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Oxylabs vs ProxyEmpire

The short answer

On residential, ProxyEmpire is the cheaper of the two at $1.50/GB against Oxylabs' $2.50/GB, a gap of about 40%. One thing to read before you decide: we carry a warning on Oxylabs and none on ProxyEmpire.

Oxylabs$2.50 /GBResidential
ProxyEmpire$1.50 /GBResidential
Sign-up
ID required
Just an email
Pay with
Card, wire
Card, crypto
Free trial
7 days, business accounts
None
IPs (their number)
175 million
9 million
Countries
195
170
Won't work for
Ticketing
Nothing we know of
Warnings
Fined $7.5M in 2025
None

Oxylabs against ProxyEmpire, 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
$1.50/GBon Enterprise (1000 GB), $1,500/mo, read 12 Augfrom $3.5/mo on Pay As You Go (1 GB), 8 plans
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
$0.35/GBon Company (5000 GB), $1,750/mo, read 12 Augfrom $25/mo on Testing (40 GB), 6 plans
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
$2.00/GBon Mobile 1000 GB (1000 GB), $2,000/mo, read 12 Augfrom $4.5/mo on Pay As You Go (1 GB), 8 plans

Choose Oxylabs if

you read an ID check as a signal rather than a hurdle, which Oxylabs asks for and ProxyEmpire does not, and the country list is wider, 195 against 170.

Choose ProxyEmpire if

the rate is lower, $1.50/GB against $2.50, and sign-up is just an email where Oxylabs wants identity documents first.

Questions

Does Oxylabs or ProxyEmpire ask for ID?

Oxylabs needs id required to open an account and ProxyEmpire needs just an email.

Which is cheaper, Oxylabs or ProxyEmpire?

ProxyEmpire, at $1.50 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 ProxyEmpire?

Oxylabs, on their own numbers: 175 million, 195 countries against ProxyEmpire's 9 million, 170 countries.

Neither of these?

We don't pick a winner, the numbers are the same ones on each provider's page, checked today.