Oxylabs

Oxylabs is a web data collection company providing premium proxy services, scraper APIs, and ready-made datasets for large-scale public web data extraction. The company serves more than 15,000 clients and reports a network of over 177 million IP addresses spanning residential, mobile, datacenter, and ISP proxies.^[1][3].

Originally focused on proxies as the connection layer for scraping, Oxylabs has expanded into full-stack data acquisition with products such as the Web Scraper API, Web Unblocker, Headless Browser, Fast Search API, AI Studio tooling, and custom datasets, positioning itself for AI training, e-commerce intelligence, marketing intelligence, and cybersecurity use cases.^[1]

What It Does

Oxylabs supplies the infrastructure needed to retrieve public web data at scale: proxy networks to route requests from real residential, mobile, and datacenter IPs, unblocking technology that handles anti-bot systems, APIs that return parsed results, and managed dataset delivery. The company reports a 99%+ average public data retrieval success rate and sub-second average response times.^[1]

Products

The portfolio includes Residential Proxies (175M+ IPs), Mobile Proxies (20M+ IPs), Datacenter Proxies (2M+ IPs), ISP Proxies, dedicated variants of these pools, SOCKS5 proxies, Web Unblocker, Headless Browser, Web Scraper API, Fast Search API for organic search results, Video Data APIs, and tailored datasets. A suite called AI Studio offers natural-language tools such as AI-Scraper, AI-Crawler, Browser Agent, AI-Search, and AI-Map.^[1]

Delivery And Pricing

Products are consumed via APIs and dashboards with code samples in Python, cURL, Node.js, PHP, Go, Java, and C#, plus integrations with more than 30 tools including LangChain, LlamaIndex, Zapier, n8n, and AI agent frameworks. Pricing is subscription-based with self-service registration and contact-sales options; some products offer free trials or free IP allocations.^[1]

Buyers And Use Cases

Customers named by the company include Stanford University, Forbes, trivago, NordVPN, Palo Alto Networks, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Bellingcat, the Pulitzer Center, Global Witness, and e-commerce intelligence firm Wiser.^[1] Stated use cases include AI training and retrieval-augmented generation, e-commerce and pricing monitoring, ad verification, SEO, brand protection, and investigative journalism.^[1]

Compliance

Oxylabs markets itself around ethical sourcing and compliance, stating that its residential proxy pool is ethically sourced and that its proxy solutions and scraper API products are certified under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, alongside GDPR-focused data protection practices, a KYC policy, trust center, and vulnerability disclosure program. Technology E&O and cyber insurance cover its products.^[1]

Landscape

Oxylabs competes in the proxy and web scraping infrastructure market against providers such as Bright Data, Smartproxy, and Zyte. Third-party reviewers have recognized it repeatedly: Proxyway named it most scalable provider in 2026 and rates it 9.3 out of 10, while G2 ranks it among leaders in proxy networks and data extraction categories.^[1][2] The company also organizes OxyCon, an industry conference on web scraping.^[1]