Fastcrawl vs Oxylabs
Oxylabs and Fastcrawl sit at different ends of the scraping market. Oxylabs isenterprise proxy + scraping infrastructure — a proxy pool, per-result billing, and high volume commitments. Fastcrawl is a self-serve API with a flat credit model and a $5 entry point. This is less "which is better" and more "which fits your stage."
Side by side
| Feature | fastcrawl | Oxylabs |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $5 / mo (Go), 5,000 credits | $49 / mo (Scraper API Pro tier) |
| Pricing model | Flat credits, metered overage $0.25/1k | Per-result (e.g. $1.15/1k for generic sites) |
| Free tier | 2,000 credits / mo, no card | Free trial, no lasting free tier |
| What it is | Self-serve scraping API for agents & devs | Enterprise proxy + scraping infrastructure vendor |
| Proxy fleet | Cloudflare browser rendering | Massive residential/datacenter proxy pool |
| Best fit | Indie devs, agent apps, MVP to mid-scale | Enterprise, high-volume commercial scraping |
| Speed focus | Fetch-first, browser only when JS needed | Proxies-first, per-result pricing |
| MCP server | 12 tools | No first-class MCP |
| PDF parse | Included | Not a dedicated endpoint |
| Monitors | Included (schedule + diff + webhook) | Not built in |
| Contract | No commitment, cancel anytime | Tiers + volume commitments up to ~$10k/mo |
Where Fastcrawl wins
Cost of entry. Fastcrawl is $5/mo for 5,000 credits with a free 2,000-credit tier. Oxylabs' Scraper API starts at $49/mo and scales into the thousands per month. If you're an indie dev or a small agent app, Oxylabs is a lot of money for a workload you may not have yet.
Predictable credit model. Fastcrawl charges 1 credit per callacross every endpoint — scrape, crawl, map, extract, PDF, monitor. Oxylabs billsper result (e.g. ~$1.15 per 1,000 for generic sites), so cost varies with the data source and can be harder to forecast.
Agent-native. Fastcrawl ships an MCP server with 12 tools and one API key that works over both REST and MCP. For an AI agent, that's a first-class fit. Oxylabs is built around proxies and batch pipelines, not agent tooling.
Where Oxylabs wins
Proxy depth at enterprise scale. Oxylabs has a huge residential and datacenter proxy pool built for hard-to-scrape, high-volume commercial workloads. If you need to scrape thousands of sticky targets at massive scale, their infrastructure is purpose-built for it.
Per-result rate at volume. On high tiers, Oxylabs' per-1K rate for common scrapes (Google, Amazon, e-commerce) drops sharply — far below Fastcrawl's flat $0.25/1k overage. At millions of results a month, their math wins.
Enterprise support and reliability. Tier commitments come with SLAs, dedicated support, and enterprise-grade uptime. If scraping is mission-critical to a business, Oxylabs is built for that.
Which should you pick?
Pick Fastcrawl if you're an indie dev, a small team, or building an AI-agent product — you want a cheap, predictable, MCP-native scraper with the full pipeline (monitors, PDF, extract) on one flat $5. That's most agent projects, and you can outgrow it later.
Pick Oxylabs if you're an enterprise running high-volume commercial scraping that's mission-critical, needs a massive proxy pool, and can absorb a $49+/mo entry plus volume commitments. It's a different budget and a different scale.
Fastcrawl is not a proxy provider, so if plain fetching gets blocked on your specific targets, you'd pair us with a proxy service. For a typical agent that reads clean markdown, that's rarely needed.
Fastcrawl's free tier is 2,000 credits, no card required.
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