Key Oxylabs features
| Proxy Types | Residential Mobile Datacenter ISP |
| Suitable For | Individuals Small/medium/large businesses |
| Free Trial | 7-day trial for verified companies |
| Price Range | $8.00/GB – residential proxies $0.65/GB – datacenter proxies $2.10/IP – ISP proxies $9.00/GB – mobile proxies |
| Features | 102M+ high-quality (A+ tier) proxies Ultra-fast response time In-depth geo-targeting Self-service dashboard Numerous available scrapers Advanced AI features Low-maintenance infrastructure |
| Protocols | HTTP HTTPS SOCKS5 |
| IP Rotation | Rotating and sticky sessions |
| Uptime | 99.90% |
| IP Pool | 102M+ |
| Countries / Locations | 195+ (US, Canada, UK, China, Germany, Japan, Australia, and more) |
| Additional Tools & Products | OxyCopilot Web Scraper API OxyParser OxyMouse |
| Browser Extensions | Chrome (Oxylabs Proxy Extension) |
| Integrations | Proxy managers Anti-detection browsers Multi-accounting tools Web scraping tools Data extraction tools |
| Documentation and Knowledge Base | Tutorials and code examples Quick start guides Webinars FAQ Blog |
| Customer Support | Online chat (not available 24/7) |
About Oxylabs
Oxylabs is a Lithuanian company founded in 2015 and initially focused on business and enterprise customers. It took a couple of years until Oxylabs expanded its offer to include residential IPs and more advanced data acquisition solutions, positioning itself as one of the most advanced online tools for scraping publicly available data.
Since 2021, Oxylabs has been busy expanding its portfolio. It was one of the first proxy providers to integrate artificial intelligence to adapt to website layout changes. After acquiring Webshare, a Silicon Valley-based company for self-service proxy software, this provider introduced its Web Unblocker, an AI-powered solution for web scraping.
Oxylabs’ latest innovation, OxyCopilot, is a testament to the company’s commitment to advanced technology. This tool can generate ready-to-use code in seconds, parse complex HTML layouts, and adapt to layout changes with ease. It’s a prime example of how today’s rapidly evolving AI technologies can assist in web scraping, and it’s sure to keep you ahead of the curve in your data acquisition efforts.
We’ll also add that Oxylabs is still primarily oriented towards business customers. It relies heavily on ethical proxy acquisition, offers a list of certificates, and even comes with cyber insurance in partnership with Lloyd’s Insurance. That said, this provider is also suited for individuals and personal projects, as evidenced by its self-service dashboard and cheaper entry plans.
Proxy Server Types
Oxylabs understands that different users have different needs, and that’s why they offer a wide range of proxy server types. Whether you’re looking for residential, ISP, datacenter, or mobile proxies, Oxylabs has you covered. And the best part? All these proxies are powered by ethical acquisition practices, ensuring you can use them with peace of mind.
Before discussing different proxy types, know that Oxylabs restricts specific targets to avoid abuse, and that applies to all proxy types. Just below, you can see which targets are currently prohibited.
| Target Category | Blocked Targets |
| Banking | PayPal, Stripe, Binance, Bank of America |
| Entertainment | Disney Plus, Netflix, Spotify, Twitch |
| Gaming | PlayStation, Steam |
| Government Sites | Usa.gov, Canada.ca |
| Mailing | Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail |
| IP Checking Sites | IPInfo.info, IPLocation.net |
| Ticketing | Eventbrite, SeatGeek, Ticketmaster |
| Other Sites | Microsoft, LinkedIn |
Residential Proxies
| Type | Shared |
| Payment | Per traffic (bandwidth) |
| Locations | 195+ |
| Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 |
| Use Cases | Web scraping Cybersecurity AI development Bypassing geo-blocks |
Oxylabs’ residential proxies, with their extensive coverage of 195 locations, provide unparalleled geo-targeting flexibility. This allows you to target specific countries, states, ZIP codes, continents, coordinates, and ASNs. These proxies are powered by the QUIC protocol, enabling Oxylabs to achieve an impressive 0.41-second response time, a unique feature that sets them apart in the industry.
Oxylabs boasts a massive network of 100M+ A+ tier proxies, ensuring high-quality results for your scraping efforts. The provider’s dashboard offers automated scaling, allowing you to start small and expand your proxy network to meet enterprise-level needs without compromising on performance and reliability.
ISP Proxies
| Type | Semi-dedicated |
| Payment | Per IP |
| Locations | 20+ |
| Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 |
| Use Cases | Cybersecurity Market research E-commerce web scraping Bypassing specific geo-blocks |
Oxylabs’ ISP proxies, sourced from premium ASN providers like AT&T, Comcast, Lumen, Frontier, and Orange, are a standout offering. These semi-dedicated IPs support a range of protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5, as well as TCP and UDP connections. The pay-per-IP pricing model ensures unlimited bandwidth, and no additional charges based on usage, making them a cost-effective choice.
What’s interesting about Oxylabs’ ISP proxies is that they support dynamic IP rotation and unlimited-duration sessions. As such, they’re highly suitable for prolonged web scraping sessions, as you can keep an IP for as long as you need it. The provider also notes that its ISP proxies are tailored for the most challenging targets, and it recommends them for cyber-security, e-commerce scraping, market research, and ad verification.
Mobile Proxies
| Type | Shared |
| Payment | Traffic (bandwidth) |
| Locations | 140+ |
| Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 |
| Use Cases | Public data collection Bypassing CAPTHAs and IP bans Mobile app development Ad verification |
Oxylabs excels in terms of mobile proxies, as it offers 20M+ proxies across 140+ locations, covering locations such as the US, Germany, France, Canada, the UK, Australia, China, and plenty more. In most cases, mobile proxies are slower than other types of proxies, so it’s good to know that Oxylabs supports 3G, 4G, 5G, and LTE proxies. You get a promised 99.9% success rate, as well as exceptional bypassing of CAPTCHAs and IP bans.
We’ll also highlight that Oxylabs’ mobile proxies come with advanced geo-targeting, letting you pick a country, state, city, coordinate, or ASN. Plus, they support protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5, and all of them are A+ tier and ethically procured proxies. You should also know that you get automated proxy rotation as well as 30-minute sticky sessions.
Datacenter Proxies
| Type | Shared and dedicated |
| Payment | Traffic (bandwidth) or per IP |
| Locations | 190+ |
| Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 |
| Use Cases | Price monitoring Market research Online anonymity Bypassing basic anti-bot blocks |
Oxylabs offers static and rotating datacenter proxies. If you go for a static datacenter proxy, you can count on 190+ locations and over 2 million proxies in total. They’re suitable for large-scale scraping operations, as Oxylabs supports unlimited bandwidth and unlimited concurrent sessions. You also get support for IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, further expanding web scraping capabilities.
Your options regarding rotating datacenter proxies are more limited. That applies to its supported locations, where you can choose between the US, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Romania, France, Belgium, and Japan. This is the most affordable type of proxy in Oxylabs’ offer, and you get unlimited bandwidth, automatic IP rotation, and a promised 99.9% success rate.
Pricing and Payment Methods
Compared to other top-rated proxy services, Oxylabs is on the pricier side. The good news is that this provider offers plenty of subscription plans while also covering those looking to avoid a subscription model. In this section of our Oxylabs review, we’ll go over its pricing structure for all its proxy types and additional services.
Residential Proxies
You can choose from several subscription plans regarding rotating residential proxies. This provider changes by the amount of bandwidth you need monthly. In other words, no matter which subscription plan you pick, you get access to all 100M+ proxies, all server locations, and unlimited concurrent sessions.
If you wish to pay as you go (without a subscription), you can pay $8.00/GB, which is how you can purchase up to 50GB monthly. Higher tiers are all subscription-based. For $99.00 per month, you get 13GB ($7.75/GB), and for $300.00 per month, you get 40GB ($7.50/GB). If you need even more bandwidth, you’ll need to pay $600.00 per month for 86GB ($6.98/GB).
As you can see, Oxylabs doesn’t provide significant discounts on higher-end tiers, as is the case with most other proxy providers. We’ll also note that there are plans for enterprise customers, ranging from $800/month (133GB) up to $4,000/month (1TB).
ISP Proxies
If you need ISP proxies, the only option to purchase them via Oxylabs is to get a subscription. The only difference between Oxylabs’ plans is in the number of IPs. All its plans come with identical features otherwise. In other words, you get unlimited bandwidth, unlimited session duration, and identical ASNs.
The lowest number of IPs you can get is 10, for which you’ll need to pay $21.00/month ($2.10/IP). Buying 20 IPs will cost you $2.00/IP, while 50 IPs cost $1.90/IP. There are three additional plans – 100 IPs for $1.80/IP, 200 IPs for $1.70/IP, and 500 IPs for $1.50/IP. As expected, Oxylabs also caters to enterprise customers via custom plans.
Mobile Proxies
Oxylabs’ mobile proxies offer pricing plans similar to those of its residential proxies. That means you can choose based on how much bandwidth you need, with an option to pay as you go. All its subscription plans offer unlimited concurrent connections, automatic IP rotation, free geo-targeting, and 24/7 support.
If you need up to 50GB of bandwidth per month, you can pay $9.00/GB, which is the only option to avoid a subscription. 12GB per month costs $99.00/month, a 38GB plan costs $300.00/month, while an 80GB plan costs $600.00/month.
You’ll also find plans tailored for enterprise customers who need a lot of bandwidth for their large-scale projects. Those plans start at $800.00/month (123GB), $1,750.00/month (292GB), and up to $3,000.00/month (600GB).
Datacenter Proxies
In terms of datacenter proxies, you can choose from shared and dedicated proxies. As you can already guess, Oxylabs’ datacenter proxies are the most affordable way to obtain a respectable number of IPs or plenty of bandwidth at an affordable rate. That means you can choose to pay based on how many IPs you need or how much bandwidth you plan to spend each month.
Paying based on the number of IPs will cost you between $12.00/month (10 IPs) and up to $180.00/month (200 IPs). In between, you’ll find a $55.00/month plan (50 IPs) and a $100.00/month plan (100 IPs). There’s also an option to buy up to 1,000 IPs.
If you wish to purchase a certain amount of traffic, the lowest-end tier costs $50.00 per month and delivers 77GB. You can also get 167GB for $100.00 per month, 364GB for $200.00 per month, and 600GB for $300.00 per month.
Additional Services and Costs
Aside from various types of proxies, Oxylabs offers two additional services. There’s a Web Scraper API that gives you access to the provider’s premium proxy pool, real-time data, and parsed data (JSON) and allows you to bypass IP blocks and CAPTCHAs. There’s also a Web Unblocker, which supports JavaScript rendering, advanced session control, and more.
Oxylabs’ Web Scraper API comes with a 7-day trial for one user, which limits you to 5,000 results and five requests per second. For $49.00 per month, you get 24,500 results and ten requests, while $99.00/month gets you 55,000 results and 15 requests. The most expensive plan costs $249.00/month and offers 151,000 results and 30 requests.
Like the Web Scraper API, you can try Oxylabs’ Web Unblocker for free for one week. That trial is valid for a single user and up to 1GB of traffic. You can get 5GB of traffic for $75.00 per month, 25GB for $325.00/month, or 60GB for $660.00/month.
Payment Methods & Money-Back Guarantees
This proxy provider supports credit cards, as well as digital payment services such as PayPal, AliPay, Google Pay, and Apple Pay. You can also choose to pay via a bank transfer. What’s missing here are cryptocurrencies. So, there’s no anonymous way to pay for Oxylabs.
Regarding its money-back guarantees, Oxylabs allows you to request a refund within three calendar days from the first date of the first transaction. That rule applies to practically all proxy types covered by the provider’s self-service plans.
That said, we highly recommend checking Oxylabs’ refund policy, as you’ll need to meet a long list of requirements. For example, you must not use more than 20% of the purchased traffic or one of the “pay as you go” plans.
Smartproxy’s account, interface and usability
We can all agree that having access to powerful features and a sizable proxy network is important. However, to utilize any proxy provider up to its full potential, you also need an easy setup procedure, a user-friendly dashboard, and reliable real-time analytics. In this segment, let’s inspect whether Oxylabs checks all those boxes.
Registration & Initial Setup
Getting started with Oxylabs is incredibly easy. Before you can access proxies and buy a certain amount of bandwidth or IPs, you need to sign up for an account. You can choose to fill out your information manually or use your Google account. Registering for an account requires you to provide your first and last name and e-mail address and create a password.
Before you can access your Oxylabs dashboard, you’ll need to verify your e-mail address using a link you’ll receive in your inbox. Then, you’ll get to preview various types of proxies and services that this provider offers and decide which one to buy. Also, if you don’t buy a subscription plan immediately, you might receive an email with a free trial offer. We got an opportunity to test Oxylabs’ Web Scraper API, which is its standard trial offer.
Upon purchasing a subscription plan, you’ll immediately receive an email on what to do next. For example, we decided to try out residential proxies, and Oxylabs sent us an email with a quick video on getting started. Once you return to your dashboard, you’ll see a simple set-up guide as well, making Oxylabs suitable even for those who haven’t encountered proxies before.
Before you can access the provider’s network, you’ll need to create a new user and assign a password. This is when you’ll receive full access to your Oxylabs dashboard, focusing on the product(s) you’ve purchased. You’ll see a quick-start guide, an overview of your plan, some analytics, and a video tutorial.
Profile & Settings
Even though Oxylabs allows you to manage your proxy connections through a high degree of customization and fine-tuning, it offers a relatively simple way to manage your profile and account. Those options are found in the ‘My Account’ sidebar item, which leads you to four tabs: Products, Settings, Invoices, and Team.
- The ‘Products’ tab gives you an overview of your currently active products. You can easily check your plan’s terms, make changes, and activate new subscriptions or deactivate your existing ones.
- The ‘Settings’ tab offers two options only, though. You can change your master password and switch between the Global and Chinese versions of the provider’s interface.
- Then, there’s the ‘Invoices’ tab, which is pretty self-explanatory.
- Lastly, the ‘Team’ tab allows you to add new members to your team, making it easy to track how each of your team members utilizes Oxylabs’ network.
Managing Proxies
Thanks to Oxylabs’ brilliantly designed dashboard, getting started with its proxy network and individual services is quick and effortless. First, you need to pick your currently active product using the left-placed sidebar. We tested residential proxies for this review, clearly labeled as ‘Active’ in the sidebar.
On the right, you’ll find a series of tabs that allow you to check your usage and various stats, as well as initiate your first proxy connection. To make that happen, click on ‘Users,’ where you’ll find your username and password. Then, click on ‘Endpoint Generator,’ where you can set up a connection.
First, you can pick a dedicated region endpoint, where you can use ‘Global’ unless you’re in China (Oxylabs recommends picking ‘Hong Kong’ or ‘Beijing’ in that case). Next, choose your preferred output format (HTTP, HTTPS, or SOCKS5) and select the type of authentication you want. Like most proxy providers, this one allows you to authenticate using your credentials or whitelisted IPs.
You can also pick a country or city before selecting your session type. This provider supports sticky and rotating sessions. If you choose a sticky session, you can set a specific period until you get a new IP address.
Based on your use case, you can now integrate Oxylabs’ proxies with your software as you see fit. In case of any questions or doubts, use the ‘Documentation’ tab, which will lead you to the provider’s customer support section, which we’ll describe in-depth later in the article.
Data / Usage Tracking
Any capable proxy provider should offer in-depth analytics to help you optimize and scale your operations, and Oxylabs is no different. This provider offers several types of real-time analytics to help you keep track of your bandwidth, targets, and more. You can use that information to review and evaluate your team’s efforts, as well as make any adjustments you see fit.
The home page of your dashboard shows a simple graph indicating the total traffic you spent in the last 30 days. You can click on ‘Detailed Statistics’ to get more information, and you get to the same point by choosing your active product from the left-placed sidebar. Doing so will take you to the ‘Statistics’ tab, which might need a few moments to populate.
Oxylabs allows you to check the bandwidth you used in the last 30 days, and you can also pick any period by choosing two dates. You can also filter the reports based on specific targets, users, and countries, as well as export that data through a CSV file.
If you scroll down, you’ll see the total number of requests you’ve made, as well as your total traffic. Oxylabs will also show you a list of days containing that same information. We also recommend checking the ‘Targets’ and ‘Countries’ tab, which will prompt Oxylabs to show colorful graphs and in-depth information regarding your targets and geo-locations.
Possible Use Cases
Due to its rich set of features, Oxylabs has positioned itself as a competent proxy provider with numerous possible use cases. Those include (but are not limited to) cyber-security, e-commerce, SERP monitoring, brand protection, and AI development.
Cybersecurity
Proxies are often used to hide one’s online whereabouts and location-related information, as they allow you to change your default IP address. Aside from anonymity and privacy, Oxylabs’ proxies are suitable for content filtering, access control, and increased security, especially when combined with a firewall.
E-Commerce
Large-scale e-commerce scraping is one of Oxylabs’ strongest selling points. Due to its wide proxy network spanning and ethically sourced IPs, targeting e-commerce platforms like Amazon, Walmart, Google Shopping, eBay, or Target should never be an issue. You can also count on data delivery in HTML and JSON formats, Javascript rendering, and more.
SERP Monitoring
With a 99.9% success rate, Oxylabs’ proxies are perfect for bypassing CAPTCHAs, IP bans, and anti-bot technologies. In other words, this provider is suitable for getting local SEO results, researching keywords, and performing SERP checks on various device types. We recommend using Oxylabs’ Web Scraper API for SERP-related purposes.
Brand Protection
Proxy providers have become irreplaceable allies regarding digital brand protection. A capable proxy provider, such as Oxylabs, can assist in gathering large volumes of data and point to possible counterfeiting, copyright protection, or domain squatting. This is where the provider’s ML-powered Web Unblock can significantly assist.
AI Development
Often based on collecting large volumes of data, AI development heavily relies on real-time data extraction, obtaining clean data, and the ability to obtain multimodal data. Oxylabs can help with AI training and development by allowing you to scrape publicly available websites with a high success rate using its easily scalable infrastructure.
Documentation / Knowledge Base and Tutorials
This proxy provider offers extensive documentation covering everything from buying advice and various setup and integration methods to a content-rich developers’ hub. Let’s check out the most helpful support resources.
Quick Start Guides
If you need help getting started, Oxylabs provides quick start guides for practically all of its proxy types and individual tools (Website Unblocker and Web Scraper API). These guides are written in a user-friendly tone and provide helpful images and videos throughout. Furthermore, they also contain code examples and links to other resources.
Integration Guides
We’re happy to report that Oxylabs offers dozens of integration guides for its residential, mobile, and datacenter proxies. Some of the covered tools are AdsPower, GoLogin, Lalicat Browser, Octoparse, Multilogin, and Ghost Browser, as well as individual operating systems such as macOS, Ubuntu, and more.
Scraping Lessons
This provider offers a library of on-demand videos, completely free of charge, that explain and show you how various aspects of web scraping work. These are 30- to 40-minute videos that deal with avoiding bot detection, yielding high-quality data, leveraging machine learning, using APIs, and more.
Developers Hub
Developers will be happy to know that Oxylabs offers an in-depth hub with tons of useful articles, in-depth documentation, tutorials, and webinars, as well as links to third-party sources found on GitHub, YouTube, Reddit, and LinkedIn. Furthermore, developers will find articles dealing with cURL, Python, Node.js, and PHP programming languages.
Customer Support and User Reviews
In this segment of our comprehensive Oxylabs review, we’ll inspect and asses this provider’s customer support channels. Aside from that, we’ll report on what others have said about Oxylabs online.
Customer Support Channels
As previously explained, Oxylabs treats its customers with respect through numerous resources and nicely organized documentation. However, when you encounter an issue you can’t resolve yourself, there are two ways to get in touch with Oxylabs’ representatives – through live chat or by sending an e-mail.
You can use the [email protected] e-mail address to contact Oxylabs’ representatives if you have a technical question. Or, you can go with [email protected] if you have any other kind of questions. We’re also happy to report that Oxylabs’ agents are very responsive and highly helpful. We never waited for a response for more than 12 hours, and they provided knowledgeable responses.
Another way to contact Oxylabs is via live chat, which is available on its website. As per our findings, this option is available 24/7. Upon launching this functionality, you’ll see a series of helpful articles, FAQs, and other resources and an option to contact Oxylabs. At first, a bot will greet you. However, you can ask for an actual human, and you should be connected in a matter of minutes.
User Reviews & Trustworthiness
Overall, Oxylabs has a high score across reputable websites that host business reviews. On Trustpilot, the provider’s score is currently at 4.4 out of 5.0, and it’s said Oxylabs has provided answers to 95% of negative reviews. This kind of transparency is admirable and tells us that we’re dealing with a solid proxy provider overall.
We’ve noticed that a group of negative reviews addressed Oxylabs’ decision to block certain domains, preventing web scraping. As said earlier in the review, some of the restricted targets are Netflix, PlayStation, and LinkedIn, as well as streaming, mailing, government, and banking websites. So, make sure to keep that in mind.
On G2, a website similar to Trustpilot, Oxylabs has a score of 4.5 out of 5.0. Most of the positive reviews praise the provider’s customer support, which we can fully agree with. Also, the quality of IP addresses and ease of use are among the highlighted aspects of the provider.
When it comes to cons, aspects related to Oxylabs’ pricing seem to be the biggest issues. We can agree that this isn’t the most affordable option, but it does seem worth its price overall.
Conclusion
Overall, Oxylabs is among the most robust proxy providers, offering an endless list of features aligned with the needs of enterprise customers. As such, it’s primarily oriented towards more demanding users who need the assistance of a solid proxy network and human interaction, which is what Oxylabs’ account managers are trained to offer.
That said, it’s evident that this provider has started to open up to a broader audience, offering additional subscription tiers and new ways to fine-tune and scale their operations. Still, there’s no avoiding the fact that Oxylabs is a premium-priced provider aimed at those with bigger budgets.
In the end, is Oxylabs worth its price? After spending quite some time testing this provider and interacting with its servers, we certainly believe so. If you’re looking for a comprehensive proxy provider with advanced AI-powered scraping features, in-depth documentation, and effortless scalability, Oxylabs is well worth trying.