FleetProxy vs Bright Data
Choose FleetProxy when your team owns the scraping stack and needs egress. Choose Bright Data when you want the collection problem outsourced.
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Head to head
Oxylabs is an established enterprise-oriented provider with a strong reputation in the scraping-API category. Its centre of gravity is the managed product: APIs that take a URL and return parsed results, backed by a large proxy network and an account team.
FleetProxy sits deliberately upstream of that. We sell the network and the targeting, publish the rate card, and let your code do the collection. The two are not really competing for the same job — they compete for the same budget line, which is why the comparison gets made.
The useful question is not which is better. It is whether the value you want lives in the network or in the layer above it.
Last reviewed 15 Jan 2026.
At a glance
Oxylabs if you want managed scraping products with an account team behind them. FleetProxy if you want the network, priced per gigabyte, with no sales cycle.
Teams that buy an Oxylabs scraping API are buying an outcome: a URL in, structured data out, with the unblocking maintained by somebody else. Teams that buy FleetProxy are buying inputs: addresses in the right countries and ASNs, rotating on the schedule they choose, metered per gigabyte with volume breaks. If your engineers would rather own the collection logic than debug somebody else's abstraction of it, the network is the better purchase — and considerably cheaper, because you are not paying for a layer you replaced.
How the claims on this page are written
Oxylabs
An enterprise-focused provider whose flagship products are managed scraping APIs, supported by a large proxy network. Commercial motion favours annual agreements and account management, with self-serve options available.
Side by side
Eight dimensions that actually change the decision. Rows describe positioning rather than quoting figures we cannot keep current.
| Dimension | FleetProxy | Oxylabs |
|---|---|---|
| Product centre of gravity | Proxy egress and targeting | Managed scraping APIs, with proxies underneath |
| Who maintains unblocking | Your code | Their product, for the targets it covers |
| Commercial motion | Self-serve, no minimum, no contract | Enterprise-leaning with self-serve entry points |
| Bandwidth model | Prepaid gigabytes that do not expire | Plan allowances, with terms varying by product and agreement |
| Targeting | Country, city and ASN in the username on every metered product | Extensive targeting, configured per product |
| Debuggability | Full: you see every request, response and retry | Partial for managed products, by design |
| Best fit | Engineering teams running their own collectors | Teams that want results rather than requests |
| Support | Direct technical support with no spend tiering | Tiered, with account management at the top |
Rotating residential proxies
A fresh residential IP on every request, or one held for 30 minutes
The honest part
A comparison that concludes we win on every axis is an advertisement. These are the conditions we would use ourselves.
Your collectors already work and only the exit IPs are failing
That is an egress problem. Buying a scraping API to fix it means discarding working code and adopting an abstraction you cannot instrument.
You need per-request control over headers, TLS and retry logic
Managed products necessarily standardise those. If your targets require a specific fingerprint, you want the raw network.
Procurement is a card, not a committee
There is no minimum, no annual commitment and no call required. The public rate card is the rate.
Your volume is seasonal
Bandwidth here does not expire, so a quarter with no collection costs nothing.
You want parsed results rather than raw responses
Their scraping APIs are a genuinely different product from proxy egress, and building the equivalent in-house is months of work you may not want to fund.
Your organisation requires an account team and a signed annual agreement
That is how enterprise procurement is structured, and it is a real requirement rather than a preference.
You are collecting from a small set of very well-known targets
A managed product tuned for exactly those targets will beat a first-pass in-house collector on both success rate and engineering time.
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Recommendation
Buy the layer you are missing. If the gap is exit addresses, buy a network and keep your code. If the gap is the collection logic itself, a managed API is worth its premium and we are not the right supplier for it.
Choose FleetProxy when your team owns the scraping stack and needs egress. Choose Bright Data when you want the collection problem outsourced.
Two providers built for the same buyer. Choose on bandwidth expiry, ASN targeting and how you want to pay — not on pool-size claims.
IPRoyal for the smallest budgets and one-off jobs. FleetProxy when the workload is recurring and targeting depth starts to matter.
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