Browserbase vs Oxylabs

Browserbase and Oxylabs are both in the Proxy & data infrastructure category. Browserbase fits best for: Teams building AI agents that need to log in, click and navigate real browsers reliably in the cloud. Oxylabs fits best for: Businesses needing reliable proxies and a managed scraping API for search and e-commerce data at scale.

BrowserbaseOxylabs
TypeProxy & data infrastructureProxy & data infrastructure
Starting price$20/mo$30/mo
Free tier1 browser hour, 3 concurrent browsers$5 'Welcome credits' usable on any product
Pricing modelbrowser hours plus proxy GBper 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 forTeams building AI agents that need to log in, click and navigate real browsers reliably in the cloud.Businesses needing reliable proxies and a managed scraping API for search and e-commerce data at scale.
Visit BrowserbaseVisit Oxylabs

Why choose Browserbase

  • Serverless headless Chrome sessions at scale
  • Stagehand open-source SDK for natural-language actions and extraction
  • Session replay and debugging
  • Stealth, proxies and persistent auth contexts

Watch out for

  • Infrastructure, not a turnkey scraper: you write the automation
  • Billing by browser hours can add up for slow pages
  • Proxy bandwidth billed separately

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
Our product

Only need structured JSON from pages?

BestAIScraper's extraction API takes a URL and a list of fields and returns typed JSON. Pay per use, no subscription.

Try it free