Oxylabs, the Lithuanian provider of proxies and web scraping infrastructure, has announced the 2026 edition of OxyCon, its annual conference on web scraping.

As usual, the event will take place online on September 16. Attendance is free of charge and requires registration.

This year’s OxyCon will focus on three topics:

1. AI-native extraction & autonomous workflows
2. Adaptive real-time data & scalable infrastructure
3. Governance, compliance & strategic value

We’ve launched the 2026 edition of our proxy market report! This year, it:

• Features 13 companies that cover all segments of the market.
• Overviews three proxy server types: residential, mobile, and shared datacenter. 
• Describes the prevailing market trends informed by a questionnaire we sent to all participants. 
• Provides large-scale performance benchmarks enriched with years of historical data.

Byteful, the UK-based provider of proxy servers, has started offering mobile proxies.

According to the provider, the proxy network includes over six million monthly IPs across 650+ carriers, 1,500+ cities, and 190+ countries.

Byteful promises sub-600 ms average response time that rivals (and, if true, beats) many residential proxy networks.

In addition, the new product supports Byteful’s Smartpath optimization engine which automatically routes some requests through datacenter proxies at no cost, saving up to 60% of traffic in browser-based scenarios.

Although the pricing model is based on monthly commitment cycles, the purchased traffic never expires. What’s more, it remains available even after pausing or cancelling the subscription. Byteful claims to be the first major provider to offer such an arrangement.

The public pricing plans start from one gigabyte and reach five terabytes of data:

Massive, the US-based provider of proxies and web scraping tools, has launched Web Render API. Its purpose is to give AI builders clean and uninhibited access to the web. 

Web Render API returns real-time data. Like most similar products, it takes care of browser rendering, overcoming CAPTCHAs and other bot defence mechanisms.

The tool includes three endpoints:

• /ai scrapes the prompt responses of four major chatbots: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot. It also scrapes supplementary data points like sources and fanouts. This endpoint returns output in JSON or HTML.
• /search extracts real-time Google results, including AI overview and the “people also ask” box. The output appears as raw or rendered HTML. 
• /browser attempts to scrape any page, returning its contents formatted as HTML or Markdown. 

Ping Proxies, the UK-based provider of proxy servers, has rebranded. From here on out, it will be known as Byteful. 

The main reason for this transition is to reflect the company’s broadening scope of operations and ambitions. It affects not only the brand name but also the user interface. 

Founded in 2018 as a university initiative, Byteful has turned into a bootstrapped platform that processes 20B monthly requests, serves more than 1,400 active monthly users, and is growing over 100% in monthly recurring revenue year-over-year.

According to the founder Timur Gok, his company has outgrown both proxies and its original purpose of serving resellers of limited edition items:

We’ve launched a new report that focuses on SERP APIs (lately called Search APIs). It overviews the market, documenting the shift from human-oriented use cases toward AI agents. We also benchmark 15 index-based and real-time providers to measure their speed of data retrieval. 

Some of the findings include: 

• The market has segmented into full APIs, fast APIs, and indices. 
• Web search for AI has very different requirements compared to pre-AI use cases: it retrieves fewer and less localized search page elements in exchange for speed. 
• Google has been working hard to stop scraping ever since January 2025.
• The fastest indices return data in under 0.4 s, while the quickest real-time API fetches pages in just under 0.7 s.

Nimble, the US and Israel based provider of web data tools and services, has announced a new Series B investment round.

The Series B amounts to $47M. It’s led by Norwest and featured Databricks Ventures, among other participants.

Nimble’s announcement marks a shift in direction. The company will now focus on delivering web search for AI agents, joining the race with Exa, Tavily, Parallel, and a number of similar competitors. Perhaps incidentally, it has even changed its logo to a race flag. 

Nimble has also repackaged its suite of products, which now comprises: 

• A real-time API with endpoints for searching, extracting, mapping, crawling, and agentically interacting with websites. 
• A list of pre-made agents (or pipelines, or scrapers) that return structured data from dozens of websites. It includes an agent builder that creates new agents based on plain language queries. 
• Managed web scraping services.
• A residential proxy network.

ScrapingBee, the French provider of web scraping tools, has launched Fast Search API. It’s optimized for AI use cases which expect real-time Google Search results in under one second. 

To achieve this, ScrapingBee has stripped the output from all unnecessary search elements, keeping only organic results and top news. 

Fast Search API supports several customization options, including the location and search page number:

Rayobyte, the US-based provider of proxy servers and web scraping tools, has revised the pricing of its mobile proxies. 

Their plan sizes and rates have both changed; the latter fell by up to 98%. While this may be hard to believe, the baseline used to be very expensive at $25/GB. 

Here are the previous pricing plans:

Oxylabs, the Lithuanian provider of web data extraction tools and services, has launched self-serve dedicated ISP proxies. Previously, this product was only available to enterprise customers through a sales process. 

The new product gives access to a list of IPs associated with consumer internet service providers. These IPs are static (with optional rotation functionality) and not shared with anyone else. 

The dedicated ISP proxies currently cover 14 countries across four continents. Each country includes between one and five ASNs. You’re free to choose any combination of countries and ASNs during purchase.