Side by side
Oxylabs vs PacketStream
The short answer
On residential, PacketStream is the cheaper of the two at $1/GB against Oxylabs' $2.50/GB, a gap of about 60%.
Sign-up
ID required
Just an email
Pay with
Card, wire
Card
Free trial
7 days, business accounts
None
IPs (their number)
175 million
7 million
Countries
195
190
Won't work for
Ticketing
Streaming
Warnings
Fined $7.5M in 2025
Gets its IPs from paid volunteers
Oxylabs against PacketStream, product by product
Residentialcompared above
$2.50/GBon Corporate (1 TB, Residential Proxies), $2,500/mo, read 12 Augfrom $30/mo on Starter (5 GB, Residential Proxies), 4 plans
$1.00/GBon Residential Proxies, read 12 Aug1 plan
Fixed ISP
—priced per IP addressfrom $16/mo on Starter (10 IPs, ISP Proxies), 6 plans
Does not sell this
Datacenter
$0.59/GBon Shared (pay per GB) (20 GB, Datacenter Proxies), $11.8/mo, read 12 Augfrom $6.75/mo on Dedicated (pay per IP) (3 IPs, Datacenter Proxies), 3 plans
Does not sell this
Mobile
$3.50/GBon Corporate (715 GB, Mobile Proxies), $2,500/mo, read 12 Augfrom $30/mo on Starter (4 GB, Mobile Proxies), 4 plans
Does not sell this
Choose Oxylabs if
you read an ID check as a signal rather than a hurdle, which Oxylabs asks for and PacketStream does not, and the country list is wider, 195 against 190.
Choose PacketStream if
the rate is lower, $1/GB against $2.50, and sign-up is just an email where Oxylabs wants identity documents first.
Questions
Does Oxylabs or PacketStream ask for ID?
Oxylabs needs id required to open an account and PacketStream needs just an email.
Which is cheaper, Oxylabs or PacketStream?
PacketStream, at $1 per GB against Oxylabs' $2.50 per GB, both residential rates read from the providers' own pages and dated above.
Which has more addresses, Oxylabs or PacketStream?
Oxylabs, on their own numbers: 175 million, 195 countries against PacketStream's 7 million, 190 countries.
Neither of these?
We don't pick a winner, the numbers are the same ones on each provider's page, checked yesterday.