# Scrapfly AI visibility in Web Data Infrastructure for AI

Canonical: https://devtune.ai/verticals/web-data-infrastructure-for-ai/scrapfly

[Website](https://scrapfly.io/)

Updated: 2026-10-02T13:10:51.069211+00:00
Prompts: 25
Runs: 6


## Platforms

- perplexity
- google-ai
- google-ai-mode
- bing-copilot-search
- chatgpt-search
- xai-search

Rank: 7
Total brands: 12
Measured responses: 150
Presence percent: 10.666666666666668
Share of voice percent: 2.613480055020633
Average position: 21.94736842105263
Docs presence percent: 0.6666666666666667
Blog presence percent: 9.333333333333334
Brand mention percent: 7.333333333333333


## Profile

Overview: Scrapfly is a bootstrapped web data infrastructure platform operated by Joam Intelligence, LLC, headquartered in Paris, France. Founded internally in 2017 and opened to the public in 2020, it offers five core APIs—Web Scraping, Cloud Browser, Screenshot, Data Extraction, and Crawler—unified under a single API key and credit-based billing model. The platform's technical differentiation centers on two proprietary in-house engines: Curlium, a curl fork achieving byte-perfect TLS/HTTP2/QUIC browser impersonation, and Scrapium, a hardened Chromium fork for stealthy browser automation. These power anti-bot bypass across 20+ vendors including Cloudflare, DataDome, and Akamai. Scrapfly also ships an MCP Server and AI Browser Agent, positioning the platform as web data infrastructure for agentic AI systems. Third-party benchmarks rank it #1 among scraping APIs by success rate.
Product summary: Scrapfly provides a managed web data infrastructure platform for developers and AI teams, combining anti-bot bypass, JavaScript rendering, proxy rotation, LLM-powered data extraction, full-site crawling, cloud browser automation, and screenshot capture under a single API key. Its two proprietary stealth engines—Curlium and Scrapium—defeat TLS, HTTP/2, and behavioral fingerprinting checks from 20+ anti-bot vendors. An MCP Server and AI Browser Agent extend the platform into agentic AI workflows, connecting LLM clients like Claude and Cursor directly to live web data.


### Key capabilities

- Anti-bot bypass for 20+ vendors including Cloudflare, DataDome, Akamai, Kasada, PerimeterX, and Imperva via single asp=true parameter
- Dual proprietary stealth engines: Curlium (HTTP-level TLS/JA4/HTTP2/QUIC impersonation) and Scrapium (hardened Chromium fork)
- Cloud Browser API with CDP access for Playwright, Puppeteer, and Selenium over WebSocket
- LLM-powered Data Extraction API with pre-trained templates (products, articles, reviews, jobs) and natural-language prompt support
- Full-site Crawler API with BFS/DFS depth control, include/exclude path filters, and webhook streaming
- Screenshot API with full-page, viewport, and element capture in PNG/JPEG/WebP with anti-bot bypass
- Residential and datacenter proxy rotation across 190+ countries
- MCP Server for connecting AI agents and LLM clients to live web data with zero local setup
- Real-time monitoring dashboard with per-request cost, success rate, latency, and bypass telemetry
- AI Browser Agent supporting Browser Use, Stagehand, and Vibium with natural-language goal execution



### Target users

- Software developers and data engineers building web data pipelines
- AI/ML teams sourcing training data or grounding LLMs with live web content
- E-commerce and competitive intelligence analysts monitoring pricing and products
- Growth and marketing teams running SERP, SEO, or lead generation workflows
- Enterprise data teams requiring compliant, scalable web data extraction (ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR)
- Startups and indie developers needing managed scraping infrastructure without building proxies in-house



### Key use cases

- AI training data and LLM pre-training corpus collection at scale
- E-commerce product, pricing, and availability monitoring
- Real estate listing and market data aggregation
- SERP and SEO rank tracking across search engines
- Lead generation from professional directories and company databases
- News and media content extraction for RAG pipelines
- Financial market data and competitive intelligence gathering
- Compliance monitoring and fraud detection via web surveillance

Integrations ecosystem: SDKs in Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, and Scrapy. No-code automation via Zapier, Make, and n8n. AI/LLM framework integrations with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and CrewAI. MCP Server supports Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, Zed, Roo Code, VS Code, and any MCP-compatible client. Cloud Browser API speaks Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) and is compatible with Playwright, Puppeteer, and Selenium. AI agent frameworks Browser Use and Stagehand are supported via the Cloud Browser. Proxy Saver interoperates with Bright Data, Oxylabs, and Webshare proxy providers. Screaming Frog can route through Scrapfly's proxy mode.
Pricing summary: Usage-based, credit-pool pricing spanning all five APIs on one key. Free tier: 1,000 credits on signup, no credit card, no time limit. Discovery: $30/month for 200,000 credits, 5 concurrent requests. Pro: $100/month for 1,000,000 credits, 20 concurrent requests, pay-as-you-go overflow at $3.50/10k credits. Startup: $250/month for 2,500,000 credits, 50 concurrent, overflow at $2.00/10k. Enterprise: $500/month for 5,500,000 credits, 100 concurrent, overflow at $1.20/10k. Custom contracts from $1,200/month with committed concurrency, dedicated residential pools, MSA/DPA, and 24/7 premium support. Credit cost per request scales from 1 credit (HTTP + datacenter IP) to 5 credits (+ JS rendering or anti-bot bypass) to 25 credits (+ residential proxy) to 60 credits (screenshot). Failed requests are never billed.
Review summary: Scrapfly earns consistently high user satisfaction, with a 4.9/5 average across 235 Capterra reviews as of April 2026. Reviewers most frequently praise the anti-bot bypass quality (particularly against Cloudflare, DataDome, and Akamai), the clean Python SDK with resilient_scrape() automatic retries, responsive customer support, and the quality of documentation. Common criticisms center on the complexity and unpredictability of credit pricing—especially for ASP-enabled requests which cost up to 25x more—and opaque error messages when bypass failures occur. Third-party benchmark site Scrapeway ranks Scrapfly #1 among scraping API services (April 2026) with a 98.8% average success rate versus a 59.3% industry average.
Competitive positioning: Scrapfly positions itself as a full-stack 'web data layer' for developers and AI teams, distinguishing itself through two proprietary in-house stealth engines—Curlium (a curl fork for byte-perfect TLS/HTTP/2/QUIC impersonation) and Scrapium (a hardened Chromium fork)—rather than relying on commodity headless-browser vendors. This engineering-first, bootstrapped posture lets it undercut enterprise proxy incumbents (Bright Data, Oxylabs) on setup complexity and lower-tier pricing while competing on anti-bot bypass quality against API peers like ScrapingBee and Zyte. Scrapfly's recent MCP Server, AI Browser Agent, and LLM framework integrations (LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI) extend its positioning into agentic AI infrastructure, separating it from legacy scraping APIs with no AI-native interface. Third-party benchmarks (Scrapeway, Apr 2026) rank it #1 overall with a 98.8% success rate versus a 59.3% industry average.
Limitations: Credits do not carry over month-to-month, and no annual billing plans are available. The ASP (Anti-Scraping Protection) feature costs up to 25x the baseline credit rate, making high-volume bypass-heavy workloads significantly more expensive than baseline estimates suggest. Dynamic per-request credit pricing can make monthly spend difficult to predict in advance. Binary bandwidth (HTML responses over 1 MB, large JS assets) incurs additional credit charges beyond the per-request cost. Opaque error messages on ASP bypass failures (ERR::ASP::SHIELD_PROTECTION_FAILED) do not distinguish configuration errors from transient platform-side issues. Reviewers note difficulty scraping some social platforms, particularly X (Twitter). The free tier's 1,000 credits is limited for meaningful evaluation of protected-site workloads.


### Source urls

- https://scrapfly.io/
- https://scrapfly.io/about-us
- https://scrapfly.io/pricing
- https://scrapfly.io/docs
- https://github.com/scrapfly
- https://www.capterra.com/p/212653/Scrapfly/
- https://www.capterra.com/p/212653/Scrapfly/reviews/
- https://scrapeway.com/web-scraping-api/scrapfly
- https://www.getapp.com/it-management-software/a/scrapfly/
- https://www.g2.com/products/scrapfly/competitors/alternatives
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/scrapfly/
- https://scrapfly.io/docs/scrape-api/billing

Reviewed at: 2026-04-28T23:36:34.025+00:00


### Customer outcomes





### Reviews breakdown

| Platform | Score | Score max | Review count | Url |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Capterra | 4.9 | 5 | 235 | https://www.capterra.com/p/212653/Scrapfly/reviews/ |



### Review themes



#### Praised

- Best-in-class anti-bot bypass (Cloudflare, DataDome, Akamai)
- Clean, well-documented Python SDK with resilient_scrape() retries
- Fast time-to-first-scrape; setup under an hour
- High and consistent success rates on protected sites
- Responsive customer support that follows up personally
- Real-time dashboard with per-request cost and success telemetry
- Effective JS rendering via simple API parameter
- Competitive pricing relative to in-house proxy infrastructure



#### Criticized

- Credit pricing complexity and unpredictability at scale
- ASP feature expensive (up to 25x baseline credits) for high-volume use
- Credits do not roll over month-to-month
- Opaque ERR::ASP::SHIELD_PROTECTION_FAILED error messages
- Learning curve for advanced feature configuration
- Difficulty scraping some social media platforms (especially X/Twitter)
- Dashboard UI less intuitive for debugging failed requests
- Limited free tier (1,000 credits) for evaluating protected-site workloads




### Company facts

Founded year: 2017
Hq: Paris, France


#### Founders



Employees range: 2-10
Total funding: Not available
Valuation: Not available
Arr: Not available
Customer count: 30,000+ enterprises
Status: Private (Bootstrapped)


Readiness: Not available


## Ranking

| Display name | Pair count | Total pairs | Presence percent | Avg position |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 68 | 150 | 45.33333333333333 | 22.88082901554404 |
| Bright Data | 56 | 150 | 37.333333333333336 | 22.618055555555557 |
| Apify | 43 | 150 | 28.666666666666668 | 35.857142857142854 |
| Zyte | 30 | 150 | 20 | 35.12903225806452 |
| Oxylabs | 29 | 150 | 19.333333333333332 | 25.559322033898304 |
| ScrapingBee | 22 | 150 | 14.666666666666666 | 33.208955223880594 |
| Scrapfly | 16 | 150 | 10.666666666666668 | 21.94736842105263 |
| Crawl4AI | 15 | 150 | 10 | 12.26923076923077 |
| Jina AI | 12 | 150 | 8 | 39.74193548387097 |
| Octoparse | 6 | 150 | 4 | 17.571428571428573 |
| Diffbot | 3 | 150 | 2 | 35.57142857142857 |
| Crawlee | 0 | 150 | 0 | Not available |



## Platform breakdown

| Platform | Prompt count | Presence rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| perplexity | 0 | 0 |
| google-ai | 1 | 4 |
| google-ai-mode | 0 | 0 |
| bing-copilot-search | 2 | 8 |
| chatgpt-search | 0 | 0 |
| xai-search | 13 | 52 |



## Strengths





## Gaps

| Prompt text | Competitor presence count |
| --- | --- |
| What web data extraction services do ML engineering teams prefer when they need reliable structured output without writing custom parsers? | 6 |
| What web crawling platforms handle anti-bot detection well enough to reliably extract product data from major e-commerce sites at scale? | 6 |
| Looking for a web extraction platform that converts full websites into structured markdown for a retrieval-augmented generation system — what are my options? | 5 |
| I'm building an AI agent that needs live web data — which web crawling APIs expose a simple REST or function-calling interface for agent use? | 5 |
| What web data extraction APIs have prebuilt connectors or plugins for common data warehouse and data lake destinations? | 4 |



## Topic scores

| Topic name | Prompt count | Cited prompt count |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability | 5 | 3 |
| Developer Experience | 5 | 3 |
| Integrations & Ecosystem | 5 | 4 |
| Performance & Reliability | 5 | 2 |
| Setup & First Run | 5 | 1 |



## Prompt results

- Prompt text: What web data extraction APIs have prebuilt connectors or plugins for common data warehouse and data lake destinations?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Apify | 1 |



##### Google-ai





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |



##### Bing-copilot-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ScrapingBee | 2 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Apify | 1 |
| Bright Data | 3 |
| Zyte | 6 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 26 |
| Firecrawl | 28 |
| Apify | 32 |
| Oxylabs | 63 |


- Prompt text: What web data extraction services do ML engineering teams prefer when they need reliable structured output without writing custom parsers?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Diffbot | 3 |
| Zyte | 4 |



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Apify | 4 |



##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Crawl4AI | 2 |



##### Bing-copilot-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 3 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Zyte | 2 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Bright Data | 10 |
| ScrapingBee | 27 |
| Zyte | 60 |


- Prompt text: Which proxy network providers make it easiest to get rotating residential IPs set up without a lengthy sales process?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 3 |
| Oxylabs | 5 |



##### Google-ai





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 3 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 2 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 2 |
| ScrapingBee | 19 |
| Oxylabs | 21 |


- Prompt text: Which web scraping platforms integrate natively with vector databases and LLM orchestration frameworks for AI agent pipelines?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: 1
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: 29



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Apify | 1 |
| Firecrawl | 4 |



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 6 |



##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |



##### Bing-copilot-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Scrapfly | 1 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Apify | 1 |
| Firecrawl | 2 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 9 |
| Scrapfly | 29 |
| Oxylabs | 31 |
| Bright Data | 33 |
| Zyte | 49 |
| Jina AI | 74 |
| Apify | 84 |


- Prompt text: I need to extract and chunk web content automatically for an LLM agent — which web data services offer built-in chunking or semantic splitting?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: 8



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Jina AI | 3 |
| Firecrawl | 5 |



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Oxylabs | 1 |
| Bright Data | 2 |
| Crawl4AI | 3 |



##### Google-ai-mode





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 2 |
| Scrapfly | 8 |
| Oxylabs | 10 |
| Apify | 27 |
| Jina AI | 43 |


- Prompt text: What are the best web crawling APIs for a small team that wants clean markdown output for LLM ingestion with minimal configuration?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Jina AI | 4 |
| Crawl4AI | 5 |
| Apify | 7 |



##### Google-ai





##### Google-ai-mode





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Jina AI | 4 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Apify | 3 |
| Bright Data | 11 |
| Jina AI | 38 |


- Prompt text: Looking for a web extraction platform that converts full websites into structured markdown for a retrieval-augmented generation system — what are my options?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: 20



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Apify | 2 |
| Crawl4AI | 4 |



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 2 |
| Apify | 9 |



##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| ScrapingBee | 3 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Crawl4AI | 2 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Apify | 6 |
| Scrapfly | 20 |
| ScrapingBee | 24 |
| Bright Data | 30 |


- Prompt text: Which enterprise proxy network providers can handle millions of requests per day without significant rate-limit failures or IP bans?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: 5



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |
| Oxylabs | 4 |



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |



##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 2 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Scrapfly | 5 |
| Bright Data | 17 |
| Octoparse | 24 |
| Oxylabs | 41 |


- Prompt text: What web crawling platforms handle anti-bot detection well enough to reliably extract product data from major e-commerce sites at scale?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: 4
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: 14



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |
| Oxylabs | 3 |
| Zyte | 6 |



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ScrapingBee | 1 |
| Firecrawl | 6 |



##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Crawl4AI | 1 |



##### Bing-copilot-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |
| Scrapfly | 4 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |
| Zyte | 2 |
| Oxylabs | 3 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |
| ScrapingBee | 2 |
| Apify | 4 |
| Firecrawl | 8 |
| Scrapfly | 14 |
| Zyte | 43 |
| Oxylabs | 52 |


- Prompt text: Which web scraping APIs have the best developer experience for a Python-first team building data pipelines for AI applications?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: 11



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Apify | 4 |
| Crawl4AI | 5 |
| Bright Data | 6 |
| ScrapingBee | 8 |



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 4 |
| Oxylabs | 8 |



##### Google-ai-mode





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Zyte | 2 |
| Apify | 3 |
| Bright Data | 4 |
| Oxylabs | 5 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Bright Data | 8 |
| Scrapfly | 11 |
| ScrapingBee | 15 |
| Oxylabs | 18 |
| Apify | 28 |
| Zyte | 75 |


- Prompt text: What are the fastest web content extraction APIs for real-time RAG use cases where latency under 2 seconds matters?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Jina AI | 3 |
| Firecrawl | 4 |



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 5 |
| ScrapingBee | 6 |



##### Google-ai-mode





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 4 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Zyte | 1 |
| Bright Data | 2 |
| Firecrawl | 23 |
| Apify | 29 |
| Jina AI | 81 |


- Prompt text: I'm building a RAG pipeline and need to pull content from hundreds of URLs — which web extraction services have the fastest onboarding?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Zyte | 4 |
| Apify | 5 |



##### Google-ai





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Apify | 2 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Zyte | 1 |
| Bright Data | 2 |
| Firecrawl | 4 |
| Apify | 22 |
| Jina AI | 44 |
| ScrapingBee | 72 |


- Prompt text: I'm building an AI agent that needs live web data — which web crawling APIs expose a simple REST or function-calling interface for agent use?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: 10



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Apify | 5 |



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Crawl4AI | 1 |



##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Apify | 2 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Apify | 2 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Scrapfly | 10 |
| Apify | 11 |
| ScrapingBee | 12 |
| Bright Data | 13 |
| Zyte | 17 |
| Crawl4AI | 34 |


- Prompt text: What do developers say about the day-to-day workflow for managing large-scale crawl jobs across different web extraction platforms?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity





##### Google-ai





##### Google-ai-mode





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 2 |
| Zyte | 3 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Apify | 25 |
| Bright Data | 27 |
| Firecrawl | 31 |
| Octoparse | 34 |
| Oxylabs | 37 |
| Zyte | 51 |


- Prompt text: What web data infrastructure platforms work best alongside open-source LLM orchestration tools for building self-updating knowledge bases?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: 43



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Crawl4AI | 4 |



##### Google-ai





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Apify | 1 |
| Firecrawl | 2 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Scrapfly | 43 |
| Crawl4AI | 56 |
| Zyte | 78 |
| ScrapingBee | 82 |


- Prompt text: Which web scraping API providers have the best uptime and success rate guarantees for production AI data pipelines?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: 3
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: 26



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |
| Zyte | 2 |



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |
| Scrapfly | 3 |



##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |



##### Bing-copilot-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 4 |
| Oxylabs | 5 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |
| Oxylabs | 8 |
| Zyte | 12 |
| Firecrawl | 17 |
| Scrapfly | 26 |
| Apify | 30 |
| ScrapingBee | 36 |


- Prompt text: Which web scraping APIs can reliably handle JavaScript-heavy single-page applications and return clean structured data for AI training?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Crawl4AI | 3 |
| Apify | 5 |
| Bright Data | 7 |



##### Google-ai





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Jina AI | 1 |
| Firecrawl | 3 |



##### Bing-copilot-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 5 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Zyte | 1 |
| Firecrawl | 2 |
| ScrapingBee | 3 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Oxylabs | 1 |
| Bright Data | 3 |
| Firecrawl | 5 |
| Zyte | 20 |
| ScrapingBee | 21 |


- Prompt text: Which proxy network services support session-based scraping with geotargeting at the city level for market intelligence use cases?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |
| Oxylabs | 3 |



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ScrapingBee | 1 |



##### Google-ai-mode





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |
| Oxylabs | 2 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Oxylabs | 25 |
| Bright Data | 28 |


- Prompt text: I'm evaluating web data extraction platforms for an AI startup — which ones let me go from signup to first successful structured data extraction the fastest?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |
| Apify | 2 |
| Zyte | 4 |



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Octoparse | 2 |



##### Google-ai-mode





##### Bing-copilot-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 8 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Apify | 2 |
| Zyte | 4 |
| Bright Data | 5 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 8 |
| Firecrawl | 9 |
| ScrapingBee | 10 |
| Octoparse | 14 |
| Oxylabs | 17 |
| Apify | 32 |


- Prompt text: Which platforms for converting web content to LLM-ready formats have the clearest docs and the best debugging tools?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: 22



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Crawl4AI | 3 |
| Apify | 6 |



##### Google-ai





##### Google-ai-mode





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Crawl4AI | 2 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 6 |
| Scrapfly | 22 |
| Apify | 27 |
| Crawl4AI | 33 |
| Jina AI | 53 |


- Prompt text: Which proxy or web scraping services offer webhook support and event-driven data delivery for real-time AI data ingestion workflows?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: 62



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Apify | 1 |



##### Google-ai





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |
| Firecrawl | 2 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search





##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 28 |
| Oxylabs | 52 |
| ScrapingBee | 53 |
| Scrapfly | 62 |
| Apify | 79 |


- Prompt text: What's the easiest web scraping API to get running in under an hour for a solo dev building an LLM data pipeline?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: 12



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Jina AI | 4 |



##### Google-ai





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 3 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Apify | 2 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 1 |
| Bright Data | 3 |
| Zyte | 5 |
| Oxylabs | 7 |
| Scrapfly | 12 |
| ScrapingBee | 28 |


- Prompt text: I'm a tech lead evaluating proxy and scraping platforms — which ones have SDKs and client libraries that don't feel like an afterthought?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: 96



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Apify | 1 |
| Bright Data | 4 |
| Oxylabs | 8 |



##### Google-ai





##### Google-ai-mode





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Apify | 1 |
| Bright Data | 2 |
| Zyte | 3 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |
| Oxylabs | 11 |
| Zyte | 25 |
| ScrapingBee | 31 |
| Firecrawl | 43 |
| Apify | 59 |
| Scrapfly | 96 |


- Prompt text: I'm running a high-volume crawl pipeline for LLM fine-tuning data — which web data platforms scale to 10M+ pages per month reliably?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 3 |
| Bright Data | 5 |



##### Google-ai





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 2 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Bright Data | 1 |
| Zyte | 2 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Firecrawl | 2 |
| Bright Data | 9 |
| Oxylabs | 27 |
| Apify | 42 |


- Prompt text: What web extraction services do teams use when they need consistent structured output quality across dynamic and static pages at production scale?


#### Brand position by platform

Perplexity: Not available
Google-ai: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Zyte | 1 |
| Firecrawl | 4 |



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Oxylabs | 3 |
| Octoparse | 4 |



##### Google-ai-mode





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Zyte | 1 |
| Firecrawl | 3 |
| Bright Data | 4 |
| Diffbot | 5 |
| Apify | 6 |
| Oxylabs | 7 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Zyte | 11 |
| Firecrawl | 17 |
| ScrapingBee | 18 |
| Octoparse | 19 |
| Bright Data | 21 |
| Apify | 24 |
| Diffbot | 45 |





## Top sources

| Url | Title | Domain | Logo url | Source vertical | Content type | Citation count | Last30d count |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-web-scraping-apis | 11 Best Web Scraping APIs and Tools in 2026 | scrapfly.io | https://izgwnlozsmjmqjsnddmg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/domain-logos/9dbab6f8-54b2-49a0-8181-89a0ed130318/f202fa45-f45a-4a7d-840b-3c2285ae6ee6/5d2520545a399f9bf5aa1aee38235511ecd78387.png | commercial | blog_post | 12 | 12 |
| https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-tools-for-ai-webscraping | Best AI Web Scraping Tools for LLM and RAG Pipelines in 2026 | scrapfly.io | https://izgwnlozsmjmqjsnddmg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/domain-logos/9dbab6f8-54b2-49a0-8181-89a0ed130318/f202fa45-f45a-4a7d-840b-3c2285ae6ee6/5d2520545a399f9bf5aa1aee38235511ecd78387.png | commercial | blog_post | 11 | 11 |
| https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-anti-bot-bypass-tools | 11 Best Anti-Bot Bypass Tools for Web Scraping in 2026 | scrapfly.io | https://izgwnlozsmjmqjsnddmg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/domain-logos/9dbab6f8-54b2-49a0-8181-89a0ed130318/f202fa45-f45a-4a7d-840b-3c2285ae6ee6/5d2520545a399f9bf5aa1aee38235511ecd78387.png | commercial | blog_post | 10 | 10 |
| https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-use-web-scaping-for-rag-applications | How to Power-Up LLMs with Web Scraping and RAG - ScrapFly Blog | scrapfly.io | https://izgwnlozsmjmqjsnddmg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/domain-logos/9dbab6f8-54b2-49a0-8181-89a0ed130318/f202fa45-f45a-4a7d-840b-3c2285ae6ee6/5d2520545a399f9bf5aa1aee38235511ecd78387.png | commercial | blog_post | 2 | 2 |
| https://scrapfly.io/docs/scrape-api/webhook | Webhook | scrapfly.io | https://izgwnlozsmjmqjsnddmg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/domain-logos/9dbab6f8-54b2-49a0-8181-89a0ed130318/f202fa45-f45a-4a7d-840b-3c2285ae6ee6/5d2520545a399f9bf5aa1aee38235511ecd78387.png | commercial | documentation | 1 | 1 |
| https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-web-scraping-tools | Best Web Scraping Tools in 2026: 11 Tools Compared - Scrapfly Blog | scrapfly.io | https://izgwnlozsmjmqjsnddmg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/domain-logos/9dbab6f8-54b2-49a0-8181-89a0ed130318/f202fa45-f45a-4a7d-840b-3c2285ae6ee6/5d2520545a399f9bf5aa1aee38235511ecd78387.png | commercial | blog | 4 | 0 |
| https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/langchain-web-scraping-complete-guide-scrapfly | LangChain Web Scraping: Build AI Agents & RAG Applications | scrapfly.io | https://izgwnlozsmjmqjsnddmg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/domain-logos/9dbab6f8-54b2-49a0-8181-89a0ed130318/f202fa45-f45a-4a7d-840b-3c2285ae6ee6/5d2520545a399f9bf5aa1aee38235511ecd78387.png | commercial | blog | 1 | 0 |
| https://scrapfly.io/compare/zenrows-alternative | ZenRows alternative that actually works? Try Scrapfly | scrapfly.io | https://izgwnlozsmjmqjsnddmg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/domain-logos/9dbab6f8-54b2-49a0-8181-89a0ed130318/f202fa45-f45a-4a7d-840b-3c2285ae6ee6/5d2520545a399f9bf5aa1aee38235511ecd78387.png | commercial | home | 1 | 0 |



## Response excerpts

| Prompt text | Platform | Excerpt |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Which web scraping API providers have the best uptime and success rate guarantees for production AI data pipelines? | chatgpt-search | For example, a September 2026 benchmark testing 100 bot-protected sites found String at 97%, Scrapfly at 86.2%, ScraperAPI at 84%, Firecrawl at 80.2%, Apify at 77.4%, Bright Data at 74.6%, and Oxylabs at 69%. |
| Looking for a web extraction platform that converts full websites into structured markdown for a retrieval-augmented generation system — what are my options? | chatgpt-search | ...Tavily \| More search/extraction-oriented \| ✅ \| ✅ \| ❌ \| RAG that starts from search rather than a known domain \| \| Bright Data / Scrapfly \| ✅ \| Usually via extraction pipeline \| ✅ \| ❌ \| Difficult sites / anti-bot requirements \| ### 1\. |
| Which proxy network services support session-based scraping with geotargeting at the city level for market intelligence use cases? | google-ai-mode | Managed Scraping APIs (such as Scrapfly or Crawlbase) shift the workflow from fighting Cloudflare/CAPTCHAs to simply passing target URLs and JSON schemas, letting external infrastructure handle unblocking and rendering. |



## Competitor excerpts

| Platform | Competitor name | Excerpt |
| --- | --- | --- |
| perplexity | Firecrawl | Firecrawl — A good fit when you want to define the output yourself: provide a URL and a JSON schema (or prompt), and its API returns structured JSON. |
| perplexity | Diffbot | Diffbot — A fit for more automatic extraction: it classifies pages and returns structured JSON without rules or per-site configuration. |
| google-ai | Firecrawl | Firecrawl * Why ML teams prefer it: Built specifically for LLM and RAG workflows, Firecrawl takes any URL and converts it into clean Markdown or schema-enforced JSON. |
| google-ai-mode | Firecrawl | Firecrawl * Best For: Turnkey, deep site-wide crawling and robust Markdown formatting optimized directly for tokenizers and LLM context windows. |
| google-ai-mode | Crawl4AI | Crawl4AI * Best For: Teams wanting an open-source, highly performant, self-hosted option that remains free forever, with a hosted API alternative. |
| bing-copilot-search | Firecrawl | ML engineering teams most often prefer managed APIs like Context.dev, Firecrawl, and Apify when they want reliable structured JSON/Markdown output without writing custom parsers. These services handle crawling, JavaScript rendering, and schema enforc... |
| chatgpt-search | Firecrawl | ...ented \| \| \[5\] \| JSON/Markdown \| Yes, depending on product \| Unified AI/web-access workflows \| Newer ecosystem than the incumbents \| ### The two I'd investigate first Firecrawl is probably the closest match to your wording. |
| chatgpt-search | Zyte | \[6\] Zyte is particularly interesting if you're building a production data pipeline rather than primarily an LLM/RAG application. |
| perplexity | Bright Data | The strongest candidates are Bright Data, Oxylabs, and Zyte. They offer managed extraction products that combine anti-bot handling with product-data collection, rather than leaving you to build and maintain the whole crawling stack. |
| perplexity | Oxylabs | The strongest candidates are Bright Data, Oxylabs, and Zyte. They offer managed extraction products that combine anti-bot handling with product-data collection, rather than leaving you to build and maintain the whole crawling stack. |
| google-ai | ScrapingBee | ScrapingBee * Bright Data: Widely considered the gold standard for massive-scale enterprise operations. |
| google-ai-mode | Crawl4AI | Crawl4AI Documentation +1 The top platforms standout across these dimensions as follows: * Firecrawl (by Mendable) stands out as the industry benchmark for comprehensive documentation and interactive playgrounds . * Documentation Quality: Exceptional. |



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