Oxylabs is one of the two or three names that come up whenever residential proxies get serious, and it earns that reputation with a large network and a full data-collection platform. It is also priced like one. We run a competing network, and we are still going to tell you exactly where Oxylabs is the right call, because the honest question is narrow: do you need an enterprise scraping platform with the network and paperwork to match, or do you need good residential IPs without paying enterprise rates for them?
Is HProxy a good Oxylabs alternative?
For most buyers, yes. HProxy sells residential IPs at $0.65/GB, pay as you go, with no monthly plan and no KYC for standard use. Oxylabs starts at $6/GB and reserves its lowest rates for large monthly commitments. Oxylabs still wins for enterprises that need its scale, its scraper APIs and web unblocker, and a formal compliance trail. If you just need clean residential proxies without the platform, HProxy does that for a fraction of the cost.
The short version
- Price: HProxy residential is $0.65/GB, pay as you go. Oxylabs residential starts at $6/GB and bottoms out at $2.50/GB only on a $2,500/month plan. Entry to entry, that is about a nine times difference.
- Model: HProxy is self-serve with no monthly commitment and a balance that never expires. Oxylabs is built around monthly plans, with a free trial granted once and KYC on some advanced features.
- Network: Oxylabs is larger and sells a whole platform. HProxy is leaner and focused on selling clean IPs cheaply.
- Independence: Oxylabs is part of the Tesonet portfolio (which also includes Nord Security and Surfshark). HProxy is independent.
If you are an enterprise that needs the platform and the compliance, read the Oxylabs section below honestly. If you just need residential proxies that work without a plan or a sales call, the pricing section is the whole story.
Oxylabs pricing vs HProxy: the part that decides it
| HProxy | Oxylabs | |
|---|---|---|
| Residential, entry per GB | $0.65 | $6.00 |
| Lowest published per-GB | $0.65 (pay as you go) | $2.50 (needs $2,500/mo) |
| Billing model | Pay as you go | Monthly plans |
| Monthly commitment | None | Plan-based, up to $2,500/mo for the best rate |
| Balance expiry | Never expires | Plan-based |
| Onboarding | Self-serve, no KYC | Free trial once; KYC on some filters |
| Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, SOCKS5 | HTTP(S), HTTP3, SOCKS5 |
The gap is not a promo trick, it is the business model. Residential bandwidth is the main cost in this trade, and Oxylabs prices it as a premium enterprise product with the network, tooling, and compliance to justify it. HProxy prices the same residential bandwidth as credit you top up. On a 50 GB month that is roughly $33 at HProxy versus $250 at Oxylabs' Basic per-GB rate of $5, which is not even Oxylabs' entry rate.
Here is Oxylabs residential pricing exactly as its own plans page lists it today, so the per-GB figures are not something you have to take on our word:
| Oxylabs residential | Monthly price | Included data | Per-GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $30 | 5 GB | $6.00 |
| Basic | $100 | 20 GB | $5.00 |
| Advanced | $500 | 125 GB | $4.00 |
| Corporate | $2,500 | 1 TB | $2.50 |
Two things that table makes plain. The low per-GB rates are monthly commitments, not pay as you go: reaching $2.50/GB means signing up for $2,500 every month whether you pull the full terabyte or not. And the entry rate most people actually start at is $6/GB on Starter, roughly nine times HProxy's $0.65. Measured against Oxylabs' deepest published rate, the $2.50/GB that needs a $2,500 monthly plan, HProxy's flat $0.65 is still close to four times cheaper with nothing to commit to.
There is a headline here worth naming precisely, because it is the starting-price trap in miniature. Oxylabs advertises its residential proxies from just $4/GB, and that $4 is not the entry rate. It is the Advanced plan at $500 a month for 125 GB. A new customer actually starts at the $6/GB Starter, and the cheapest $2.50/GB needs the $2,500 Corporate commitment. So the advertised from-price sits behind a $500 monthly gate, with the real floor behind a $2,500 one, while a fresh account pays $6. Our $0.65 is the advertised price and the price you pay on day one, with no gate in front of either.
The pay-as-you-go part matters as much as the per-GB number. The figure that actually decides your bill is what you pay per successful request, and a monthly plan you underuse pushes that number up every month you do not hit your committed volume. Pay as you go ties the cost to work you actually did. If your scraping is bursty, heavy one week and quiet the next, a plan means paying for gigabytes you never pull, and a balance that never expires means a paused project does not burn prepaid credit.
Where Oxylabs genuinely wins
This is the part the marketing comparisons leave out, so here it is straight.
Network scale. Oxylabs advertises 175M+ residential IPs across 195+ countries, with deep country, state, and city targeting. If you need huge concurrency in obscure locations, that scale is real, and it is larger than ours.
A full platform, not just proxies. Beyond raw IPs, Oxylabs sells scraper APIs, a web unblocker that solves blocks for you, prebuilt datasets, and an AI-assisted helper. If you want to buy finished data or offload the anti-bot fight instead of building the scraper, that ecosystem is a genuine product HProxy does not try to replicate. When a target is fighting you specifically on the anti-bot layer, we cover the manual version of that battle in how to avoid IP bans while scraping, but a managed unlocker is a different kind of convenience.
Compliance and success-rate guarantees. Oxylabs' KYC and its published 99.95% success rate are friction for a solo buyer, but for a large company with a legal team they are features: a compliance trail, an account manager, a number in a contract. Some buyers need that to get proxies approved internally.
If those three things describe you, Oxylabs earns its price. Do not let a cheaper competitor talk you out of tooling you actually need.
Where HProxy wins as an Oxylabs alternative
Price, at every tier. About nine times cheaper per gigabyte at the entry rate, and still meaningfully cheaper than Oxylabs' deepest $2,500/month rate. That headline does not go away.
No enterprise overhead. Self-serve signup, top up a balance, start. No contact form gating a trial, no KYC interview for standard use, no monthly minimum. You can be running in minutes.
Pay as you go that respects your usage. No monthly commitment, and the balance never expires, so you pay for what you actually pull rather than for a plan you hope to fill.
Independence. HProxy is not part of a larger group. Oxylabs sits in the Tesonet portfolio next to Nord Security and Surfshark, and two of the other big proxy names in this comparison cluster share that same parent (we get into that in our Bright Data comparison and the pieces around it). If buying from an independent vendor matters to you, that is a real difference.
The same jobs, done. For the actual work most people buy residential proxies for, scraping, price monitoring, ad verification, managing accounts across regions, HProxy's residential (and ISP, datacenter, and mobile) IPs do the job. Oxylabs also sells dedicated datacenter IPs from $2.25 each and its own ISP and mobile tiers, and HProxy covers the same four proxy types. The platform is not required to get clean residential traffic.
Who should pick which
Pick Oxylabs if you are an enterprise that needs its network scale, its scraper APIs or web unblocker, prebuilt datasets, or a formal compliance and account process, and the budget is there for it.
Pick HProxy if you want residential, ISP, datacenter, or mobile proxies that work, at $0.65/GB pay as you go, without a sales call, a monthly commitment, or a nine times markup for a platform you are not going to use. That covers the large majority of scraping, monitoring, and multi-region tasks.
The mistake we see most often is a small or mid-size team buying the enterprise platform, pointing a plain scraper at it, and paying the enterprise price for a plain proxy. If that is you, you are the exact person this comparison is for.
Try it before you decide
You do not have to take our word on the network. Test HProxy's free proxy checker and the live free proxy list to see the infrastructure, then start on residential at $0.65/GB pay as you go when you are ready. If you are choosing proxies for a scraping project specifically, our complete guide to proxies for web scraping walks through which proxy type fits which target, Oxylabs or otherwise, and our full pricing lays out every per-GB rate with nothing to sign.