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Oxylabs vs ScraperAPI

By Daniel Fitzpatrick Proxy infrastructure tester. Updated 2026-06-21

Both can do the job. The gap is price, pool size, and how hard your targets push back. Here is how they line up on the numbers I track, then a straight call on which one to start with.

Starting residential rates and pool size, measured per provider.
	Oxylabs	ScraperAPI
Starting price	from $6.00/GB	request-based pricing
Pricing model	per-GB	per-request / credits
Pool size	175M+	5M+ residential
Free trial	3-day refund window for verified businesses	Free plan, 1000 credits; 7-day trial of 5000 requests
Best for	enterprise, ad-verification, high-success	web-scraping, managed-api
Try it	Visit Oxylabs	Visit ScraperAPI

The call

Oxylabs runs the larger pool (175M+ vs 5M+ residential), which shows up when a target blocks IPs aggressively.

For hard targets at volume, Oxylabs is the safer pick.

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