’ll show you 5 more affordable options, just as effective, and backed by support teams that actually reply.

Before we compare the alternatives in detail, here's a quick overview of their pricing, billing models, KYC requirements, and ideal use cases.

A few recurring complaints show up across independent reviews and buyer forums:

1. KYC friction — Oxylabs requires identity verification for trials and several products, which can delay onboarding for individual developers.

2. High minimums — Residential proxy traffic starts at $8/GB. That sounds fine until you do the math. A single Google page can run around 1MB, so 1GB burns through in just a few hundred calls.

3. Enterprise-first support model — Great if you’re a mid-market or enterprise buyer with an account manager, less great if you just want a quick answer in a chat window. The support team is extremely unhelpful and takes several hours to respond. Many users have complained about the same issue in the reviews as well.

4. Nine separate product lines — residential, datacenter, ISP, mobile, Web Scraper API, SERP API, Web Unblocker, and more, each with its own pricing model, which makes it genuinely hard to estimate a monthly bill upfront.

Scrapingdog is a web scraping API that handles proxy rotation, headless browser rendering, and CAPTCHA solving behind a single endpoint, plus dedicated APIs for Google Search, Google Maps, Amazon, Walmart, LinkedIn, and more that return clean, parsed JSON instead of raw HTML.

• No KYC and no credit card required to try it. The free plan ships with 200 free credits.

• Paid plans start at $40/month for 200,000 credits, with a pay-as-you-go option (25,000 credits for $10, credits never expire) for irregular workloads.

• Every plan unlocks every API, there’s no feature-gating between tiers, only credits and concurrency.

• Failed or blocked requests are never charged.

• With 70+ dedicated APIs — Google SERP, Google Shopping, Amazon Product Scraper, Walmart, and more. You get purpose-built endpoints for nearly every major target, starting around $0.001 per request and dropping even lower at scale.

• Documentation includes code samples across most major languages, and support is available via chat without needing an account manager.

• Some heavily protected or less common websites might not get scraped.

• No option to pick your own proxy location down to the city level.

Best for: developers, small-to-mid-size and enterprise teams who want predictable credit-based pricing, dedicated scraper endpoints for popular targets, and zero onboarding friction.

Bright Data is the largest commercial proxy network on the market, with a residential pool reported at around 400 million IPs across 195 countries. Alongside that, it offers a general Web Scraper API, SERP API, Web Unlocker, and ready-made datasets.

• Usage-based pricing across the board — no single flat subscription. Residential proxies run roughly $8/GB pay-as-you-go, dropping toward $2.50–$3/GB on committed volume.

• Web Unlocker and SERP API are typically priced per 1,000 successful requests, starting around $0.75–$1.50/1K depending on the tier.

• Independent benchmarks consistently place Bright Data at or near the top on success rate against heavily protected targets like Google, Indeed, and Zillow.

• No meaningful free tier, but trial credits are available, and the platform becomes genuinely cost-competitive once monthly spend passes roughly $200.

• It’s genuinely expensive at low volume, with no real free plan, small projects end up paying enterprise-level rates for a fraction of the usage.

• Pricing is spread across nine-plus separate products (residential, datacenter, SERP API, Web Unlocker, etc.), so figuring out what your actual monthly bill will look like takes real effort.

Best for: enterprise teams that need the largest possible IP pool and the highest success rate on the hardest anti-bot targets, and have the budget to match.

Decodo rebranded from Smartproxy in 2025 but kept the same infrastructure: a 115M+ IP residential network, a Site Unblocker product, and an all-in-one Scraping API covering search engines and e-commerce sites.

• Fully self-serve. You do not need to pass any KYC resistance.

• Residential proxies start around $3.75/GB on the entry tier and scale down toward $2/GB at the 1TB tier; pay-as-you-go sits around $4/GB with zero commitment.

• Site Unblocker is billed per 1,000 successful requests, at roughly $1.20/1K, and covers CAPTCHA solving and JavaScript rendering automatically.

• ISO/IEC 27001 certified, which matters if your team has a compliance checklist.

• The free trial is tiny with just 3 days and 100MB, which is barely enough to test one scraper run, let alone a real workload.

• On sites with tougher anti-bot protection like Cloudflare or Akamai, success rates drop off unless you’re on the pricier Site Unblocker tier.

Best for: teams that want Oxylabs-style residential proxy quality at roughly half the entry price, without going through KYC.

ScraperAPI wraps proxy rotation, JavaScript rendering, and CAPTCHA solving into a single flat-rate credit system, with dedicated structured-data endpoints for Amazon and Google.

• Plans start around $49/month, with a free-credit trial and no credit card required to sign up.

• Pricing is credit-based but transparent: a fixed number of credits per request regardless of how “hard” the target site turns out to be, which makes budgeting easier than Oxylabs’ per-product pricing.

• Includes an async endpoint, structured data endpoints, and a no-code scheduling tool (DataPipeline) on all plans.

• Google APIs are extremely slow and come with super low success rates.

• Like most credit-based tools, the advertised price looks cheap upfront, but JavaScript rendering and premium proxies can multiply your effective cost well beyond the headline rate.

Best for: developers who already have their own parsing logic and just want a reliable, predictably-priced proxy and rendering layer.

Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub) is the company behind the open-source Scrapy framework, and its Zyte API automatically tiers pricing by how difficult a target site is to scrape.

• Pay-as-you-go HTTP requests run roughly $0.13–$1.27 per 1,000, and browser-rendered requests run $1.01–$16.08 per 1,000, depending on site difficulty.

• Monthly commitments ($100 / $200 / $500) unlock meaningfully lower per-request rates.

• Scrapy Cloud is sold separately for teams hosting their own Python/Scrapy spiders, starting around $9/month per unit.

• $5 free trial credit is available to test before committing.

• Because pricing is tier-based and automatic, it can be hard to predict your exact monthly bill in advance.

• Response times and support have both drawn complaints. Many users are reporting that they got a reply after 10+ days.

Best for: teams already built on Scrapy who want managed anti-bot handling without leaving the Python ecosystem.

• Tight budget, need dedicated APIs (Google, Amazon, Walmart): Scrapingdog.

• Need the biggest IP pool and highest success rate on the hardest targets, budget isn’t the constraint: Bright Data.

• Want cheap self-serve residential bandwidth without KYC: Decodo.

• Building on Scrapy or need Python-native tooling: Zyte.

Oxylabs is a genuinely strong platform, and it’s still the right call if you’re an enterprise buyer who needs a dedicated account manager and can absorb its pricing. But for most developers and small teams, one of the five alternatives above will get you the same data with less friction and a smaller bill.

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