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Maya Cortez

ProxyLook Editorial Team

Maya Cortez

Senior Benchmarking Lead · 6+ years in proxy infrastructure

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Maya Cortez has been benchmarking proxy infrastructure since 2019, first as a contract engineer at two e-commerce data firms and later leading the test-rig automation at ProxyLook. She owns the single AWS t3.medium runner in eu-west-1 that hits Google SERP, Amazon, and Cloudflare-fronted retailers nightly at 02:00 UTC, plus the calibration logic behind every success-rate and P95-latency number on the site. Maya wrote the residential-vs-datacenter taxonomy in the ProxyLook glossary and reviews most enterprise residential vendors herself. Outside ProxyLook she contributes to the Crawlee open-source project and speaks at the annual Web Data Summit.

Areas of expertise

Residential proxiesISP proxiesWeb scrapingAnti-bot detectionCloudflare bypassBenchmarking methodologyTLS fingerprinting

Reviews by Maya (24)

Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)
Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) — self-serve democratizer of the residential proxy market. 12
★★★★★ 4.5
SOAX
Flexible pricing with 155M+ residential IPs
★★★★☆ 4.4
Nimbleway
Nimble is an AI-powered web data platform offering residential proxies plus Web, SERP, Map
★★★★☆ 4.4
Proxy-Seller
Multi-product proxy marketplace — IPv4, IPv6, ISP, residential and 4G/5G mobile under one
★★★★☆ 4.3
Scraper API
ScraperAPI is a web scraping API that auto-handles proxies, CAPTCHAs, and headless browser
★★★★☆ 4.3
IPRoyal
Ethical proxies with 32M+ IPs and crypto payments
★★★★☆ 4.2
Zenrows
ZenRows is a web scraping API with built-in anti-bot bypass, a Scraping Browser, and 55M+
★★★★☆ 4.2
Geonode
Geonode is a Singapore-based proxy provider offering residential, datacenter, and ISP prox
★★★★☆ 4.2
Webshare
Cheap residential + datacenter proxies with country, state, and now city-level targeting (
★★★★☆ 4.1
DataForSEO
Pay-as-you-go API stack and databases delivering SERP, keyword, backlink and on-page data
★★★★★ 4.6
Scrapingdog
Web scraping API with rotating proxies, headless-Chrome JS rendering, and dedicated SERP,
★★★★★ 4.5
ScrapingAnt
ScrapingAnt is a web scraping API with headless Chrome, 3M+ rotating residential/datacente
★★★★★ 4.5
ScrapeOps
ScrapeOps is a proxy aggregator routing across 20+ providers via one API, plus Scrapy job
★★★★★ 4.5
Coresignal
B2B public web data provider offering company, employee and job-posting APIs and bulk mult
★★★★★ 4.5
Datahut
Datahut is a fully-managed, done-for-you web-scraping service that builds, runs, and maint
★★★★★ 4.5
ProxyRack
Long-running residential, datacenter, mobile and ISP proxy provider with unmetered thread-
★★★★☆ 4.4
HypeProxies
HypeProxies sells premium private/ISP datacenter proxies built for sneaker copping, ticket
★★★★☆ 4.4
Crawlbase
Crawlbase (formerly ProxyCrawl) is a web scraping platform offering Crawling API, Smart Pr
★★★★☆ 4.4
Diffbot
AI web-data company offering rule-less Extract APIs, Crawlbot spidering, a Natural Languag
★★★★☆ 4.4
WebScrapingAPI
Web scraping API with millions of residential proxies, JS rendering, anti-bot bypass, plus
★★★★☆ 4.3
Scrapeless
AI-focused web scraping platform with a Scraping Browser, Universal Scraping API, Deep Ser
★★★★☆ 4.3
Nstproxy
Budget proxy provider with a large residential pool across 195+ locations, plus ISP, datac
★★★★☆ 4.3
ScrapingBot
ScrapingBot is a web scraping API offering raw HTML, JavaScript rendering, stealth residen
★★★★☆ 4.3
AlterLab
Pay-as-you-go web scraping API that turns URLs into LLM-ready markdown, structured JSON an
★★★★☆ 4.3