Oxylabs residential proxies run from $6.00/GB on the $30/mo Starter plan down to $2.50/GB on the $2,500/mo Corporate tier, with Basic at $5.00/GB and Advanced at $4.00/GB in between — as displayed on the Oxylabs pricing page in July 2026. Web Unblocker is a separate per-GB meter at $9.40 down to $7.50/GB, and Web Scraper API bills per result from $0.25 per 1,000. The structural fact that shapes every Oxylabs budget: no pay-as-you-go per-GB rate is published, so the entry ticket is a monthly plan, not a metered top-up.
Key takeaways
- Residential is subscription-first: $30/mo for 5 GB ($6.00/GB), $100/mo for 20 GB ($5.00/GB), $500/mo for 125 GB ($4.00/GB), $2,500/mo for 1 TB ($2.50/GB).
- No pay-as-you-go per-GB rate was shown on the pricing page fetched 2026-07-17 — the one structural disadvantage against Bright Data and Decodo, which both publish $4.00/GB PAYG.
- Oxylabs only drops below $4.00/GB on the $2,500/mo Corporate tier, so the attractive rates require real committed volume.
- Web Unblocker is metered per GB ($9.40 / $8.60 / $7.50), NOT per request — the opposite meter to Bright Data Web Unlocker, and the comparison turns on your average page weight.
- Web Scraper API's "from $0.25 per 1K results" is a floor for the easiest targets, not a flat rate. Treat it as a best case when modeling.
- Top-ups exist (Starter/Basic to 100 GB, Advanced/Corporate to 2 TB), which softens but does not remove the overbuy risk of monthly allowances.
Oxylabs residential proxy pricing per GB
| Plan | Monthly cost | Included traffic | Effective per GB | Top-up ceiling |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $30 | 5 GB | $6.00/GB | Up to 100 GB |
| Basic ("Most popular") | $100 | 20 GB | $5.00/GB | Up to 100 GB |
| Advanced | $500 | 125 GB | $4.00/GB | Up to 2 TB |
| Corporate | $2,500 | 1 TB | $2.50/GB | Up to 2 TB |
| Pay-as-you-go | Not offered | — | Not shown on pricing page | — |
The gap between tiers is where the money goes. Between Basic (20 GB) and Advanced (125 GB) there is nothing — a team consuming 60 GB a month either pays $100 and tops up, or pays $500 for a plan it uses under half of. Oxylabs' top-up allowance is the intended answer, and it is worth pricing out explicitly before assuming the next tier up is cheaper.
| Monthly volume | Oxylabs | Bright Data | Decodo | IPRoyal | SOAX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 GB | $100$10/GB | $40$4/GB | $35Cheapest+VAT$3.50/GB | $52.50never-expiring $55.10$5.25/GB | $50+VAT$5/GB |
| 50 GB | $500$10/GB | $200$4/GB | $150Cheapest+VAT$3/GB | $245never-expiring $257.50$4.90/GB | $200+VAT$4/GB |
| 100 GB | $500$5/GB | $400$4/GB | $275Cheapest+VAT$2.75/GB | $490never-expiring $515est.$4.90/GB | $500+VAT$5/GB |
Each cell is the cheapest published route to that volume — the smallest covering plan or pay-as-you-go bracket — as of 2026-07-26 (USD). Effective $/GB can exceed the sticker rate when a plan is under-used, and the 'Cheapest' flag is pre-VAT. Vendor pricing changes often; verify before buying.
Estimate your own monthly cost
| Provider | Est. monthly cost | Effective $/GB |
|---|---|---|
| DecodoCheapest+VAT | $81.25 | $3.25 |
| Bright Data | $100 | $4 |
| SOAX+VAT | $125 | $5 |
| IPRoyalnever-expiring $137.75 | $131.25 | $5.25 |
| Oxylabs | $500 | $20 |
At 25 GB per month, Decodo is the cheapest at about $81.25.
Engineer's take (Hinata): The missing pay-as-you-go rate is not a footnote, it is the design of the product. Oxylabs wants a committed monthly relationship, and its rate card rewards exactly that. If your traffic is bursty — a weekly crawl, a seasonal price-monitoring job — you are paying for allowance you will not use every single month, and the effective rate you actually pay can be double the sticker. Measure consumed GB across a full cycle, not a peak week, before you pick a tier here.
Why the missing pay-as-you-go rate matters
Bright Data and Decodo both publish $4.00/GB with no commitment, and IPRoyal sells traffic that never expires. Oxylabs publishes neither. For an evaluation that means you cannot buy a small, honest sample of production traffic on a card and measure it; you request a trial through a contact form and wait.
For a budget it means the cheapest way to consume 3 GB from Oxylabs is the $30 Starter plan — an effective $10.00/GB for that month, not $6.00 — while the same 3 GB costs $12.00 from Bright Data's PAYG meter. That inversion holds all the way up until you reliably use most of a tier.
Price your usage pattern
| Provider | Total over 12 months | Effective $/GB |
|---|---|---|
| DecodoCheaper+VAT | $45 | $3.75 |
| IPRoyalnever-expiring | $66.12 | $5.51 |
Decodo is cheaper for this pattern: about $45 against $66.12 over 12 months, buying only when you need it.
Holding the 3GB plan every month instead would cost $135 and let 24 GB lapse unused — the waste never-expiring traffic avoids.
For this pattern, Decodo costs about $45 over 12 months.
Published rates as of 2026-07-26 (USD); Decodo's are pre-VAT. "Buying only when you need it" assumes no ongoing commitment between bursts; the held-plan figure is the same plan kept for the whole year. Verify before buying.
Oxylabs Web Unblocker pricing
Web Unblocker is billed per gigabyte in monthly tiers, which puts it on the opposite meter from Bright Data's per-request Web Unlocker.
| Plan | Monthly cost | Included traffic | Rate per GB | With WU40 promo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free trial | $0 | 1 GB / 1 week | — | 10 req/s limit, no card |
| Micro | $75 | 8 GB | $9.40/GB | $5.64/GB |
| Starter | $325 | 38 GB | $8.60/GB | $5.16/GB |
| Advanced | $660 | 88 GB | $7.50/GB | $4.50/GB |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Not published | — |
The WU40 code cut 40% for six months as displayed on 2026-07-17. Budget the regular rates: a six-month discount is a customer-acquisition tool, and the durable figures are $9.40 / $8.60 / $7.50. Server-side JavaScript rendering and CAPTCHA handling with automatic retry are included, and Oxylabs describes the billing as pay-only-for-successfully-extracted-data (vendor claim). A case study on the product page cites 98%+ success at $0.60 per 1K requests (vendor claim).
Whether per-GB beats Bright Data's $1.50 per 1K requests depends entirely on your average page weight — the break-even sits near 160 KB, and the arithmetic is worked through in our web unblocker comparison.
Oxylabs Web Scraper API pricing
Price your monthly volume
| Scraping API | Est. monthly cost | Per-1K rate |
|---|---|---|
| OxylabsCheapestfromper result | $12.50 | $0.25/1K |
| Decodo+VAT | $24 | $0.50/1K |
| Bright Data | $67.50 | $1.50/1K |
At 50,000 requests a month, Oxylabs is cheapest — about $12.50.
At 50,000 requests a month, Oxylabs is cheapest — about $12.50.
Cheapest published per-1K rate for each API, with recurring monthly free tiers netted off (Bright Data 5,000/mo, Decodo 2,000/mo; Oxylabs' 2K is a one-off trial, not a monthly allowance). Oxylabs bills per successful RESULT and the others per REQUEST, so a 1:1 comparison assumes one result per request. Published rates as of 2026-07-26 (USD); Decodo's exclude VAT. Verify before buying.
The headline is "from $0.25 per 1,000 results", billed per successful result. The word "from" is doing real work: that rate is a floor for the easiest targets, and JavaScript rendering is bundled by target rather than priced as a separate line. When you model this, use it as a best case and confirm the rate for your actual targets — a floor quoted as a flat rate is the most common way scraping budgets come in low. Cross-product comparisons live in our scraping API vs proxy breakdown.
How Oxylabs compares on price
| Oxylabs | Bright Data | Decodo | IPRoyal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-you-go | Not shown on pricing page | $4.00/GB (promo; $8.00 list) | $4.00/GB plus VAT | $7.35/GB at 1 GB |
| Entry subscription | $30/mo for 5 GB ($6.00/GB) | None below $499/mo | $11.25/mo for 3 GB ($3.75/GB) | About 5% under PAYG |
| Rate at ~100-140 GB | $4.00/GB at 125 GB | $3.50/GB at 141 GB | $2.75/GB at 100 GB | $4.90/GB at 50 GB |
| High volume | $2.50/GB at 1 TB | $2.50/GB at 798 GB | $2.50-$2.00/GB at 250-1,000 GB | Bulk rates cited to $1.75/GB |
| Trial friction | Contact form, once per client | Self-serve, then company KYC | 3-day trial, self-serve | Buy 1 GB minimum |
Oxylabs is not the price leader at any volume in this set, and it does not try to be. What its rate card buys is an EWDCI-accredited sourcing posture, a documented compliance program, and a product line where the Scraper API, Web Unblocker and residential pool share one account and one support relationship. If price per gigabyte is the only variable, our pricing comparison points elsewhere; if procurement will ask who audits the IP sourcing, that answer is worth money.
Where Oxylabs' pricing wins
- Lowest committed entry ticket of the premium tier: $30/mo gets you in, versus $499/mo at Bright Data
- Generous top-up ceilings (100 GB on Starter/Basic, 2 TB on Advanced/Corporate) absorb overage without a tier jump
- Web Unblocker's self-serve 1-week, 1 GB trial needs no credit card — the least friction of any Oxylabs product
- Web Scraper API bills per successful result, so failed requests are not charged
- $2.50/GB at 1 TB matches Bright Data's floor, with EWDCI-accredited sourcing behind it
Where it costs you
- No published pay-as-you-go per-GB rate — you cannot buy a small production sample on a card
- Rates stay at or above $4.00/GB until the $2,500/mo Corporate tier
- A wide gap between the 20 GB and 125 GB tiers leaves mid-size usage overpaying or topping up
- The residential trial requires a contact form and is limited to once per client
- The WU40 Web Unblocker discount runs six months — model the regular $9.40-$7.50/GB rates instead
Who this pricing suits
Oxylabs' rate card fits a team with steady, predictable monthly volume that will genuinely consume a tier, and one where compliance documentation carries weight in the purchasing decision — the EWDCI accreditation and published sourcing handbook are the things you are paying the premium for. The $30 Starter plan also makes it a reasonable entry point for a small team that wants a premium pool without a four-figure commitment.
It fits poorly if your traffic is bursty, if you need to buy 2 GB and measure before committing, or if cost per gigabyte at steady volume is the deciding number. Those cases are better served by a published pay-as-you-go rate.
Verdict on Oxylabs' pricing
3.8/5
Oxylabs
From $30/mo for 5 GB, with a self-serve 1-week Web Unblocker trial and up to 2,000 free Web Scraper API results — verify current rates and promo terms on the official pricing page
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Our methodology
Every price on this page was read from Oxylabs' own pricing pages on 2026-07-17 and recorded in our machine-readable pricing dataset, which also drives the calculators above — the tables and the prose read the same source, so they cannot drift apart. We run no independent performance benchmarks, so success rates and response times are labeled as vendor claims. This is a document-based comparison, and promotional rates in particular are volatile: check the retrieval date before quoting any figure here.