Best Web Scraping APIs (2026)

Best proxy network for hard targets and enterprise scale · from $8/GB

Bright Data is the reference implementation of a commercial proxy network: biggest pool, best targeting, best unblocking tools, highest price. If a target is genuinely hard, this is what works.

• The largest and most reliable proxy pool in the industry, by a wide margin
• Targeting down to city, ZIP and ASN, with carrier selection on mobile
• Web Unlocker and Scraping Browser genuinely solve hard anti-bot problems

Best all-round proxy network for most buyers · from $2.50/GB · 14-day money-back

Decodo, formerly Smartproxy, is the default recommendation for anyone who is not an enterprise: half the price of the leaders, most of the capability, and a dashboard you can drive yourself.

• The best balance of price, pool quality and usability in the market
• Entry plans start around $11 a month, so small projects are viable
• 14-day refund policy, which is rare among proxy networks

Best enterprise proxy network with real account support · from $4.50/GB

Oxylabs matches Bright Data on the things that matter for large-scale collection and beats it on support and documentation. Small buyers will still find the minimums unfriendly.

• Closest competitor to Bright Data on pool size and success rate, with better support
• Genuine effort on ethical sourcing, including an external advisory board
• Excellent documentation, SDKs and dedicated account management

Best scraping platform for compliance-conscious teams · from $5/GB

Zyte comes from the people who wrote Scrapy, and it shows: smart per-target ban handling, real compliance credentials, and a route to managed data if you would rather not build.

• Built by the team behind Scrapy, the standard open-source scraping framework
• Automatic ban handling that picks the cheapest strategy that works per target
• Strong legal and compliance posture, with published guidance on lawful collection

Best API for parsed search engine results · Free

SerpApi does one thing: it turns search engine results into clean structured JSON, reliably, and takes on the legal exposure for doing it. Expensive and worth it if search data is your product.

• The most complete and reliable parsed search-results API available
• Covers Google, Bing, Baidu, YouTube, Maps, Shopping, Scholar and more
• Legal shield: SerpApi assumes responsibility for the scraping it performs on your behalf

Best platform for prebuilt scrapers and scheduled jobs · Free tier, paid from $8/GB

Apify is a full scraping platform with a marketplace of ready-made actors for popular sites. If someone has already built the scraper you need, this is the fastest path to data.

• A marketplace of thousands of prebuilt scrapers, so common targets need no code at all
• Full serverless platform: scheduling, storage, webhooks, monitoring and queues
• Maintains Crawlee, a well-regarded open-source scraping library

Best static residential IPs for long sessions · from $3.50/GB

NetNut's ISP peering model produces the most stable static residential addresses in this directory. If your workload needs to hold one identity for hours, this is the network.

• Direct ISP peering gives unusually stable, fast static residential IPs
• One-hop architecture avoids the latency of routing through a peer device
• Strong performance on long sticky sessions and account management workloads

Easiest scraping API to get started with · Free

ScraperAPI is the fastest route from idea to working scraper: one endpoint, retries handled, structured parsers for common sites, and a free tier to test on.

• Simplest possible API: one GET request with your URL and key
• Free tier of 1,000 credits a month, permanently
• Automatic retries, proxy rotation and CAPTCHA handling included

Best developer experience for JavaScript-heavy sites · Free

ScrapingBee is the most pleasant scraping API to build against, with genuinely excellent docs, browser scenarios and AI extraction. European basing is a bonus.

• Best documentation and developer experience in the category
• Headless Chrome rendering with JavaScript scenarios and screenshots
• AI-assisted extraction that returns structured data from a prompt

Best mobile proxy pool with carrier targeting · from $4/GB

SOAX is strongest where mobile matters: a big carrier-targetable 4G and 5G pool, very long sticky sessions, and coverage in regions other networks skip.

• Very large mobile pool with carrier-level targeting, a genuine specialty
• Rotation control up to 24-hour sticky sessions, longer than most rivals
• Cheap trial lets you evaluate properly before committing

Best observability when scrapes start failing · Free

Scrapfly tells you why a request failed and which anti-bot system blocked it, which is the single most useful thing a scraping API can do when things break.

• Detects and names the specific anti-bot system protecting a target, which is genuinely useful for debugging
• Excellent Python and TypeScript SDKs plus an open-source toolkit
• Detailed per-request logs showing exactly what the platform did

Best for feeding web content into language models · Free

Firecrawl converts websites into clean markdown built for LLM ingestion, with an open-source core you can self-host. The obvious pick for RAG pipelines.

• Returns clean markdown ready to feed into a language model, not raw HTML
• Open source core that you can self-host
• Crawl an entire site with one call and get structured page records back