ZenRows vs. Oxylabs: Everything Included. No More Invoice Juggling

Oxylabs' Web Unblocker, Residential Proxies, and Scraper API are three separate products with three separate bills. ZenRows is one subscription that includes all of it. And you never pay for failed requests. Same data. Half the overhead.

Adaptive Stealth Mode: one parameter replaces manual config; auto-selects the best, cheapest setup per request.

Everything in one plan, no extra products, no extra bills.

Never pay for a failed request, including 4xx errors that Oxylabs charges for.

One consistent pricing model, no target-dependent rate variance.

One endpoint, one API key, any programming language.

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Oxylabs Sells You Products. ZenRows Sells You Results

More products. More bills. More things to break. Here's what changes when you move to ZenRows.

Live in 5 Minutes, Not 5 Hours

No target configuration. No KYC form before you can scrape Google. No Actor setup. One API key, any programming language. Most teams go from signup to first result in under 5 minutes.

Your Bill Won't Surprise You

No per-target rate tiers. No VAT add-ons. No legacy plan billing glitches. ZenRows pricing is flat and transparent, and you're never charged for a request that didn't return data.

Adaptive Anti-Bot Bypass

Cloudflare updates. DataDome patches. Akamai changes. ZenRows adapts automatically with zero configuration and zero maintenance on your end. Your scraper keeps working when sites change their defenses.

Data Your AI Stack Can Actually Use

HTML, Markdown, JSON, plain text, or screenshot, you choose per request. Parse with built-in CSS selectors or feed directly into LangChain, LlamaIndex, Clay, or any MCP-compatible tool like Claude or Cursor. One API, end to end.

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What You Actually Pay for the Same Result

Oxylabs' pricing looks simple on a single product page. The complexity arises when you need more than one product, as most scraping pipelines do. Here's what the math actually looks like.

ZenRows Developer ($69.99/month) and Oxylabs Equivalent Entry Stack ($154+/month) comparison
	ZenRows Developer ($69.99/month)	Oxylabs Equivalent Entry Stack ($154+/month)
What's in the bill	Universal Scraper API + Scraping Browser + Residential Proxies. One subscription	Web Scraper API Micro ($49) + Residential Proxies Starter ($30) + Web Unblocker Micro ($75). Three separate subscriptions, three separate billing cycles
Basic requests	250K ($0.28/1K)	Varies. Up to ~42,600 ($1.15/1K on general sites)
Protected requests (JS + anti-bot bypass)	10K ($7.00/1K)	❌ Not a discrete tier. Requires Web Unblocker separately at $75/month
Residential proxies	✅12.73 GB included	❌ Separate plan required. $30/month extra for 5GB
Scraping Browser (Playwright/Puppeteer)	✅ Included in every plan	❌ Standalone product, from $300/month
Failed request billing	✅ Never charged	5xx/6xx free; 4xx counts as billable
VAT	Not added	VAT may apply to every plan

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ZenRows' Developer plan costs $69.99/month. The equivalent Oxylabs entry stack: scraper API, proxies, and anti-bot bypass costs $154/month at standard pricing. Either way, you're managing three separate plans for what ZenRows delivers in one.

Your Oxylabs Code, Translated to ZenRows

Switching from Oxylabs to ZenRows doesn't mean you have to rewrite your scrapers. The concepts are the same. The parameters just have different names. And most teams switch in minutes. Here's the full mapping.

Oxylabs Web Scraper API and ZenRows Universal Scraper API comparison
	Oxylabs Web Scraper API	ZenRows Universal Scraper API
Authentication	username + password (HTTP Basic Auth)	apikey (query parameter)
Target URL	"url": "https://example.com"	url=https://example.com
JS rendering	"render": "html"	js_render=true
Screenshot	"render": "png"	screenshot=true
Geo-targeting	"geo_location": "United States"	proxy_country=us (requires premium_proxy=true)
Structured Output	"parse": true	autoparse=true
Custom Parser	via XPath/CSS in the dashboard	css_extractor={"key":"selector"} (inline)
Output format	HTML (default), JSON, PNG, Markdown	response_type=markdown / plaintext/pdf
Auto-config	❌ Manual parameter selection	mode:auto (Adaptive Stealth Mode)

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Your Oxylabs Request:

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries",
    auth=("YOUR_USERNAME", "YOUR_PASSWORD"),
    json={
        "source": "universal",
        "url": "https://example.com",
        "render": "html",
        "geo_location": "United States",
    },
)
print(response.json())

Your ZenRows Requests After the Switch:

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.zenrows.com/v1/",
    params={
        "apikey": "<YOUR_ZENROWS_API_KEY>",
        "url": "https://example.com",
        "mode": "auto",
    },
)
print(response.text)

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Teams That Made the Switch. Here's What Changed

During Black Friday, we'd be scrambling to fix broken scrapers instead of delivering insights. With ZenRows, we went from being the company that occasionally missed important inventory changes to the partner that catches absolutely everything.

E-commerce Analytics Company

Chief Data Officer

ZenRows is the best we've found so far. When we were looking for a web scraping solution that could go through anti-bot measures at scale and reliably, we discovered ZenRows, and it works perfectly.

Canadian Fintech Startup

CTO

It took us just 5 minutes to integrate the API into our code, and it just worked.

Price comparison platform, 20+ countries

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One Subscription. Everything Included. No Surprises on the Bill

Stop managing three Oxylabs products. Start extracting data with one ZenRows plan.

1,000 free URLs to start. Test on your actual targets before committing.

No credit card required, no KYC form, no verification delay.

Never charged for failed requests, you only pay when we deliver.

Auto-adapts to anti-bot changes with zero manual configuration.

Frequent Questions

Is ZenRows a direct replacement for Oxylabs?

Yes, for most scraping pipelines. ZenRows covers anti-bot bypass, JS rendering, proxy rotation, and structured output in a single subscription, with no separate products to manage. If your workflow relies specifically on Oxylabs' pre-built target schemas for Amazon or Google, that's worth testing. ZenRows handles those sites but uses your own selectors rather than a preset. Outside of that, the switch is clean.

How much work is involved in migrating from Oxylabs to ZenRows?

For most teams, it's a parameter rename, not a rewrite. The core concepts are the same: URL, JS rendering, geo-targeting, and parsing. The main differences are that ZenRows uses an API key instead of username/password Basic Auth, and parameters are passed as query params rather than in a JSON body. Most teams start making requests via ZenRows within minutes.

Does ZenRows charge for failed requests?

Never. You're only charged when a request successfully returns data. Oxylabs' Web Scraper API also doesn't charge for 5xx/6xx errors, but does count 4xx responses (including pages that return a blocked/error state) as billable. ZenRows charges nothing for failures. The only cost is a successful result.

Will I need to go through account verification with ZenRows before I can start?

No. ZenRows gives you 1,000 free URLs immediately on signup. No credit card, no KYC form, no business verification, no LinkedIn profile required. You can test your exact targets before spending anything.

Oxylabs' entry price is $49/month. ZenRows starts at $69/month. Why should I pay more?

The $49 Oxylabs plan only includes the Web Scraper API. Residential proxies, anti-bot bypass (Web Unblocker), and a scraping browser are separate products with separate bills. The equivalent Oxylabs entry stack: Web Scraper API ($49) + Residential Proxies Starter ($30) + Web Unblocker Micro ($75) comes to $154/month at standard pricing, before VAT. ZenRows' $69/month plan includes all three. The entry price gap looks like $20. BThe all-in gap is $85+ before VAT.

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