Anti-Blocking
Anti-blocking solutions enable scrapers to avoid detection and bypass rate limits or CAPTCHAs using techniques like IP rotation, and user-agent spoofing. We benchmarked leading anti-blocking methods to see which ones perform best on bot-protected sites.
Best CAPTCHA Solving Services in 2026: 10 Tools Compared
We compared 10 CAPTCHA-solving services based on which CAPTCHA types each one supports, whether it solves CAPTCHAs via AI or human workers, and how it prices. We also stress-tested the four integrated unblockers (Bright Data, Decodo, Oxylabs, Zyte) against the real-world target, Cloudflare’s Under Attack mode. Quick comparison of CAPTCHA solving services VendorTypeStarting price (per…
Top 5 Website Unblockers & Free Trials in 2026
Web unblockers can access pages that proxies fail to retrieve. We benchmarked the best web unblocker solutions with ~40,000 requests on real-world high-security websites (i.e., Amazon) and 6 lab tests: Price comparison of the website unblockers The following providers offer a limited volume of free credits for small-scale scraping projects, with no upfront payment required:…
How to Bypass CAPTCHA in 2026 (reCAPTCHA & hCaptcha)
Modern CAPTCHA and human-verification systems use a mix of challenge-response tests, browser signals, server-side token validation, and adaptive challenges. Attempting to bypass CAPTCHA on third-party websites can violate the terms of service or trigger account or IP blocks. The better approach is to use official APIs, reduce request rates, or implement a modern bot-management solution…
Web Scraping Roadmap in 2026: Insights from 30M Requests
We scraped more than 30 million web pages using 50+ products from six web data infrastructure companies. We benchmarked these tools to see how well they handle enterprise web data use cases: Web data collection benchmark results VendorAPI Coverage*Unblocking RateDynamic ScraperPrice**Reliability Bright Data89%98%✅3.0High Decodo53%96%❌2.8Normal Oxylabs37%95%✅3.9High Apify63%N/A❌6.3Normal Zyte32%97%✅1.5***N/A*** NetNut11%N/A***❌3.0Normal Notes on the benchmark table: * Represents…