Oxylabs

Oxylabs, in 30 seconds

Oxylabs is the EU-headquartered alternative to Bright Data — Vilnius-based, GDPR-native, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II audited, with a 175M+ residential IP pool that edges its biggest rival on raw size. The platform leans hard into enterprise: dedicated account management on plans above $1k/month, contracted 99.95% uptime SLAs, and an OxyCopilot AI assistant that writes scraper code from natural-language prompts. The downside is that self-serve onboarding feels like a sales funnel — Oxylabs prefers to talk to you before quoting real prices.

• 175M+residential IPs
• 195countries supported
• 99.95%SLA on enterprise plans
• 15%SaaSTweaks annual discount

The Oxylabs deal, decoded

Code OXY15, redeemed through the SaaSTweaks PartnerStack link, drops 15% off the first annual contract on Residential, Mobile, ISP, Datacenter and Web Scraper API plans. On a typical $3,600 annual residential commitment that is a $540 saving — meaningful enough to justify the annual lock-in for any team already past two months on the platform.

The discount applies to published list pricing only. Oxylabs sales reps regularly quote 20–30% off list to enterprise prospects with six-figure budgets, and OXY15 does not stack on top of those custom quotes. For accounts under $10k/year, OXY15 is the better deal; for accounts over $50k/year, the sales team will beat it. Free trial credit is also available — request through the dashboard after KYC verification, typically 7 days of access on the chosen product.

How Oxylabs pricing actually works

Oxylabs sells five proxy products and a scraping API, each with a public list price and a separate enterprise quote. The pay-as-you-go option exists on residential and Web Unblocker; everything else requires a monthly or annual subscription.

Residential entry sits at $300/month for 75 GB ($4/GB). The next published tier ($600/month) drops the rate to roughly $3.4/GB. Enterprise contracts with annual commitment land at $2.50–$3.00/GB. Datacenter is by far the cheapest option for traffic that does not need a residential signature, and the dedicated datacenter tier is genuinely useful for account-bound scraping where IP consistency over months matters more than rotation.

Where Oxylabs beats Bright Data on enterprise fit

The compliance posture is the clearest differentiator. Oxylabs is GDPR-native (built for EU regulation, not retrofit to it), ISO 27001 certified since 2018, SOC 2 Type II certified, and publishes a quarterly transparency report on data requests and ethical-sourcing audits. For public-sector buyers, regulated financial-services teams and EU-headquartered enterprises, the procurement story is materially cleaner than US-based competitors.

The OxyCopilot AI assistant, launched late 2025, takes natural-language prompts ("scrape the price and stock status of this Amazon listing every six hours") and produces working scraper code paired with the right Oxylabs endpoint. It is genuinely useful for prototyping but still produces code that needs review — treat it as a senior intern, not a replacement engineer.

Account management is the third edge. Plans above $1k/month assign a dedicated success rep who handles unblock-rate troubleshooting, pricing renegotiation and scraper-code review. Smaller vendors leave you in a Discord server. For teams running mission-critical pipelines, the rep saves hours per quarter of escalation overhead.

Oxylabs vs Bright Data vs Smartproxy vs Decodo

Oxylabs and Bright Data sit roughly even on raw network capability. The choice usually breaks on procurement: Oxylabs for EU-headquartered or compliance-heavy buyers, Bright Data for teams that want the broadest pre-built scraper catalogue. Smartproxy and Decodo are the right call below $200/month — both ship cleaner self-serve and similar (smaller) IP pools at a third of the entry price.

Six Oxylabs products and when each earns its keep

• Residential Proxies: 175M+ IPs across 195 countries, with city and ASN-level targeting in major markets. Use for anti-bot scraping, ad verification and geo-restricted content. Sticky sessions hold up to 30 minutes.
• ISP Proxies: Static residential IPs hosted in datacenter infrastructure. Best for account-bound scraping where the IP must hold steady over weeks. Roughly half the price of equivalent rotating residential traffic for static-trust use cases.
• Mobile Proxies: 4G and 5G mobile carrier IPs across 100+ countries. Highest trust scores of any IP type because mobile carriers rotate IPs constantly anyway. Best for mobile-first social platforms and app store scraping where mobile fingerprinting matters.
• Datacenter Proxies (Shared and Dedicated): The cheapest meter, with shared from $0.65/GB and dedicated from $1.5/IP/month. Right call for unguarded sites — public records, basic ecommerce, RSS, sitemaps.
• Web Scraper API: Managed scraper that handles proxies, JavaScript rendering and unblock automatically. 20+ pre-built targets including Amazon, Google SERP, Walmart and YouTube. Pay per successful request — Oxylabs eats failed-request cost.
• Web Unblocker: Dedicated unblock-as-a-service for hard targets. Comparable to Bright Data Web Unlocker in mechanism, slightly less granular in retry logic but with a cleaner pricing curve at high volume.

Five Oxylabs mistakes that hurt margins

• Annual contract before validating the product. The 15% OXY15 discount tempts a year-one commit. Run a paid month first, prove the unblock rate on your hardest target, then convert to annual.
• Not negotiating on enterprise contracts. Oxylabs sales discounts list pricing 20–30% on six-figure deals. Anyone signing a $50k+ contract who does not push back is leaving thousands on the table.
• Self-serve dashboard at scale. The dashboard is fine for under $1k/month; past that point, the dedicated rep moves faster on every operation. Ask for the rep upgrade explicitly.
• Residential when datacenter would do. Same lesson as Bright Data — pick the meter that matches the target. Crawling RSS on residential is paying $4/GB for $0.65/GB work.
• OxyCopilot code in production unreviewed. The AI assistant ships working code 70% of the time. The other 30% has subtle bugs that fail at scale. Treat it as a draft, not a deploy.

Decision matrix: when Oxylabs is the right call