Apify vs. Decodo vs. SQL vs. ScrapingAnt Comparison Chart

Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) offers advanced proxy infrastructure and web scraping solutions to streamline web data collection for businesses and developers. With over 125 million ethically sourced IP addresses (residential, mobile, datacenter, and static residential proxies), Decodo helps users efficiently bypass geo-restrictions, CAPTCHAs, and other web access barriers. Decodo's intuitive APIs enable effortless, structured data scraping from websites, eCommerce platforms, search engines, and social media, supporting outputs in HTML, JSON, and CSV formats. The platform includes the Universal Scraper for easy real-time data extraction and an upcoming AI-powered Parser to minimize tedious manual data processing. Ideal for price aggregation, SEO monitoring, ad verification, multi-account management, AI training, and private browsing. Decodo also offers comprehensive documentation, responsive support, and transparent policies, including a 3-day trial and clear refund guidelines.

ScrapingAnt is an enterprise‑grade web scraping API that delivers mission‑critical speed, reliability, and advanced scraping capabilities through a single, easy‑to‑integrate RESTful interface. It combines scalable headless Chrome page rendering with unlimited parallel requests, all powered by a global pool of over three million low‑latency rotating residential and datacenter proxies. Its proprietary algorithm automatically switches to the optimal proxy for each task, ensuring seamless JavaScript execution, custom cookie management, and robust CAPTCHA avoidance. Built on high‑performance AWS and Hetzner servers, ScrapingAnt boasts 99.99% uptime and an 85.5% anti‑scraping avoidance rate. Developers can use any programming language to harvest LLM‑ready web data, scrape Google SERP results, or collect dynamic content behind Cloudflare and other anti‑bot protections without worrying about rate limits or infrastructure maintenance.