Apify vs Oxylabs
Apify is a Scraping API, while Oxylabs is a Proxy & data infrastructure. Apify fits best for: Teams that want a ready-made scraper for a popular site (Google Maps, Amazon, social media) or a platform to host their own. Oxylabs fits best for: Businesses needing reliable proxies and a managed scraping API for search and e-commerce data at scale.
| Apify | Oxylabs | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Scraping API | Proxy & data infrastructure |
| Starting price | $19/mo | $30/mo |
| Free tier | $5 of platform usage per month, no credit card, 5 concurrent runs | $5 'Welcome credits' usable on any product |
| Pricing model | usage (compute units) plus per-Actor pay-per-event/pay-per-result pricing | per 1K results (Scraper API) and per GB (proxies) |
| AI extraction | ||
| Structured JSON | ||
| JS rendering | ||
| Proxies / anti-bot | ||
| API | ||
| No-code UI | ||
| Open source | ||
| MCP server | ||
| Best for | Teams that want a ready-made scraper for a popular site (Google Maps, Amazon, social media) or a platform to host their own. | Businesses needing reliable proxies and a managed scraping API for search and e-commerce data at scale. |
| Visit Apify | Visit Oxylabs |
Why choose Apify
- Apify Store with thousands of prebuilt scrapers (Actors)
- Build and deploy your own Actors (Crawlee, JS/Python)
- Built-in proxy, scheduling, storage and webhooks
- Official MCP server exposing Actors to AI agents
Watch out for
- Costs can be hard to predict across compute units and per-Actor fees
- Quality of community Actors varies
- Free plan's proxy usable only inside the platform
Why choose Oxylabs
- Large residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter proxy pools
- Web Scraper API with JS rendering and geotargeting
- OxyCopilot / AI-assisted parsing
- Dedicated Google, Amazon and e-commerce scrapers
Watch out for
- Enterprise focus; pricing gets complex across products
- Smallest proxy tiers are relatively expensive per GB
- AI features priced separately and not clearly listed
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