Oxylabs Pricing Breakdown: How Much Does It Really Cost in 2026?

Oxylabs does not have one universal price. It sells raw proxy access, fixed proxy allocations, managed web access, a scraping API, hosted browser infrastructure, AI extraction tools, and datasets. Each product uses a different billing model.

Quick Answer

Oxylabs pricing starts at $30/month for 5GB of Residential Proxy traffic ($6/GB) and $30/month for 4GB of Mobile Proxy traffic ($7.50/GB). Its Help Center also lists non-subscription PAYG at $8/GB for residential and $9/GB for mobile, with a 1GB minimum and a 50GB monthly purchase limit.

Fixed-IP plans start at $16/month for 10 shared ISP IPs or 5 dedicated ISP IPs. Datacenter options start at $6.75 for 3 dedicated IPs, $12 for 10 shared IPs, or $11.80 for 20GB. Managed products start at $49/month for Web Scraper API, a $75 list price for 8GB of Web Unblocker, and $300 for 50GB of Headless Browser traffic. AI Studio starts at $12/month for 3,000 credits; standard datasets start at $400/month and custom datasets at $800/month.

An allowance-based plan's advertised unit rate assumes full use. Consuming 50GB on the $500 Residential Advanced plan costs an effective $10/used GB—not $4. Unused monthly service normally does not transfer to the next month, while PAYG is valid for three months. Taxes, top-ups, target eligibility, promotions, and product-specific billing rules can also change the total.

Key Takeaways

• Residential Proxies start at $30/month for 5GB. Larger public plans cost $100 for 20GB, $500 for 125GB, and $2,500 for 1TB.
• Residential and mobile PAYG exist, but their public rates are higher than the smallest subscription rates. Oxylabs' Help Center lists residential at $8/GB and mobile at $9/GB, with 1–50GB available per month.
• The lowest advertised rate requires a large monthly payment. Residential reaches $2.50/GB and mobile reaches $3.50/GB only on $2,500 monthly plans.
• Unused monthly service does not normally roll over. Oxylabs' General Conditions say a monthly amount is valid for one month unless the statement of work provides another term; PAYG service is valid for three months.
• “Unlimited bandwidth” does not mean unlimited concurrency under every condition. On per-IP ISP and datacenter products, documented fair-use thresholds reduce concurrent sessions from 100 to 10 per IP for the rest of the billing cycle.
• Managed products use different meters. Web Scraper API bills results, Web Unblocker and Headless Browser bill managed traffic, AI Studio uses credits, and datasets start with monthly or custom pricing.
• Compare cost per valid record, not only cost per GB or IP. Managed billing can count 2xx or 4xx target responses as successful, while underused allowances, retries, page weight, wrong locations, taxes, compute, and engineering can all change the real cost.

Methodology and disclosure: Proxidize publishes this article and competes with Oxylabs. We checked public prices, plan limits, billing rules, free trials, and product documentation against Oxylabs' first-party pages on September 10, 2026. Calculations are labeled as calculations. We did not purchase every plan, obtain a custom enterprise quote, or run a shared performance benchmark. Prices are in USD before any applicable VAT or sales tax and can change. For a wider market comparison, see the Proxy Pricing Index 2026.

Oxylabs Pricing at a Glance

This is not a single price ladder. Five dedicated datacenter IPs, 100GB of rotating residential traffic, 100,000 managed results, and 100GB of hosted browser traffic solve different problems. Select the product layer first, then compare its plans.

Oxylabs vs. Proxidize: Quick Price Comparison

For buyers primarily comparing raw residential and mobile proxy access, the public prices are easier to compare directly:

The 500GB Oxylabs row is the smallest fully published bundle that covers the requirement without guessing a top-up price. Oxylabs permits top-ups, and an account-specific top-up or custom offer may cost less than the $2,500 Corporate plan. Confirm the dashboard rate before treating the table as a quote.

These are public price comparisons, not performance rankings. Oxylabs may be the better fit when a buyer needs its wider product catalog, 140+ country mobile coverage, more granular residential location selectors, managed extraction products, or enterprise procurement. Proxidize is the simpler cost comparison when the requirement is raw residential or mobile proxy access.

How Oxylabs Pricing Works

Oxylabs' catalog uses six main billing units:

A raw proxy changes the network route while your application handles retrieval logic and validation. Web Unblocker manages more of the access layer, Web Scraper API can retrieve and parse supported sources, and Headless Browser supplies remote browser infrastructure. Their prices are not interchangeable. See Raw Proxies vs. Scraping APIs if the appropriate layer is not yet clear.

Oxylabs Residential Proxy Pricing

Oxylabs Residential Proxies are billed by traffic. The public subscription page includes free geo-targeting, rotating and sticky sessions, HTTP(S), HTTP/3, and SOCKS5 support, unlimited concurrent sessions, three proxy users, and up to ten whitelisted IPs.

Residential Subscription Plans

The card rate assumes full use of the included allowance. A buyer who consumes only part of a plan pays a higher effective rate:

Forecast a typical and peak month rather than selecting the card with the smallest printed unit rate.

Oxylabs Residential PAYG

Oxylabs' current pricing-limit documentation lists Residential Proxy PAYG at $8/GB, with a 1GB minimum, a 50GB maximum purchase per month, and no refund. This option is not displayed alongside the four subscriptions on the main Residential pricing page, so readers who only compare the plan cards may miss it.

Against $8/GB PAYG, the direct fee break-even for each subscription is:

These are direct comparisons with $8 PAYG, not plan recommendations. At 10GB, PAYG costs $80; Basic costs $100 and includes 20GB. A smaller subscription plus top-up may produce another total, but Oxylabs does not publish every top-up unit rate on the plan cards. Check the dashboard quote rather than assuming the printed plan rate carries over.

Targeting and Session Features Included

Oxylabs documents 195 residential countries with continent, country, state, city, ZIP/postal code, coordinate, and ASN targeting at no added geography fee. It also supports rotating and sticky sessions plus IP-version and operating-system filters; some advanced filtering can require KYC.

Oxylabs Mobile Proxy Pricing

Oxylabs Mobile Proxies use the same bandwidth-plan structure at higher rates. The public page advertises 140+ countries, free location targeting, HTTP(S), HTTP/3 and SOCKS5, unlimited concurrent sessions, and static sessions up to 24 hours.

Mobile Subscription Plans

The same Help Center page lists Mobile PAYG at $9/GB, with a 1GB minimum, a 50GB monthly maximum, and no refund. At 10GB, PAYG costs $90 while Basic costs $100 and includes 15GB. At 100GB, Advanced costs $500. The 140+ country coverage can justify a premium when international mobile egress is required; otherwise, test whether residential or datacenter routes already meet the workload.

Oxylabs ISP Proxy Pricing

Oxylabs sells shared and dedicated ISP proxies per IP with long-lived sessions and unlimited bandwidth subject to fair use. Shared IPs can be assigned to up to three users; dedicated IPs provide full control.

Shared ISP Proxies

The ISP pricing page lists 25 locations, HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5, unlimited-duration sessions, and a one-time support-assisted trial.

Dedicated ISP Proxies

The Dedicated ISP page lists 25 locations, premium-ASN selection, HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5, full IP control, and unlimited-duration sessions.

What “Unlimited Bandwidth With Fair Usage” Means

Oxylabs' shared ISP and dedicated ISP fair-use rules limit concurrency rather than adding a published traffic overage:

The lower limit lasts for the remainder of the cycle. Ten shared ISP IPs therefore provide up to 1,000 concurrent sessions before the aggregate 500GB threshold, then 100. Traffic does not stop, and the policy publishes no per-GB overage. This can be economical, but it is not unlimited concurrency at every usage level.

Oxylabs Datacenter Proxy Pricing

Oxylabs Datacenter pricing provides three self-service models. The live selector changes the unit rate as quantity increases, so the figures below use the minimum selected purchase displayed on September 10, 2026.

The per-IP cards describe unlimited bandwidth with fair use. Current shared Datacenter and Dedicated Datacenter documentation sets these thresholds:

• Shared Datacenter per IP: 100 concurrent sessions per purchased IP until 50GB per IP is reached, then 10 per IP for the rest of the cycle.
• Dedicated Datacenter self-service: 100 concurrent sessions per purchased IP until 100GB per IP is reached, then 10 per IP for the rest of the cycle.
• Shared Datacenter per GB: traffic is limited by the purchased allowance rather than the per-IP fair-use model.

Datacenter can be cheapest when hosting-network IPs work. More blocks or unusable content can erase the price advantage, so test the target before upgrading to another IP type.

Does Oxylabs Have Free Proxies?

Oxylabs offers five free datacenter IPs. They are fixed US IPs, share a combined 5GB monthly traffic allowance, and allow 20 concurrent sessions per user. The IPs cannot be manually replaced or refreshed.

This validates authentication and basic integration, not residential/mobile pool behavior or paid-plan performance.

Oxylabs Web Scraper API Pricing

Web Scraper API retrieves HTML or structured results for supported sources. It bills results at rates that depend on the target and JavaScript use; media downloads are billed separately by GB.

The maximum assumes the cheapest result type. A $49 Micro plan yields up to 98,000 Amazon results without JS, but fewer Google, generic, or rendered results. Mixed workloads need a weighted forecast.

Oxylabs calls this success-based pricing, but its billing documentation counts target responses with 2xx or 4xx codes as billable. Oxylabs-side 5xx/6xx failures and documented rate-limit 429 responses are not. Measure accepted records after parsing because a billable result can still fail business validation.

Oxylabs Web Unblocker Pricing

Web Unblocker is a managed-access product that handles proxy selection, retries, sessions, fingerprints, and optional JavaScript rendering. The customer still handles parsing and business validation.

On September 10, 2026, the page displayed coupon code WU40 and these prices:

The card rates are rounded, so budget from the payment. The visible copy did not specify the promotion's duration; forecast the list price separately and confirm how long WU40 applies.

Web Unblocker bills successful request and response traffic. Its billing documentation counts 2xx and 4xx target responses as successful; Oxylabs-side 5xx failures are not billed, while client-caused failures may be. JavaScript rendering can increase traffic beyond the initial HTML.

Using only 5GB of the 8GB Micro plan costs an effective $9/GB under the promotion or $15/GB at list price.

Oxylabs Headless Browser Pricing

Oxylabs Headless Browser provides remote browser infrastructure compatible with Playwright, Puppeteer, and CDP-based libraries. It includes browser execution, proxy infrastructure, JavaScript rendering, and managed access features.

The page offers a sales-assisted trial. Browser traffic includes page resources and background calls, so estimate usage with production-like navigation and interaction rather than saved HTML size.

Oxylabs AI Studio Pricing

Oxylabs AI Studio packages crawling, scraping, search, mapping, and browser-agent tools behind a credit system.

Credits are not equivalent to requests. On the current table, a scrape without JavaScript generally costs one credit, the same scrape with JavaScript costs four, an AI prompt in supported apps costs ten, and a Browser Agent interaction costs four. Output-format and schema actions can add their own usage. Credits reset at the next billing cycle and do not roll over; when the balance is exhausted, access pauses unless the plan is upgraded.

Forecast a representative mix of fetches, rendering, AI processing, interactions, and outputs. Dividing the monthly fee by the headline credit count alone does not reveal the cost of a finished record or agent task.

Oxylabs Dataset Pricing

Oxylabs Datasets start at $400/month for standard datasets and $800/month for custom datasets or managed data acquisition. Standard delivery can be monthly, quarterly, or a one-time purchase; custom delivery can be daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or scheduled on another cadence.

Those are starting prices, not fixed rates for every dataset. The actual quote depends on the sources, fields, volume, update frequency, validation, format, and delivery requirements. Compare it with the total cost of collecting, parsing, validating, storing, and maintaining the same data internally—not with raw proxy traffic alone.

Six Oxylabs Billing Rules That Change the Final Cost

1. PAYG and Monthly Subscriptions Have Different Lifecycles

Oxylabs' billing-cycle guide says self-service subscriptions begin on the purchase date and automatically authorize renewal. Other contract plans generally start on the first of the month. PAYG does not auto-renew.

Oxylabs' General Conditions say a monthly amount does not transfer unless the statement of work sets another term. PAYG is valid for three months; another purchase extends it by three months. Custom terms can differ.

2. Subscription Top-Ups Apply to the Current Billing Period

The dashboard guide says top-up GB apply to the current billing period. Limits vary, and the public cards omit some top-up rates. Do not assume the subscription's headline rate applies.

3. Unused Traffic Is Generally Not Refundable

Oxylabs' refund guide requires eligible subscription buyers to apply within three days of the first transaction, remain below 20% usage on regular plans or 10% on enterprise plans, and satisfy other account conditions. Residential and Mobile PAYG are non-refundable.

4. VAT or Sales Tax May Be Added

Pricing cards say VAT may apply, and Oxylabs can add applicable sales or similar taxes. Compare tax-inclusive totals.

5. Some Targets Are Restricted or Require Review

Oxylabs restricts some Residential and Mobile targets, while some can be enabled after KYC. PAYG remains non-refundable when a target is unsupported, so confirm eligibility first.

6. “Successful” Managed Output Still Needs Validation

Web Scraper API and Web Unblocker use success-based language, but their billable definitions include 4xx responses from a target. An HTTP response can also contain a challenge, empty result, wrong market, partial parser output, or unexpected page. Your application still needs content and schema validation before counting the output as useful.

How to Calculate the Real Oxylabs Cost

Use the formula matching the selected product, then normalize the invoice to a useful business outcome.

Subscriptions normally cost the plan fee even when usage is lower. Add top-ups, taxes, and custom services separately. On per-IP plans, monitor traffic and concurrency because fair use changes capacity rather than adding a published overage.

Scenario 1: A 100GB Residential Workload

A new PAYG buyer cannot purchase 100GB in one month under the documented 50GB monthly maximum. Advanced costs $500 for 125GB: $5 per used GB at 100GB or the advertised $4/GB at 125GB. Previously accumulated PAYG service or a smaller plan plus top-up may produce another route, but the public plan cards do not price every case.

Scenario 2: Ten Shared ISP IPs at High Traffic

Ten shared ISP IPs cost $16. Capacity is 1,000 concurrent sessions until the aggregate 500GB threshold, then 100 for the rest of the cycle. No bandwidth overage is published, but a workload that needs more than 100 simultaneous sessions would have to reduce concurrency or add capacity.

Scenario 3: An Underused Web Unblocker Plan

Micro includes 8GB for $75 list or $45 with the displayed coupon. Using 5GB makes the effective rate $15/GB list or $9/GB promotional; using all 8GB makes it $9.38 or $5.63, before tax.

These scenarios exclude custom contract terms, internal compute, parsing, storage, and engineering.

Which Oxylabs Product Should You Choose?

Start with the least complex layer that produces valid output. Upgrade only when testing shows it cannot meet access, location, rendering, or data-quality requirements.

Oxylabs Pricing vs. Proxidize: 10GB, 100GB, and 500GB

This compares clearly priced raw Residential options without assuming an unpublished Oxylabs top-up rate or ignoring Proxidize's 25GB minimum.

A smaller Oxylabs plan plus top-up or custom contract may cost less, but the public cards omit that rate. At full allowance use, Advanced is $4/GB and Corporate is $2.50/GB. Proxidize's 10GB row is a real $25 purchase; its remaining 15GB does not expire. The table compares price, not pool composition, targeting, performance, support, or managed products.

Is Oxylabs Expensive?

Oxylabs is expensive when the only requirement is a modest amount of raw residential or mobile traffic and the comparison is against lower-priced providers. Its public subscriptions start at $6/GB for residential and $7.50/GB for mobile, while the documented PAYG rates are $8 and $9 per GB. Its lowest published unit rates require $2,500 monthly payments.

Its ISP and datacenter plans have low entry payments, however, and can be economical within their concurrency rules. Managed products can also replace proxy rotation, browser infrastructure, retries, parsing, and maintenance that a team would otherwise fund.

Oxylabs may justify a higher raw-proxy price when a buyer values:

• 140+ country mobile coverage;
• residential ZIP/postal code, coordinate, ASN, state, city, country, and continent selectors;
• ISP and datacenter products under the same vendor;
• Web Unblocker, Web Scraper API, Headless Browser, or datasets;
• enterprise support, procurement, and custom contracts.

Test valid-record yield, location accuracy, latency, session continuity, bytes per accepted record, retries, allowance use, fair-use concurrency, support, and engineering effort.

For the wider decision process, read How to Choose a Residential Proxy Provider.

Oxylabs vs. Proxidize Pricing

Oxylabs offers more proxy categories and managed data-collection layers. Proxidize focuses its current public catalog on straightforward residential and mobile proxy infrastructure.

At 100GB, Proxidize residential is $100 versus $500 for Oxylabs Advanced with 125GB; mobile is $200 versus $500. These are network-price comparisons, not valuations of coverage, targeting, support, or managed products.

Need 100GB of residential proxy traffic? Proxidize offers a purchasable 100GB plan for $100, with country, city, and ISP targeting plus paid bandwidth that rolls over and does not expire. View Residential Proxy Pricing →

Choose Oxylabs when its mobile geography, finer residential selectors, ISP/datacenter products, managed tools, or enterprise model justify the cost. Consider Proxidize Residential Proxies for simpler rotating or sticky access across 195+ countries, or compare Proxidize Mobile plans.

For a feature-level comparison beyond pricing, use the dedicated Proxidize vs. Oxylabs comparison. You can also compare all current Proxidize plans.

How to Test Oxylabs Before Committing

Run a bounded pilot on representative targets before selecting a larger subscription.

1. Define a valid result: required fields, correct market, freshness, page type, and rejection conditions.
2. Confirm the target is permitted for the intended product before purchasing non-refundable PAYG traffic.
3. Test easy, typical, and difficult pages with the least expensive eligible product.
4. Measure billable traffic or results, retries, latency, geo accuracy, session stability, and your own validation failures.
5. Repeat at production-like concurrency, including traffic beyond any applicable per-IP fair-use threshold.
6. Price both a typical and peak month, including unused allowance, top-ups, VAT, browser compute, storage, and engineering.
7. Confirm renewal, cancellation, PAYG expiration, top-up validity, refund conditions, trial terms, and custom contract details in writing.

Use proxy and scraping products only for lawful, authorized workflows. Follow applicable law, contractual obligations, website terms, privacy requirements, and reasonable request rates. A proxy changes the network route; it does not create permission to access restricted data.

Price the Workload, Not the Smallest Number

No single figure describes Oxylabs' mix of PAYG traffic, subscriptions, per-IP allocations, result-priced scraping, managed access, hosted browsers, AI credits, and data delivery. Real cost depends on allowance use, target eligibility, validation, and fair-use capacity. A $2.50/GB plan becomes $5/used GB at half utilization, while a managed result may save enough browser and parser work to justify more vendor spend.

Model PAYG, monthly, top-up, and promotional prices separately, then test the same target, location, session policy, concurrency, and acceptance criteria.

If the workload needs direct residential proxy access and a simpler cost structure, explore Proxidize Residential Proxies and compare cost per valid result under the same test.