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ThorData or Oxylabs for proxies behind a scraper
A straight comparison of ThorData and Oxylabs for getting a scraper through sites that block it, answered on the same seven dimensions as every other compare page here. Mamba Labs builds Apify actors. Page Finder Extractor is ours, it is the third column, and it does not win most of these rows.
The verdict
Oxylabs is the enterprise vendor with the biggest pool and the scraper APIs that do the unblocking for you. ThorData is the cheaper network for a team that already has a scraper and wants traffic by the gigabyte. Volume and budget decide it.
Side by side
| ThorData | Oxylabs | Page Finder Extractor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it actually does | Routes your scraper's requests through residential, ISP, datacenter or mobile IPs so a target site sees ordinary visitors. | Sells proxy networks and scraper APIs that return parsed results for search, e-commerce and ordinary pages. | Takes a list of domains and a page to look for, then returns the URL and the extracted content. |
| Coverage and hit rate | Residential exits across most countries, city level targeting, a SERP API and a web scraper API on the same account. | A very large residential pool, dedicated datacenter ranges, and scraper APIs that handle the unblocking for you. | Any page type a site actually publishes: pricing, careers, security, leadership, integrations. |
| What it costs | Per gigabyte of traffic for residential and mobile, per IP for datacenter and ISP, with the rate falling as volume rises. | Per gigabyte or per result depending on the product, with committed plans and an account manager at volume. | Cents per domain, charged on a returned page rather than on a search. |
| How it fits a workflow | You bring the scraper. It is a proxy endpoint you point requests at, plus a dashboard for zones and usage. | Either a proxy endpoint or an API call that returns the page already parsed, which removes the unblocking work. | One call for the whole list, from Clay or from a script, and finished rows come back. |
| Where the data comes from | Its own pool of contributed and rented IPs. The data on the page is yours to fetch. | Its own pool and its own scraping infrastructure, with a compliance process behind the residential side. | The sites themselves, fetched directly, so the source URL is on every row. |
| What it takes to set up | Minutes to a working endpoint. The work is in your scraper, not in the proxy. | Minutes for a proxy, an hour for a scraper API. The commercial side, contracts and KYC, takes longer. | Give it the domains and say which page you want. |
| Where it stops | It moves requests. Parsing, retries, scheduling and storage are still your problem. | Its pricing and its onboarding are built for enterprise volume. A small job pays an enterprise floor. | It reads pages. Anything behind a login is not something it can reach. |
The same seven questions are asked on every compare page here, in this order, so two of these pages can be read against each other.
Where each one genuinely wins
- ThorData wins on what it costs, what it takes to set up. A proxy network sold by traffic, with residential, datacenter and mobile exits.
- Oxylabs wins on coverage and hit rate, where the data comes from. A large proxy and scraping API vendor, priced for enterprise volumes.
- Page Finder Extractor wins on how it fits a workflow. Finds one named page across hundreds of websites and extracts what is on it.
- Nobody wins on what it actually does, where it stops. ThorData and Oxylabs give the same answer on those, and we are not going to invent a difference.
Try them yourself
What is best for you
For most B2B data work, the target is a company website that is not defending itself, and a proxy is a small part of the cost. ThorData is fine for that and the per gigabyte rate is lower. Oxylabs earns its price when the targets fight back, when you need parsed results from a scraper API rather than raw pages, and when somebody wants a contract and an account manager. If you do not want to run a scraper at all, an actor that returns finished rows is the cheaper answer than either network plus your own code.
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