Oxylabs and ScrapeIt sell different things to different teams. Oxylabs sells infrastructure that your own code or AI agents call: proxy networks and a Web API with search and scrape endpoints, on published plans from 30 US dollars a month, plus datasets through its sales team. ScrapeIt is a managed service where an engineer builds the scraper for your target list, runs it and delivers the data, with nothing for you to run.
Choose Oxylabs if
- Your engineers will own the pipeline
- You need proxies or a real-time API
- Its dedicated scrapers cover your targets
Choose ScrapeIt if
- Nobody on your side will run a pipeline
- The job is a set list of sites and fields
- You want a fixed fee, not a usage balance
What each company actually is
Oxylabs
Founded in 2015, headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania. It sells residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter proxies on a network it puts at more than 177 million IPs in 195 countries, Web Unblocker, an Agent Browser, and a Web API your code calls to search the web or scrape a URL. One subscription, from 30 US dollars a month after free welcome credits, funds a credit balance shared by all of them. A separate Datasets line offers ready-made datasets and fully managed custom collection, sold through its sales team.
ScrapeIt
Scrapeit Sp. z o.o., registered in Bialystok, Poland and trading since 2021. No proxy product, no console and no scraping API. An engineer scopes your target list and fields, builds the scraper, runs it and repairs it when a target changes, and the output is checked by hand before delivery. The price list is published: EUR 199 for a one-time extract of up to 100,000 rows, and EUR 169 to EUR 549 per month, the top plan with three deliveries a day.
Side by side
When Oxylabs is the better choice
- Your engineers will own the pipeline. Proxies, unblocking and a scraping API are the parts to buy when the code and the schedule stay in-house. ScrapeIt does not sell those layers.
- Its dedicated scrapers cover your targets. For those sites the Web API returns named fields, and Oxylabs maintains the parser when the markup changes. That is quicker than commissioning a build.
- You need answers in real time. A request-and-response API with live search suits applications and AI agents. ScrapeIt delivers datasets on a schedule.
- Volume is large or uneven. Paying per result or per gigabyte, with top-ups, follows demand in a way a fixed plan does not.
- Procurement asks for certificates. Oxylabs lists ISO/IEC 27001:2022, a SOC 2 Type II report, 24/7 support and a team of more than 500. A company trading since 2021 does not carry that weight.
When ScrapeIt is the better choice
- Nobody on your side will run a pipeline. Even with a scraping API, someone integrates it, schedules the jobs, defines the fields and reads the output.
- You want managed collection at a published fixed price. Oxylabs sells managed datasets too: a starting price on its site, then an offer from sales. ScrapeIt lists EUR 169 to EUR 549 per month.
- You need a one-time extract. A single dataset of up to 100,000 rows costs EUR 199 with no subscription attached.
- The output goes to people, not to code. Files in CSV or XLSX, or a load into your database, checked by hand before delivery.
- You want the paperwork settled early. A mutual NDA is standard, and a DPA is signed when the project involves personal data.
The honest summary
Oxylabs is the older and larger company, and on infrastructure there is nothing to compare: ScrapeIt sells no proxies and no scraping API. A team with engineers, popular targets or real-time needs should buy Oxylabs, and will often spend less than any managed fee.
The overlap is one specific job: a defined list of sites, named fields, a schedule, and nobody in-house to build or repair the collection. Oxylabs answers it with managed datasets: a starting price on its site, an offer from its sales team, and enterprise scale. ScrapeIt answers it with a published price list, a one-time option and a first delivery that typically arrives within one to ten days.
A practical way to choose
- Decide who will own the code. If your engineers will write and schedule the requests, test your real targets on Oxylabs' free welcome credits.
- Check each target against Oxylabs' dedicated scrapers. Where one exists, the parser is maintained for you. Where none does, defining and checking the fields falls to your team or to a managed vendor.
- If you want data delivered rather than an API, price the same sites, fields and frequency twice: an Oxylabs managed dataset quote and a ScrapeIt published plan.
Keep reading
Is ScrapeIt an Oxylabs alternative?
For teams that want data delivered rather than infrastructure to build on, yes. Oxylabs mainly sells proxy networks and a Web API that your engineers call from their own code, plus datasets sold through its sales team. ScrapeIt builds the scraper for your target list, runs it, repairs it and delivers the dataset. If you need proxies or a real-time API, ScrapeIt does not replace Oxylabs.
When is Oxylabs the better choice?
When your engineers will own the pipeline, when you need proxies or a request-and-response API for applications and AI agents, or when your targets are popular sites that Oxylabs covers with dedicated scrapers. For those sites Oxylabs maintains the parser, and you pay for usage on plans from 30 US dollars a month. It also suits large or uneven volume, and procurement that asks for ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and a SOC 2 Type II report.
How do ScrapeIt and Oxylabs prices compare?
Both publish prices, for different things. Oxylabs sells a subscription from 30 US dollars a month that funds a credit balance spent per 1,000 results, per gigabyte or per IP, and sells managed datasets through its sales team from a starting price shown on its site. ScrapeIt charges EUR 199 for a one-time extract of up to 100,000 rows and EUR 169 to EUR 549 per month for subscriptions. An Oxylabs plan is a usage budget for your own pipeline, a ScrapeIt plan a fixed fee for finished data.
Does ScrapeIt sell proxies or a scraping API?
No. ScrapeIt has no console, no catalogue and no self-serve product, and every scraper is built to a brief by an engineer. The data arrives as CSV, JSON or XLSX files, through our API or a JSON feed, by FTP or S3, or as a load into your database. If you need a proxy network or an endpoint to build on, Oxylabs is the right kind of supplier.
