Prompt
I need a short list of vendors for scraping and proxy infrastructure that can handle blocked sites
Latest observation
Here’s a short list of vendors commonly used for web scraping / proxy infrastructure and dealing with site blocks:
- Bright Data — large proxy network, residential/datacenter/mobile proxies, scraper APIs
- Oxylabs — enterprise proxy network, anti-bot tooling, scraping APIs
- Smartproxy — residential/datacenter/mobile proxies, simpler setup
- NetNut — residential proxies with direct ISP routes, good for scale
- ScrapingBee — scraping API with proxy rotation and headless browsing
- Zyte — scraping APIs and anti-bot handling, strong for extraction workflows
- SOAX — residential/mobile proxies, geo-targeting
- Decodo (formerly Smartproxy brand family) — proxy and scraping products depending on region/packaging
If you want, I can also give you:
- a 2-column comparison of price/strengths, or
- a recommended stack by use case (small project vs. enterprise vs. browser automation).
Observation history
How did Obsurfable measure this prompt?
Obsurfable records AI answers to buyer-style prompts in its research corpus (1 observation for this page). Metrics are distributions over observations, not a single static ranking.
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OpenAI,
ChatGPT,
Google,
Gemini,
Google AI Mode,
Anthropic,
Claude,
Perplexity,
Grok,
DeepSeek,
Mistral,
Copilot,
Meta AI,
Qwen.
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