ScrapeOpsOxylabs
Oxylabs Datacenter provides shared and dedicated proxies to increase the effectiveness of public data collection with no limitations for scaling.
Summary
Oxylabs Datacenter provides a high-speed proxy network for large-scale crawling and content aggregation. Developers can access a pool of over 2 million IPs across 188 countries using a standard proxy gateway. The service supports both random rotation and static sessions through specific port assignments. You can implement country-level targeting by adding location parameters to your authentication credentials.
Oxylabs’s Products
Oxylabs Residential
Proxy service with 100M+ residential proxy network covering 195 locations and offers country, city, and state-level geo-location targeting for large-scale data extraction.
Oxylabs User Reviews
Oxylabs offers a comprehensive range of web scraping and data collection products, from proxies to data sets and data APIs.
User Review Summary
Reviewers frequently praise the support team for being patient, responsive, and helpful during technical setups. Many users report that the infrastructure is reliable and stable for production workloads. However, some customers criticize the service for providing blacklisted IPs and identical subnets. There are also reports of unexpected account bans based on nationality and disputes regarding data usage measurements. While some users received prompt refunds, others experienced frustration with ignored emails and limited replacement options.
Trustscore 3.9 | 773 reviews
4.7 out of 5 stars | 23 reviews
Paid renewal, sudden suspension, contradictory support — never again
Paid renewal, sudden suspension, contradictory support — an appalling experience
I was in my fourth paid month with Oxylabs, using five dedicated ISP proxies. My latest monthly payment was recorded on October 21. On October 22, they announced permanent suspension, terminated the services, and blocked my dashboard access.
This disrupted my work managing two active YouTube channels.
Their explanation was an alleged terms-of-service breach, without identifying what I had actually done wrong. They later cited an entire section of their conditions while declining to explain the specific reason.
Support also gave contradictory information: I was initially told my IP addresses would be retained, then told they were not reserved and their recovery could not be guaranteed.
To reconsider the suspension, they requested an official ID and selfie through Stripe, while explicitly saying verification would not guarantee restored access.
They initially refused a refund on the grounds of the alleged breach. After I submitted a formal complaint and requested internal escalation, they approved the full $16 refund. Stripe has issued a refund notification, but the money has not yet reached my account at the time of writing.
The amount involved is small. The disruption and the way this was handled are what made the experience unacceptable. A refund does not undo an abrupt shutdown or contradictory assurances.
Calling this “Customer Success” bears little resemblance to my experience. I will not use Oxylabs again.
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An addendum to my review following the company's response. I consider any responses to my reviews from this company ridiculous, and their attitude toward paying clients outrageous. Considering that I have been a partner with several similar companies for a very long time and successfully, I consider all of these factors to be factors that will never, under any circumstances, make me—and I hope all other users of this niche—their clients again! I warn reasonable users of this service to avoid this company!
quality of their IP/proxies are great, product is terrible
quality of their IP/proxies are great, but they truly have the worst product that i have used in long time. their website is riddled with bugs and their customer support is slow and it takes weeks for them to close support tickets. would recommend only if you need 5/10 IPs. if you are planning on scaling your operations, find something else
Predatory pricing
Very unintuitive scammy pricing model where they ask you to top up and the top up credits disappear the next day basically swindling you out of what you just paid
Oxylabs Residential
Proxy service with 100M+ residential proxy network covering 195 locations and offers country, city, and state-level geo-location targeting for large-scale data extraction.
Ideal Use Cases
This residential proxy network routes traffic through ISP-provided devices to replicate human behavior. Users access the pool via a backconnect gateway or country-specific entry nodes for data gathering tasks.
Ideal Use Cases
- E-commerce & price monitoring: residential IPs help avoid blocks on retail sites
- Ad verification: access localized content via 195+ country/city locations
- Market research & review monitoring: stable pool of 175M+ IPs for large-scale data gathering
- Travel & hotel pricing: geotargeting at city and coordinate levels for accurate prices
Poor Use Cases
- Sneaker & ticket purchasing bots: ticketing domains are explicitly restricted on the network
- Financial & stock data: banking and financial institutions are restricted targets
- Mobile apps & mobile-only content: specific mobile proxy products are recommended over standard
- Large-scale crawling: per-GB costs may dominate compared to datacenter proxies
Performance
Assuming average page size is 250kb
| Domain | Success Rate | Avg. Success Latency | GB | Provider Plan | Cost/GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aliexpress.com | 98% | 2.2s | 0 | Free | $6 |
| amazon.com | 91% | 4.8s | 0 | Free | $6 |
| apple.com | 98% | 2.8s | 0 | Free | $6 |
| bestbuy.com | 8% | 15.4s | 0 | Free | $6 |
| costco.com | 39% | 6.7s | 0 | Free | $6 |
| ebay.com | 38% | 9.2s | 0 | Free | $6 |
| homedepot.com | 12% | 1.8s | 0 | Free | $6 |
| target.com | 95% | 5.1s | 0 | Free | $6 |
| walmart.com | 96% | 4.2s | 0 | Free | $6 |
| zalando.co.uk | 94% | 3.3s | 0 | Free | $6 |
Features
| Feature | API Credit | Description |
|---|---|---|
Residentialcustomer- | - | The customer- username prefix on pr.oxylabs.io:7777 routes traffic through the residential pool; no extra flag needed. |
Countrycc | - | Add the cc flag to the username to pick the exit country. Geo-targeting is free on all plans. |
Sticky Sessionssessid | - | sessid keeps the same IP across requests (default 10 min, or 60s idle); sesstime extends it. Included on all plans. |
Geotargeting
Geotargeting is enabled by adding the cc parameter to the username string. Country, city, state, coordinate, and ZIP-level targeting are included at no additional cost per request.
| Standard Countries No extra cost | |
|---|---|
| United States | Netherlands |
| Canada | Belgium |
| Great Britain | Russia |
| Germany | Ukraine |
| France | Poland |
| Spain | Israel |
| Italy | Turkey |
| Sweden | Australia |
| Greece | Malaysia |
| Portugal | Thailand |
| … and many more countries | |
Oxylabs Residential Plans
Free
Free
Free
Free
Starter
- 5 GB included
- $6 per GB
Basic
- 20 GB included
- $5 per GB
Flexible
- 125 GB included
- $4 per GB
Integrating Oxylabs Residential
Scrapers connect to the gateway at pr.oxylabs.io on port 7777. Authentication is handled via IP whitelisting or by providing API credentials in the format of customer-USERNAME and PASSWORD.
curl -x pr.oxylabs.io:7777 -U "customer-USERNAME:PASSWORD" https://ip.oxylabs.io/location
import requestsproxies = {'http': 'http://customer-USERNAME:PASSWORD@pr.oxylabs.io:7777','https': 'http://customer-USERNAME:PASSWORD@pr.oxylabs.io:7777'}response = requests.get('https://ip.oxylabs.io/location', proxies=proxies, verify=False)print(response.text)
Examples
Oxylabs Datacenter
Oxylabs offers Shared and Dedicated Datacenter Proxies to increase the effectiveness of your public data collection with no limitations for scaling.
Ideal Use Cases
Oxylabs Datacenter is a proxy network designed for high speed scraping workloads. It is accessed via a proxy gateway for rotating IPs or specific ports for static sessions.
Ideal Use Cases
- Large-scale crawling: per-request cost dominates on millions of simple pages
- News & content aggregation: unlimited bandwidth supports high volumes of simple pages
- Job listings: job boards and career pages are mostly static HTML at volume
- Market research & review monitoring: high-speed performance for reviews and forums at scale
Poor Use Cases
- E-commerce & price monitoring: retail sites often use aggressive anti-bot against datacenter IPs
- Social media data: platforms with aggressive bot detection usually block DC ranges
- Ad verification: needs residential or mobile IPs to see ads as a real user
- JavaScript-heavy sites & SPAs: requires specialized scraping APIs not included in DC proxies
Performance
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Geotargeting
Geotargeting is enabled by adding the country parameter to the proxy username. This feature is included in the standard price and supports up to 188 countries depending on the plan.
| Standard Countries No extra cost | |
|---|---|
| United States | Japan |
| United Kingdom | China |
| Canada | India |
| Brazil | Australia |
| Mexico | South Korea |
| Germany | Argentina |
| France | Portugal |
| Spain | Sweden |
| Italy | Switzerland |
| Netherlands | Poland |
| … and many more countries | |
Oxylabs Datacenter Plans
Free
- 5 proxies included
Free
Starter (Dedicated Datacenter)
- $2 per proxy
- 2 proxies included
Starter (Datacenter per GB)
- 8 GB included
- $3.75 per GB
Starter (Datacenter per IP)
- $1 per proxy
- 5 proxies included
Basic (Dedicated Datacenter)
- $2 per proxy
- 15 proxies included
Basic (Datacenter per IP)
- $1 per proxy
- 30 proxies included
Basic (Datacenter per GB)
- 50 GB included
- $2 per GB
Flexible (Dedicated Datacenter)
- $1.75 per proxy
- 57 proxies included
Flexible (Datacenter per GB)
- 181 GB included
- $2.762430939226519 per GB
Flexible (Datacenter per IP)
- $0.9 per proxy
- 111 proxies included
Integrating Oxylabs Datacenter
Scrapers connect to the gateway at dc.oxylabs.io using port 8000 for rotation or ports 8001 and above for static sessions. Credentials are supplied via Basic Auth within the proxy URL.
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