The Oxylabs alternative for small purchases, mobile and Mac servers

Oxylabs sells residential, mobile, ISP, dedicated ISP and datacenter proxies, plus scraping APIs, an unblocker and a hosted browser, with no Mac servers listed. Its residential network is 175M+ residential IPs across 195 countries. That is one of the widest catalogues and largest pools in the market, and nothing on this page argues against its size.

We are smaller and narrower: two rotating residential pools, a Mobile pool on real phones, static ISP proxies, and Mac servers. Our pools cover 150 countries, with country, US state and ASN on every pool and city on Premium and Mobile. If your work needs ZIP codes or coordinates, Oxylabs has a filter for it and we do not.

Oxylabs is shaped for teams that buy a plan, spend it each month and need the paperwork to match. We are shaped for people who buy what they need when they need it.

Oxylabs moved to a single subscription for every product. The plans are Starter at $15/mo, Basic at $100/mo and Flexible at $500/mo, with Enterprise plans from $2,500/month. Each plan funds a shared credit balance across products, and unused credits expire at the end of the billing cycle unless they carry over in an upgrade. For a team with a steady budget that is clean and easy to forecast.

For a small or irregular buyer, the expiry is the part to weigh: credit paid for in a quiet month is gone at the end of the cycle. Oxylabs also lists no refunds on purchases made through self-service, and offers its welcome credit as the way to test first.

Our model is a prepaid wallet per pool. Load any amount from $0.50, spend it at your own pace, and it has no expiry date. Refund requests are open for 14 days after a top-up under the refund policy.

Then there is the rate. Oxylabs residential is $6/GB on the smallest plans, $5/GB up to 20 GB and $4/GB up to 125 GB. Ours is $1.50/GB on Essential and $3.00/GB on Premium, at any volume. At the small end of their ladder the gap is wide. See pricing for our full sheet.

Oxylabs' ladder keeps falling as you commit more, down to $2.5/GB at 1K+ GB. At that tier their residential rate is below our Premium rate, and a buyer that size also gets an account team and contract terms we do not offer.

We publish one rate per pool and do not discount by volume. Essential stays below their volume rate; Premium does not. If you buy in that bracket, run your own numbers, and if the answer is Oxylabs, it is a sound one. Even at the top of the ladder, though, Oxylabs bills a monthly plan.

Oxylabs sells mobile proxies on real mobile device IPs in 140+ countries, with static 24-hour sessions. That is a genuine mobile product on carrier connections, and a fair match for ours on what it is.

The difference is price. Oxylabs mobile is $7.5/GB on the smallest plans, falling to $3.5/GB at 714+ GB. Our Mobile pool is $3.00/GB at any volume, on real phones attached to carrier networks in 150 countries, with US state, city and ASN targeting.

For mobile work, that is the strongest point in our column: a small buyer at Oxylabs pays the top of the ladder, and our flat rate sits below even its bottom step. See mobile proxies for how the pool is built.

Oxylabs residential offers a 10-minute sticky session by default, extendable with the sesstime parameter to 1440 minutes (24 hours), and its mobile product advertises a fixed session too. On session length Oxylabs matches our longest hold, and we will not pretend the long session is ours alone.

Ours is up to 24 hours (120 minutes on Essential). Premium and Mobile hold one exit for the full length; Essential has a shorter cap, stated the same way on every page. If your flow needs a long hold, buy Premium or Mobile, not Essential.

Oxylabs wins this one on breadth. It sells dedicated ISP IPs from $3.3/IP for a single address, down to $2.2/IP at 1.14K+ IPs, plus cheaper shared ISP addresses, in 25 locations, with the US alone listed at 393k IPs. If you want a few static addresses in Germany, buy them there, because we cannot sell them to you.

Our ISP product is single IPs from $1.25 per IP a month (minimum 50 IPs), or a whole /24 for $255 a month, billed monthly, on US ranges today, international to follow. A whole /24 is sold to exactly one customer, and no address in it is shared with another account, so the reputation of the range is yours alone.

Per address, a whole subnet works out below Oxylabs' listed ISP rates, but only if you need a block that size. If you need a handful, their single-IP pricing is the better buy. Our subnets are sold in restock windows, members first and then everyone; see ISP proxies for how a restock works.

Oxylabs' pricing lists no Mac product, so there is nothing to compare, and this is the shortest argument on the page.

We rent Mac minis by the day and by the month, from $32 a day or $160 a month, on 1 or 2.5 Gbps lines. A day rental is counted from when the Mac is ready, so a short test costs a short test. See Mac servers for the details.

Oxylabs publishes its sourcing rules: documented, explicit consent from the people whose residential IPs it routes through, the same standard for its partners, a KYC check for customers, and data-handling procedures certified by multiple auditors. That is real work, and it is the main reason large buyers choose it. If your legal team asks for a sourcing statement and an audit trail, Oxylabs can hand one over today.

The other side of that work is a shorter list of places you can go. Oxylabs keeps a list of restricted targets on its residential network, including Apple domains, banks, government sites and streaming services, and some of its advanced filters need a KYC check first. For most data work none of this gets in the way; for some it does, so read their list before you buy.

We hold every customer to our Terms and publish what we can prove on our trust page. We do not claim a certification shelf to match Oxylabs', because we do not have one.

Oxylabs gives a one-time $5 welcome credit on registration, a fast way to try a network. Ours is 1 GB of Premium free when a new account links Google, and it runs on your real balance.

Oxylabs accepts payment cards, wire transfers in US dollars and euros, AliPay and PayPal, and no Bitcoin. We take Visa, Mastercard and Amex through Stripe, or SOL, so if you need to pay by wire or AliPay, Oxylabs is the one that can take it. Support on both sides is a chat window: Oxylabs offers 24/7 live chat and email, and we run Discord tickets and email.

Oxylabs is the larger network, with finer targeting, a deeper compliance record and static ISP in far more countries. If you buy at enterprise volume, answer to a procurement team, or need a few static IPs outside the US, it is the better choice and we would point you to it.

If you buy in small or irregular amounts, the case runs the other way. Our wallet starts at $0.50 and never expires, Essential is $1.50/GB from the first gigabyte, and Mobile is $3.00/GB at any volume. Add what Oxylabs does not sell, a Mac by the day and a subnet for one customer, and the split is clear: Oxylabs for scale and paperwork, ResiFactory for small purchases, mobile and Macs.

Proxyway published a full review of Oxylabs, with residential proxies last tested in April 2026 and its Most Scalable Provider award for 2026. It is the most detailed outside test of Oxylabs we know of, and worth reading in full rather than through our summary.

Proxyway's review also notes that Oxylabs owns Webshare and ScrapingBee. If you are weighing Webshare too, our Webshare comparison covers it.