ProxyMonkey vs Oxylabs
ProxyMonkey, 5 GB order$4.60/GB
Oxylabs, 5 GB monthly plan≈$6.00/GB
Difference≈1.3×
Ours drops to $1.75/GB on an order of 1,000 GB or more.
List prices checked 2026-09-30. Their negotiated and plan-based rates are lower — check their pricing page.
Oxylabs sits at the enterprise end of the market alongside Bright Data. By their own count their residential pool is far larger than ours, they can target down to city, ZIP code, coordinates and ASN, and they run 24/7 support, with a dedicated account manager on their 1 TB plan.
Their published residential prices are monthly plans, starting at 5 GB for $6.00/GB. At every plan size they publish, our order of the same size costs less per gigabyte. Their terms also describe a pay-as-you-go option bought through their dashboard, but its price is not on their public pricing page, so we cannot compare it.
If you need their targeting, their pool or their account management, the price difference is what those cost, and they are worth it to plenty of teams. If you need rotating residential traffic without a plan or a sales conversation, that is the gap we fill.
Line by line
Rows where they win are marked as such. There are some.
| What you are comparing | ProxyMonkey | Oxylabs |
|---|---|---|
| Residential, small volume | Yes:$5.50/GB for the first GB, no commitment | $6.00/GB on the 5 GB Starter plan, $30 billed monthly, their smallest published plan, as of 2026-09-30 |
| Residential, 20 GB | Yes:$3.95/GB on an order of 20 GB | $5.00/GB on the 20 GB Basic plan, $100 billed monthly, as of 2026-09-30 |
| Residential, at volume | Yes:$1.75/GB on an order of 1,000 GB or more, no plan | $2.50/GB on the 1 TB Corporate plan, $2,500 billed monthly, as of 2026-09-30 |
| Pay as you go | Yes:Every order. Top up from $5 | Partly:Described in their terms and bought through their dashboard; the price is not published on their pricing page |
| Does bought traffic expire? | Yes:No. The balance never expires | Partly:On a plan, unused traffic expires after a month and does not carry over. On pay as you go it does not expire, but they may expire it after 3 months without use |
| Pool size | Smaller than theirs | Yes:175M+ residential IPs by their count. This one is theirs. |
| Targeting granularity | Residential: no country selection. ISP and datacenter: country picked at checkout | Yes:Residential: continent, country, state, city, ZIP, coordinates and ASN, at no extra charge |
| Free trial | No:None. The smallest purchase is the $5 top-up | Yes:Once per customer, arranged through a contact form or by email |
| Mobile proxies | No:Not sold | Yes:Sold, from $3.50/GB, as of 2026-09-30 |
| Account manager | None. You talk to the people who run it | Yes:A dedicated account manager on the 1 TB Corporate plan |
| Crypto payment | Yes:CoinGate and Cryptomus, ~70 coins | No:Not among the methods their terms list: cards, PayPal and Alipay |
| Per-request usage log | Yes:Every request: timestamp, host, status, bytes in, bytes out, cost. CSV export. | Partly:A per-request log is not described on their public product or pricing pages. |
| IP network type published | Yes:ASN and network type shown for every IP you are given. | Partly:Not described on their public pages as a per-IP field. You can whois it yourself. |
| Support channel | Yes:Public Discord with the people who run it, plus email. | Yes:24/7 live chat and email |
| Refunds | Yes:Unused balance back within 7 days, one message | Partly:Self-service purchases only, asked within 3 days of the first transaction, with no more than 20% of a regular plan’s traffic used, and only once; pay-as-you-go purchases are never refunded |
Claims in our column are things we control and can be held to. Claims in theirs come from their public pages, or say what is not published rather than guessing. Prices last checked .
Which one should you actually buy?
Pick Oxylabs if…
- You need residential IPs from a particular city, ZIP code, coordinates or ASN. We cannot pin residential to a location.
- You are scraping the hardest targets and want the biggest pool you can buy. Theirs is far larger by their count.
- You want a dedicated account manager, round-the-clock live chat, or a vendor your procurement team already knows.
- You need mobile proxies, or want a free trial arranged with their team before paying anything.
Pick ProxyMonkey if…
- You want rotating residential without a monthly plan, at a published price: $5.50/GB for the first GB.
- You want to start today with $5 and no conversation.
- You want to pay in crypto.
- You want to see the byte count for every request, not a total.
Questions about this comparison
Is ProxyMonkey cheaper than Oxylabs?
At 1 GB: $5.50/GB here, $5.50 in all. Oxylabs: $6.00/GB on their smallest monthly plan, $30.00 for 5 GB, the smallest order that covers it. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB; for the 1 GB you need, ProxyMonkey costs less in total.
At 10 GB: $3.95/GB here, $39.50 in all. Oxylabs: $5.00/GB on a monthly plan, $100.00 for 20 GB, the smallest plan that covers it, or Starter plus a top-up, whose price is not published. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB; for the 10 GB you need, against that plan, ProxyMonkey costs less in total.
At 100 GB: $2.65/GB here, $265.00 in all. Oxylabs: $4.00/GB on a monthly plan, $500.00 for 125 GB, the smallest plan that covers it, or a smaller plan plus a top-up, whose price is not published. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB; for the 100 GB you need, against that plan, ProxyMonkey costs less in total.
Their prices as of 2026-09-30, from their own pricing page. Their plan prices are billed every month; ours are one-off orders. Their prices and ours both exclude tax.
What about Oxylabs pay as you go?
We cannot compare it. Their terms describe a pay-as-you-go option for residential, bought through their dashboard, but the price is not on their public pricing page, so it is not on this page either. What their terms do say: pay-as-you-go purchases are never refunded, and traffic unused for 3 months may be expired.
Is their bigger pool worth it?
On the sites most people scrape, you are unlikely to notice. On the hardest targets a bigger pool wins more often, and theirs is far bigger. Run the same job through both and count successful requests per dollar. Our side of that test starts at $5.
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