Oxylabs, Decodo and three more scraping brands unite under Source
Five proxy and web-scraping brands — Oxylabs, Decodo, Webshare, ScrapingBee and Honeygain — now formally sit under a single Vilnius-based umbrella called Source, after years of being sold and reviewed as rivals; three of them appear in TechRadar's own best-proxy picks. Source says demand across its companies rose fourfold in a year as AI agents, next-generation search tools and frontier AI products pull live data from the web, that its systems process 1.5 million requests per second, and that it is expanding into web search APIs built for AI agents. The group says it has no customers or products of its own, handling patents, procurement, hiring and compliance while each brand keeps its own team, product strategy and customer base; the report also notes that Oxylabs is a defendant in Reddit's scraping lawsuit.
It shows how demand from AI agents is concentrating the scraping and proxy industry, giving a few suppliers more leverage in negotiations over how public web data is accessed.