Home › Comparisons › Decodo (ex-Smartproxy) vs Oxylabs
✓ last verified 2026-08-07 · every rate below was read from the provider’s live pricing page on that date · how we verify
Both sell residential proxies to the mid-market and up, but they price on opposite philosophies: Decodo publishes a full self-serve tier ladder ($4.00/GB pay-as-you-go down to $2.75/GB at 100 GB, all verified), while Oxylabs publishes only a starting rate (from $6.00/GB) and expects a conversation for anything real. That difference is the comparison.
At a glance
| Residential/plan pricing | Decodo (ex-Smartproxy) | Oxylabs |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | $2.75/GB best · $4.00/GB entry · PAYG $4.00/GB | $6.00/GB best · $6.00/GB entry · PAYG — |
| Mobile | not offered / not verified | only starting prices visible; full tier table needs browser |
| ISP / static | not offered / not verified | only starting prices visible; full tier table needs browser |
| Datacenter | not offered / not verified | only starting prices visible; full tier table needs browser |
| Products offered | residential, isp, datacenter, mobile, scraping-api | residential, isp, datacenter, mobile, scraping-api |
| Verification status | verified 2026-08-07 | verified 2026-08-07 |
Pricing in detail
Decodo (ex-Smartproxy) — every verified tier
| Product | Plan | Rate | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| residential | PAYG | $4.00/GB | +VAT; FAQ elsewhere on page says wallet PAYG $8.5/GB — discrepancy flagged |
| residential | 3GB | $3.75/GB | +VAT |
| residential | 10GB | $3.50/GB | +VAT |
| residential | 25GB | $3.25/GB | +VAT |
| residential | 50GB | $3.00/GB | +VAT |
| residential | 100GB | $2.75/GB | +VAT |
Oxylabs — every verified tier
| Product | Plan | Rate | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| residential | from | $6.00/GB | STARTING PRICE ONLY — full tier table not visible; mobile from $7.5, ISP from $16, SOCKS5 from $8 |
Which should you pick?
Pick Decodo if you want a price before you talk to anyone
Every Decodo tier is on the page and checkable: $4.00/GB PAYG, $3.50/GB at 10 GB, $3.00/GB at 50 GB, $2.75/GB at 100 GB. You can size a budget in a minute. One caveat we found and published: Decodo’s own pricing page and its FAQ disagree on the PAYG rate ($4.00 vs $8.50) — confirm at checkout.
Pick Oxylabs if procurement matters more than per-GB
Oxylabs sells to teams that need compliance paperwork, account management and SLA conversations. Its published entry ($6.00/GB residential, ISP from $16, mobile from $7.50) is above Decodo’s ladder, and the real number is negotiated. If you’re buying at volume with legal review, that process is the product.
If price is the only axis, neither wins
Both are mid-to-premium. Verified cheaper residential exists at $1.00/GB (DataImpulse) and $1.40–$2.25/GB (Webshare bulk). See cheap residential proxies.
Also compared, and what Reddit adds
The same shortlisting session usually includes Bright Data vs Oxylabs; IPRoyal vs Decodo. Reddit threads on this pairing are worth skimming for the billing and support experiences landing pages omit — weight recent, specific complaints over star averages, then check the dated numbers here.
Neither provider pays for placement here. Both profiles — Decodo (ex-Smartproxy) and Oxylabs — carry the full verified tier tables and change history.
FAQ
Is Decodo cheaper than Oxylabs?
On published rates as of 2026-08-07, yes: Decodo runs $2.75–$4.00/GB across its self-serve tiers while Oxylabs starts at $6.00/GB. Oxylabs negotiates below its published entry at volume, so the gap narrows for large contracts — but Decodo is the cheaper committed price you can actually see.
Which has the bigger residential pool?
Oxylabs markets 175M+ residential IPs; Decodo markets a smaller but still multi-million pool. We don’t publish pool-size rankings because no provider allows independent verification of the claim — treat vendor pool numbers as marketing until someone audits them.
Do both offer a free trial?
Decodo runs a 3-day residential trial. Oxylabs offers trials through sales contact rather than self-serve. Full trial-terms verification is in progress and will land on our free-trials page.
What is the alternative to Oxylabs?
Oxylabs’s verified residential rates run $6.00–$6.00/GB; the verified field is compared at the pricing matrix. The cheapest flat rate in our dataset is DataImpulse at $1.00/GB, with Webshare ($1.40–$3.50/GB) and Decodo ($2.75–$4.00/GB) the usual self-serve swaps — which one fits depends on volume and billing shape, not a single ‘best’.
What is the alternative to Decodo?
Decodo (ex-Smartproxy)’s verified residential rates run $2.75–$4.00/GB; the verified field is compared at Decodo (ex-Smartproxy) alternatives. The cheapest flat rate in our dataset is DataImpulse at $1.00/GB, with Webshare ($1.40–$3.50/GB) and Decodo ($2.75–$4.00/GB) the usual self-serve swaps — which one fits depends on volume and billing shape, not a single ‘best’.
Is Oxylabs worth it?
‘Worth it’ is a volume question, not a brand question. Oxylabs’s verified rates ($6.00–$6.00/GB) price it at the premium end of the 12 providers we verify. It earns that premium when you need what it uniquely sells — see the verdict sections above — and wastes money when a cheaper verified provider covers your targets. Run the smallest paid test on your own workload before deciding; that answer beats anyone’s review.
Which Socks5 is the best?
SOCKS5 is a protocol, not a pool — most providers expose the same residential network over HTTP and SOCKS5 at the same per-GB rate, so ‘best SOCKS5’ resolves to the same ranking as best residential. The one verified rate-card difference we track: Oxylabs lists dedicated SOCKS5 pricing from $8/GB. Pick by the rate table and confirm protocol support at checkout.
What is the controversy with Oxylabs?
Searches about ‘Oxylabs controversy’ generally track the industry-wide arguments this market runs on: how residential exit nodes are sourced and consented, aggressive litigation between major providers, and what customers do through the pools. We publish only what we can verify, and the verifiable industry fact is the July 2026 FBI seizure of NetNut over alleged botnet overlap — the case that made sourcing diligence non-optional. For anything provider-specific, primary sources (court filings, regulator statements) beat SEO’d recap posts.