Oxylabs
This is the Fortune 500 default. If you work at a massive corporation and do not care what the
invoice looks like, you use Oxylabs. Their infrastructure is undeniable. They sit on a pool of over
175 million residential IPs across 195 countries. The success rates on heavily protected retail
sites stay incredibly high.
The downside is the premium you pay for the brand name and the enterprise SLA. Their
self-service residential proxies start around $6 per GB. A basic 20 GB plan runs you $100 a
month. If you pull terabytes of data, the cost per successful request scales linearly and breaks
most budget models.
Oxylabs built a powerful Web Scraper API that handles JavaScript rendering and CAPTCHA
solving natively. They provide code samples in every major language. It works beautifully. But the economics only make sense for dedicated enterprise budgets. They also lock their best
trials behind a sales call. You cannot just spin up a residential endpoint to test a script on a
Sunday afternoon. You have to wait for a representative to approve your account. It is top-tier
tech buried under corporate friction.
This is the Fortune 500 default. If you work at a massive corporation and do not care what the
invoice looks like, you use Oxylabs. Their infrastructure is undeniable. They sit on a pool of over
175 million residential IPs across 195 countries. The success rates on heavily protected retail
sites stay incredibly high.
The downside is the premium you pay for the brand name and the enterprise SLA. Their
self-service residential proxies start around $6 per GB. A basic 20 GB plan runs you $100 a
month. If you pull terabytes of data, the cost per successful request scales linearly and breaks
most budget models.
Oxylabs built a powerful Web Scraper API that handles JavaScript rendering and CAPTCHA
solving natively. They provide code samples in every major language. It works beautifully. But the economics only make sense for dedicated enterprise budgets. They also lock their best
trials behind a sales call. You cannot just spin up a residential endpoint to test a script on a
Sunday afternoon. You have to wait for a representative to approve your account. It is top-tier
tech buried under corporate friction.
