What proxy service works best with Playwright?

For Playwright, the “best” proxy service usually depends on your use case, but these are the most commonly recommended:

Best overall options

• Bright Data – best for scale and reliability, especially for hard-to-scrape sites. Expensive, but very robust.
• Smartproxy – good balance of price, ease of use, and performance.
• Oxylabs – excellent enterprise-grade service, strong pool quality and uptime.
• SOAX – good for geo-targeting and cleaner residential/mobile IPs.

If you want cheaper or simpler

• Webshare – affordable and easy to start with.
• NetNut – solid performance, often used for large-scale scraping.

What to look for with Playwright

Playwright works well with almost any proxy provider, but quality matters more than compatibility. Prefer providers with:

• Residential or mobile proxies for anti-bot-heavy sites
• Sticky sessions if you need consistent logins/cookies
• Geo-targeting if you need specific countries/cities
• Rotating IPs for scraping at scale
• Good authentication support: username/password or IP whitelisting

Playwright support

Playwright itself supports proxies natively, so setup is straightforward with most services.

Example:

const browser = await chromium.launch({
  proxy: {
    server: 'http://proxy-host:port',
    username: 'user',
    password: 'pass'
  }
});

Short recommendation

• Best premium choice: Bright Data or Oxylabs
• Best value: Smartproxy
• Best budget: Webshare

If you tell me your use case — scraping, automation, geo-testing, account creation, etc. — I can recommend the best specific proxy type and provider.