Web Unblockers

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Reviewed by Cem Dilmegani
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Researched by Gulbahar Karatas
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Last update: December 27, 2024

A web unblocker is an advanced proxy tool designed to streamline web data extraction process.  +Show More

A web unblocker is an advanced proxy tool designed to streamline web data extraction process. These solutions can autonomously determine the appropriate proxy service for a given task, providing advanced features such as browser fingerprinting, JavaScript execution, and enhanced scraping functionalities that are not usually available in standard proxy servers.

If you’d like to learn about the ecosystem consisting of Web Unblockers and others, feel free to check AIMultiple Proxies & scrapers.
How relevant, verifiable metrics drive AIMultiple’s rankings

AIMultiple uses relevant & verifiable metrics to evaluate vendors.

Metrics are selected based on typical enterprise procurement processes ensuring that market leaders, fast-growing challengers, feature-complete solutions and cost-effective solutions are ranked highly so they can be shortlisted.
Data regarding these metrics are collected from public sources as outlined in the “What are AIMultiple’s data sources?” section of this page.


There are 2 ways in which vendor metrics are processed to help prioritization:
1- Vendors are grouped within 4 metrics (customer satisfaction, market presence, growth and features) according to their performance in that metric.
2- Vendors that perform high in these metrics are ranked higher in the list.


The data used in each vendor’s ranking can be accessed by expanding the vendor’s row in the below list.
This page includes links to AIMultiple’s sponsors. Sponsored links are included in “Visit Website” buttons and ranked at the top of the list when results are sorted by “Sponsored”. Sponsors have no say over the ranking which is based on market data. Organic ranking can be seen by sorting by “AIMultiple” or other sorting approaches. For more on how AIMultiple works, please see the ethical standards that we follow and how we fund our research.

Products Position Customer satisfaction
Bright Data Web Unlocker logo

Bright Data Web Unlocker

Leader
Satisfactory
Collect web data in real time with automatic IP address rotation. Validate the collected data automatically using parameters like request timing, data types, and response content. Tackles CAPCHAs, blocks, cookies, and other restrictions.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.80 / 5 based on ~60 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
1k-2k employees
Company's social media followers
30k-40k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1901
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers logo

Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers

Leader
Satisfactory
Provides:
More than 177M IPs in 195 countries worldwide, including residential, mobile, datacenter, ISP, and SOCKS5 proxy servers.
Large-scale scraping of public web data without being detected and blocked by the target websites.
Web Unblocker to collect data at scale from JavaScript-heavy websites.
API-based web scrapers
Web datasets for teams that want to get fresh, structured web data without building a web scraping and parsing infrastructure
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.50 / 5 based on ~100 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
300-400 employees
Company's social media followers
20k-30k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2015
Decodo Proxies & Scrapers logo

Decodo Proxies & Scrapers

Leader
Satisfactory
Provides proxies and scrapers for web data collection.

40M+ ethically sourced residential and datacenter proxies in 195+ countries, including states and cities worldwide, to avoid geo and IP blocks while scraping. Decodo\'s proxy network includes residential, ISP (static residential), mobile, datacenter and dedicated datacenter proxies. Proxies support HTTP and SOCKS5 protocols. Offers Site Unblocker that allows users to automate proxy selection and render JavaScript web pages.

Scrapers retrieve data from any website without writing a single line of code. Schedules the scraping task and receives the results via email or webhook. Provides pre-made scraping templates.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.60 / 5 based on ~200 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
1k-2k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2018
NetNut  logo

NetNut

Leader
Satisfactory
NetNut is a proxy service providers that offers proxies for individuals and businesses, including residential (rotating & static), datacenter and mobile proxy servers. The proxy provider also offers Website Unblocker technology. NetNut provides customers with proxy services that are customised to their specific applications.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.90 / 5 based on ~100 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
50-100 employees
Company's social media followers
5k-10k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2017
Nimble logo

Nimble

Leader
N/A
Nimble is a web data platform, offering web scraping API solutions including SERP, E-commerce, and web APIs to extract raw or structured data. These APIs come equipped with integrated residential proxies, both dedicated and rotating, and Unblocker Proxy. Nimble also offers rotating residential proxies with advanced targeting options including states and cities.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Market presence
Company's number of employees
50-100 employees
Company's social media followers
5k-10k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2021

“-”: AIMultiple team has not yet verified that vendor provides the specified feature. AIMultiple team focuses on feature verification for top 10 vendors.


Sources

AIMultiple uses these data sources for ranking solutions and awarding badges in web unblockers:


4 vendor web domains
4 funding announcements
11 social media profiles
10 search engine queries

Web Unblockers Leaders

According to the weighted combination of 4 metrics

Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers logo
NetNut  logo
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers logo
Bright Data Web Unlocker logo
Nimble logo

What are web unblockers
customer satisfaction leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current web unblockers customer satisfaction leaders:

NetNut  logo
Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers logo
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers logo
Bright Data Web Unlocker logo
Nimble logo

Which web unblockers solution provides the most customer satisfaction?

AIMultiple uses product and service reviews from multiple review platforms in determining customer satisfaction.

While deciding a product's level of customer satisfaction, AIMultiple takes into account its number of reviews, how reviewers rate it and the recency of reviews.

  • Number of reviews is important because it is easier to get a small number of high ratings than a high number of them.
  • Recency is important as products are always evolving.
  • Reviews older than 5 years are not taken into consideration
  • older than 12 months have reduced impact in average ratings in line with their date of publishing.

What are web unblockers
market leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current web unblockers market leaders:

Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers logo
NetNut  logo
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers logo
Bright Data Web Unlocker logo
Nimble logo

Which one has collected the most reviews?

AIMultiple uses multiple datapoints in identifying market leaders:

  • Product line revenue (when available)
  • Number of reviews
  • Number of case studies
  • Number and experience of employees
  • Social media presence and engagement
Out of these, number of reviews information is available for all products and is summarized in the graph:

Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers
NetNut
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers
Bright Data Web Unlocker
Nimble

What are the most mature web unblockers?

Which one has the most employees?

Bright Data logo
Oxylabs logo
smartproxy.com logo
 logo
NetNut logo

Which web unblockers companies have the most employees?

107 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 84 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.

In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 5 companies with >10 employees are offering web unblockers. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 1k employees. The largest company in this domain is Bright Data with more than 1000 employees. Bright Data provides the web unblockers solution: Bright Data Web Unlocker

Bright Data
Oxylabs
smartproxy.com
NetNut

Insights

What are the most common words describing web unblockers?

This data is collected from customer reviews for all web unblockers companies. The most positive word describing web unblockers is “Customer support” that is used in 7.00% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Expensive” with which is used in 2% of all the web unblockers reviews.

What is the average customer size?

According to customer reviews, most common company size for web unblockers customers is 1-50 Employees. Customers with 1-50 Employees make up 88% of web unblockers customers. For an average Proxies & scrapers solution, customers with 1-50 Employees make up 65% of total customers.

Where are web unblockers vendors' HQs located?

What is the level of interest in web unblockers?

This category was searched on average for 30.5k times per month on search engines in 2024. This number has decreased to 0 in 2025. If we compare with other proxies & scrapers solutions, a typical solution was searched 30.5k times in 2024 and this decreased to 0 in 2025.