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Decodo vs Oxylabs

Decodo scores higher on the AgentReady, 53/100 against 43/100. They differ on 10 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Decodo. AI-Ready Proxy & Scraping Solutions.

Oxylabs. Oxylabs provides proxy services and web scraping solutions for accessing public web data fast and at scale.

Where Decodo is ahead

Decodo passes machine-readable metadata, and Oxylabs does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds understand: pricing understandable. Oxylabs misses it.

And on adopt, self-service signup, free trial or free allowance and cli available. Oxylabs misses those.

Finally, on operate, structured, predictable output and observable execution. Oxylabs misses those.

Where Oxylabs is ahead

Oxylabs passes public docs discoverable and llms-full.txt / full agent docs, and Decodo does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds adopt: copyable quickstart. Decodo misses it.

What neither does

Both fail structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented, no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover. Oxylabs leads 93 to 80. Decodo misses public docs discoverable, llms-full.txt / full agent docs; Oxylabs misses machine-readable metadata.

Understand. Decodo leads 23 to 15. Decodo misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; Oxylabs misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt. Decodo leads 60 to 40. Decodo misses no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart; Oxylabs misses self-service signup, no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, fast time to first request, cli available.

Operate is whether an agent can run against it in production and recover when a call fails. Decodo leads 47 to 24. Decodo misses machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified; Oxylabs misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, observable execution, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

Decodo starts at $2/GB with no free tier. Oxylabs does not publish one.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Decodo clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Decodo and Oxylabs. Alternatives to each: Decodo, Oxylabs.

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