Tool Alternatives

Bright Data

Bright Data is the largest traditional proxy and web data vendor, built around residential IP infrastructure rather than AI-native developer experience. Most teams who land here are evaluating whether the legacy enterprise contract is still the right fit for an AI product, or whether a newer scraping API can do the same job with cleaner integration and lower per-page cost.

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Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)

Decodo rebranded from Smartproxy in April 2025 and now markets itself as an AI-ready proxy and scraping platform, but the foundation and pricing stay proxy-bandwidth-first. Its flagship residential product bills per GB, which is hard to map to an AI workload measured in pages or documents. Teams land here when the AI layer (AI Parser, MCP server, n8n node, Markdown output) turns out to be bolted onto proxy infrastructure rather than a purpose-built extraction API, and they want a single clean call that returns LLM-ready data.

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Oxylabs

Oxylabs is the European enterprise scraping platform with a product matrix close to Bright Data's: Web Scraper API, SERP Scraper API, E-Commerce Scraper API, Web Unblocker, and residential and mobile proxies, plus a newer AI Studio suite (AI Scraper, AI Crawler, MCP server) that returns LLM-ready Markdown. Teams evaluating Oxylabs typically reach this page when the enterprise contract feels like overkill for what their AI product actually needs.

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ScrapingBee

Teams that shortlist ScrapingBee are usually building an AI agent or pipeline that needs to fetch and read arbitrary web pages. ScrapingBee is a request-based scraping API that bundles proxies, headless-Chrome rendering, and anti-bot bypass behind one endpoint. It is a low-level HTML fetcher, but its credit-multiplier pricing and weak success rate on defended targets push many builders toward tools that return LLM-ready data directly. The alternatives below are all in our directory and lead with that AI-native posture.

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