[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":116},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fhAk-T30ps1SxHNP8PuaSg11H6d6e6jV7sJX7DuZ94pA":3},{"title":4,"date":5,"dateModified":6,"datePublished":7,"dateModifiedISO":8,"image":9,"content":10,"faq":11,"metaTitle":43,"metaDescription":44,"author":45,"authorBio":46,"authorLinkedin":46,"authorTitle":46,"authorPhoto":47,"lastReviewed":46,"researchBasis":46,"category":48,"readingTime":49,"related":50,"prev":67,"next":70,"toc":73,"takeaways":115},"Apify vs Bright Data vs Oxylabs: Which Web Scraping Platform Should You Choose?","25 Jun 2026","16 SEP 2026","2026-06-25","2026-09-16","/img/news/apify-vs-bright-data-vs-oxylabs-web-scraping-platform-2026.png","\u003Cp>These three names come up in every web-scraping shortlist, which creates the impression they're interchangeable. They aren't. Apify, Bright Data, and Oxylabs are built around three different centers of gravity — an Actor marketplace, a proxy-and-data empire, and an enterprise proxy/scraper-API stack — and picking the wrong one means paying for capabilities you won't use while missing the one you needed.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>This guide gives you the decision framework first, then what each platform is genuinely best at, how they price, and the option most "Apify vs Bright Data vs Oxylabs" comparisons leave out entirely.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Quick answer:\u003C/strong> choose Apify if your engineers want ready-made scrapers (Actors) they can rent, adapt and schedule. Choose Bright Data if getting past anti-bot systems at high volume, in many countries, is your hardest problem. Choose Oxylabs for similar proxy and scraper API strength with an enterprise contract and support. If you only want the data, a managed feed beats all three.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"the-decision-framework-start-here\">The Decision Framework: Start Here\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Before comparing features, answer one question:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cblockquote>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Do you want to operate scraping infrastructure, or do you just want the data?\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\n\u003C/blockquote>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>If you have engineers who will \u003Cstrong>build, run, and maintain scrapers\u003C/strong>, you're choosing between these three platforms on the basis of marketplace, proxy quality, and price.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>If you want \u003Cstrong>clean data delivered\u003C/strong> without running anything, none of the three is really your answer — you want a managed feed, and the comparison below tells you why.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp>A second tie-breaker for those staying DIY: \u003Cem>is your bottleneck building scrapers or getting past anti-bot?\u003C/em> If it's building, Apify's marketplace helps most. If it's blocking, Bright Data and Oxylabs compete on proxy/unblocking muscle.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>All three bill on volume, so the first number you need is not a price — it's the size of the job. Our \u003Ca href=\"https://scrapewise.ai/tools/free-product-url-extractor\">free product URL extractor\u003C/a> takes one competitor category URL and returns the product pages inside it along with the URL patterns they sit under, which is the input to every cost model below. It also tells you whether that site answered a plain request or had to be reached through a proxy, which is the single biggest driver of what any of these three will actually charge you.\u003C/p>\n\u003Caside class=\"article__usecase-card\">\u003Cdiv class=\"article__usecase-label\">Related use case\u003C/div>\u003Ch3 class=\"article__usecase-title\">Compare ScrapeWise to your current tool\u003C/h3>\u003Cp class=\"article__usecase-blurb\">Side-by-side breakdowns against 20 scraping and price-monitoring platforms.\u003C/p>\u003Ca class=\"article__usecase-link\" href=\"/alternatives\">See how it works →\u003C/a>\u003C/aside>\u003Ch2 id=\"what-each-platform-is-built-for\">What Each Platform Is Built For\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Apify\u003C/strong> is a developer \u003Cstrong>platform and Actor marketplace\u003C/strong>. Its strength is reusable scrapers ("Actors") you rent or build, plus the orchestration to run them. You bill on \u003Ca href=\"https://scrapewise.ai/blogs/apify-pricing-compute-units-cost-2026\">compute units, proxies, and Actor rental\u003C/a> — flexible, but consumption-based, so your cost moves with job difficulty. Best when you want to assemble scrapers fast and have engineers to wire them in. Our \u003Ca href=\"/tools/apify-pricing-calculator\">Apify pricing calculator\u003C/a> estimates that consumption bill from your SKU count and refresh rate.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Bright Data\u003C/strong> is a \u003Cstrong>proxy and web-data empire\u003C/strong>. Its core is one of the largest residential proxy networks, layered with unblocking tools, scraper APIs, and pre-collected datasets. Best when your hardest problem is \u003Cem>access\u003C/em> — getting past aggressive anti-bot at scale and across geographies — and you'll pay for that reach.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Oxylabs\u003C/strong> is an \u003Cstrong>enterprise proxy and scraper-API provider\u003C/strong>. Similar shape to Bright Data — strong proxy pools plus dedicated scraper APIs (SERP, e-commerce, web) — pitched at enterprise reliability, compliance, and support. Best for larger teams that want managed unblocking infrastructure with an enterprise relationship.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"how-they-compare\">How They Compare\u003C/h2>\n\u003Ctable>\n\u003Cthead>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Cth>\u003C/th>\n\u003Cth>Apify\u003C/th>\n\u003Cth>Bright Data\u003C/th>\n\u003Cth>Oxylabs\u003C/th>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003C/thead>\n\u003Ctbody>\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Center of gravity\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Actor marketplace + platform\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Proxy network + web data\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Enterprise proxy + scraper APIs\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Best at\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Assembling/renting scrapers\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Access at scale & geo reach\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Enterprise unblocking & support\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Pricing model\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Compute units + proxy + rental\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Proxy GB + product tiers\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Proxy/API usage, enterprise quotes\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>You still operate scrapers\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Yes\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Yes (or use their APIs)\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Yes (or use their APIs)\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Anti-bot handling\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Your job (with their proxies)\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Strong unblocker products\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Strong unblocker products\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>E-commerce scraping\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Ready-made Store Actors for Amazon, Shopify and other retailers, many maintained by community developers\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Web Scraper API and Web Unlocker, plus ready-made datasets\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Web Scraper API with dedicated sources for Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Target and other marketplaces\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>AI and LLM data\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Website Content Crawler outputs Markdown for RAG pipelines; MCP server lets AI agents run Actors\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>SERP API, Web Unlocker and an MCP server for AI agents\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>AI Studio, OxyCopilot and an official MCP server\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Proxy network\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Shared and dedicated datacenter, residential and Google SERP proxies; pool size not published; own proxies supported\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile; 400M+ monthly residential IPs in 195 countries (vendor claim, Sept 2026)\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Residential, mobile, datacenter and ISP; 175M+ residential IPs in 195+ countries (vendor claim, Sept 2026)\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Extraction tooling\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Build or rent Actors, with scheduling, storage and JSON, CSV or XML export\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Web Scraper API, Browser API, Scraper Studio and datasets from 120+ sites\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Web Scraper API with parsing, plus OxyCopilot to generate scraper code\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Best fit\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Engineering teams, fast assembly\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Access-hard, high-volume jobs\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Enterprise, compliance-driven\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003C/tbody>\u003C/table>\n\u003Cp>For exact per-request and per-GB rates across these and other providers, see our \u003Ca href=\"https://scrapewise.ai/blogs/scraping-api-pricing-comparison-2026\">scraping API pricing comparison\u003C/a> — the numbers move often enough that we keep them in a dedicated, updated post rather than quoting them here.\u003C/p>\n\u003Caside class=\"article__inline-cta\">\u003Cp class=\"article__inline-cta-text\">Try ScrapeWise on your own URL. \u003Cstrong>Your first 5 requests are free.\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Ca class=\"article__inline-cta-btn\" href=\"https://portal.scrapewise.ai/login\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Start Free →\u003C/a>\u003C/aside>\u003Ch2 id=\"head-to-head-which-platform-wins-for-your-use-case\">Head-to-Head: Which Platform Wins for Your Use Case?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>It depends on the job. Apify fits teams that want ready-made scrapers they can adapt and run on a schedule. Bright Data fits high-volume work that needs large proxy pools and unblocking. Oxylabs covers similar ground, with dedicated scraper targets for sites like Amazon, Walmart and eBay. Each question below covers one matchup.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"should-you-use-apify-or-oxylabs-for-web-scraping\">Should You Use Apify or Oxylabs for Web Scraping?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Use Apify if you want to start from a ready-made scraper and adapt it. Its Store covers many popular sites, and you pay for the compute you use. Use Oxylabs if your scrapers already exist and the problem is access. Its residential proxies, Web Unblocker and Web Scraper API are built for high-volume work on well-protected sites, sold with enterprise support.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>You can also combine them. Apify accepts your own proxies, so some teams keep Apify's tooling and buy access elsewhere.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>If those two are the only names on your shortlist, we compare them properly in \u003Ca href=\"https://scrapewise.ai/blogs/oxylabs-vs-apify-web-scraping-2026\">Oxylabs vs Apify: access vs assembly\u003C/a> — pricing model, e-commerce coverage, AI pipelines and when neither is the right answer.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"how-does-apify-compare-to-oxylabs-for-e-commerce-scraping\">How Does Apify Compare to Oxylabs for E-commerce Scraping?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Apify gets you started fastest, with ready-made Store Actors for Amazon, Shopify and other retailers. Many of those Actors are maintained by community developers, so results can dip after a retailer changes its anti-bot setup, until someone patches the Actor. Oxylabs runs dedicated e-commerce sources in its Web Scraper API, such as Amazon, Walmart and eBay, and handles unblocking on its side.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>We measured how scrapers hold up on real retail targets in our \u003Ca href=\"https://scrapewise.ai/blogs/apify-alternative-ecommerce-data-extraction-2026#anti-bot-performance-on-amazon-and-shopify\">Amazon and Shopify anti-bot benchmark\u003C/a>, and looked at other options in \u003Ca href=\"https://scrapewise.ai/blogs/oxylabs-alternative-ecommerce-price-monitoring-2026\">Oxylabs alternatives for price monitoring\u003C/a>. For ongoing price and stock monitoring, neither platform removes the upkeep, which is where \u003Ca href=\"#when-a-managed-feed-beats-all-three\">a managed feed beats all three\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"which-of-the-three-has-the-best-proxy-infrastructure\">Which of the Three Has the Best Proxy Infrastructure?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Bright Data. Proxies are its core business: residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile networks, with 400M+ monthly residential IPs across 195 countries (\u003Ca href=\"https://brightdata.com/proxy-types/residential-proxies\">vendor claim, Sept 2026\u003C/a>) and geo-targeting included. Apify sells shared and dedicated datacenter, residential and Google SERP proxies, mainly as a convenience for running Actors. It does not publish a pool size, and you can plug in your own proxies.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>If those two are the only names on your shortlist, we settle it properly in \u003Ca href=\"https://scrapewise.ai/blogs/apify-vs-bright-data-web-scraping-2026\">Apify vs Bright Data\u003C/a> — why they meter different units, proxy depth, e-commerce coverage and migration cost. If access is your hardest problem, compare \u003Ca href=\"https://scrapewise.ai/blogs/bright-data-vs-oxylabs-web-scraping-2026\">Bright Data vs Oxylabs\u003C/a> rather than Apify, or read our \u003Ca href=\"https://scrapewise.ai/blogs/bright-data-alternative-ecommerce-price-monitoring-2026\">Bright Data alternatives for price monitoring\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"marketplace-actors-or-extraction-as-an-api-which-model-fits-\">Marketplace Actors or Extraction-as-an-API: Which Model Fits You?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Apify is better if you want control over the extraction logic. You build or rent Actors, pick the fields, schedule runs and export JSON, CSV or XML. Bright Data is better if you want extraction as an API or as finished data. Its Web Scraper API returns structured records from 120+ sites, and its datasets let you skip scraping for those sites.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Either way, your team still owns the schema and fixes breakages when target sites change. That is the hidden cost covered below.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"bright-data-vs-oxylabs-vs-apify-which-is-better-for-ai-searc\">Bright Data vs Oxylabs vs Apify: Which Is Better for AI Search and Large-Scale Crawling?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>For AI search grounding and large-scale crawling, Bright Data and Oxylabs have the edge. Both return live Google search results through their APIs, handle unblocking and run large proxy networks for high-concurrency crawling, and both offer MCP servers that AI agents can call. Apify is strongest at turning websites into LLM-ready text: its Website Content Crawler outputs Markdown for RAG pipelines.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>If you are weighing real-time options on price, see our \u003Ca href=\"https://scrapewise.ai/blogs/real-time-web-scraping-api-comparison-2026\">real-time scraping APIs compared by cost per usable row\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"oxylabs-vs-apify-which-is-better-for-ai-data-infrastructure\">Oxylabs vs Apify: Which Is Better for AI Data Infrastructure?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Choose Oxylabs when AI data infrastructure means a steady, high-volume supply of fresh web data, with proxies, the Web Scraper API, AI Studio and an official MCP server from one vendor. Choose Apify when you build your own AI pipelines: agents can run Store Actors through its MCP server, and it connects to LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone and Qdrant.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>If your model needs structured product and price data rather than raw pages, ScrapeWise delivers validated rows by REST API or CSV that you can feed to any LLM, from \u003Ca href=\"https://scrapewise.ai/scrapers\">36 ready-made scraping API endpoints\u003C/a> you call directly.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"the-hidden-cost-all-three-share\">The Hidden Cost All Three Share\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Every one of these platforms hands you tools, not outcomes. You still own the work that sits \u003Cem>around\u003C/em> the tool: writing and maintaining scrapers, choosing and rotating proxies, handling layout changes, parsing and cleaning data, and re-fixing everything each time a target updates its anti-bot. That maintenance is the recurring theme in our guide on \u003Ca href=\"https://scrapewise.ai/blogs/web-scraping-without-getting-blocked-2026\">scraping without getting blocked\u003C/a> — it's the 80% of the work the demos don't show. The platform fee is the visible cost; the engineer-weeks are the real one.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"when-a-managed-feed-beats-all-three\">When a Managed Feed Beats All Three\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>If your goal is \u003Cstrong>competitor prices, stock, and product data landing in your systems\u003C/strong> — not a scraping operation — the platform comparison is the wrong comparison. A managed service like \u003Cstrong>ScrapeWise\u003C/strong> sits one layer up: we run the scrapers, the proxies, and the anti-bot handling, and deliver structured, validated data on a scoped, predictable basis. You compare \u003Cem>outcomes and reliability\u003C/em>, not compute units and proxy GB.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The honest trade-off: ScrapeWise is a managed feed rather than a toolkit, so if what you want is a platform to build on tonight, one of these three gives you more knobs to turn. On price there's less to weigh up — no plan and no compute units, just a balance you top up and a charge per delivered page from €0.15 per 1,000, with 5 free requests on every new account. But if you've already learned that the tool is the easy part and the upkeep is the cost, a managed feed removes the part you were going to outsource to your own engineers anyway.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"so-which-should-you-pick\">So Which Should You Pick?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Choose Apify\u003C/strong> if engineers will assemble scrapers and the marketplace saves you build time — and you can budget consumption-based cost.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Choose Bright Data\u003C/strong> if raw \u003Cem>access\u003C/em> at scale and geographic reach is your hardest problem.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Choose Oxylabs\u003C/strong> if you want enterprise-grade unblocking infrastructure with the support and compliance an enterprise relationship brings.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Choose a managed feed (ScrapeWise)\u003C/strong> if you want the data, not the operation — and would rather pay for clean records than meter your own infrastructure.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp>We also keep short two-way comparisons: \u003Ca href=\"/alternatives/apify\">Scrapewise as an Apify alternative\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"/alternatives/bright-data\">Scrapewise as a Bright Data alternative\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>If that last line is you, \u003Ca href=\"https://scrapewise.ai/pricing\">book a call\u003C/a> and we'll scope the exact sources, fields, and cadence you need — and tell you honestly if building it yourself on one of these platforms would serve you better. For a closer look at the DIY route, start with our \u003Ca href=\"https://scrapewise.ai/blogs/apify-alternative-ecommerce-data-extraction-2026\">Apify alternative breakdown\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\n",{"title":12,"description":13,"badge":14,"benefits":15},"Frequently asked questions","Apify vs Bright Data vs Oxylabs for web scraping in 2026","FAQ",[16,19,22,25,28,31,34,37,40],{"title":17,"description":18},"What is the difference between Apify, Bright Data, and Oxylabs?","They're built around different cores. Apify is a developer platform and Actor marketplace — reusable scrapers you rent or build and orchestrate. Bright Data is a proxy-and-web-data empire whose strength is one of the largest residential proxy networks plus unblocking tools and datasets. Oxylabs is an enterprise proxy and scraper-API provider focused on reliability, compliance, and support. All three give you tools to run scraping; they differ on whether your hardest problem is assembling scrapers or getting past anti-bot.",{"title":20,"description":21},"Which is best for e-commerce price scraping?","If you have engineers, Apify is best when you want to assemble or rent scrapers fast, while Bright Data and Oxylabs are best when access — beating aggressive anti-bot at scale and across geographies — is your bottleneck. But for ongoing competitor price and stock data specifically, many e-commerce teams find a managed feed beats all three, because the real work is maintaining scrapers and proxies over time, not the initial build.",{"title":23,"description":24},"How do their pricing models compare?","Apify bills on consumption: compute units plus proxy traffic plus rented-Actor usage drawn from a plan credit. Bright Data prices mainly on proxy GB and per-product tiers. Oxylabs prices on proxy and scraper-API usage, often via enterprise quotes. Because rates change frequently, exact per-GB and per-request numbers are best checked in a dedicated, regularly updated pricing comparison rather than memorized.",{"title":26,"description":27},"What hidden cost do all three platforms share?","They hand you tools, not outcomes. You still write and maintain scrapers, manage proxies, handle layout changes, clean the data, and re-fix everything each time a target updates its anti-bot defenses. This ongoing maintenance — often the larger 80% of the total effort — is invisible in the platform's monthly fee but shows up as engineer-weeks. It's the main reason teams eventually consider a managed alternative.",{"title":29,"description":30},"When should I use a managed service instead of these platforms?","When your goal is data in your systems, not running a scraping operation. A managed service like ScrapeWise runs the scrapers, proxies, and anti-bot handling and delivers structured, validated competitor data on one predictable meter — so you compare outcomes and reliability instead of compute units and proxy GB. Billing is pay-as-you-go per delivered page, from €0.15 per 1,000, with 5 free requests to start. The trade-off is that you get data rather than a platform to build on, so a toolkit is faster if you want to experiment hands-on, but a managed feed removes the upkeep you'd otherwise hand to your own engineers.",{"title":32,"description":33},"Should I use Apify or Oxylabs for web scraping?","Use Apify if you want ready-made scrapers (Actors) that you can rent, adapt and schedule, paying for the compute you use. Use Oxylabs if your problem is access: its residential proxies, Web Unblocker and Web Scraper API are built for high-volume work on well-protected sites, with enterprise support. Apify also accepts your own proxies, so the two can be combined.",{"title":35,"description":36},"How does Apify compare to Oxylabs for e-commerce scraping?","Apify is faster to start, with ready-made Store Actors for Amazon, Shopify and other retailers, but many are maintained by community developers and can break when a retailer changes its anti-bot setup. Oxylabs runs dedicated e-commerce sources such as Amazon, Walmart and eBay in its Web Scraper API and handles unblocking itself. For ongoing price and stock monitoring, both still leave maintenance and data cleaning to your team.",{"title":38,"description":39},"Apify vs Bright Data: which has better proxy infrastructure?","Bright Data. Proxies are its core business: residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile networks, with 400M+ monthly residential IPs across 195 countries by its own count (September 2026). Apify offers datacenter, residential and Google SERP proxies mainly to run its Actors, does not publish a pool size, and lets you bring your own proxies.",{"title":41,"description":42},"Which is better for AI data and large-scale crawling: Bright Data, Oxylabs or Apify?","Bright Data and Oxylabs lead for AI search grounding and large-scale crawling, with live search results, unblocking, large proxy networks and MCP servers for AI agents. Apify is strongest at turning websites into LLM-ready text: its Website Content Crawler outputs Markdown for RAG, and its MCP server lets agents run Store Actors. Oxylabs suits teams buying a steady data supply, and Apify suits teams building their own pipelines.","Apify vs Bright Data vs Oxylabs 2026","Apify vs Bright Data vs Oxylabs for e-commerce teams: what each is built for, how they price, and when a managed data feed beats all three.","Siim Brazier",null,"/img/team/siim.jpg","Alternatives",9,[51,57,62],{"slug":52,"title":53,"image":54,"date":55,"category":48,"excerpt":56},"apify-vs-bright-data-web-scraping-2026","Apify vs Bright Data: Which Should You Choose in 2026?","/img/news/apify-vs-bright-data-web-scraping-2026.png","24 Sep 2026","Apify vs Bright Data in 2026: Apify meters compute units, Bright Data meters proxy GB, so the same job costs opposite amounts. 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