Alternatives to every tracked web-data vendor
Pick a vendor to see the closest alternatives in our data, compared on published price, free tier, MCP support and gaps. Prices checked 2026-10-16. Prices only, not quality.
Scraping & crawling APIs
Firecrawl alternatives
Scrape, crawl, map and search the web into LLM-ready markdown/JSON.
ScraperAPI alternatives
Proxy-rotating scraping API billed in API credits, with per-domain credit costs.
ZenRows alternatives
Fetch, extract, crawl, batch and browser primitives on one credit balance.
Scrapfly alternatives
Scraping, screenshot, extraction and cloud-browser APIs on one key and one credit pool.
Jina Reader alternatives
Prefix a URL with r.jina.ai to get LLM-friendly text; s.jina.ai for search.
Zyte alternatives
Zyte API: automatic unblocking, rendering and extraction with per-site difficulty tiers.
Crawl4AI alternatives
Open-source (Apache-2.0) LLM-friendly crawler, with an optional hosted Cloud API.
ScrapingBee alternatives
Web scraping API with headless-browser rendering, proxies and AI extraction.
Proxies & unblockers
Apify alternatives
Marketplace of ready-made scrapers ('Actors') plus a serverless platform and proxy products.
Bright Data alternatives
Large proxy networks plus Web Unlocker, SERP, Crawl and Browser APIs, datasets and scrapers.
Oxylabs alternatives
Proxy networks and Web Scraper/Search APIs on one subscription with volume tiers.
Browser infrastructure
Browserbase alternatives
Cloud headless browsers for agents, with Fetch and Search APIs.
Hyperbrowser alternatives
Cloud browsers, sandboxes, a Fetch/Search web API and agent runners on a shared credit balance.
Steel alternatives
Open-source browser API for AI agents with hosted cloud sessions.
Search & SERP APIs
Tavily alternatives
Search, extract, map, crawl and research API built for LLM agents and RAG.
Exa alternatives
Neural search API with page contents, agentic research runs and monitors.
SerpApi alternatives
Real-time search-engine results (Google, Bing, Maps, Shopping and more) as structured JSON.
Brave Search API alternatives
Independent web index API for agents and RAG, with an Answers endpoint.
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