Oxylabs Review 2026 ✓

Key takeaways

The TL;DR. 6 headline facts about Oxylabs pulled from our test rig + their public documentation.

• ▸Oxylabs operates 177M+ IPs (175M+ residential) across 195 countries from its Vilnius, Lithuania HQ, with a 99.95% success rate on its Web Scraper API — built since 2015 around enterprise residential proxies and an opt-in SDK supply chain rather than incentivised app installs.
• ▸Compliance is the moat: ISO 27001 (information security), ISO 27701 (privacy information management — Bright Data does not hold this), GDPR alignment, and SOC 2 Type II currently in audit make Oxylabs the default pick for regulated industry scraping in finance, pharma, and insurance.
• ▸OxyCopilot, the AI-powered scraping assistant, is bundled FREE with every Web Scraper API plan — it generates parser logic and selectors from natural-language prompts, turning Oxylabs into a no-code data extraction stack for analysts who don't want to write XPath.
• ▸Web Unblocker is a separate proxy product that auto-handles Cloudflare, PerimeterX, and DataDome, while the SERP Scraper API and Real-Time Crawler cover Google/Bing and e-commerce intelligence at scale with structured JSON output.
• ▸Entry pricing starts at $99/month on residential ($4/GB headline, $8/GB pay-as-you-go) — a hard floor that locks out hobbyists by design; Pro tier and above include a dedicated 24/7 account manager and enterprise SLA, with a 7-day money-back guarantee.
• ▸Mandatory KYC verification (24-48 hour clearance) plus a strict acceptance policy means Oxylabs refuses social-media PII scraping, ad-fraud surveillance, and competitor-ad spying — if those are your workloads, you'll be rejected at intake.

The verdict

Independent nightly benchmarks since March 2024 — here's where Oxylabs lands.

What we think after testing Oxylabs

Editorial review by Helena Björk · last tested May 31, 2026

How to Scrape Amazon Without Getting Blocked

Watch our hands-on walkthrough of Oxylabs — dashboard, API, real workload, the bits the marketing pages skip.

Live performance

Numbers from our continuous test rig — same workloads, every month.

Targets tested: Google SERP US/UK/IN, Amazon US/UK/DE, Walmart, eBay, Cloudflare-fronted retailers. Concurrency: 200. Run nightly since Mar 2024. Full data in our methodology page →

Performance vs the market

How Oxylabs compares to the directory-wide average across our four standard target panels. = market average, bar fill = Oxylabs.

Sample size: 120+ providers with published benchmark data. Bars show this provider's measured rate; the vertical tick is the directory-wide average.

IP pool size — ranked

Where Oxylabs ranks against the largest networks in the directory. Bars are scaled to 226M.

Bars rank total advertised IP pool size. Oxylabs publishes 177M+ IPs — see the full breakdown in the specs above.

Pricing

Volume discounts apply across types. Prices in USD, parsed May 31, 2026.

Proxy types offered

4 types available. Pricing varies by type and volume.

Features & integrations

What's included out of the box.

Network & infrastructure

How the pool is built, refreshed and addressed.

Sourcing: Ethically sourced residential IPs with full transparency

SDK, API & integrations

Languages, endpoints and tooling shipped out of the box.

Code examples

Drop-in snippets to start using Oxylabs from your stack. Replace USER, PASS and the gateway with what you get from your dashboard.

# pip install requests
import requests

proxy = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
resp = requests.get(
    "https://httpbin.org/ip",
    proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy},
    timeout=10,
)
print(resp.json())

// npm install undici
import { fetch, ProxyAgent } from "undici";

const dispatcher = new ProxyAgent("http://USER:[email protected]:7777");
const resp = await fetch("https://httpbin.org/ip", { dispatcher });
console.log(await resp.json());

curl -x http://USER:[email protected]:7777 \
  https://httpbin.org/ip \
  --max-time 10

# scrapy-rotating-proxies works with any provider gateway
# settings.py:
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
    "scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware": 400,
}
HTTP_PROXY = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
HTTPS_PROXY = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"

// npm install playwright
import { chromium } from "playwright";

const browser = await chromium.launch({
  proxy: {
    server: "http://gate.oxylabs.com:7777",
    username: "USER",
    password: "PASS",
  },
});
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto("https://httpbin.org/ip");
console.log(await page.locator("body").innerText());
await browser.close();

Need more? Oxylabs's official docs have language-specific quickstarts and SDK references.

Use-case suitability

How well this provider performs by workload, scored 1–10 from our test rig.

Independent benchmarks

Last run 2026-05-06

Compliance & privacy

Auditable certifications, sourcing and data-handling posture.

Ethically sourced residential IPs with full transparency

Enterprise & governance

Identity, access control and partner programs for larger teams.

Support & account

How they pick up the phone — and who answers.

Add-ons & products

Sister products and operations resources.

Company & resources

Who builds and operates this product.

Key markets covered

195+ countries served. City & ASN targeting available.

Oxylabs vs alternatives

How Oxylabs stacks up against the closest providers in our directory. Tap any column header to read that review.

How to get started with Oxylabs

A 5-minute walkthrough from sign-up to your first successful request. Total setup time: ~10 minutes.

1. 1

   Create the account and clear the KYC interview

   Sign up at oxylabs.io with a business email — free addresses like gmail.com slow review. Within 24-48 hours a compliance officer schedules a short KYC interview (usually 15 minutes on Google Meet) where you describe your target sites, data volumes, and lawful basis. Pharma, fintech, and ad-tech buyers should mention their use case explicitly; social-media PII scraping, ad-fraud research, and competitor-ad surveillance will be refused at this stage, so don't pitch them.

2. 2

   Pick the right product: Residential, Web Unblocker, or Web Scraper API

   Choose Residential Proxies ($4/GB at scale, $8/GB pay-as-you-go, $99/month minimum) for raw IP rotation, ISP proxies (static residential) for long sessions, or datacenter proxies for non-protected targets. If targets sit behind Cloudflare, PerimeterX, or DataDome, switch to Web Unblocker — it's a proxy endpoint that ships with auto-rotation and JS rendering. For structured output, the Web Scraper API and SERP Scraper API return parsed JSON and include OxyCopilot at no extra cost.

3. 3

   Generate credentials in the dashboard and whitelist your IPs

   Inside the Oxylabs dashboard, open the Residential Proxies section to create a sub-user, set bandwidth caps, and choose authentication: username/password or IP whitelist. Country, city, and ASN targeting are configured in the username string (e.g. customer-USER-cc-de-city-berlin). The Statistics tab shows real-time bandwidth, success rate, and target-domain breakdowns — useful for catching ban patterns before they burn budget.

4. 4

   Build your first scraper with OxyCopilot

   Inside any Web Scraper API plan, open OxyCopilot from the dashboard sidebar. Paste a target URL (Amazon, Walmart, LinkedIn job board, etc.) and describe the fields you want in plain English — 'product title, price, rating, ASIN, seller name.' OxyCopilot generates the parsing instructions, returns sample JSON, and lets you export a ready-to-call API request. For e-commerce intelligence and ad verification at scale, this typically replaces 1-2 days of selector engineering.

5. 5

   Wire up monitoring and engage your account manager

   Pro tier and above assigns a dedicated 24/7 account manager (named contact, not a shared inbox). Schedule a 30-minute onboarding call to walk through SLA commitments, concurrency limits, and country-pool sizing for your targets. Set up alerts in the Statistics dashboard for success-rate drops below 99% — that's the early warning that a target has updated its anti-bot stack and you should route through Web Unblocker instead.

Stuck? Check Oxylabs's documentation or email us.

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