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✓ last verified 2026-10-02 · every rate linked from this page was read from the provider’s live pricing page on that date · how we verify
One provider measured against the whole field, on rates we read ourselves. These pages exist because “alternatives” searches are usually driven by a specific complaint — price, a monthly minimum, onboarding friction, or a provider disappearing — and the useful answer names the complaint before listing replacements.
All alternatives pages
- Bright Data alternatives
- NetNut alternatives
- Decodo (ex-Smartproxy) alternatives
- Webshare alternatives
- Apify alternatives
- Zyte alternatives
- ScrapingBee alternatives
- SerpApi alternatives
Why people leave, by provider
Price is the most common driver at the enterprise end: Bright Data and Oxylabs both sit well above the verified market median of $3.50/GB, and the floor in our dataset is $1.00/GB. Monthly minimums are the second: committed tiers starting at several hundred dollars a month rule out mid-size workloads regardless of the per-gigabyte rate.
The third driver is the provider ceasing to be an option — which is not hypothetical in this market. The NetNut page exists because the FBI seized its domains in July 2026, and anyone running production traffic through it needed a replacement that week.
What these pages will not do
They will not tell you the replacement is better at scraping, because we have not measured that. They compare published prices, plan structures and terms, all dated, and they state plainly where a provider’s pricing could not be verified at all.
Where to go next
- Head-to-head comparisons — two named providers instead of a field
- Cheapest verified residential proxies
- Full pricing matrix
FAQ
What is the cheapest alternative to any major provider?
On flat unconditional rates, DataImpulse at $1.00/GB is the price floor in our dataset as of 2026-10-02. Cheaper figures are advertised elsewhere with unpublished volume conditions.
Do you recommend switching purely on price?
No. Price is what we can verify; pool quality and success rate are what we cannot, yet. Buy the smallest increment at two providers and measure your own targets before migrating anything that matters.