The Best Web Unblockers of 2026: Tested and Ranked

What Is a Web Unblocker?

A web unblocker is a remote web scraper that integrates as a proxy server. It’s just one variety of web scraping services and falls under the same category as proxy APIs. In essence, it has the properties of a proxy, but the API also takes care of website unblocking mechanisms other than having the right IP.

Why Use a Website Unblocker for Scraping?

First and foremost, web unblockers simplify the process of extracting the web page’s HTML. They automatically select the appropriate type of proxy (whether residential or datacenter), request headers, and other fingerprint parameters. As a result, you don’t need to write or maintain the unblocking logic yourself.

Second, most web unblockers can render JavaScript, which means you don’t need to manage expensive headless browsers.

Third, if you’re already using proxies, web unblockers are simple to integrate. They use a single endpoint in the shape of hostname:port, which you can drop into your code. Providers that offer proxy APIs include features available to regular proxy networks, like location targeting or the ability to establish sessions.

Finally, unlike some web scraping APIs, web unblockers aren’t limited to a certain category of web pages. If you want, you can scrape e-commerce, social media, and other websites without paying for a new subscription.

How We Made the List

To choose the best web unblocker, we ranked providers based on their performance in our web scraping API research. Our benchmarks targeted 15 highly-protected websites and services, including Google, Amazon, Instagram, and ChatGPT. The most important factors for our ranking were the average success rate and the average response time.

	Average success rate	Average response time
Zyte	93.14%	11.05 s
Decodo	87.09%	15.22 s
Oxylabs	85.82%	16.76 s
ScrapingBee	84.47%	25.46 s
Zenrows	70.39%	19.01 s

The Best Web Unblockers in 2026

1. Zyte

Overall best web unblocker.

Locations: 195+
JavaScript rendering: ✅
Specialized endpoints: ❌
Data parsing: only when integrating as an API
Free trial: $5 credit
Pricing starts at: $1.01 ($1.01 CPM)

If our web scraping API research were a test you needed to pass, Zyte would have passed it with flying colors. Or, at the very least, it would be comfortably ahead of the pack with its high average success rate and low average response time.

Those remarkable results make Zyte’s Web Scraping API very good at opening hard targets at speed. While the service doesn’t offer pre-made templates, there’s a lot you can configure yourself, from JavaScript rendering and output formats to setting custom attributes and geolocation. Some features (like screenshots or disabling JS in the browser) are not available when integrating the API as a proxy.

Zyte’s pricing supports PAYG for small-scale operations, while subscription is the option for anyone planning to spend more than $100. How much will that get you? Depends on how protected the target is – the higher it’s placed on Zyte’s difficulty chart, the more expensive it is.

Read the Zyte review for more information and performance tests.

2. Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)

Easy-to-use web unblocker.

Try with a 7-day free trial.

Locations: 195+
JavaScript rendering: ✅ (optional, can return page screenshot)
Specialized endpoints: ❌
Data parsing: ❌
Free trial: 14-day money-back guarantee
Pricing starts at: $10 for 1GB or $29 for 23K requests ($1.25 CPM)

Decodo’s tool focuses on ease of use and accessibility. It’s easy to pick up, making it a suitable choice for beginners. The customer support is available around the clock and responds to requests in under 2 minutes.

In terms of features, you get flexible location filtering, the ability to send custom cookies, and request headers. There’s also an option to send POST requests with form or other data and receive a screenshot instead of HTML.

The provider uses traffic-based pricing that charges the same amount for all features, as well as per-request pricing. Once again, it’s efficient for smaller websites, not so much for big targets like Amazon. The entry price is low, with a generous refund policy.

Read the Decodo review for more information and performance tests.

3. Oxylabs

Web unblocker for the pros.

Use the code proxyway35 to get 35% off your first purchase.

Locations: 195 countries with city, state & coordinates-level targeting
JavaScript rendering: ✅
Specialized endpoints: ❌
Data parsing: ❌
Free trial: 1 GB (up to 10K free results)
Pricing starts at: $45 for 8 GB ($5.63/GB)

Oxylabs is a proxy company, and among the biggest ones on this list. Naturally, it has a web unlocking solution, sensibly named Web Unblocker. Moreover, it’s marketed as an AI-powered proxy solution.

The Unblocker makes use of Oxylabs’ excellent infrastructure to achieve global coverage. Location filtering is really powerful – it goes down to the city level. It may not have filtering by ASN, but coordinate-based targeting is available instead. JavaScript is optional – with JS enabled, your output may come in HTML or as a screenshot (PNG).

Web Unblocker can also accept browser commands (handling all headless browser operations on its own). Various machine learning processes also run in the background to evaluate the target, choose the best browser fingerprint, and analyze the response in case further action is necessary.

The service only charges for successful results. For the trial, you get up to 1GB of traffic (or up to 10K free results) to give you a taste. Should anything go wrong, there’s 24/7 live support, and you are encouraged to reach out in case of really stubborn targets.

Read the Oxylabs review for more information and performance tests.

4. ScrapingBee

Web unblocker that can unblock ChatGPT.

Locations: 195+
JavaScript rendering: ✅ (including JS scripts)
Specialized endpoints: Google, Amazon, YouTube, Walmart, ChatGPT
Data parsing: specialized endpoints, AI parser, manual selectors, Markdown
Free trial: 1K free API calls
Pricing starts at: $49/mo for 250K credits

ScrapingBee wouldn’t be able to facilitate much scraping if it were unable to access websites. But it can, and quite reliably as well, even if the response time isn’t stellar.

Otherwise, the product is a full four-course meal. Rather than provide simple unblocker proxy services, ScrapingBee gives you a fully fledged scraper that can be configured to your needs. Several proxy types are available based on the hardness of your target.

JavaScript rendering is enabled by default, but is optional. JS scenarios allow you to instruct the scraper how to interact with the website. Meanwhile, the output can be set in several ways, including providing instructions to an LLM parser. Even better: there are specialized endpoints for Google, Amazon, ChatGPT, YouTube, and Walmart.

Read the ScrapingBee review for more information and performance tests.

5. Zenrows

Web unblocker with real-estate target templates.

Locations: 195+
JavaScript rendering: ✅ (including JS scripts)
Specialized endpoints: Amazon, Google, Walmart, Idealista, Zillow
Data parsing: specialized endpoints, Markdown, text
Free trial: 14 days, 1K basic results/40 protected results
Pricing starts at: $69/mo for 10K requests ($6.9 CPM)

Zenrows uses AI Web Unblocker to empower its Universal Scraper API. Residential proxies, fingerprinting, and CAPTCHA bypassing are just some of the tools used to get to the data you want to scrape.

It also comes with specialized endpoints for some of the more popular targets, like Amazon and Google. JavaScript rendering is optional, but once on, it can also accept JS scripts. JSON, HTML, Markdown, screenshot, and text are available as outputs, with parsing options that include phone numbers, email addresses, and tables.

The pricing is based on the complexity of the scrapes – if the task requires JS rendering and premium proxies, the price increases 25 times. So the basic $69 plan comes with 250K requests or 10K JS-and-proxy ones.