Data Solutions & Practices
Data is the fundamental resource that powers business operations and drives strategic decisions. We cover modern data practices and the tools, platforms, and approaches organizations use to manage, transform, and get value from their data.
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Etsy Scrapers: Benchmarked Top 4 APIs
We benchmarked 4 web scraping providers on etsy.com. The results were filtered from our e-commerce scraping benchmark covering 100 e-commerce domains. A total of 200 requests were sent to Etsy at concurrency 5. You can read more about our Etsy scraping benchmark methodology. You can scrape either product or search pages and get full product…
Best AI Web Scraping Tools: Bright Data, Oxylabs & Apify
Sites change their layout and the fields you need from a page shift over time. These changes break manually-coded scrapers. AI scrapers can be updated with simple prompts, and some can repair a saved scraper when the site changes. We benchmarked top AI web scraping tools across the top 10 e-commerce domains to see their…
2026 Web Crawler Benchmark to Feed Websites to AI
We benchmarked four crawl APIs across three domains of varying difficulty at three max depth levels (5, 10, 20) with a 1,000-page limit, measuring crawl coverage, execution time, link discovery, markdown link quality, and title extraction accuracy. If you aim to: You can read our benchmark methodology. Firecrawl consistently crawled around 100 pages on theregister.com…
Best Proxy Providers for 2026: Tested & Ranked
We tested over 500,000 requests across major servers to rank the providers below on speed, success rate, and price. Our top picks based on speed and pricing, full results and per-provider detail follow: Most providers let you test the network first: some require a card, some require business verification. See proxy free trial terms by…
Top 5 Website Unblockers Benchmarked & Compared
We benchmarked 4 leading web data providers across the top 10,000 domains, running a total of 260,000 requests. Each provider was tested at multiple concurrency levels to measure how they behave under increasing load. In addition, we ran a dedicated markdown extraction test on 10,000 URLs to evaluate how each provider handles clean content delivery…
We Benchmarked the Best Datacenter Proxy Providers
We evaluated the top datacenter proxy providers using 15,000 requests to assess speed, reliability, and cost across search, e-commerce, and social media sites. The top performers are listed below: Whether you’re looking to buy datacenter proxies for web scraping or automation tools, or need a shared datacenter proxy plan for smaller projects, our benchmarks will…
7 Best Amazon Scrapers Ranked by Performance
Amazon’s anti-scraping technology keeps getting harder to bypass. To find out which tools actually hold up, we benchmarked the leading 5 Amazon scraper APIs over 2,750 requests across 11 Amazon domains, scoring every provider on success rate and end-to-end completion time. Read Amazon scraping benchmark methodology for more details about our testing process. You can…
Best Free Proxy Services in 2026 (Online & Safe)
If you need a proxy without paying, we cover two free routes: We rank options by how often IPs refresh, protocol support (HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5), and access limits: If free proxies aren’t reliable enough, the cheapest paid options start at $6 for 10 GB of datacenter traffic. If you’re willing to create an account, several…
12 Best & Cheapest Residential Proxies in 2026
As AIMultiple’s CTO, I lead data collection from thousands of websites. To identify reliable residential proxy providers, we benchmark across 10 vendors and process 2,880 requests per day, or 86,400 over a 30-day period. While we analyze the main providers (both rotating residential proxies and static residential proxies) in detail further down, the table below…
eBay Scraping: Top 6 Providers Compared
We benchmarked eBay across 4 web scraping providers, totaling 1,400 requests over search and product pages of 7 eBay country sites, measuring both success rate and end-to-end completion time. You can read more about our benchmark methodology. Because only Bright Data and Apify returned structured JSON, they were the only providers whose output could be…