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

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 214 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where SOAX 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/soax/alternatives/

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

- Bright Data: 44
- Decodo: 37
- Oxylabs: 36
- Webshare: 17
- Smartproxy: 8
- IPRoyal: 4

## Proxy and web data providers

**Small business**: 73 of 84 answers did not name SOAX (SOAX is #8 of 9 at 0%).

- Decodo: first choice in 23 of those 73
- Webshare: first choice in 11 of those 73
- Bright Data: first choice in 5 of those 73
- Smartproxy: first choice in 5 of those 73
- Oxylabs: first choice in 4 of those 73
- IPRoyal: first choice in 3 of those 73
- ScraperAPI: first choice in 3 of those 73
- ZenRows: first choice in 2 of those 73

**Mid-market**: 66 of 84 answers did not name SOAX (SOAX is #6 of 11 at 2%).

- Decodo: first choice in 13 of those 66
- Bright Data: first choice in 9 of those 66
- Webshare: first choice in 6 of those 66
- Oxylabs: first choice in 5 of those 66
- Smartproxy: first choice in 3 of those 66
- DataImpulse: first choice in 1 of those 66
- IPRoyal: first choice in 1 of those 66
- Proxy-Cheap: first choice in 1 of those 66

**Enterprise**: 75 of 84 answers did not name SOAX (SOAX is #5 of 7 at 0%).

- Bright Data: first choice in 30 of those 75
- Oxylabs: first choice in 27 of those 75
- Cloudflare One: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Decodo: first choice in 1 of those 75
- Forcepoint Web Security: first choice in 1 of those 75
- NetNut: first choice in 1 of those 75
- Netskope: first choice in 1 of those 75
- Proxy-Cheap: first choice in 1 of those 75

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