Oxylabs alternative for video extraction

Video is a side project for Oxylabs. It is our whole product.

Oxylabs is a proxy and web-data company where video endpoints are one SKU among hundreds. Tornado API runs a single pipeline, YouTube and Spotify to your cloud storage, and every engineer here works on it.

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Tornado API vs Oxylabs for YouTube + Spotify

Tornado APIOxylabs
Product focusOne pipeline: YouTube + Spotify to your bucketHundreds of data products, video is a SKU
Time to fix breakageHours, the founder pages himselfWeeks through enterprise ticketing
OutputMuxed MP4/MKV + clean metadata in your bucketRaw responses, you assemble and store
Direct cloud deliveryS3 / GCS / R2 / Azure / OSS / Drive, zero egressNot native, requires your own infrastructure
Support modelFounder Slack on every paid tierAccount managers, engineering behind tiers
Pricing modelPredictable monthly + included TBPer-GB / per-result pricing, quote-based

Why teams switch

Dedicated to video, not a generic scraper
Our entire infrastructure (50 Gbps capacity, video-tuned IP pool) exists for one workflow: YouTube + Spotify video at production scale.
Contractual SLA, not best effort
99.5% on Starter, 99.7% on Medium, 99.9% on Advanced, custom on Business. Written in the contract, not a marketing claim.
Founder Slack on every paid tier
When YouTube updates defenses, the founder pages himself. No outsourced first-line support, no tier-1 ticketing.
White-glove migration included
Included on Medium and up. We map your existing integration and ship a working replacement in days.
Pricing match for the first 3 months
On Medium tier we match your current provider pricing for the first 3 months if you migrate. Risk-reversed switch.
Money-back guarantees that escalate
30-day on Starter/Medium if SLA is missed, 60-day on Advanced, 100% money-back on Business if not in production within 90 days.

“Tornado is literally the only good API that does this. I tried every competitor. It's a side project for them, a feature. For Tornado it's the whole product. The API is well designed, and any issue is fixed within a day. With the other guys it took weeks, if not months.”

Podcast platform founder · production customer
Risk-reversed switch from Oxylabs
White-glove migration included on Medium and up: we map your existing Oxylabs integration and ship a working replacement in days. We match your Oxylabs pricing for the first 3 months, and money-back guarantees apply if the SLA is missed.
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Oxylabs migration FAQ

Are you cheaper than Oxylabs?

Depends on your workload. For pure proxy needs (low bandwidth, multi-purpose scraping), Oxylabs subscriptions can be cheaper. For video extraction at production scale (1TB+ per month sustained), our flat-tier pricing is typically 30 to 50 percent cheaper all-in (no bandwidth surprises, no egress fees, no separate storage costs).

Can you handle the same scraping use cases as Oxylabs?

No. We do one thing: video extraction from YouTube, Spotify, and major video platforms (TikTok, Instagram, X/Twitter, Vimeo, etc). If you need general-purpose web scraping, Oxylabs is a better fit. If you need video at scale, we're built for it.

What about migration from Oxylabs?

White-glove migration included on Medium tier and above. We coordinate with your engineering team for zero-downtime cutover. Typical migration takes 1 to 2 weeks depending on complexity.

What's the SLA?

99.5 percent on Starter, 99.7 percent on Medium, 99.9 percent on Advanced, custom up to 99.99 percent on Business. SLA is contractual with credit penalties. Under 20 failed jobs per million measured in production over the last 30 days across all customer jobs.

Can we do a paid pilot?

Yes. We do paid pilots via your champion's discretionary spend (corporate card). This skips procurement upfront and lets you validate the integration in 2 to 4 weeks before signing the annual contract.