The short version
- Choose Oxylabs if you need enterprise scraping with proxies, compliance documentation and an account manager behind it.
- Choose SarvCrawl if you want to start today without a sales call and need the content searchable, not just fetched.
SarvCrawl and Oxylabs, side by side
| SarvCrawl | Oxylabs | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Crawl-to-knowledge-base API | Enterprise proxies and scraper APIs |
| Best for | Content you want to search — web pages and documents together | Enterprise scraping with compliance attached |
| Output | Markdown, HTML, JSON, links, images | Raw HTML or parsed results from scraper APIs |
| JavaScript rendering | Yes, where a page needs it | Yes |
| Documents | PDF, Office, EPUB, images and audio; OCR for scans | Not the focus |
| Chunking, embeddings, search | Built in (search on paid plans) | Build it yourself |
| Anti-bot and proxies | Not the focus | Core strength: proxy scale and unblocking |
| Pricing | 1 billion free tokens, no card; paid plans | Quote-driven |
| Hosting and licence | Hosted, or self-host: Apache-2.0 with an AGPL-3.0 engine | Hosted; owns ScrapingBee since June 2025 |
| Integrations | REST, Node, Python, CLI, n8n, 21 MCP tools | APIs, with an account manager |
Where they really differ
Oxylabs is enterprise scraping with a compliance posture: proxy scale, scraper APIs, an account manager and the documentation a procurement process wants. Pricing is quote-driven, which tells you who it is built for.
SarvCrawl is self-serve and starts with 1 billion free tokens. It does not try to match Oxylabs on proxies; it covers the pipeline after the fetch — parsing, chunking, embedding and search — that an Oxylabs customer otherwise builds in-house.
Using both
Teams already on Oxylabs for hard targets can keep it there, and use SarvCrawl for public sites and documents, where parsing, chunking and search come built in.
SarvCrawl vs Oxylabs: questions
Is SarvCrawl an Oxylabs alternative?
For public content you want searchable, yes. For protected targets at enterprise scale, Oxylabs is built for that and SarvCrawl is not.
Do I need a sales call to use SarvCrawl?
No. Sign up, create a knowledge base and call the API. Talk to sales only if you want volume pricing or self-hosting.
Who owns ScrapingBee?
Oxylabs acquired ScrapingBee in June 2025. The two brands still serve different customers.
Does SarvCrawl offer proxies?
No. It is built for content that does not fight back, and for everything that happens after the fetch.