Is Bright Data or Oxylabs better?

Bright Data leads on scraping a page to clean, LLM-ready content (7.82 vs 7.1); Oxylabs leads on structured scraping of high-value domains (8.74 vs 6.66). Both are available on one Auxiliar API key, so you can route each request to whichever scores higher.

Can I use both Bright Data and Oxylabs together?

Yes. Auxiliar is a gateway that resells both Bright Data and Oxylabs behind a single API key and one bill, so you can call either — or fall back between them — without separate accounts.

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Bright Data vs Oxylabs

The verdictBright Data leads on scraping a page to clean, LLM-ready content (7.82 vs 7.1); Oxylabs leads on structured scraping of high-value domains (8.74 vs 6.66).

Choosing between Bright Data and Oxylabs? Both are scraping & crawling providers you can call through a single Auxiliar key, so the honest answer is usually “use whichever wins the job in front of you” — and with one key and one bill, you don’t have to commit to either.

We ran both on the identical curator-fleet corpus. Bright Data leads on scraping a page to clean, LLM-ready content (7.82 vs 7.1); Oxylabs leads on structured scraping of high-value domains (8.74 vs 6.66). On the headline test (structured scraping of high-value domains), Bright Data scored 6.66/10 (accuracy 0.72) versus 8.74/10 for Oxylabs. The full measured breakdown is below.

Measured, side by side

Composite score /10 on each shared capability, from the Auxiliar curator fleet — same corpus for both.

Capability	Bright Data	Oxylabs	Winner
Scrape-domainAccuracy	6.660.72 · #6/6	8.740.93 · #1/6	Oxylabs
ScrapeAnti-bot bypass	7.8275% · #4/10	7.175% · #7/10	Bright Data
CrawlCoverage	4.470.10 · #4/5	3.180.27 · #5/5	Bright Data

Beyond the overlap

Capabilities each provider scored on that the other doesn't cover.

Bright Data also does

Nothing extra in the tested set.

Oxylabs also does

Extract · CSS rules
Act · NL-agent

Bright Data — choose if

You face the hardest anti-bot targets and want the strongest unblocker + compliance posture.

Oxylabs — choose if

You want enterprise-grade scraping, dedicated Amazon/Google parsers, or the leading NL-agent mode.

Bright Data — avoid if

You need crawl link-discovery — its url_collection dataset returns only the seed.

Oxylabs — avoid if

You need path-scoped crawl enumeration — its AI-prompt crawler can't do it.

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