Proxy Grove vs Oxylabs: Per-IP Unlimited or Pay-per-GB

This article is a factual comparison. It is not an affiliation, a speed test, or legal advice. Proxy Grove sells Mobile, Residential, and Corporate on Pricing. Oxylabs sells proxy networks and a web-data platform. Follow applicable law and each site’s terms.

Teams comparing Proxy Grove vs Oxylabs are usually choosing a meter. Oxylabs’ public residential grid is billed per gigabyte, with monthly commitments that lower the rate as volume rises. Proxy Grove’s published Unlimited plans are billed per IP per day (1, 7, 30, or 90 days), with traffic included on those plans subject to fair use. Name the SKU before you name a winner.

If you already use Oxylabs for Web Scraper API, Web Unblocker, or a large rotating residential pool, this page will not tell you to delete that contract. It will tell you when allocated per-IP unlimited egress is a better fit, and when Oxylabs’ platform is the better fit.

What each company actually sells

Oxylabs’ public catalog includes Residential Proxies, Datacenter Proxies, Mobile Proxies, ISP Proxies, SOCKS5 Proxies as a listed product, Private Proxies, Web Unblocker, Headless Browser, Web Scraper API (from $49/month on the pricing hub), and Datasets. That is a data-collection stack with proxies inside it. Their residential product page publishes 175M+ residential IPs, 195 locations, continent/country/city/state/ZIP targeting, sticky sessions, HTTP(S), HTTP3, and SOCKS5, unlimited concurrent sessions, and a 99.95% success-rate figure. Treat those as vendor claims. We have not measured them.

Proxy Grove publishes three proxy SKUs plus Enterprise custom: Residential, Mobile 4G/5G, and Corporate. HTTP and SOCKS5 are included on published Unlimited plans, not sold as a separate SOCKS5 product. Sticky or rotating is a plan setting. Country targeting is the public geo model. We do not sell a scraper API, unblocker, headless browser product, or dataset marketplace. If the job is “return parsed HTML from a hard target,” Oxylabs built a product for that. If the job is “give me N IPs in this country for a rank tracker, browser profile, or httpx client,” Proxy Grove built a product for that.

How the money works

Oxylabs residential, public grid (oxylabs.io/pricing/residential-proxy-pool, 21 August 2026):

• Starter: 5 GB, $6/GB, $30 billed monthly
• Basic: 20 GB, $5/GB, $100 billed monthly
• Advanced: 125 GB, $4/GB, $500 billed monthly
• Corporate: 1 TB, $2.50/GB, $2,500 billed monthly
• Pricing hub headline: residential starts from $6/GB
• Top-up limits are listed per plan (up to 100 GB on Starter/Basic, up to 2 TB on Advanced/Corporate)

The hub also lists Web Scraper API from $49/month. Mobile, ISP, SOCKS5, and Web Unblocker appear as separate “starts from” cards. We are not treating truncated hub fragments as a unit price. Confirm those SKUs on their dedicated pricing pages before you budget. VAT may apply on Oxylabs plans.

Proxy Grove Unlimited (proxygrove.com/pricing/, 21 August 2026):

• Residential from $2/IP/day
• Corporate from $2/IP/day
• Mobile from $4.50/IP/day
• Durations 1 / 7 / 30 / 90 days
• Traffic on those plans is not billed per GB. Fair use still applies.
• HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS5, sticky or rotating

Worked examples, not promises:

1. Sticky SEO, 4 residential IPs, 30 days, heavy pages. Proxy Grove: 4 × $2 × 30 = $120, traffic on the plan. Oxylabs: GB × rate. At the $6/GB Starter rate, 20 GB is $120; 50 GB is $300. The meter decides.

2. Wide rotating crawl, 400 GB, you want a large shared residential pool. Oxylabs Advanced is $500 for 125 GB ($4/GB); 400 GB at that rate is in the $1,600 class unless you are on a custom or Corporate tier. Their 175M+ pool claim is aimed at that shape. Proxy Grove unlimited IPs are a poor match if you need millions of rotating addresses rather than a handful of allocated IPs.

3. Protocol. Oxylabs lists SOCKS5 as its own product on the pricing hub and also says residential supports HTTP(S), HTTP3, and SOCKS5. Proxy Grove includes HTTP and SOCKS5 on Mobile, Residential, and Corporate Unlimited. Do not assume every Oxylabs SKU is SOCKS5; check the dashboard for the product you buy. For the protocol trade-off, use the existing SOCKS5 vs HTTP post.

We do not publish a 175M IP figure. Country counts are not pool size. Oxylabs publishes 195 locations; Proxy Grove publishes 246 countries and regions. Those are different counting methods.

Sessions, targeting, and code

Both vendors describe sticky and rotating sessions. On Proxy Grove that is a plan/endpoint setting. Do not invent a second rotating-proxies URL; use rotating proxies.

Oxylabs markets city, state, and ZIP targeting on residential. Proxy Grove’s public location library is country-level (see Germany residential proxies). If the SOP is “this ZIP,” Oxylabs’ published targeting is the closer match. If the SOP is “Germany home ISP, sticky, then rotate,” either vendor can fit; billing still decides.

Residential vs datacenter is a separate identity choice. Oxylabs sells both, plus ISP. Proxy Grove sells Residential, Mobile, and Corporate, not a public datacenter SKU. Use residential vs datacenter.

Onboarding (their rules)

Oxylabs’ KYC page (oxylabs.io/kyc-and-safety) states that every customer has to answer a KYC questionnaire, that they may refuse service, and that they publish “Only 75% of customers are approved.” They ask for company details, contact details, usage information, and additional documentation. That is a procurement feature for teams that want ISO/IEC 27001:2022-certified products (they mark proxy solutions and scraper APIs as certified on the pricing footer). It is friction if you wanted a residential IP this afternoon.

Proxy Grove checkout is self-serve at app.proxygrove.com. Self-serve is not a claim that we skip abuse controls. It is a claim that published Unlimited plans do not use an Oxylabs-style all-customer KYC questionnaire.

Their residential FAQ also lists restricted targets (examples they name include Apple domains, some Google domains, banking, government, streaming, ticketing, mailing). Confirm current restrictions with them. Do not treat our network as a way to reach targets another vendor blocks.

When Oxylabs is the better fit

Keep or choose Oxylabs when most of these are true:

• You need Web Scraper API or Web Unblocker.
• You need a very large rotating residential pool and you think in GB.
• You need city/ZIP targeting they advertise.
• You want their published 175M+ pool and 99.95% success claim for a procurement deck.
• You can complete KYC.
• You are ready for $30–$2,500/month residential commitments (or custom).

Those are real jobs. Proxy Grove does not replace Unblocker or Scraper API.

When Proxy Grove is the better fit

Choose Proxy Grove when most of these are true:

• You want N known IPs for SEO, ad QA, localization, or storefront checks.
• Unlimited traffic on the plan matters because sessions are heavy.
• You want HTTP and SOCKS5 on the same SKU family.
• You want to start from $2/IP on published Residential/Corporate day plans without a $30–$500 GB commit.
• You already have Python, a rank tracker, or a browser tool and only need egress.

Use residential, mobile, or corporate. Async Python jobs should use the live httpx and asyncio guide, not a second requests tutorial. For the Bright Data comparison see Proxy Grove vs Bright Data.

You can use both

A common setup: Oxylabs Unblocker or Scraper API for hostile, high-volume collection; Proxy Grove IPs for sticky local QA. Matching meters to jobs is not “migration.”

Before you switch either way, list workflows: sticky vs rotating, country list, estimated GB per month, IP count, and HTTP vs SOCKS5. Price the same workflow on both meters, including Oxylabs VAT if it applies to you. Confirm protocol and session mode in each dashboard. Confirm onboarding: Oxylabs KYC questionnaire vs Proxy Grove self-serve. Confirm what you are not buying. If you need Datasets or Web Unblocker, Proxy Grove is the wrong cart. Write those five answers down before you open either checkout. That list is the comparison; the brand names are labels on top of it.

Oxylabs states they accept payment cards, wire transfers in US Dollars and Euros, AliPay, and PayPal, and that they do not accept Bitcoins. Proxy Grove’s pricing FAQ lists wallet top-ups via Cryptomus, PayPal, and Wise. Payment rails are not a quality ranking. They are an operations constraint. If your finance team can only wire USD to a vendor with ISO 27001 paperwork, Oxylabs’ public story is closer. If you need to top up a wallet and start a published Unlimited plan the same day, Proxy Grove’s published path is closer.

Sources (21 August 2026)

• https://oxylabs.io/pricing
• https://oxylabs.io/pricing/residential-proxy-pool
• https://oxylabs.io/products/residential-proxy-pool
• https://oxylabs.io/kyc-and-safety
• https://proxygrove.com/pricing/

Oxylabs is a trademark of Oxylabs. Proxy Grove is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Oxylabs. Names are used only to identify the products compared.