Used For

• +**Your Python scrapers fail on React sites that detect bots instantly** → 100M+ residential IPs from real homes make you look like actual users browsing normally
• +**You're manually checking competitor prices across 50 cities** → City-level targeting pulls localized pricing data without traveling or setting up fake accounts
• +**Your review monitoring gets blocked after 10 requests** → Unlimited concurrent sessions scrape thousands of reviews simultaneously without session limits
• +Sticky IP sessions up to unlimited duration - stay on the same IP for entire user journeys
• +AI-powered fingerprinting hits 100% success on tough sites that block everything else

Best For

• >Your scrapers keep hitting CAPTCHAs and IP bans on every site you need data from
• >Running large-scale price monitoring or ad verification that breaks with cheap proxies
• >Need to scrape geo-locked content from specific cities without VPN hassles

Not For

• -Solo developers or small teams under 10 people — you're paying $300-5k/month for traffic most projects won't use
• -Anyone wanting plug-and-play scraping — this requires coding skills and API integration, not just clicking buttons
• -Budget-conscious projects under $1k/month — the per-GB pricing adds up fast and trials hit limits quickly

Pairs With

• *Scrapy (where Oxylabs handles the proxy rotation while Scrapy does the actual scraping logic)
• *Beautiful Soup (for parsing the HTML that Oxylabs successfully retrieved without getting blocked)
• *Selenium (when you need to scrape JavaScript-heavy sites and rotate through residential IPs)
• *Python requests (the simplest setup - just add Oxylabs credentials to your HTTP requests)
• *Postman (for testing endpoints and debugging proxy configs before writing full scripts)
• *MongoDB (to store all the scraped data that Oxylabs helped you collect)
• *Zapier (to trigger scraping workflows and send alerts when data collection completes)

The Catch

• !Pricing is per-GB of traffic, not monthly flat rate — costs balloon if you scrape more than expected
• !Trial limits hit fast (enough for ~10k test requests) then overages kick in before you know real usage
• !Requires actual coding to integrate — the dashboard is just for monitoring, you need scripts and API knowledge to use it

Bottom Line

Enterprise-grade proxy network that costs enterprise prices even if you're just testing scrapers on weekends.