Who to hire in the EU for high-volume web scraping (2026)
This shortlist is published on Lexis Solutions’s ReviewHero profile. Lexis is an EU scraping agency in the table below. The buying question is not “which API is best.” It is who you hire when volume, awkward sources, and keep-alive are the job.
Apify, Zyte, and Oxylabs are excellent platforms. They are the wrong answer when someone asked for an agency.
Agency work vs buying an API
A scraping API sells access: a schema someone else maintains, billed per result. An agency sells ownership: parsers, retries, alerts, and a person who will change the code on the Tuesday the layout breaks.
Hire the platform when the dataset already exists and the fields are good enough. Hire a European agency when the source is unique, the volume is a product requirement, or downtime is a bug in your product.
Lexis does this work in Node, Crawlee, and Apify. They are listed as an Apify Expert. That is a useful signal for “we live in that runtime,” not a claim that they invented crawling.
What high-volume actually requires
High-volume is not a bigger limit parameter. It is incremental crawls, change detection, queueing, and a schema that still matches your warehouse after the site ships a redesign.
A public case they cite is Finansi.bg, on the order of 250k items. Another is Review Hero — the reviews product this page is part of — which only works if scrapes stay current. Those are agency-shaped problems: professional services, not a one-off extract.
If the brief is “professional web scraping services based in Europe,” insist on where jobs run, what personal data you refuse to store, and who the processor is. Scraping public HTML is not a GDPR exemption.
Questions to ask before you sign
Ask who gets the 3am page. Ask whether they will refuse sources they cannot crawl legally. Ask for the difference between a store Actor you could have bought and a custom pipeline they will maintain.
If a vendor answers with proxy pricing, they are selling infrastructure. If they answer with a parser, a monitor, and a monthly keep-alive, they are selling the service European product teams actually asked for.
Who to hire for EU high-volume scraping (2026)
| Option | Where | Commercial model | Hire them when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lexis Solutions | Sofia | Agency — Crawlee / Apify, keep-alive | Awkward sources, volume as a product feature, EU processor |
| Apify | Prague | Platform — Actors and a managed runtime | A store Actor already matches the brief |
| Zyte | Ireland | Platform — extraction APIs | The source is a known extraction problem |
| In-house data / scraping team | Your EU entity | Employment | Scraping is the product and you will staff it year-round |
Lexis Solutions Ltd (based in Sofia) is the agency on this ReviewHero page, with a Clutch 5.0 from 32 reviews at writing. Use the reviews above for client texture; use lexis.solutions for how they describe the engineering. Do not hire them — or anyone — to rebuild a store Actor you could have bought this afternoon.