Head-to-head · Same rig · Same targets · 90-day window
Compare proxies, scraping tools & antidetect browsers
One hub for every side-by-side we publish: residential, mobile, ISP, datacenter, rotating, SOCKS5 and HTTP proxy networks, scraping frameworks and unblocking APIs, AI-native scrapers, and antidetect browsers — measured with identical methodology so the numbers actually compare.
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01 · Every network, one table
Proxy provider comparison matrix
Rating, measured latency, entry price, pool size, country coverage, protocols and network types for every provider we benchmark. Filter by the proxy type or protocol you actually need.
Start with your use case
Pick an intent preset — the matrix auto-filters to the right proxy type and re-ranks every network by how well it matches that workload.
| Provider | Score | Latency | From | Pool | Countries | Types | Protocols | Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oxylabs Enterprise scraping teams that need scale, reliability, and support. | 9.8 | 620 ms | $8.00/GB | 100M+ | 195 | residential · mobile · datacenter · isp | SOCKS5 · HTTP · HTTPS | Read → |
Bright Data Users who need surgical targeting (ZIP, carrier, ASN) and unlocker tools. | 9.6 | 680 ms | $8.40/GB | 150M+ | 195 | residential · mobile · datacenter · isp | SOCKS5 · HTTP · HTTPS | Read → |
Smartproxy SEO agencies and mid-market scrapers looking for a great price/performance ratio. | 9.3 | 810 ms | $7.00/GB | 65M+ | 195 | residential · mobile · datacenter | SOCKS5 · HTTP · HTTPS | Read → |
NodeMaven Account farming, social media automation and antidetect browser profiles that need clean IPs. | 9.3 | 700 ms | $3.99/GB | 30M+ | 150 | residential · mobile · isp | SOCKS5 · HTTP · HTTPS | Read → |
SOAX Ad verification and social-media automation needing clean, rotating mobile IPs. | 9.1 | 890 ms | $6.60/GB | 191M+ | 195 | residential · mobile | SOCKS5 · HTTP | Read → |
IPFly Teams that need enterprise-scale residential and static ISP proxies without enterprise pricing. | 9.1 | 620 ms | $0.80/GB | 90M+ | 190 | residential · isp · datacenter | SOCKS5 · HTTP · HTTPS | Read → |
IPRoyal Developers and hobbyists who need residential SOCKS5 without a monthly bill. | 8.8 | 1100 ms | $1.75/GB | 8M+ | 195 | residential · mobile · datacenter | SOCKS5 · HTTP | Read → |
Rayobyte US-focused scraping and any workload that benefits from dedicated datacenter SOCKS5. | 8.7 | 720 ms | $4.00/GB | 20M+ | 55 | residential · datacenter · isp | SOCKS5 · HTTP | Read → |
Decodo Teams who want a modern developer experience without paying Bright Data prices. | 8.6 | 750 ms | $4.50/GB | 125M+ | 195 | residential · mobile · datacenter · isp | SOCKS5 · HTTP · HTTPS | Read → |
Proxy-Cheap Cost-first buyers who need SOCKS5 across residential, mobile and ISP tiers. | 8.5 | 1200 ms | $2.99/GB | 6M+ | 127 | residential · mobile · datacenter · isp | SOCKS5 · HTTP | Read → |
GeoNode Users who need predictable, unlimited-bandwidth SOCKS5 without GB caps. | 8.2 | 1300 ms | $9/thread | 2M+ | 140 | residential | SOCKS5 · HTTP | Read → |
 Proxy001 High-volume scraping teams that want scale and simple billing. | 5.0 | 680 ms | $1.00/GB | 100M+ | 200 | residential · datacenter · isp | SOCKS5 · HTTP · HTTPS | Read → |
02 · Provider battles
Proxy head-to-head comparisons
Each battle pits two networks against the same targets from the same regions, then states plainly which workload each one wins.
Bright Data vs Oxylabs: SOCKS5 Head-to-Head (2026)
Full comparison of Bright Data vs Oxylabs SOCKS5 proxies: pool size, speed, targeting, pricing, and which one wins in 2026.
9.6 / 9.8 · 680ms vs 620ms
Smartproxy vs SOAX: Which Mid-Tier SOCKS5 Wins?
Smartproxy or SOAX for SOCKS5 proxies? Compare pricing, pool size, IP quality, mobile support, and use-case fit.
9.3 / 9.1 · 810ms vs 890ms
IPRoyal vs Proxy-Cheap: Cheapest SOCKS5 Compared
Compare IPRoyal and Proxy-Cheap on SOCKS5 pricing, pool quality, sticky sessions, and reliability for budget-conscious buyers.
8.8 / 8.5 · 1100ms vs 1200ms
IPFly vs Bright Data: Best Value vs Enterprise Scale
IPFly's ISP peering vs Bright Data's P2P residential pool: latency, success rate, pricing, and which one to pick.
9.1 / 9.6 · 620ms vs 680ms
Rayobyte vs Oxylabs: SOCKS5 Compared
Rayobyte vs Oxylabs: pool size, datacenter SOCKS5 pricing, US targeting, and which provider is right for your scraping workload.
8.7 / 9.8 · 720ms vs 620ms
Proxy001 vs IPRoyal: Cheap Residential SOCKS5 Compared (2026)
Proxy001 or IPRoyal for budget residential SOCKS5? Compare 100M+ vs 8M+ IP pools, $1.00/GB vs $1.75/GB pricing, speed, concurrency and best use cases.
5.0 / 8.8 · 680ms vs 1100ms
Proxy001 vs Bright Data: Value Scale vs Enterprise Tooling (2026)
Proxy001 vs Bright Data SOCKS5 proxies compared: $1.00/GB against $8.40/GB, 100M+ vs 150M+ IPs, targeting depth, unlocker tooling and which fits your workload.
5.0 / 9.6 · 680ms vs 680ms
Proxy001 vs SOAX: Scraping Scale vs Clean Mobile IPs (2026)
Proxy001 vs SOAX compared for 2026: 100M+ residential IPs at $1.00/GB against SOAX's 191M+ filtered residential and mobile pool at $6.60/GB with per-second billing.
5.0 / 9.1 · 680ms vs 890ms
Scrapy vs Crawlee: Head-to-Head Comparison (2026)
Scrapy or Crawlee for web scraping in 2026? Compare throughput, anti-bot success, real pricing and the best proxies to pair with each — with a clear verdict.
Playwright vs Puppeteer: Head-to-Head Comparison (2026)
Playwright or Puppeteer for web scraping in 2026? Compare throughput, anti-bot success, real pricing and the best proxies to pair with each — with a clear ver
Playwright vs Selenium: Head-to-Head Comparison (2026)
Playwright or Selenium for web scraping in 2026? Compare throughput, anti-bot success, real pricing and the best proxies to pair with each — with a clear verd
Scrapy vs Apify: Head-to-Head Comparison (2026)
Scrapy or Apify for web scraping in 2026? Compare throughput, anti-bot success, real pricing and the best proxies to pair with each — with a clear verdict.
Apify vs Zyte API: Head-to-Head Comparison (2026)
Apify or Zyte API for web scraping in 2026? Compare throughput, anti-bot success, real pricing and the best proxies to pair with each — with a clear verdict.
Bright Data Web Unlocker vs Zyte API: Head-to-Head Comparison (2026)
Bright Data Web Unlocker or Zyte API for web scraping in 2026? Compare throughput, anti-bot success, real pricing and the best proxies to pair with each — wit
ScraperAPI vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API: Head-to-Head Comparison (2026)
ScraperAPI or Oxylabs Web Scraper API for web scraping in 2026? Compare throughput, anti-bot success, real pricing and the best proxies to pair with each — wi
Bright Data Web Unlocker vs ScraperAPI: Head-to-Head Comparison (2026)
Bright Data Web Unlocker or ScraperAPI for web scraping in 2026? Compare throughput, anti-bot success, real pricing and the best proxies to pair with each — w
Firecrawl vs Crawl4AI: Head-to-Head Comparison (2026)
Firecrawl or Crawl4AI for web scraping in 2026? Compare throughput, anti-bot success, real pricing and the best proxies to pair with each — with a clear verdi
Firecrawl vs ScrapeGraphAI: Head-to-Head Comparison (2026)
Firecrawl or ScrapeGraphAI for web scraping in 2026? Compare throughput, anti-bot success, real pricing and the best proxies to pair with each — with a clear
Browserbase & Stagehand vs Playwright: Head-to-Head Comparison (2026)
Browserbase & Stagehand or Playwright for web scraping in 2026? Compare throughput, anti-bot success, real pricing and the best proxies to pair with each — wi
Diffbot vs Firecrawl: Head-to-Head Comparison (2026)
Diffbot or Firecrawl for web scraping in 2026? Compare throughput, anti-bot success, real pricing and the best proxies to pair with each — with a clear verdic
How we compare — across every category
Proxy networks are tested on one rig against one target list: identical 10-region footprint (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, SG, BR, IN, AU, CA), identical 90-day window, identical concurrency profile. We measure end-to-end latency, per-request success rate, pool freshness, targeting granularity (country, state, city, ASN, carrier), protocol coverage (SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS, UDP passthrough) and effective cost per successful request — never the advertised per-GB rate alone.
Scraping tools and AI scrapers run the same corpus of tolerant, moderate and hardened targets, so throughput, JS-render latency and anti-bot success are directly comparable between a self-hosted framework and a managed unlocker API. Antidetect browsers are profiled on Pixelscan, CreepJS and iphey with a clean profile and a fixed proxy, then re-tested after 30 days of use to catch fingerprint drift.
When two products land inside measurement noise we say so, and break the tie on cost, developer experience or specific tooling. Use the free testing tools to reproduce any of these checks on your own trial account, and the best-of rankings when you want a shortlist rather than a duel.
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What can I compare on this page?+
Four families of products: proxy providers (residential, mobile 4G/5G, ISP/static, datacenter, rotating, SOCKS5 and HTTP), web scraping tools and unblocking APIs, AI-native scrapers that output LLM-ready data, and antidetect browsers for multi-account work. Every matrix uses the same measured fields, so the numbers are comparable across vendors.
How do you benchmark providers in a head-to-head comparison?+
Each pair runs on the same test rig, hitting the same set of tier-1 targets (Google SERP, Amazon PDP, Instagram, Cloudflare-protected sites) from the same 10 regions over a 90-day window. We report end-to-end latency, success rate, pool freshness, targeting depth and cost per successful request rather than the advertised per-GB price.
Which proxy type should I compare first?+
Match the type to the target. Rotating residential for consumer sites and SERPs, mobile for app-only and social endpoints, ISP/static for logged-in sessions and long-lived accounts, datacenter for tolerant targets and bulk crawling. Compare inside the type first, then across types only if cost forces the question.
Are SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies compared separately?+
Both are covered in the same matrix, with the protocols column showing what each gateway supports. SOCKS5 carries UDP and arbitrary TCP and does not rewrite headers, which lowers fingerprint risk; HTTP/HTTPS is fine for plain web scraping and is easier to plug into most libraries.
How do scraping tool comparisons handle cost?+
Every scraping matchup breaks out list price from the true cost per delivered page, because proxy bandwidth, compute and failed requests dominate the bill for self-hosted frameworks while unlocker APIs bundle the proxy layer into the request price.
What matters most when comparing antidetect browsers?+
Fingerprint quality on Pixelscan, CreepJS and iphey, profile storage model (cloud vs local), proxy handling per profile, automation API coverage and per-seat team pricing. A browser that scores well on fingerprint tests but limits profiles or seats can still cost more per working account.
Which provider offers the best alternative to Bright Data or Oxylabs?+
For enterprise-grade quality at lower cost, Decodo, IPFly, NodeMaven and Smartproxy are the closest peers. The alternatives round-ups below break down where each one matches and where it falls short.
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