ProxyBox vs Oxylabs
Oxylabs is one of the biggest names in commercial residential proxies. It sits in a different category from ProxyBox, and different jobs call for different tools. Here's how to pick.
| ProxyBox | Oxylabs | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $149 one-time or $10/mo | $300/mo minimum (residential), $500+/mo typical |
| Per-GB pricing | Your home ISP plan | $8-15/GB depending on volume |
| IP pool | 1 IP (yours) | 100M+ residential + data center options |
| Rotation | Stable (your ISP's rotation cycle) | Per-request, per-session, or sticky |
| Geo targeting | Your home | 195 countries, city-level |
| Contract | None | Monthly minimum, annual common |
| Session length | Long-lived, stable | Sticky up to 30 min, configurable |
| Compliance posture | You own the hardware and the IP | SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR-oriented contracts |
| Support tier | Email, community | Dedicated account managers |
| Typical customer | Individual operator, small team | Enterprise scraping, market research firms |
How they're actually different
Oxylabs sources residential IPs at massive scale from SDK partners and end-user opt-ins worldwide. Its product is access to that rotating pool, billed by the gigabyte. The customer typically has a team of engineers running large-scale scraping operations where rotating IPs + geographic targeting are load-bearing features.
ProxyBox sells you a $149 piece of hardware that sits on your home network. Its product is one stable IP (yours), plus the tunnel plumbing that lets you reach it from anywhere. The customer is an individual or small team who needs a real residential IP for a handful of accounts, long-term, without paying $500/month to sustain it.
They solve overlapping problems in opposite ways: Oxylabs by owning the biggest pool, ProxyBox by letting you own the smallest one.
Use Oxylabs when
- You're scraping millions of URLs per day and need IP diversity at scale.
- Your use case requires requests from specific countries or cities that your home doesn't cover.
- You have compliance requirements that need vendor SOC 2, GDPR data-processing agreements, or similar.
- Your team is large enough that a dedicated account manager is worth something to you.
- Bandwidth at $10/GB is a rounding error next to the value of the data you're collecting.
Use ProxyBox when
- You're operating a small number of personal or small-team accounts and need the IP to stay boringly consistent to keep those accounts healthy.
- Your budget is "a few dollars a month" not "a few hundred."
- You care that your traffic originates from an IP that belongs to you, not a pool of uncertain provenance.
- You'd rather pay once and own the hardware than rent access indefinitely.
- You need a stable remote-work setup that stops triggering MFA prompts every week.
The "fallback to the other" case
Some users run both: ProxyBox for account operations that benefit from stability, Oxylabs for on-demand scraping bursts that can't be served by one home connection. The two pair cleanly because they don't compete in the same layer of the workflow.
If your need fits on one IP
ProxyBox is $149 once, no gigabyte billing, no contract. You own the box and the IP.
Order a ProxyBox