I'm curious: how do you evaluate and compare proxy providers?
Inside the ScrapeOps Proxy Aggregator, we've integrated around 50 proxy providers into a single tool. We continuously test and benchmark them to determine which providers offer the best performance at the lowest cost for different target websites.
The main performance metric we've settled on is average success latency:
How quickly does a provider return a successful response?
Over the last four years, we've used, tested, and benchmarked close to 100 web scraping APIs and residential proxy providers across different websites and request volumes.
One thing has become clear to us: there is no single best proxy provider.
AI is starting to change the economics of building scrapers. A scraper that used to take a few hours of manual selector work, browser debugging, schema cleanup, retries, and maintenance can now often be scaffolded in minutes.
The part I'm interested in is the real cost, not the demo cost.
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