Oxylabs alternatives, and which ones are sister brands

The right Oxylabs alternative depends on which Oxylabs product you’re replacing, and on whether you want a different company or just a different price. Three names on most “Oxylabs alternatives” lists, Decodo, Webshare and ScrapingBee, are sister companies in the same group as Oxylabs. For raw residential traffic from an outside company, I’d look at DataImpulse first, then IPRoyal.

Below I sort the options by job, price them at 20 GB and 125 GB, and say when staying put is the better call.

Short on time?

Here's my take

Residential from an outside company

DataImpulse

$1/GB with no monthly minimum, so 20 GB lists at $20 and 125 GB at $125. Unused GB never expire.

A second outside option for small amounts

IPRoyal

Outside the Source group, and its traffic never expires too, but it costs more: $7.00 for 1 GB, $5.25/GB at 10 GB, and no cards above that.

Cheapest monthly card, group doesn't matter

Webshare

25 GB for $65 on a SAVE discount. It's a sister brand, and the discount's duration isn't stated.

Everything from one outside company

Bright Data

Proxies, Unlocker and SERP API under one roof. New residential zones need company approval.

Replacing Web Unblocker or the scraping API

Zyte

Pay-as-you-go per 1K requests from $0.13, a $5 free credit, and no wallet to fill.

Search results only

apiserpent.com

$0.60 per 1,000 calls with no deposit, against $1/1K on Oxylabs /Search.

Prices verified 12 Nov 2026. Sponsors cannot buy a verdict or a position.

This page is part of the proxies hub. If you’re still weighing whether to leave, Oxylabs pricing, explained shows what each wallet buys. For a head-to-head between the two biggest names, read Bright Data vs Oxylabs.

Who replaces what, at a glance #

Every price below was verified 2026-11-12, in USD before tax. “In Source?” means the company is one of the five in the Source group with Oxylabs.

KYC sources: IPRoyal, Bright Data. Trial sources: Decodo, Webshare, IPRoyal terms §6.15.

Which Oxylabs product are you replacing? #

Oxylabs sells five different things from one wallet, and they have different replacements. Most ranking pages mix them into one list, which is how a scraping API ends up “replacing” a proxy pool.

• Residential (and mobile) GB: rotating IPs billed per GB, $6 to $2.50/GB at Oxylabs. Pricing.
• ISP and datacenter IPs: fixed IPs billed per IP, $1.50 to $1.10 (ISP) and $1 to $0.60 (datacenter) at Oxylabs. Pricing.
• Web Unblocker: a managed unblocking proxy, billed per GB from $7.20 to $3. Pricing.
• Web API /Scrape: a scraping API billed per 1K results, from $0.50 down to $0.25 at volume. Pricing.
• Web API /Search: search results at $1 per 1K on every plan. Pricing.

If you buy more than one of these today, read when I’d stay before you split them across vendors.

Why do people leave Oxylabs? #

I can’t read Reddit or G2 for this, so the reasons below come from Oxylabs’ own documents. Each one is a real cost or constraint, and none of them is about performance.

• You pay for the whole wallet. Starter is $15, Basic $100 and Flexible $500, and the residential rate falls from $6 to $4/GB as you move up. Twenty GB needs Basic; 21 GB needs Flexible or a top-up. Residential pricing.
• Unused credit expires at the end of the billing cycle unless it carries over in an upgrade. Residential pricing.
• Self-service purchases are “non-refundable.” Residential pricing.
• Failed requests still cost GB. Request and response traffic is billed “regardless of the HTTP status code returned.” Residential pricing.
• The $5 welcome credit may not apply to you. The free-trial page limits it to “verified company registrations,” even though the residential page says every new account gets it. Free-trial page, residential page.
• KYC is for everyone. Every customer gets a questionnaire, and Oxylabs says “Only 75% of customers are approved.” KYC and safety.
• You can’t monitor it freely. The terms forbid monitoring “availability, performance or functionality” without written consent. Self-service terms.

There’s also one legal fact some buyers ask about. Reddit sued SerpApi, Oxylabs, AWMProxy and Perplexity in New York federal court on October 22, 2025 (S.D.N.Y. 1:25-cv-08736); Oxylabs said Reddit “has made no attempt to speak with us directly.” Proxyway, docket.

No ruling against Oxylabs is established in the documents I read. The Google and Reddit v. SerpApi tracker follows the case.

For residential and IP proxies #

For raw residential traffic from a company outside the Source group I’d pick DataImpulse, which is cheaper than IPRoyal at every size either publishes, and Webshare if you only care about the monthly price. Pool sizes below are each vendor’s own claim, and several contradict themselves.

IPRoyal, if your usage comes and goes #

IPRoyal’s main draw is that purchased traffic never expires, the opposite of Oxylabs’ monthly wallet, though DataImpulse below offers the same for less. On subscription it lists 1 GB at $7.00, 2 GB at $5.95 and 10 GB at $5.25 per GB; pay-as-you-go is $7.35, $6.25 and $5.51. IPRoyal pricing.

The published cards stop at 10 GB, then jump to a $1.75/GB custom rate from 10 TB. Anything in between, including 20 GB and 125 GB, is a quote. IPRoyal pricing.

Read the terms before you buy. Purchases are non-refundable except when the service is inactive or defective in the first 24 hours, crypto payments are never refunded, a non-refundable Service Fee may be charged with each payment, and trials are at IPRoyal’s discretion. Terms v10, effective Oct 15, 2026.

Its pool claim is 64M+ on the pricing page and 68M+ on its comparison page. Identity verification unlocks “all our services and features.” Pricing, comparison page, KYC policy.

DataImpulse, for volume at a flat rate #

DataImpulse lists residential traffic at $1/GB with “no monthly minimum,” and says “Buy any volume you like. Unused GBs never expire.” Its cards are $5 for 5 GB (one-time, new customers), $50 for 50 GB, $800 for 1 TB, and custom from $4,000 for 5 TB+. DataImpulse residential.

That makes it the cheapest outside option I could price at both 20 GB and 125 GB. It claims 90M+ IPs and a 7-day refund policy, and its residential pages don’t mention KYC. For how it stacks up against five others at 1 GB, 100 GB and 1 TB, see the cheapest residential proxies.

Bright Data, if you want one outside company for everything #

Bright Data covers every Oxylabs layer without being in the Source group. Residential lists $8/GB pay-as-you-go, $4 with the RESIGB50 coupon for three months. Its monthly cards of $499 for 141 GB, $999 for 332 GB and $1,999 for 798 GB use the same coupon; at the struck-through list rates of $7, $6 and $5/GB, that money buys about 71, 166 and 400 GB. Bright Data residential.

The catch is access. New residential zones created after July 7, 2026 need approval: a registered business with a company domain, possibly a video call, and access starts only after you add funds; it’s “never automatic.” Unlocker, ISP and datacenter products work while you wait. Network access rules.

Bright Data’s own pages disagree on its pool size: 400M+ in one table, 150M+ in the FAQ of the same page. Bright Data comparison page. If Bright Data is your likely switch, Bright Data vs Oxylabs prices both at 1, 10 and 100 GB.

Decodo and Webshare, if the group doesn’t matter #

Both are cheaper than Oxylabs at 20 GB. Decodo lists $4/GB pay-as-you-go and monthly cards from 3 GB for $11.25 to 1,000 GB for $2,000, all plus VAT; its trial is 100 MB for 3 days and starts the chosen paid plan automatically unless you cancel. Decodo residential.

Webshare’s rotating residential cards run 1 GB for $3.50, 25 GB for $65, 250 GB for $500 and up to 3,000 GB for $4,200, shown as SAVE discounts off a $3.50/GB reference. Plans renew monthly, and I couldn’t find how long the discount lasts. Webshare residential, Webshare pricing.

Decodo claims 115M+ IPs on its pricing page and 125M+ on its About page; Webshare claims 80M+. Decodo pricing, Decodo about, Webshare. Both price lists are broken down in Decodo pricing, explained and Webshare pricing, explained.

Fixed IPs: ISP and datacenter #

Oxylabs prices ISP from $1.50 to $1.10 per IP and datacenter from $1 to $0.60 per IP. Oxylabs pricing. Decodo’s shared ISP starts at $0.27 per IP or $1.30/GB, with dedicated ISP from $2 per IP; IPRoyal’s comparison page lists ISP from $1.80 and datacenter from $1.39 per proxy. Decodo ISP, IPRoyal comparison page.

Webshare’s free plan is 10 datacenter proxies with 1 GB a month, which is the cheapest way to check that fixed IPs suit your job. Webshare pricing, free-proxies FAQ. For when a fixed IP is the right tool, see ISP vs residential proxies.

For Web Unblocker or the scraping API #

Oxylabs bills Web Unblocker per GB ($7.20 to $3) and Web API /Scrape per 1K results. Most alternatives bill per request or per credit, so you can’t compare them line by line; the honest test is cost per page you actually keep. Oxylabs pricing.

Zyte is my pick for most switchers. Its API is pay-as-you-go at $0.13 to $1.27 per 1K HTTP requests and $1.01 to $16.08 per 1K browser requests, with monthly commitments of $100, $200 or $500 and a $5 free credit for 30 days. Zyte pricing, Zyte API pricing explained.

ScraperAPI suits a fixed monthly budget: Hobby is $49 for 100K credits, up to Advanced at $1,975 for 21.5M, and a Google request costs 25 credits. Its page offers a 7-day trial with 5,000 credits and, in the FAQ, a 1,000-credit free plan. ScraperAPI pricing, ScraperAPI pricing explained.

Bright Data Web Unlocker is the closest like-for-like product: $1.50 per 1K successful requests pay-as-you-go, or $499 a month for 383K, with 5K free requests a month. Web Unlocker pricing.

ScrapingBee is a sister brand. Hobby is $19 for 75K credits, Freelance $49 for 250K and Startup $99 for 1M; a JavaScript-rendered request costs 5 credits, premium proxies 10 or 25, and you get 1,000 free credits without a card. Its pricing page doesn’t mention Oxylabs or Source. ScrapingBee pricing, ScrapingBee pricing explained.

Firecrawl also ranks for this search, with an Oxylabs-alternatives page that puts Firecrawl first. I didn’t re-check its prices for this page. Firecrawl’s page. If you’re still deciding between managed APIs and raw proxies, scraping API vs proxies covers that first.

Only need search results? #

If you only use Oxylabs for Web API /Search at $1 per 1K, a dedicated SERP API is usually cheaper. Bright Data’s SERP API lists $1.50 per 1K pay-as-you-go, or $499 a month for 380K, with 5K free a month. Oxylabs pricing, Bright Data SERP pricing.

apiserpent.com lists $0.60 per 1,000 calls on its Default tier with no deposit. Rates fall with a deposit: $0.30 at $100, $0.10 at $500, $0.05 at $1,000 and $0.03 at $1,250, and a new account gets 10 free calls. apiserpent.com pricing.

It covers Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Brave, plus news, image, video and shopping results. Count calls carefully: Deep Search bills each results page as a call (up to 10), while Quick Search returns up to 100 results. apiserpent.com pricing.

Its pricing page doesn’t say which result features each call returns, so compare a sample response against your Oxylabs /Search output before switching.

What would 20 GB or 125 GB cost elsewhere? #

I picked 20 GB and 125 GB because they’re exactly what Oxylabs Basic ($100) and Flexible ($500) buy when spent on residential. For each rival I took the cheapest published purchase that covers the volume. Prices verified 2026-11-12, USD, before VAT.

Inputs: Oxylabs, DataImpulse, Webshare, Decodo, Decodo unused-GB FAQ, Bright Data, IPRoyal.

At 20 GB, every priced alternative except Bright Data’s list rate is cheaper than Oxylabs. At 125 GB, Oxylabs’ $500 ties Webshare and Decodo, and only DataImpulse comes in lower on list prices; Bright Data’s $499 card undercuts it by $1 only during the coupon’s first three months. These are traffic prices only; none of this says anything about which pool works better on your targets.

Where do the speed and success numbers come from? #

Almost always from a seller. Oxylabs’ own comparison page prints a table it frames with Proxyway’s definitions and research, Bright Data’s Decodo comparison page prints success and uptime figures without a source, and Crawlbase reports its own self-measured success rate on its Oxylabs page. Oxylabs’ page, Bright Data’s page, Crawlbase.

I print none of them here, for anyone. Oxylabs’ terms require written consent to monitor performance, so a fair independent comparison including Oxylabs isn’t something I can publish. Self-service terms. The only performance test that matters is a small trial on your own targets.

When I’d stay with Oxylabs #

If one budget pays for several products, I’d stay. A $500 Flexible wallet can cover 50 GB of residential and 300K searches in the same month; splitting that across two vendors means two minimums and two sets of rules. Oxylabs pricing.

At 1 TB and up, I’d at least get the Enterprise quote. Residential drops to $2.50/GB there, which is where Oxylabs’ price ladder is aimed. Residential pricing.

If you need certifications, check the scope. Oxylabs’ homepage lists ISO/IEC 27001:2022 for datacenter, residential and the Web API, but SOC 2 Type II only for the Scrape endpoint and Web Unblocker. Oxylabs homepage. For the full wallet breakdown, see the proxy pricing models explainer.

Switching without losing a month #

1. Spend the wallet before you go. Credits expire at the end of the cycle, and on cancellation the remaining balance isn’t refunded. Residential pricing.
2. Clear the new vendor’s KYC first. Bright Data’s residential approval is “never automatic,” and IPRoyal ties all services to ID verification. Bright Data, IPRoyal.
3. Map your geo and session settings. Oxylabs documents sticky sessions up to 24 hours, 3 proxy users and 10 whitelisted IPs per account; check the new provider supports what you rely on. Oxylabs residential.
4. Move proxies and APIs separately. They bill in different units, so switch one, compare a month of bills, then switch the other.
5. Watch trials that turn into plans. Decodo’s trial starts the chosen paid plan unless you cancel, and Webshare plans renew monthly. Decodo, Webshare.

So which one would I switch to? #

Residential from a different company, at any volume: DataImpulse, at $1/GB with no minimum and unspent traffic that never expires. IPRoyal also keeps traffic forever but costs more on its published cards. The cheapest monthly card if the group doesn’t matter: Webshare.

One outside vendor for proxies and APIs: Bright Data, once its residential approval is through. Web Unblocker or /Scrape: Zyte. Search results only: apiserpent.com, at $0.60 per 1,000 calls with no deposit.

Stay with Oxylabs if one wallet pays for proxies and API calls together, or you’re heading for 1 TB a month. For a wider field, see the best proxy providers for web scraping and Bright Data alternatives.

FAQ #

What is the best alternative to Oxylabs? #

It depends on the product you’re replacing, so here is a pick for each. For residential proxies from a company outside the Source group, I’d start with DataImpulse at any volume, and look at IPRoyal second. For managed scraping I’d pick Zyte, and for search results only, apiserpent.com. Picks by job.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Oxylabs? #

At 20 GB of residential traffic, yes. DataImpulse lists $20 and Webshare $65, against $100 for Oxylabs Basic. At 125 GB, Oxylabs’ $500 Flexible wallet ties Webshare and Decodo, while DataImpulse lists $125. Price table.

Are Decodo and Oxylabs the same company? #

They are sister companies in the Source group, launched on 13 October 2026, and Source says each brand runs independently. I could not find a primary page saying who legally owns Decodo, so I don’t claim Oxylabs owns it. Source.

Is Webshare owned by Oxylabs? #

Oxylabs announced in September 2022 that it had acquired Webshare, which would keep operating as an independent entity. Both are now in the Source group. Oxylabs announcement.

Does Oxylabs offer a free trial? #

It offers a one-time $5 welcome credit. Its free-trial page limits that to verified company registrations, while its residential page says every new account gets it. Free-trial page.

Which Oxylabs alternative doesn’t require KYC? #

I can’t promise one. DataImpulse’s residential pages don’t mention KYC, IPRoyal says identity verification unlocks all its services, and Bright Data requires approval for new residential zones. Oxylabs itself sends every customer a KYC questionnaire. IPRoyal, Bright Data, Oxylabs.

Is Bright Data better than Oxylabs? #

Not on list prices at the sizes Oxylabs’ wallets buy. At 20 GB and 125 GB, Bright Data lists $160 and $999 against $100 and $500, and its RESIGB50 coupon halves that only for three months. It is outside the Source group and covers every Oxylabs product, and Oxylabs wins when one wallet has to pay for proxies and API calls together. Price table, Bright Data vs Oxylabs.

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