Oxylabs alternative

Looking for an Oxylabs alternative that skips the proxy setup and the sales calls. CrustAPI is one clean data API for the whole Google menu, plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads. You get clean JSON back, or the same rows as CSV, at one credit per successful call, with credits that never expire.

3,000 free / month, no card One credit per successful call Credits never expire
ONE KEY, EVERY GOOGLE SURFACE

One request, real response

No proxies to rent, no scraper endpoint to configure, no plan to size. You send one GET request and get clean data back in about a second. The example below is a Maps search:

# one credit per business returned; zero results cost nothing curl "https://crustapi.com/v1/search?type=maps&q=coffee+in+portland+me" -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"

The API returns clean JSON, and the same rows are available as CSV with one click, so the result drops straight into Sheets or a CRM:

name,category,rating,reviewsCount,phone "Harbor Coffee Roasters","Coffee shop",4.6,318,"(207) 555-01••" "Riverside Espresso Bar","Espresso bar",4.4,192,"(207) 555-01••"

Swap type=maps for news, shopping, reviews, and the rest. The key and the schema stay the same across every type.

WHAT EVERY RESULT INCLUDES

The full record, ready to use

Every result comes complete, so you build a list or a dataset with no second call and no job to download later. Here is one business as CSV, the same rows you get with one click:

name,category,address,phone,website,rating,reviewsCount,latitude,longitude "Harbor Coffee Roasters","Coffee shop","210 Wharf St, Portland, ME 04101","(207) 555-01••","harborcoffee.example",4.6,318,43.6591,-70.2568

Or the same record as clean JSON, exactly what the API returns:

// the top result in full { "name": "Harbor Coffee Roasters", "category": "Coffee shop", "address": "210 Wharf St, Portland, ME 04101", "phone": "(207) 555-01••", "website": "harborcoffee.example", "rating": 4.6, "reviewsCount": 318, "latitude": 43.6591, "longitude": -70.2568 }
HOW IT COMPARES

Oxylabs vs CrustAPI

Oxylabs is a large proxy and web-scraping infrastructure company, with a proxy network and a set of scraper products for many sites. CrustAPI is one clean data API for the whole Google menu, plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads. The difference shows up most in billing and in what you have to set up.

OxylabsCrustAPI
Billing modelSubscription plans, with usage billed per request or per GB of traffic depending on the product, and sales contact for larger volumesOne credit per successful call, prepaid. Maps bills per business returned, every other search is one flat credit per query. Nothing else to add up
Free tierFree trial available on its scraper products3,000 results a month, no card
Credit expirySubscription allowance tied to a monthly planPrepaid credits never expire
Data and outputStructured results from its scraper APIs, with raw or parsed output optionsClean JSON in the response, or the same rows as CSV, yours to keep and export
Site coverageBroad: proxies and scraper APIs across search, e-commerce, and the general web, in many countriesThe whole Google menu through one endpoint, plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads
Google surfacesGoogle and other search engines through its SERP Scraper APISearch, Maps, News, Shopping, Images, Videos, Autocomplete, Webpage, Patents, Places, Scholar, Reviews
SetupCreate an account, pick a product and plan, configure the endpoint or proxiesOne GET request, JSON back in about a second
PRICING

One credit per successful call

Prepaid packs, and credits never expire: 25k for $49 · 100k for $149 · 500k for $549 · 2.5M for $1,999 · up to 250M, all self-serve, ex-tax. A Maps search that returns 20 businesses costs 20 credits; every other search is one flat credit per query, and a search that returns none costs nothing. No proxy line item, no per-GB traffic meter, no plan commitment on top.

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WHAT CRUSTAPI COVERS

Every Google surface, one API

One key and one schema across the whole Google menu. Each type returns clean records you can keep, at one credit per successful call.

GoogleSearch
GoogleMaps
GoogleNews
GoogleShopping
GoogleImages
GoogleVideos
GoogleAutocomplete
GoogleWebpage
GooglePatents
GooglePlaces
GoogleScholar
GoogleReviews

Related: Google Search API · Google Maps scraper API · Google News API · Google Scholar API · Serper alternative · Docs

FAIR PLAY

When Oxylabs is the better pick: if your work needs more than Google, Oxylabs is built for it. They run a large proxy network across residential, datacenter, ISP, and mobile IPs, they cover search, e-commerce, and general-web scraping in many countries, and they handle country-level and city-level geo-targeting plus JavaScript rendering at scale. They are an enterprise vendor with the support and account structure that big teams and procurement expect. CrustAPI is more focused on purpose. It is one clean data API for the Google menu, plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads, priced one way. If your work lives inside that set, the simpler billing and the credits that never expire are the reason to switch. The two are not exclusive; some teams use both.

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