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Best Scraping & Crawling APIs

Our data-driven picks, ranked from published pricing, compliance, and capability data — with the reasons shown. Compare all 7 →

Top pick: Oxylabs

The best proxy service platform with 175M+ Residential and 2M Datacenter IP proxies. Extract public data from any website with ease!

Why it leads: transparent public pricing, a free tier, self-serve signup, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR.

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Best for…

Best free tier
Oxylabs — has a genuine free tier
Most self-serve
Oxylabs — lets you sign up and get keys without sales
Strongest compliance
Bright Data Web Unlocker — carries the most compliance attestations
Most capabilities
Diffbot — exposes the broadest documented API surface

The shortlist

  1. Oxylabs

    The best proxy service platform with 175M+ Residential and 2M Datacenter IP proxies. Extract public data from any website with ease!

    Strengths: transparent public pricing, a free tier, self-serve signup, SOC 2 Type II.

  2. Diffbot

    Web Data for your AI

    Strengths: transparent public pricing, a free tier, self-serve signup, GDPR.

  3. Firecrawl

    The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale.

    Strengths: transparent public pricing, a free tier, self-serve signup, SOC 2 Type II.

  4. Bright Data Web Unlocker

    Automate your CAPTCHA solving while scraping websites. Our advanced technology rotates IPs, tackles user agents, and solves CAPTCHAs with ease.

    Strengths: transparent public pricing, self-serve signup, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR.

  5. ScraperAPI

    Collect data from any public website with our web scraping API, without worrying about proxies, browsers, or CAPTCHA handling.

    Strengths: transparent public pricing, a free tier, self-serve signup, GDPR.

How we pick: ranking is computed from each API’s published, sourced fields — no reviews, no paid placement. See the full Scraping & Crawling APIs directory and each profile for the underlying data and citations.