Score Breakdown
Pros
- Largest residential pool of any proxy server
- Cheap data when purchased in bulk
- Proxies available in over 195 countries
- Customer support with real humans
- Third-party software integrations for developers
Cons
- Setup can be daunting for new proxy users
- Documentation isn’t as thorough for beginners as other proxies
Oxylabs is the largest proxy server around, with more than 175 million IPs available in its residential proxy pool. Those aren’t empty calories, either. Oxylabs’ IPs have some of the lowest fraud scores in the industry, meaning they’re least likely to be identified as bots when conducting market research or utilizing web scraping tools.
Oxylabs is clearly targeted towards enterprise customers rather than individual users looking to buy rare sneakers or concert tickets. Within minutes of setting up my account, a representative from Oxylabs had reached out offering to hop on a call to explore options. That enterprise focus is evidenced by Oxylabs’ pricing structure, too: Its residential plans are pricey when you pay by the gig, but some of the cheapest around if you pay for 1TB monthly.
Enterprise customers will likely be thrilled by Oxylabs’ suite of APIs and third-party software integrations, but I could also see how a new user could easily be overwhelmed by all the options. Fortunately, Oxylabs has excellent customer service options. While I found its documentation lacking compared to Decodo’s (our pick for the best proxy for individuals), Oxylabs’ web chat helpfully includes an option to chat with a human, and I found its support team to be extremely responsive and helpful.
Cost
Like almost all residential proxy servers, Oxylabs’ prices-per-GB decrease as you purchase larger chunks of data. Oxylabs’ value score was in the middle of the pack overall for proxy servers I tested, but that is slightly skewed by its expensive pay-per-GB plans.
| Plan | Residential price (per GB) | Mobile (per GB) |
|---|---|---|
| Pay As You Go | $4.00 | $4.00 |
| 13GB | $3.87 | $3.75 |
| 40GB | $3.75 | $3.50 |
| 86GB | $3.49 | $3.25 |
| 133GB | $3.01 | $3.00 |
| 318GB | $2.75 | $2.75 |
| 1000GB | $2.00 | Custom |
For enterprise customers who will be using more than 100GB of data a month, its pricing is competitive with any other proxy company I saw. Only Webshare and DataImpulse had lower prices for 1TB plans, and both of those companies have significantly smaller and inferior proxy pools compared to Oxylabs.
One downside is that Oxylabs doesn’t have as many pre-set residential data packages as other companies. If your company needs, say, 500GB of residential proxy server data each month, you’d be stuck in the 318GB tier and topping off the extra 182GB each month at the same price. But that’s a relatively minor quibble: Oxylabs is still cheaper than most residential proxy servers at this level, even with its limited options.
| Plan | Oxylabs (per GB) | Decodo (per GB) | Webshare (per GB) | Infatica (per GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay As You Go | $4.00 | $3.50 | $3.50 | $4.00 |
| 25GB | $3.87 (13GB) | $5.20 | $2.60 | $3.84 |
| 50GB | $3.75 (40GB) | $4.90 | $2.45 | None |
| 100GB | $3.49 (86GB) | $4.50 | $2.25 | $3.60 |
| 250GB | $2.75 (318GB) | $4.00 | $2.00 | $2.90 (241GB) |
| 500GB | None | $3.50 | $1.75 | $2.70 |
| 1000GB | $2.00 | $3.00 | $1.50 | $2.60 |
The price for Oxylabs’ ISP and datacenter proxies are less impressive. Most proxies charge by the IP address for these plans instead of by data usage. With both types, Oxylabs was more expensive than our other proxy server top picks, Decodo and Webshare. It charges $1.60 for 10 ISP IPs, compared to $1.41 for Decodo.
Performance
To evaluate Oxylabs’ performance, I turned to Proxyway’s 2025 Research report, which sends out over a million requests every year to top proxy servers to measure things like success rate, response time and IP quality. I also spent a few days using Oxylabs’ residential proxy servers myself to get a feel for its usability and performance under real-world conditions.
Oxylabs received our second-highest score for performance overall -- just behind our top pick, Decodo. Its success rate and response time are excellent, but it’s truly peerless in the size and quality of its proxy pool.
Proxy pool and quality
Oxylabs advertises a residential proxy pool of 175 million IPs, which is 20 million more than second-place SOAX. You can target proxies in 151 countries or 10,439 cities, or even by state or ASN (Autonomous System Number) if you want to route your traffic through a specific carrier.
This large number of available IP addresses is essential to avoiding bot detection for companies using proxy servers for things like web scraping and data aggregation. But Oxylabs doesn’t just have a large quantity of IPs in its pool -- they’re some of the highest quality, too.
According to the Proxyway report, Oxylabs has the highest number of unique IPs in the global proxy pool. Because you won’t be sharing these addresses with other users, your company is less likely to be blocked by the target website or service provider.
Oxylabs has the highest number of unique IPs in the global proxy pool.
Proxyway also used an industry metric called IPQualityScore (IPQS), which is used to detect sketchy-looking IPs. Any IP over 90% is likely to be flagged as “high-risk users likely to engage in malicious behavior” by targets. Oxylabs had the third-highest percentage of IPs with a fraud score below 75% in the global pool of IPv4 addresses, and second-highest in the US.
Oxylabs had the third highest percentage of addresses below 90% in its global pool.
Success rate and response time
Oxylabs had the best infrastructure success rate of any residential proxy server, achieving an uptime of 99.9%. That means you can expect it to successfully complete any task you assign through its proxies almost every time. Oxylabs had a particularly strong success rate with popular targets like Amazon (95.76%), Google (91.76%) and Instagram (92.33%), which are more adept at detecting proxy activity.
Oxylabs had a 93.28% average success rate with popular targets.
You can also expect your requests to run near-instantaneously through Oxylabs. It recorded an average response time of 0.65 seconds -- just barely behind Decodo’s top score of 0.63 seconds.
That’s still about 50 times slower than the average internet connection in the US without a proxy, but again, all things are relative with proxy servers, and it’s less important for automated use cases like web scraping than it would be for an individual user. (If you want to maintain privacy over a faster internet connection, a VPN is a much better option than a proxy server, though it comes with its own caveats. You can learn more about the difference between the two in our guide.)
Oxylabs had the second-lowest average response times in its global pool of any popular proxy server.
Features and usability
Oxylabs has more third-party integrations and APIs than any other proxy server I tested. That’s great if you’re a business looking to collect data on a large scale, but less so if you’re an individual user who’s new to the space.
Let’s start with the good. If you’re already using software for market analysis or web scraping, there’s a good chance Oxylabs offers an integration with it. The representative I chatted with recommended using AdsPower to connect to a residential proxy.
Oxylabs recommends using a third-party integration like AdsPower to manage your proxies.
I wasn’t exactly psyched to have to download another app to use my Oxylabs data, but once I got in there, I could see how appealing it would be if you were managing a high volume of tasks. It lets you manage multiple browser profiles and proxies at once, so you can run multiple projects simultaneously without being flagged as suspicious. Oxylabs has guides for more than 30 integrations like AdsPower, which is especially appealing for enterprise customers who are already embedded in specific software.
But Oxylabs does require a little more technical know-how than other proxy servers I tested. It seems designed for an audience of developers, and I missed some of the hand-holding I got from other companies. Fortunately, Oxylabs’ web chat includes an option to chat with a human, so I was able to connect with an actual person within a few minutes to walk me through the process.
It was more cumbersome in less obvious ways, too. For example, while Decodo lets you choose a country, state, city or ASN (Autonomous System Number) from a dropdown menu, you have to add it manually to the host port name with Oxylabs. If I wanted my traffic to go through a proxy server in Japan, I would have to manually add “jp-pr.oxylabs.io:40000” as the port. That might be second-nature to someone with developing expertise, but I much preferred the dropdown menu.
Oxylabs requires you to add the host port code manually for its proxies.
That’s not to say Oxylabs’ interface is completely impenetrable to a beginner. It has a bare-bones browser extension that lets you connect to your proxies with a single click, and its data dashboard showed me everything I needed to know. That said, I found myself missing Decodo’s tools, which allowed me to check my data usage right from the browser extension.
Oxylabs’ browser extension (left) and data tracking dashboard (right) were in line with tools offered by other proxy servers.
Oxylabs’ proxy networks
I’ve focused primarily on Oxylabs’ residential proxy servers for this review, as those are the most commonly used type, but Oxylabs offers the full suite of options, including mobile, ISP and datacenter proxy servers.
Mobile
Oxylabs only has 20 million IPs in its mobile proxy pool. That doesn’t sound like much compared to its 175 million residential proxies, but it’s still good for the second-largest overall behind SOAX’s 33 million. That said, it ranked first in unique mobile IPs, which is arguably more attractive for enterprise customers.
Its mobile proxy performance is outstanding all around, with the highest infrastructure success rate (99.94%) and lowest response time (0.57 seconds). But you’ll pay more for that horsepower: Oxylabs’ mobile proxies are significantly more expensive than its residential plans, and well above Decodo’s prices.
| Plan | Oxylabs (per GB) | Decodo (per GB) | Infatica (per GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay As You Go | $5.40 | $4.00 | $8.00 |
| 25GB | $4.92 (12GB) | $3.25 | $6.50 (20GB) |
| 50GB | $4.74 (38GB) | $3.00 | $6.00 (40GB) |
| 100GB | $4.50 (80GB) | $2.75 | $5.00 |
| 250GB | $3.60 (292GB) | $2.50 | $4.00 (200GB) |
| 500GB | $3.00 (600GB) | $2.25 | Custom |
Datacenter
Oxylabs has the largest collection of datacenter proxies in the world, with over 8 million IPs available in total, and 40,000 in its rotating pool. Datacenter proxy servers are usually the cheapest of any type, and Oxylabs is no exception. The first five shared datacenter IPs are free with Oxylabs, and go down to $0.75 per IP if you buy 1,000 at a time. Most datacenter proxies charge by the IP rather than the GB, but Oxylabs offers both, along with the ability to pay for dedicated datacenter IPs exclusively.
ISP (static residential)
Internet service provider (ISP) proxy servers -- sometimes called static residential -- use IP addresses from real ISPs, but the servers are hosted on datacenters. Because these aren’t IPs from actual end-users, they tend to be a little cheaper than residential proxies while fulfilling a similar need.
Oxylabs offers both shared and dedicated ISP proxies, but “dedicated” is a bit of a misnomer -- these are actually shared with up to three other users. Oxylabs’ shared ISP proxies start at $1.60 per IP when you purchase 10 at a time, while its dedicated ISP proxies cost $3.20 per IP for five IPs.
The bottom line
If you look at the nuts and bolts of proxy server performance, Oxylabs is as close to perfect as it gets. It has the largest pool of residential IPs, its success rate and response time are first-class and it holds up under the microscope of popular targets like Amazon, Google and Instagram.
Oxylabs’ only real flaw is that it’s not as beginner-friendly as other proxy servers. But viewed through the lens of an enterprise customer, I could easily see how that could be framed as a positive. It has a vast collection of APIs and third-party software integrations that allow developers to track their data collection across multiple proxies. While that’s a little intimidating for someone who’s new to proxy servers, it’s an enormous asset for anyone with the technical skills who can make the most of them.
