Should I use Oxylabs or Apify for many domains?

If your goal is scraping many different domains, the short answer is:

• Choose Apify if you want flexibility, fast prototyping, and many ready-made scrapers / automation workflows.
• Choose Oxylabs if you want a more infrastructure-focused proxy/data acquisition platform, especially for large-scale, production scraping with strong proxy/network reliability.

Quick rule of thumb

Use Apify when:

• You need to scrape many domains with different structures
• You want prebuilt actors or quick custom workflows
• You care about developer speed and easier orchestration
• You may combine scraping with browser automation, parsing, scheduling, and storage
• Your team wants a more app/platform approach

Use Oxylabs when:

• You need very large volume and robust proxy infrastructure
• You already have a scraper and need reliable anti-blocking infrastructure
• You want data acquisition at scale with less emphasis on workflow tooling
• You need strong residential/datacenter proxy coverage and enterprise support

The key difference

They’re not exactly direct substitutes:

• Apify is more of a scraping platform
• Oxylabs is more of a proxy/data collection infrastructure provider

If you’re asking “which is better for scraping lots of different websites?” Apify is usually the better platform choice.
If you’re asking “which provider is better for making scraping requests succeed at scale?” Oxylabs is often stronger on the network/proxy side.

For many domains specifically

Many domains usually means:

• different HTML layouts
• different anti-bot protections
• different login/session needs
• different scrape logic per site

That favors Apify, because you can:

• build site-specific actors
• manage workflows
• use browser automation where needed
• reuse components across projects

But if those domains are very blocked or high-risk, Oxylabs may be better as the underlying access layer.

Best practical answer

• Small to medium teams scraping many domains: Apify
• Enterprise-grade, high-volume scraping with heavy blocking: Oxylabs
• Best of both worlds: use Apify for orchestration + Oxylabs proxies underneath, if your use case allows it

If you want a recommendation in one line:

Pick Apify for many domains unless your main problem is proxy reliability and scale, in which case pick Oxylabs.

If you want, I can also give you a side-by-side comparison by price, ease of use, proxy quality, and support for browser automation.