IPLight vs Oxylabs (2026)

How to read this page. Every competitor figure below is the publicly listed rate on that provider's own pricing page as checked on 3 November 2026. Prices, tiers and promotions change often — confirm on their site before you buy. IPLight is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a reseller of any provider named here. Where a competitor is genuinely the better fit, we say so.

Quick verdict

Price comparison

Oxylabs prices residential through four monthly plans. The per-GB rate improves as the plan grows, but the entry plan is $30 for 5 GB. IPLight charges one rate for traffic, with no plan structure at all.

At 100 GB per month the arithmetic is stark: Oxylabs' nearest tier is the 125 GB plan at $500 ($4/GB), while IPLight bills 100 GB at the $1/GB rate. If your monthly volume is under roughly 100 GB and you do not need the platform around it, the plan structure is pure overhead.

Where Oxylabs is the better choice

• Scraper API. Managed parsing for SERP, e-commerce and real-estate data. If you want clean JSON rather than HTML to parse yourself, that is real engineering time saved.
• Enterprise support. 24/7 chat plus a dedicated account manager on paid plans, and onboarding help that a large team may rely on.
• Compliance package. ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2 documentation to satisfy procurement.
• Published performance benchmarks. Oxylabs publishes average response times and success rates; if your team needs numbers in a contract, that is valuable.

Where IPLight is the better choice

• Price per gigabyte. $1/GB against $6/GB on the entry plan and $4/GB at 125 GB. At 100 GB per month that is roughly a 75% cost reduction on the same traffic.
• No plan structure. Nothing to size in advance, nothing to under-use, no non-refundable allowance.
• No category restrictions. If your target is on a restricted list elsewhere, pricing is moot — we do not maintain one.
• Static ISP priced simply. $3 per IP per month, $2 from 15 IPs, instead of per-IP quotes that vary by country and term.
• Operational simplicity. One gateway, username-password auth, HTTP and SOCKS5. No zone model.

The target-restriction question

This is the part most comparison pages skip. Oxylabs documents a list of restricted targets on its residential network — certain Apple domains, banking, government, streaming and ticketing sites among them. That is a compliance policy, and it does not change with your plan size. If your data source is on that list, price is irrelevant: you cannot buy your way past a policy restriction.

IPLight publishes no target restriction list. What still applies is the target site's own defence — Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX and similar systems decide per request. The honest statement is: we do not restrict categories, and we cannot guarantee any specific site will accept any specific IP. Test before you scale.

What switching actually involves

Both providers use a single gateway endpoint with username-password authentication, so the code change is three values: host, port and credentials.

# Same code, different endpoint: swap host, port and credentials
import requests

proxies = {
    "http":  "http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gateway-host:port",
    "https": "http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gateway-host:port",
}
r = requests.get("https://your-target-site", proxies=proxies, timeout=20)
print(r.status_code, len(r.content))

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