Side-by-side comparisons of web access and scraping APIs, kept current by the String team.
String vs Bright Data on an open benchmark of 99 real sites: success rate, latency, pricing, product breadth, and which one fits which job.
String vs Context.dev on 99 bot-protected sites: 97.0% against 79.2%, latency, flat-credit pricing, and where Context.dev wins.
String vs Decodo on 99 bot-protected sites: 97.0% against 70.7%, strongest-mode testing, premium-plus-JS pricing, and where Decodo wins.
String vs Nimble on 99 bot-protected sites: 97.0% against 66.3%, the legacy-adapter caveat, pricing, product breadth, and where Nimble wins.
String vs Oxylabs on an open benchmark of 99 real sites: success rate, latency, pricing, proxy products, and which one fits which job.
String vs ScraperAPI on 99 real sites: success, latency, credit multipliers, billing, MCP support, and which product fits which workload.
String and Scrapfly compared on 99 real sites, five attempts each: success rate, latency, anti-bot coverage, pricing, product breadth, and where each wins.
String vs ScrapingAnt on 99 bot-protected sites: 97.0% against 30.7%, residential-proxy testing, credit multipliers, and where ScrapingAnt wins.
String and ScrapingBee compared on 99 real sites: benchmark coverage, latency, pricing, Auto Mode, MCP, extraction, and where each product fits.
String and Scrapingdog compared on 99 real sites: success, latency, anti-bot coverage, pricing, premium proxies, dedicated APIs, MCP, and fit.
String vs Zyte on an open benchmark of 99 real sites: success rate, latency, tiered pricing, HTTP and browser paths, and fit by job.
Standard vs premium pricing for 13 web scraping APIs, credit multipliers, failure billing, and cost per usable page on a 99-site benchmark.
String vs Firecrawl on an open benchmark of 99 real sites: success rate, latency score, price per usable page, and which to pick for which job.
Six ZenRows alternatives on a 99-site scraping benchmark: String 97.0% against ZenRows 34.3%, verified pricing, and what $100 a month buys.
Six Bright Data alternatives on a 99-site scraping benchmark: String 97.0% against Bright Data 78.0%, verified pricing, and what $100 a month buys.
Six Oxylabs alternatives on a 99-site scraping benchmark: String 97.0% against Oxylabs 76.8%, verified pricing, and what $100 a month buys.
Six Firecrawl alternatives on a 99-site scraping benchmark: String 97.0% against Firecrawl 78.6%, verified pricing, and what $100 a month buys.
Six Zyte alternatives on a 99-site benchmark and verified pricing: String, Scrapfly, Context.dev, Firecrawl, Bright Data, Oxylabs. Success, latency, cost.
Five ScraperAPI alternatives on a 99-site benchmark and verified pricing: String, Scrapfly, Firecrawl, Bright Data, Zyte. Success, latency, cost.
