HProxy vs Oxylabs.io: Residential Prices, Plans and the Terms (2026)

Compared against Oxylabs

For residential proxies, HProxy costs less per GB than any Oxylabs plan. One GB of our Residential Premium costs less than Oxylabs' Enterprise rate of $2.50 per GB, which needs a plan from $2,500 a month. Oxylabs plan traffic also expires after one calendar month, while ours has no scheduled expiry date. Oxylabs still offers more targeting, UDP over HTTP/3, a contract and a full scraping platform. We read Oxylabs' prices, docs and terms on October 22, 2026. We sell residential proxies, so weigh our view with that in mind.

Oxylabs.io vs HProxy at a glance

Oxylabs sells one monthly subscription for all its products. Each plan buys residential traffic at its own rate per GB. Targeting covers country, state, city, continent, ZIP code, coordinates and ASN.

Oxylabs' figures come from its pricing pages, product page, developer docs and self-service terms, read through our server on October 22, 2026. The KYC rule comes from its KYC page as read September 26, 2026. Our side rests on our own catalog, the product sheet in our dashboard and our refund policy.

What a GB of residential traffic costs

Each Oxylabs plan carries its own residential rate. Starter costs $30 a month for up to 5 GB, which is $6 per GB. Basic costs $100 for up to 20 GB, at $5. Flexible costs $500 for up to 125 GB, at $4. Enterprise plans start at $2,500 a month, at $2.50 per GB from 1,000 GB. VAT may apply on top.

How to read it for your job:

• Country-level work. Lite at $0.50/GB and $0.44/GB costs less than any Oxylabs plan.
• State, city or network targeting. Premium at $1.49/GB for one GB costs less than Oxylabs' Enterprise rate, with no plan to sign.
• ZIP code, coordinates or continent. Only Oxylabs offers them.

Consider 20 GB. Oxylabs' Basic plan asks $100 a month for up to that amount, and the same 20 GB of Lite costs $10 in one purchase.

Plan traffic expires after one month

Clause 3.7.3 of Oxylabs' self-service terms makes plan traffic valid "for 1 (one) calendar month after their purchase". The rest "will expire and will not be transferred to the following month". Plans renew on their own under clause 10.7. So the rate on the price list holds only in a month you use the whole plan.

The same terms describe pay as you go for residential traffic in clause 3.11. That traffic lasts until it goes unused for three months. None of the pricing pages we read printed a price for it. Our GB have no scheduled expiry date, so a quiet month leaves the balance where it was.

Targeting, sessions and UDP

• Targeting. Oxylabs targets country, state, city, continent, ZIP code, coordinates and ASN. It also filters by IP version and operating system, and those filters "may require a quick KYC verification". Our Premium goes to country, state, city, network (ASN) and device, and Lite to the country only.
• Sessions. An Oxylabs sticky session lasts 10 minutes by default, or ends after 60 seconds without requests. A session parameter extends it up to 1,440 minutes, which is 24 hours. Premium matches that ceiling, with sticky exits from 3 minutes to 24 hours. Read rotating vs static residential proxies to see when the length matters.
• UDP. Oxylabs carries UDP and HTTP/3 through MASQUE, a tunnel over HTTP/3 on a separate entry point. Its docs list Google as a restricted target over UDP. HProxy Premium carries UDP the classic way, over SOCKS5, turned on per proxy line.
• Blocked targets. Oxylabs' residential network restricts Apple domains, banking, government, streaming, ticketing and mailing targets, among others.

ID checks, refunds and payment

• ID checks. Oxylabs' KYC page says every customer answers a questionnaire. It asks for a registered company name, a date of incorporation, a business model and a planned use. The same page says at least a quarter of inquiries are rejected each year. HProxy has no questionnaire, and no documents are needed at sign-up or at an ordinary checkout. The exceptions are listed on our identity checks page.
• Refunds. Oxylabs' pricing page says "All purchases made through self-service are non-refundable", and points to the $5 welcome credit for testing. Its terms, last updated September 25, 2024, still describe a refund within 3 days of the first payment, under 20 percent use. HProxy's refund policy pays back unused balance within 14 days, to the original card or crypto. Traffic that has already passed through a proxy is not refunded.
• Payment. Oxylabs takes cards, wire transfers in dollars and euros, AliPay and PayPal, and says "We do not accept Bitcoins." HProxy takes card, crypto, Alipay, Pix and QRIS. A top-up starts at $3 with crypto and $10 with anything else, per payment options.

Where Oxylabs is the better pick

• More targeting. ZIP code, coordinates and continent, plus IP version and OS filters.
• UDP over HTTP/3 for tools that speak MASQUE.
• A full platform. Scraper APIs, a web unblocker and an agent browser sit on the same subscription. When a target fights you on the anti-bot layer, how to avoid IP bans while scraping covers the manual version of that work.
• A contract and a vetting process. Some companies need a vendor that checks every customer. How to vet a proxy provider covers what to check yourself.
• PayPal and wire transfers, which we do not take.
• A free first test with the $5 welcome credit.

Where HProxy is the better pick

• Residential price per GB on every Oxylabs plan, with Lite the cheapest for country-level work.
• No plan and no monthly expiry. Buy any amount from 1 GB, and unused GB stay in the balance.
• No questionnaire. Sign up and top up, with no company details to file.
• A refund. 14 days on unused balance, crypto included.
• Crypto, Pix and QRIS, which Oxylabs does not take.
• One account balance across our four proxy types: residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile. Our common questions explain the balance.

Who should pick which

Pick Oxylabs if you need ZIP or coordinate targeting, UDP over HTTP/3, a full scraping platform or a vetted enterprise contract. It fits best when your budget runs to a monthly plan you will use up.

Pick HProxy for residential traffic at a lower price per GB, with no plan, no questionnaire and no monthly expiry. Choose Lite for country-level work and Premium for a state, a city, a network, a device or UDP. Our Bright Data comparison weighs the other enterprise name the same way.

Try it before you decide

Two free tools help before any purchase: our proxy checker, and the live free proxy list for test addresses. Our residential traffic costs $0.50 per GB for one GB, and full pricing shows how the rate falls with size. Our guide to proxies for web scraping explains which proxy type fits which target. Our Oxylabs review and Oxylabs company page cover the rest of Oxylabs, including who owns it. The cheapest residential proxies in 2026 puts it beside the rest of the market.

Limits of this comparison

• No proxy tests. Neither Oxylabs' network nor ours was tested for this page. Speed, success rates and blocks are not measured here.
• Pool sizes. Oxylabs' pool figure is its own claim. We make none about ours.
• VAT. Oxylabs says VAT may apply on top of its plan prices.
• Older read. The KYC questionnaire rule comes from Oxylabs' KYC page as read September 26, 2026.
• Two refund answers. Oxylabs' pricing page and its terms disagree, and we report both.
• Our balance. HProxy GB have no scheduled expiry date, and our terms cover the pool behind a product for the 30 days after purchase.
• One day. Prices and terms change without notice. Check again after December 22, 2026.

Sources

• Oxylabs, residential pricing page, pricing hub and residential product page, read through our server on October 22, 2026.
• Oxylabs developer docs: residential session control and protocols, read October 22, 2026.
• Oxylabs, Self-Service Subscription Agreement, last updated September 25, 2024, read October 22, 2026.
• Oxylabs, KYC policy, read September 26, 2026.
• HProxy, price catalog plus the product sheet shown in our dashboard, October 22, 2026.
• HProxy, refund policy, identity checks page, terms and the minimum top-ups at checkout, October 22, 2026.
• Google Keyword Planner, read October 22, 2026: "oxylabs" 49,500 searches a month worldwide, "oxylabs proxy" 5,400, "oxylabs pricing" 390.