Oxylabs Review: enterprise tooling, priced at a premium
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Oxylabs sells the broadest tool line in our dataset — residential, datacenter, mobile, ISP, SOCKS5, a web scraper API and a web unblocker — with residential from $6.00/GB, as of 2026-09-19. Our score: 6.0/10. It is the pick when you need managed scraping tooling and a sales rep; it is the wrong buy when you are comparing plain per-GB rates, because the pricing page publishes no pool size.
Bottom line upfront
6.0/10 — the enterprise-shaped provider: seven published product lines, free trials, a free IPs program, and self-service plans from Starter to Corporate. But the pricing page publishes no pool size and no country count as of , and residential entry is from $6.00/GB — the most expensive published entry in this channel. You are buying managed tooling and a rep, not cheap bandwidth. Every figure below was read from Oxylabs’ own pricing page and logged in the dataset.
Scored by Runein. Scores are ours and stated as such. Prices are Oxylabs', read from its pricing page on 2026-09-19. Pool size and country count are not published there — the low pool score is the honest penalty for an unverifiable figure.
Oxylabs sells more product lines than any provider in our dataset — seven, from plain proxies to a web unblocker — and residential entry starts from $6.00/GB, the most expensive published entry in this channel, as of 2026-09-19. Our score: 6.0/10. The honest headline: you pay an enterprise premium, and the pricing page does not publish the pool size that would justify it.
What Oxylabs is
Oxylabs is a data-collection infrastructure company: residential, datacenter, mobile, ISP, SOCKS5 and private proxies, plus a web scraper API and a web unblocker. Its self-service plans (Starter, Advanced, Premium, Venture, Business, Corporate) are published on the pricing page, so on paper you can buy without a sales call.
How we priced it
Every figure was read from Oxylabs’ own pricing page on 2026-09-19 and logged with its source URL. Two fields on that page are empty: pool size and country count. In the dataset they are marked not published — we do not fill them with figures from third-party roundups, and this page repeats that finding out loud.
Pricing (as of 2026-09-19)
| Product | Published price (as of 2026-09-19) | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| Residential Proxies | from $6.00/GB | “Starts from” per the pricing page |
| Datacenter Proxies | not published | Free trial available; no price shown |
| Mobile Proxies | from $7.50/GB | “Starts from” |
| SOCKS5 Proxies | from $8.00/GB | “Starts from” |
| Web Unblocker | from $9.40/GB | “Starts from” |
| ISP Proxies | from $16.00/GB | “Starts from” |
| Web Scraper API | from $49.00/mo | “Starts from” |
Source: Oxylabs pricing page, read . “From” prices are as printed; the datacenter row has no published price.
What we tested on real machines
We run real sessions through the products we can reach without a sales process and record what we observe — rotation behaviour, sticky-session duration, targeting behaviour — against the procedure on How we test. What we did not measure, we label. Pool size, response times and success rates claimed elsewhere by Oxylabs are not on the pricing page we sourced, so they do not appear here as facts.
What the pricing page does not tell you
- The pool is invisible. No pool size, no country count, no session-type table on the pricing page as of 2026-09-19. For a provider charging the channel’s highest entry rate, that is the single biggest gap a buyer hits.
- The datacenter row has no price. You can request a free trial, but the page prints no rate. That is a not published cell, not a missing one.
- “From” is doing real work. $6.00/GB residential and $16.00/GB ISP are “starts from” figures. The tier you actually buy is likely higher; the page does not print a per-tier table.
The bottom line
Oxylabs is the right buy for one specific shape of buyer: someone running managed scraping pipelines who wants a rep and enterprise contracts, and who will not blink at from-$6.00/GB residential or from-$49/mo APIs. For anyone comparing plain per-GB rates, every other provider in this channel publishes a cheaper entry, and most publish a pool size. Score: 6.0/10. The field it competes in is ranked on best residential proxies of September 2026.
Who wrote this
Written by the Runein operator — the same person who pays for and runs these tools. Corrections and vendor price changes go to [email protected] and are re-read, re-dated and logged.
Pros
- Broadest published product line in the dataset: residential, datacenter, mobile, ISP, SOCKS5, web scraper API, web unblocker
- Free IPs program plus free trials on datacenter and the Web Scraper API (published, 2026-09-19)
- Self-service plans (Starter to Corporate) so you can buy without a sales call, on paper
Cons
- Residential entry from $6.00/GB — the most expensive published entry in this channel
- Pool size and country count not published on the pricing page as of 2026-09-19
- Datacenter proxies have no published price — 'free trial available' only
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FAQ
How much does Oxylabs cost?
Does Oxylabs publish its pool size?
Is Oxylabs good for web scraping?
Is there a free trial?
Why is Oxylabs rated 6.0 when it has the broadest product line?
Sources
- Oxylabs — pricing (read 2026-09-19)
- Oxylabs — official site