Oxylabs review: big proxy pool, monthly plans only

Oxylabs pricing for residential and mobile proxies

Oxylabs residential proxies cost $6 per GB on the 5 GB Starter plan and drop to $2.50 per GB on the 1 TB Corporate plan, billed monthly. Mobile proxies follow the same four tiers.

Static ISP proxies are rented per IP, from $1.60 down to $1.20 shared and from $3.20 down to $2.50 dedicated. Shared datacenter traffic starts under $0.60 per GB. VAT may be added at checkout.

Traffic expiry and the three-day refund window

Purchased traffic is valid for one calendar month, and whatever is left then expires. A refund has to be requested within three days of the first payment, with less than 20% of the traffic used, or 10% on Enterprise plans, and never on a suspended account. Payment works by card, PayPal, Alipay, Google Pay or Apple Pay, with wire transfers arranged through sales. Oxylabs does not take crypto, which matters for affiliates who keep their earnings in stablecoins.

Testing Oxylabs with five free datacenter IPs

A free account gets five US datacenter IPs for one month, with 5 GB of traffic and no credit card. That is enough to check how a landing page loads from a US address or to wire Oxylabs into a tracking tool. Residential and mobile IPs, the ones that look like real visitors, are paid only.

Why Oxylabs bans invalid ad traffic

Oxylabs’ Acceptable Use Policy forbids generating invalid ad traffic through clicks or impressions. Test tracking links at a checking volume, never by simulating visits.

Targets the residential network blocks

The residential pool refuses streaming, banking and finance, government sites, gaming, ticketing, webmail and IP lookup sites. Google Tag Manager and DoubleClick are on the list too, so a page that loads its tags through Google Tag Manager may render without them over these proxies, which skews any pixel or conversion check. Some targets open up after a short KYC step with support, and every customer answers a KYC questionnaire before getting access at all.

Geo-targeting and sticky sessions

Residential IPs can be targeted by continent, country, state, city, ZIP code, coordinates or ASN. A session keeps the same IP for ten minutes by default, or until a minute without requests, and a parameter stretches it to 1,440 minutes. Because the pool runs on household devices, an IP can still drop earlier. HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/3 and SOCKS5 are supported.

For a cam or dating offer that geo-redirects, this is the setting that matters: a Texas IP and a São Paulo IP show what each visitor actually lands on.

Strengths and limitations of Oxylabs