# Oxylabs alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 141 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Oxylabs holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/oxylabs/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Decodo: 25
- Webshare: 19
- Smartproxy: 7
- Bright Data: 5
- ScraperAPI: 3
- Proxy-Cheap: 2

## Proxy and web data providers

**Small business**: 65 of 84 answers did not name Oxylabs (Oxylabs is #6 of 9 at 4%).

- Decodo: first choice in 17 of those 65
- Webshare: first choice in 13 of those 65
- Smartproxy: first choice in 7 of those 65
- Bright Data: first choice in 3 of those 65
- ScraperAPI: first choice in 3 of those 65
- Rayobyte: first choice in 2 of those 65
- ZenRows: first choice in 2 of those 65
- Crawlbase: first choice in 1 of those 65

**Mid-market**: 48 of 84 answers did not name Oxylabs (Oxylabs is #4 of 11 at 11%).

- Decodo: first choice in 8 of those 48
- Webshare: first choice in 6 of those 48
- Blazing SEO: first choice in 1 of those 48
- Bright Data: first choice in 1 of those 48
- DataImpulse: first choice in 1 of those 48
- IPRoyal: first choice in 1 of those 48
- NodeMaven: first choice in 1 of those 48
- Proxy-Cheap: first choice in 1 of those 48

**Enterprise**: 28 of 84 answers did not name Oxylabs (Oxylabs is #1 of 7 at 42%).

- Bright Data: first choice in 1 of those 28
- Cloudflare One: first choice in 1 of those 28
- Proxy-Cheap: first choice in 1 of those 28

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