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Oxylabs vs Shifter

The short answer

On residential, Shifter is the cheaper of the two at $0.75/GB against Oxylabs' $2.50/GB, a gap of about 70%. One thing to read before you decide: we carry a warning on Oxylabs and none on Shifter.

Oxylabs$2.50 /GBResidential
Shifter$0.75 /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
31 million
Countries
195
130
Won't work for
Ticketing
Nothing we know of
Warnings
Fined $7.5M in 2025
None

Oxylabs against Shifter, 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
$0.75/GBon Popular (200 GB), $149/mo, read 12 Augfrom $50/mo on Starter (50 GB), 4 plans
Fixed ISP
—priced per IP addressfrom $16/mo on Starter (10 IPs, ISP Proxies), 6 plans
—priced per IP addressfrom $42/mo on Starter (25 IPs), 4 plans
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 Shifter does not, and the country list is wider, 195 against 130.

Choose Shifter if

the rate is lower, $0.75/GB against $2.50, and sign-up is just an email where Oxylabs wants identity documents first.

Questions

Does Oxylabs or Shifter ask for ID?

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

Which is cheaper, Oxylabs or Shifter?

Shifter, at $0.75 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 Shifter?

Oxylabs, on their own numbers: 175 million, 195 countries against Shifter's 31 million.

Neither of these?

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