replacing Oxylabs

Open Source Oxylabs Alternatives

Proxy network and web scraping APIs — Oxylabs pricing: Datacenter proxies from around $6/GB; scraping APIs from $49/month. Below: 3 free, self-hostable open source projects that cover the same ground, ranked by real GitHub adoption.

There are 3 open source Oxylabs alternatives tracked on this registry, against Oxylabs pricing of Datacenter proxies from around $6/GB; scraping APIs from $49/month. The most-adopted is Scrapling with 98,203 GitHub stars under BSD-3-Clause, written in Python. Together the set has 211,518 stars across 2 languages and 2 licences. All 3 are free to self-host with no licence fee, and 3 of 3 received a commit in the last 90 days. 3 head-to-head Oxylabs comparisons are available.

Oxylabs is closed infrastructure priced by proxy type or API plan. Entry pricing is a recurring monthly commitment rather than a free tier, and bandwidth-based proxy billing is notoriously hard to forecast for a new project.

Other hosted options

The open source projects below are free to self-host. If you would rather pay for a managed service, these are the hosted products in the same space — listed with the vendor's own pricing.

Apify hosted Web scraping and automation platform with a hosted actor marketplace Free plan available; usage metered per compute unit (about $0.2/unit on entry tiers, less on higher commitments) Bright Data hosted Proxy network and web data platform Free trial; paid metered from roughly $0.2 to $1.3 per 1,000 requests depending on product Fastcrawl hosted Scraping and crawling API for AI agents, over REST and MCP Free tier 1500 credits/month; paid from $5/month Firecrawl hosted Scrape, crawl and search the web for AI applications Free tier 1,000 credits/month; paid plans from $19/month (billed annually)

Our top 3 Oxylabs alternatives

Scrapling ★ 98K

Scrapling is an open-source Python framework for web scraping that spans the whole range from one fetch to a concurrent crawl. Its parser learns from website changes and automatically relocates your elements when pages update, so a selector that worked before a redesign can still find the same data afterward. Its fetchers are built to bypass anti-bot systems such as Cloudflare Turnstile out of the box, and its spider framework scales to concurrent, multi-session crawls with pause and resume, automatic proxy rotation, and a crawl speed that adapts to how fast each website responds and backs off when the site starts blocking.

BSD-3-Clause · Python · Oxylabs vs Scrapling →

Crawl4AI ★ 87K

Crawl4AI is an open-source web crawler and scraper designed to prepare website content for large language model (LLM) workflows. It lives in the Python ecosystem and targets data extraction for RAG, agents, and AI pipelines. Unlike many tools that require API keys or paid subscriptions, Crawl4AI provides direct, self-hosted access to web content with output structured specifically for LLM consumption.

Apache-2.0 · Python · Oxylabs vs Crawl4AI →

crawlee ★ 26K

Crawlee is a web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js, written in TypeScript and published on npm as the `crawlee` package. It lives in the JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystem, and it covers crawling and scraping end to end: fetching pages, following links, extracting data, and storing the results to disk or to the cloud. The project also has a Python counterpart, Crawlee for Python, maintained alongside it by Apify.

Apache-2.0 · TypeScript · Oxylabs vs crawlee →

Scrapling ★ 98K

🕷️ An adaptive Web Scraping framework that handles everything from a single request to a full-scale crawl! Don't be shy, join here: https://discord.gg/EMgGbDce

rank001 licenseBSD-3-Clause written inPython

Crawl4AI ★ 87K

LLM-ready web crawler built for AI data pipelines

rank002 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython

crawlee ★ 26K

Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or G

rank003 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript

last updated nightly · ranking method: github stars, live-tracked

Frequently asked questions

What is the best open source alternative to Oxylabs?

Scrapling is the most-starred open source alternative to Oxylabs in this registry, with 98,203 GitHub stars. 3 alternatives are compared here in total.

Are there free alternatives to Oxylabs?

Yes. Every project listed on this page is open source and free to self-host — there is no licence fee. Some projects also sell a managed hosted version, but the self-hosted path costs nothing.

What should I look at when replacing Oxylabs?

Compare licence terms, community size (stars), primary language and release activity. A fast-moving project with a compatible licence and an active maintainer base matters more than raw star count when you are committing to a migration.