Oxylabs Review
A large, very reliable network at a price that only works above a terabyte a month.
The short version
- Our own October rerun led four of the five countries we measured, with 212,212 live US addresses against Oxylabs' 140,811. Oxylabs kept Germany, where we trailed by only 5.8%.
- Responses were consistent but not fast: our own 377 ms to 463 ms against its 646 ms to 752 ms on average, on the same targets from the same machine.
- Network spread is where the pool thins out. In France its addresses came from 93 networks against our 147, so a large pool sits on comparatively few operators.
- Price is the deciding factor. The $2.50 per GB headline needs a $2,500 monthly commitment, and the entry tier is $6 per GB.
At a glance
What we measured
Live IPs each network had answering during the same test window, five countries, identical request volumes and concurrency for both sides.
| Country | Oxylabs | Shifter | Networks |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 140,811 | 212,212 | 1,591 |
| United Kingdom | 46,394 | 60,487 | 188 |
| France | 36,888 | 49,449 | 93 |
| Canada | 28,783 | 45,517 | 228 |
| Germany | 23,804 | 22,428 | 183 |
How big is the pool, really
Oxylabs advertises 175M+ residential IPs. Like every advertised pool figure in this industry, that is a lifetime total: every address the network has ever seen, across every country, accumulated over years. It is a real number and a useful measure of reach, but it is not the number that decides whether your crawl finishes. So we measured that one instead: how many distinct addresses actually answer in a given country during a single test window.
Across five countries Oxylabs served 276,680 live IPs. In the United States it returned 140,811 from 250,000 requests, one of the highest single-country figures in the series. Our own network, re-measured on 7 October 2026 with the identical test, returned 212,212 there, 50.7% more. Germany is the one country Oxylabs kept: we trailed there by only 5.8%, 22,428 against 23,804.
The United Kingdom, France and Canada went our way too, with 60,487, 49,449 and 45,517 live IPs against Oxylabs' 46,394, 36,888 and 28,783. Across all five, we served 390,093 live addresses against Oxylabs' 276,680, 41% more, so only Germany was close.
Advertised totals count every address a network has ever seen. Residential IPs rotate all day as real devices come and go, so both figures are real, they just answer different questions. Ours answers what you can reach at once.
Reliability and speed
This is the part of the review where Oxylabs is simply the best network we have tested. Nothing else in the series came back that clean.
If your pipeline is unattended and a failed request costs you a retry, a queue slot or a partial dataset, that consistency is worth real money and it is the strongest argument for paying their rate.
Speed is a different story. Average response times ran from 646 ms in Germany to 752 ms in the United States. Consistent, but our own ran 377 ms to 463 ms on the same targets from the same machine. For interactive work or anything latency-bound, that gap compounds.
Network spread, and why it matters more than pool size
A pool of a given size behaves very differently depending on how many separate network operators it sits across. Anti-bot systems key on the network an address belongs to, so a hundred thousand addresses spread over 1,600 operators is harder to fingerprint than the same count concentrated on 200.
In the United States we reached 1,828 networks against Oxylabs' 1,591, a 15% wider spread. Europe is where it thins: our 147 networks in France against its 93, and 272 in Germany against its 183. The United Kingdom is the one country where it leads us on spread, our 166 against its 188.
Read alongside the pool figures, that produces the honest summary of this network: in Germany, the one country where it holds more addresses than we do, they sit on about two thirds of our operators.
What it actually costs
The rate quoted in most comparisons is $2.50 per GB. That is real, and it requires the Corporate plan at $2,500 a month for a terabyte. Below that the ladder is $4 per GB at 125 GB, $5 at 20 GB and $6 at the 5 GB entry tier.
So the honest way to read Oxylabs pricing is by the volume you will actually buy. A team using 100 GB a month is looking at roughly $4 per GB, not $2.50, which puts it among the most expensive options in the market at that size.
For context on the same page of the market, our own rate is $2.00 per GB at entry and $0.75 at volume, and we publish the whole ladder without a sales call. That is a disclosed interest, not a neutral observation, which is exactly why the performance figures above come from a test anyone can repeat.
Buying and running it
Oxylabs runs KYC on residential proxy accounts and enforces a prohibited-domain list, which is normal for the enterprise tier of this market and slower than self-serve rivals. The free trial exists but is granted on request rather than by signing up.
The dashboard covers sub-users, access control and usage reporting, and the documentation is among the better sets in the industry. Integration is standard: a gateway host, credentials, and country or city targeting through parameters, so moving to or from it is a configuration change rather than a rewrite.
Pricing
| Plan | Traffic | Per GB | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 5 GB | $6.00 | $30 |
| Basic | 20 GB | $5.00 | $100 |
| Advanced | 125 GB | $4.00 | $500 |
| Corporate | 1 TB | $2.50 | $2,500 |
Pros and cons
- A very large US pool, 140,811 live addresses, among the highest we have measured
- Near-total country coverage at 195+, with city and ASN targeting
- Near-total country coverage at 195+
- Unlimited concurrency, sticky sessions up to 24 hours, HTTP3 and SOCKS5
- Strong documentation, sub-user controls and enterprise support
- $2.50 per GB needs a $2,500 monthly commitment; real-world rates are $4 to $6
- Responses 1.4 to 1.9 times slower than ours on identical targets
- Thin network spread in Europe, 93 operators in France against our 147
- KYC and a request-only trial slow down evaluation
- A smaller live pool than ours in four of five countries, ahead only in Germany, narrowly
Who Oxylabs is for
- You run enterprise volume, a terabyte a month or more, where the $2.50 rate is actually reachable.
- You need a deep, very consistent US pool in a single window and are not price sensitive.
- You want consistency above all else, and are not price sensitive.
- You want compliance paperwork, a dedicated account manager and formal SLAs.
- You are under a terabyte a month, where the effective rate is $4 to $6 per GB.
- Latency matters to your job, since its responses ran 1.4 to 1.9 times ours.
- You need broad network diversity in Europe rather than raw address count.
- You want to start small without talking to sales.
How we scored it
| Criterion | Weight | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live pool measured | 25% | 6.9 | 276,680 IPs live across five countries, against the tested field. |
| Network spread measured | 20% | 8 | 2,283 distinct networks across five countries. |
| Price per GB measured | 25% | 5.9 | $2.50 per GB, which requires the 1 TB Corporate plan at $2,500 a month. A 125 GB buyer pays $4.00 and the entry tier is $6.00. |
| Response time measured | 10% | 8.8 | 700 ms average across the countries tested. |
| Country coverage | 10% | 10 | 195+ countries advertised, scaled against full global coverage. |
| Features | 5% | 9.5 | HTTP(S), HTTP3 and SOCKS5, unlimited concurrency, 24 hour sticky sessions, city and ASN targeting, sub-user access control. Close to the most complete feature set in the market. |
| Transparency | 5% | 7 | The full price ladder and pool claims are published without a sales call, which many rivals do not do. Marked down because the trial is request-only and the headline rate needs a commitment that is easy to miss. |