Data Scraping Giants Form $3.6 Billion Group Called Source

Five prominent web data-scraping and proxy brands have officially united under a single Vilnius-based umbrella organization called Source. The newly formed entity groups together Oxylabs, Decodo, Webshare, ScrapingBee, and Honeygain into a $3.6 billion family, citing a fourfold increase in market demand over the past year. According to the group, this massive growth is primarily fueled by AI agents, next-generation search tools, and frontier artificial intelligence products requiring continuous live data from the web.

While these brands were previously viewed as market rivals—with three of them ranking among top proxy picks—they now share common corporate oversight. Source functions as an administrative backbone rather than a customer-facing product, handling patents, procurement, hiring, and regulatory compliance. Each individual brand retains its own internal team, independent product strategy, and separate customer base. The divisions cater to distinct market segments, ranging from enterprise AI labs handled by Oxylabs and mid-market solutions by Decodo, to developer APIs from ScrapingBee, professional consumer tools via Webshare, and residential bandwidth sourcing through Honeygain.

The consolidation comes at a time of heightened legal scrutiny regarding web data extraction and public internet access. Major platforms have increasingly pushed back against automated collection, including a lawsuit filed by Reddit against Oxylabs and other firms alleging the circumvention of anti-scraping measures. Source maintains that its unified structure provides a collective voice for defending responsible access to public web data, arguing that licensing deals negotiated individually would price smaller entities out of the market.

Looking ahead, Source is expanding its offerings into dedicated web search APIs built specifically for AI agents, building upon existing search and scraping endpoints. As these autonomous systems demand higher volumes of real-time internet data, the newly formed group aims to position itself as a dominant infrastructure provider while navigating complex legal challenges and antitrust concerns surrounding web data harvesting.