No-codeOpen source
Apify
Cloud platform with 19,000+ ready-made scrapers ("Actors"), scheduling, proxies and the Crawlee library.
- Best for: Ready-made scrapers for popular sites
DIRECTORY · 22 TOOLS · 12 FULL REVIEWS
Web scraper reviews
Every product in our guides, with a full review for the twelve most-asked-about. Each card shows the use cases a product is picked for, if any, and links to the evidence. Reviewed tools first, then the rest, each in alphabetical order.
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- ProxiesScraping APIsAI agents
Bright Data
The broadest product range: proxies, Web Unlocker, SERP API, Browser API, pre-built scrapers and an MCP server. Strict KYC.
- Scraping APIsAI agents
Crawlbase
Pay-as-you-go scraping API with a sliding per-request price and a local MCP server.
- Scraping APIsAI agentsOpen source
Firecrawl
LLM-oriented scrape, crawl and search API with clean Markdown/JSON, a hosted MCP server and an AGPL core.
- No-code
Octoparse
Point-and-click desktop scraper with cloud runs and paid proxy/CAPTCHA add-ons.
- Best for: Point-and-click builder with cloud runs
- ProxiesScraping APIs
Oxylabs
Enterprise-grade proxies and a scraping Web API rebuilt in October 2026; subscription only.
- Runner-up: Best-tested network on pay-as-you-go
- Runner-up: Finest geo-targeting (ZIP, ASN, carrier)
- Best for: Lowest JavaScript-rendering rate on a subscription
- ProxiesAI agentsScraping APIsNo-codeOpen source
PacketStream
Residential proxies at $1/GB flat with a balance that never expires, plus Google Search, Markdown Fetch and MCP APIs at $2.50 per 1,000 successful calls.
- Best for: Simplest flat bill that never expires
- Best for: Google search, fetch and MCP on one prepaid balance
- Best for: Public pages as clean Markdown, every error free
- Best for: Cheaper residential bandwidth for Apify Actors
- Best for: Residential proxies with setup guides for Scrapy, Playwright and Puppeteer
- No-code
ParseHub
Long-running visual scraper with a usable free tier; development has been quiet since 2023.
- Runner-up: Point-and-click builder with cloud runs
- Scraping APIs
ScraperAPI
Credit-based scraping API from $49/mo; cheap on easy pages, expensive once premium proxies and rendering stack up.
No pick in our guides; compared in the web scraping apis tables.
- Scraping APIsAI agents
ScrapingBee
Scraping API with every feature on every plan, Google search endpoints and a hosted MCP server.
- Best for: Most complete search + fetch toolkit
- Best for: Every feature on every plan, with excellent docs
- Scraping APIsAI agents
ZenRows
Scraping API with a free 5,000-credit monthly tier, a hosted MCP server and cloud browser sessions.
- Scraping APIs
Zyte API
Highest success rate (93.14%) in Proxyway’s 2025 scraping-API benchmark; per-site tier pricing, successes only.
- Best for: Strongest current independent evidence
- Open source
Crawlee
Apify’s open-source crawling library (JavaScript/TypeScript and Python) with proxy and session management. Apache-2.0.
- Proxies
Decodo
Formerly Smartproxy. Residential proxies from $4/GB pay-as-you-go, with strong independent test results.
- Best for: Best-tested network on pay-as-you-go
- Proxies
Evomi
Swiss residential proxy provider; Core plan from $0.99/GB pay-as-you-go with city and ISP targeting included.
No pick in our guides; compared in the proxies for web scraping tables.
- Proxies
IPRoyal
Non-expiring residential traffic and 7-day sticky sessions; $7.35 for a single GB.
- Best for: Long sticky sessions
- Open source
Playwright
Multi-browser, multi-language browser automation. Apache-2.0.
- Open source
Puppeteer
Lighter, Chrome-focused browser automation for Node.js. Apache-2.0.
- Runner-up: Scripting a real browser in any major engine
- Proxies
Rayobyte
Premium residential from $3.50/GB, falling to $0.70/GB at 1–5 TB; UDP and HTTP/3 support.
No pick in our guides; compared in the proxies for web scraping tables.
- Open source
Scrapy
The Python crawling framework: fast, async, extensible. BSD-3 licensed.
- Best for: High-volume HTML crawling in Python
- Proxies
SOAX
Credit-based residential and mobile proxies priced by exit-country tier; fine rotation controls.
No pick in our guides; compared in the proxies for web scraping tables.
- Proxies
Webshare
Budget-friendly residential plans from $3.50/GB with a good API; owned by Oxylabs since late 2022.
No pick in our guides; compared in the proxies for web scraping tables.
About these reviews
Reviews are written from vendor documentation and pricing pages (checked 17 October 2026) and from dated third-party benchmarks. See the methodology for how picks are chosen.