Reviewed Oxylabs
Oxylabs is trading normally. On September 26, 2026, oxylabs.io answered as usual and sold residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile proxies next to scraping tools. By October 10, 2026, one subscription covered every product: residential started at $30 a month for up to 5 GB, which is $6 a gigabyte, and fell to $2.50 a gigabyte on Enterprise plans from $2,500 a month. Plan traffic expires after one calendar month. If you came to replace Oxylabs, the sourced prices are in the alternatives table.
The company behind Oxylabs: its history, owners and connections
Oxylabs at a glance
| what we found on September 26, 2026, prices on October 10, 2026 | |
|---|---|
| status | trading, oxylabs.io answered normally |
| operator | oxylabs, UAB, Vilnius, Lithuania, under Lithuanian law |
| domain registered | November 30, 2015 |
| products | residential, ISP, dedicated ISP, datacenter and mobile proxies, plus scraping APIs |
| cheapest way in | a free $5 welcome credit, then Starter at $30 a month for up to 5 GB |
| lowest residential rate | $2.50 a GB from 1,000 GB, on Enterprise plans from $2,500 a month |
| billing | one monthly subscription for every product, renewed on its own |
| unused plan traffic | expires after one calendar month |
| identity check | a KYC questionnaire for every customer |
| payment | card, wire transfer, AliPay, PayPal, no Bitcoin |
| Trustpilot | 3.7 of 5 from 721 reviews, archived March 24, 2026 |
The name has sold proxies for a decade. Its first archived homepage, from February 2016, offered an IP rotator and a list of more than 500,000 dedicated proxies. By January 2020 it claimed more than 30 million residential addresses. It bought Webshare in September 2022 and the scraping API ScrapingBee in June 2025. Who owns which proxy brand is a story of its own, told in who owns your proxy provider.
In July 2026 Warburg Pincus invested $130 million at a $3.6 billion valuation, which the investor calls the first outside investment since the founding in 2015. The same release gives the only customer count on record: over 350,000.
What Oxylabs costs
Every price below is from the residential pricing page of Oxylabs, read on October 10, 2026. That day one subscription covered every product, and VAT may apply on top. A free $5 welcome credit buys up to 0.8 GB at the same $6 rate.
| plan | price a month | per GB, all used | per GB, half used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $30 for up to 5 GB | $6.00 | $12.00 |
| Basic | $100 for up to 20 GB | $5.00 | $10.00 |
| Flexible | $500 for up to 125 GB | $4.00 | $8.00 |
| Enterprise | from $2,500 for 1,000+ GB | $2.50 | $5.00 |
- All of the plan used
- Half of it used
The last column is the one the price list leaves out, because the terms give plan traffic one calendar month and the rest expires. A team on the Basic plan that uses 10 GB has paid $10 for each gigabyte it used. At Oxylabs, the real price depends on how well the plan fits your month.
On September 26, 2026, the page also offered top-ups, up to 100 GB on the two small plans and up to 2 TB on the large ones, with no printed price. The page of October 10, 2026, shows none.
Four starting prices on one evening
Oxylabs names four different starting prices for the same residential product. All four were on its own pages on September 26, 2026, read within twenty minutes, and the plan names below are those of that day. On October 10, 2026, the product page still said "starting from just $4 per GB", which is now the Flexible rate, and its FAQ still quoted "$99 per month with a 11GB traffic allowance".
| page | what it says | what it refers to |
|---|---|---|
| homepage menu | "Starts from $ 2.5 /GB" | the Corporate plan, 1 TB |
| pricing hub | "Starts from $6/GB" | the Starter plan, 5 GB |
| product page description | "starting from just $4 per GB" | the Advanced plan, 125 GB |
| product page FAQ | "from $99 per month with a 11GB traffic allowance" | no plan printed on the pricing page |
Three of the four describe a real plan, yet a buyer who reads one page cannot tell which is the smallest purchase. The answer is $30 for 5 GB. The ISP page shows the same habit: its title says "from $2.10/IP", while its table runs from $1.60 down to $1.20.
The other product lines
These rates are from the product pages of September 26, 2026, before the single subscription.
| product | smallest plan | lowest printed rate |
|---|---|---|
| ISP, shared by up to 3 users | 10 IPs for $16 a month | $1.20 an IP, at 500 IPs |
| dedicated ISP | 5 IPs for $16 a month | $2.50 an IP, at 300 IPs |
| datacenter | from $0.70 a shared IP or $1.20 a dedicated IP | $0.44 a GB on the rotating pool |
| mobile | 4 GB for $30 a month | $3.50 a GB, at 715 GB for $2,500 |
ISP plans come with unlimited bandwidth under a fair-usage policy. Mobile follows the residential pattern: a monthly allowance that gets cheaper per gigabyte as the plan grows.
The fine print that changes the price
Traffic expires. Clause 3.7.3 of the Self-Service Subscription Agreement gives plan traffic one calendar month, and nothing carries over. Clause 10.7 renews each plan on its own for the same period.
Pay as you go exists on paper. Clause 3.11 describes a pay-as-you-go option for residential and mobile traffic. That traffic stays valid until it goes unused for three months. None of the pricing pages we read printed a price for it, and such purchases cannot be refunded.
The refund rule changed. The self-service terms, last updated on September 25, 2024, allow a refund within three calendar days of the first payment, if use stays below 20 percent of the plan, or 10 percent on Enterprise plans. On September 26, 2026, the pricing page added that the money can take 15 business days to arrive. On October 10, 2026, the same page answered instead: "All purchases made through self-service are non-refundable."
Everyone goes through KYC. The KYC page says every customer answers a questionnaire. It asks for a 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. Two residential filters, IP version and operating system, "may require a quick KYC verification" on top.
Some targets are closed. The residential network blocks Apple domains, banks, some Google domains, government sites, streaming, ticketing and mail services. The list says it is not complete.
Payment and trials. Oxylabs takes cards, wire transfers in dollars and euros, AliPay and PayPal. Its FAQ says: "We do not accept Bitcoins." On September 26, 2026, the residential trial was granted once, after a contact form or an email, and shared datacenter proxies were the only proxies with a self-serve free trial. On October 10, 2026, the price page offered every new account a free $5 welcome credit toward any product.
Where the pool comes from
Oxylabs advertises 175M+ residential addresses in 195 countries. Its own FAQ explains the count: the pool, times unique exit nodes per day, times the days in a quarter. That is a quarterly total, not the number online at one moment.
A 2020 post by Oxylabs says residential proxies come from people who install certain apps. It says most of its network is "tier A+", apps with explicit consent, and the rest comes through "tier A" and ISP providers under contracts with partners. The product page of 2026 says the pool holds "only" consenting users "who are fairly compensated". We cannot audit either statement from outside.
Where Oxylabs is stronger
Targeting depth. Residential filters reach ZIP code, coordinates and continent, besides country, state, city and ASN. The network also speaks HTTP3. We offer neither ZIP nor coordinate targeting.
Service on the smallest plan. On September 26, 2026, even the $30 plan listed 24/7 support and a dedicated account manager.
Papers for procurement. The product page cites ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified products and insurance by Lloyd's. A company that must clear a vendor with its legal team needs exactly that.
Dedicated ISP with a network choice. Static addresses come from networks the buyer picks, such as Comcast, BT and Cox, at no extra cost.
Tools beyond proxies. A scraper API, a web unblocker, a headless browser and datasets sit under one account. The manual version of that work is in our guide to avoiding IP bans, and some teams should pay to skip it.
Where HProxy differs
We sell residential proxies too, so read this part as the account of a competitor. Every HProxy fact here comes from our own product code.
No plan and no monthly clock. HProxy sells residential traffic from 1 GB. Our terms give purchased gigabytes no scheduled expiry date, so a quiet month costs nothing.
ISP targeting without a plan. Our Premium pool targets country, state, city and ISP by AS number, plus device OS and exclusions. Pinning a network costs nothing extra: you pay the Premium rate, $1.49/GB for one gigabyte and $1.00/GB from 1,000 GB+. The networks you can pin are listed on the ISP targeting page.
Sessions and UDP. Premium sticky sessions last from 3 minutes to 24 hours, and SOCKS5 lines carry UDP.
No documents to start. We ask for no documents at sign-up or at an ordinary checkout. Card payments are screened, and an identity check is kept for held payments and a few cases our compliance page names.
Crypto. We take cards, crypto, Alipay, QRIS and Pix, while Oxylabs takes no Bitcoin.
Where we are behind. Our Lite pool targets by country only. One gigabyte of Lite costs $0.50, 92 percent less than a gigabyte on the Oxylabs Starter plan, but that is not a like-for-like pair. Premium matches the Oxylabs targeting and costs $1.49/GB for a single gigabyte, against $6 on the Oxylabs Starter plan; the steps between are in the price table. For the tier-by-tier version, read the full head-to-head.
The alternatives, and what each floor needs
Every figure below is from the residential page of each vendor, read on September 26, 2026; the Oxylabs row was read again on October 10, 2026. A rate you cannot reach is not a price. Webshare is left out, because Oxylabs owns it.
| provider | smallest buy | lowest rate, and what it needs | ASN targeting | unused traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxylabs | $30 a month for up to 5 GB | $2.50 a GB from 1,000 GB, plans from $2,500 a month | yes | expires monthly |
| Bright Data | $8 a GB pay as you go, $4 with a 3-month coupon | 798 GB at $1,999 a month | yes, free | commitment does not roll over |
| Decodo | $4 a GB pay as you go | $2 a GB at 1 TB | yes | not stated |
| SOAX | $5 a GB for US traffic, no plan fee | $0.85 a GB at $3,000 a month | from $1,500 a month | credits last 60 days |
| Massive | $80 a month for 10 GB | $4.90 a GB at 100 GB; enterprise from $3.20 | not listed | rolls over |
| DataImpulse | $5 for 5 GB | $0.80 a GB at 1 TB | listed as new | never expires |
| HProxy Lite | 1 GB at $0.50/GB | $0.44/GB at 2,000 GB+ | no, country only | no expiry date |
| HProxy Premium | 1 GB at $1.49/GB | $1.00/GB at 1,000 GB+ | yes, no extra cost | no expiry date |
Decodo is the nearest match for a buyer who wants the Oxylabs targeting without a plan: $4 a gigabyte, with ZIP and ASN. We cover it in our Decodo review. SOAX and DataImpulse are cheapest at volume. SOAX keeps ASN targeting for its $1,500 plan, and DataImpulse lists it as a new feature. Bright Data is the other enterprise name, with the same monthly logic as Oxylabs. Massive starts at $8 a gigabyte on its smallest plan, and our Massive pricing page covers the rest.
Who Oxylabs suits
Buy Oxylabs if you use a steady volume every month and need ZIP or coordinate targeting. It also suits a team that must clear a vendor through procurement, with certificates and a contract. The Flexible and Enterprise plans are priced for that buyer, and the service comes with them.
Look elsewhere if your use is uneven, or if you want to pay only for what you use. The same goes if you cannot answer a company questionnaire, or if you pay in crypto. A month at half use turns the $6 Starter rate into $12 per gigabyte used. The Oxylabs alternatives page keeps our side of that comparison current.
Our verdict
Four out of five, as an enterprise proxy and data platform. The targeting, the service and the contract are real, and the terms are clear once you read them. The score loses a point for pricing a new buyer has to decode. Four pages show four starting prices, and plan traffic expires monthly with no pay-as-you-go price in view.
Before you commit
Buy the smallest amount any candidate sells and put your own job through it. Our proxy checker shows whether an address answers, how fast, and from where, whoever sold it. The same checks run on the public proxies of our free proxy list.
The limits of this review
We did not test the Oxylabs network ourselves, so this page makes no claim about speed or success rates. The pay-as-you-go and top-up prices were not printed on the pages we read. The Trustpilot score comes from a copy archived on March 24, 2026, because the live page refused our reader.
Prices, coupons and plans change often. Every figure here carries the day it was read, and this page is due for a check by December 26, 2026.
Sources
- Oxylabs, residential pricing page, residential product page, pricing hub and homepage. Read September 26, 2026.
- Oxylabs, ISP, dedicated ISP, datacenter and mobile product pages. Read September 26, 2026.
- Oxylabs, Self-Service Subscription Agreement, clauses 3.7, 3.8, 3.11, 10.7 and 12.1. Read September 26, 2026.
- Oxylabs, KYC policy. Read September 26, 2026.
- Oxylabs, residential pricing page, residential product page and Self-Service Subscription Agreement. Read again October 10, 2026.
- Oxylabs, "Oxylabs Sets Clear Standards for Residential Proxy Acquisition", last updated August 21, 2020.
- Oxylabs, "Oxylabs Acquires Webshare Software Company", September 20, 2022.
- ScrapingBee, "ScrapingBee is joining Oxylabs' group", June 2025.
- Warburg Pincus, "Oxylabs Announces $130 Million Investment from Warburg Pincus", July 9, 2026.
- Internet Archive, captures of oxylabs.io from February 27, 2016, and January 20, 2020.
- Identity Digital, registry record for oxylabs.io. Read September 26, 2026.
- Trustpilot, the Oxylabs page as archived on March 24, 2026.
- Bright Data, Decodo, SOAX, Massive and DataImpulse, residential pricing pages. Read September 26, 2026.
- HProxy, our own product records, price table and terms.
