Oxylabs review (2026): the biggest measured pool, on enterprise terms

Oxylabs pricing (as of October 2026)

Plans

Starter $30/mo, Basic $100, Flexible $500, Enterprise $2,500+²

Per-GB tiers

$6 (up to 5 GB), $5 (up to 20 GB), $4 (up to 125 GB), $2.50 (1 TB+)²

Billing model

Subscription only — “Single subscription. All product access.”³

Expiry

Plans expire monthly²

Trial

$5 welcome credit²

Refund

Self-service purchases are non-refundable²

Subscription only

Oxylabs has moved to a single subscription that covers all its products³. For residential traffic the per-GB rate falls with plan size: $6 up to 5 GB (the $30 Starter plan), $5 up to 20 GB, $4 up to 125 GB and $2.50 from 1 TB, with Basic, Flexible and Enterprise plans at $100, $500 and $2,500-plus a month². There is no pay-as-you-go option.

Plans expire monthly and self-service purchases are non-refundable². Put those together and the effective price for an irregular buyer can be far above the headline: pay $100 for a month in which you use 8 GB, and you have paid $12.50 a gigabyte. A $5 welcome credit lets you try the network first².

At 1 TB, $2,500 a month is more than three times Rayobyte’s pay-as-you-go price for the same volume and about five times Evomi’s plan^4,5. You are paying for the measured pool and the enterprise relationship, not for traffic.

Targeting, protocols and sessions

Targeting

Country, city, ZIP, coordinates and ASN²

Protocols

HTTP(S), SOCKS5 and HTTP/3²

Sticky sessions

Any duration up to 24 hours¹

Targeting is as deep as anyone’s here except Bright Data’s carrier option: country, city, ZIP, coordinates and ASN². Protocols include SOCKS5 and HTTP/3, and sticky sessions can be any length up to 24 hours¹. The single subscription also covers Oxylabs’ other products, including its rebuilt Web API for scraping and Google results⁶ — useful if you would buy those anyway.

Sourcing, KYC and trust

Pool

Claims 175M+ in 195 countries; Proxyway measured 3,241,404 unique IPs¹

KYC

May be required for advanced filters; publishes a list of refused targets such as banks, government and ticketing sites

Account security

No two-factor authentication, per Proxyway¹

Oxylabs claims more than 175 million IPs in 195 countries; Proxyway’s count is the measured figure above. KYC may be required to unlock advanced filters, and Oxylabs publishes a list of target categories it refuses, such as banks, government and ticketing sites. Proxyway notes that the dashboard lacks two-factor authentication¹ — an odd gap for an enterprise vendor holding prepaid balances.

Independent performance evidence

Oxylabs’ results are the strongest in the April 2026 round on success (99.93%) and pool size, and second on speed behind Decodo’s 0.53 s^1,7. As ever, these are infrastructure tests on a small page; they show a fast, broad network, not a guaranteed pass on a hard target.

Third-party figures are snapshots from the stated date, on the tester’s targets and setup; see our methodology for how we use each source.

Pros and cons

Who should pick Oxylabs — and who shouldn’t

Pick it if

• You spend steadily every month and value the largest measured pool.
• You need coordinate or ASN targeting at scale.
• You also want Oxylabs’ scraping and search APIs on the same subscription.

Skip it if

• Your volume varies month to month — Decodo offers similar measured results with pay-as-you-go.
• You need a refund option on a self-service purchase.
• You buy terabytes on price — Rayobyte charges $0.70/GB without a plan⁴.

Alternatives to Oxylabs

• Decodo review — similar measured results with pay-as-you-go.
• Bright Data review — the strictest KYC and carrier-level targeting.
• Rayobyte review — terabyte-scale traffic at $0.70/GB without a subscription.

For the full picture, see the best residential proxies by use case, the price-per-GB tables and our index of all eleven reviews.