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Core capabilities

Vendor's own claim
  • Proxies: Residential (175M+ IPs), Mobile (20M+), Datacenter, Dedicated Datacenter, ISP, Dedicated ISP
  • Web Scraper API: managed scraping infrastructure with structured parsing for specific targets (Amazon, Google, etc.)
  • Web Unblocker: AI-powered proxy that adapts to bypass anti-bot defenses on hard targets
  • Headless Browser: cloud browser for JS-heavy sites with built-in unblocking
  • Custom Datasets: pre-collected, ready-to-use web datasets

API & agent surface

From official docs
Authentication
HTTP Basic Authentication using separate Web Scraper API credentials (created under Dashboard > Users tab, distinct from the main dashboard login), e.g. curl --user 'USERNAME:PASSWORD'
Base URL
https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries
Rate limits
Rate limits for the current Starter, Basic, Flexible and Enterprise plans were not established in this review. Confirm total and rendered-job throughput and domain-level throttling with Oxylabs before sizing a workload.
Notable endpoints
  • POST /v1/queries - submit a scrape job (source, url/query, and optional parse/render parameters); three integration modes documented: Realtime, Push-Pull, and Proxy Endpoint
MCP tools exposed
universal_scrapergoogle_search_scraperamazon_search_scraperamazon_product_scraperai_scraperai_crawlerai_browser_agentai_searchai_mapgenerate_schema
Machine-readable spec
No OpenAPI link

Official skills & repos

From official docs

Published by the vendor themselves — not community forks.

  • oxylabs-mcp106 stars

    Official Oxylabs MCP server source exposing Web Scraper API tools (universal_scraper, google_search_scraper, amazon_search_scraper, amazon_product_scraper) and AI Studio tools (ai_scraper, ai_crawler, ai_browser_agent, ai_search, ai_map, generate_schema), linked from Oxylabs' own MCP docs.

  • agent-skills874 stars

    Official Oxylabs Agent Skills announced in the Oxylabs changelog (2026-07-15): five product skills (Proxies, Web Unblocker, Web Scraper API, Headless Browser, Video Data), installable as a Claude Code plugin.

From the vendor's channel

Getting Started With Web Scraper API — Oxylabs

Pricing

From official docs
PlanPriceIncludedNotable
Welcome credits$0; $5 welcome credits toward any productTarget-dependent Web API /Scrape allowance; Up to 10K results at rates from $0.50/1K resultsGoogle JS: $1.35/1K results; Up to 3.7K results, Google non-JS: $1.00/1K results; Up to 5K results, Amazon non-JS: $0.50/1K results; Up to 10K results
Starter$30/month, VAT may applyTarget-dependent Web API /Scrape allowance; Up to 60K results at rates from $0.50/1K resultsGoogle JS: $1.35/1K results; Up to 22K results, Google non-JS: $1.00/1K results; Up to 22K results, Amazon non-JS: $0.50/1K results; Up to 60K results
Basic$100/month, VAT may applyTarget-dependent Web API /Scrape allowance; Up to 222K results at rates from $0.45/1K resultsGoogle JS: $1.30/1K results; Up to 76K results, Google non-JS: $0.90/1K results; Up to 111K results, Amazon non-JS: $0.45/1K results; Up to 222K results
Flexible$500/month, VAT may applyTarget-dependent Web API /Scrape allowance; Up to 1.43M results at rates from $0.35/1K resultsGoogle JS: $1.15/1K results; Up to 434K results, Google non-JS: $0.70/1K results; Up to 714K results, Amazon non-JS: $0.35/1K results; Up to 1.43M results
EnterpriseFrom $2,500/monthTarget-dependent Web API /Scrape allowance; 10M+ results at rates from $0.25/1K resultsGoogle JS: $0.90/1K results; 2.78M+ results, Google non-JS: $0.50/1K results; 5M+ results, Amazon non-JS: $0.25/1K results; 10M+ results

Checked 2026-09-23 against their pricing page. Vendors change pricing without notice.

What is Oxylabs

Vendor's own claim

Oxylabs is web-data infrastructure spanning raw proxy access, managed scraping APIs, and AI-oriented no-code/agent tooling.

Ideal customer profile

Vendor's own claim

Teams needing reliable, large-scale access to public web data - price/market intelligence, SEO monitoring, ad verification, fraud prevention/cybersecurity, journalism, and AI/LLM developers training or grounding models on web data. Vendor names Stanford University, Forbes, Bloomberg, and Citadel among its 15,000+ clients.

Who should look elsewhere

Our read

High-throughput buyers should confirm rate limits for their chosen current plan before committing. The MCP server requires separate Web Scraper API or AI Studio credentials and is not a standalone free capability.

Oxylabs alternatives

Our read

Infrastructure for fetching web pages at scale — proxies, headless browsers, and crawl-to-markdown services that agents can call directly.

Category: Scraping and browser infrastructure. Membership is decided by 3 stated tests, not by category tags — see them and the full comparison.

Oxylabs FAQ

Does Oxylabs publish a machine-readable OpenAPI spec?

Not for the Web Scraper API as far as we found.

Our read
How does the Web Scraper API authenticate requests?

HTTP Basic Authentication using dedicated API User credentials created under the Users tab in the Oxylabs dashboard - not the main account login - e.g. curl --user 'USERNAME:PASSWORD'.

From official docs
Is there a free trial?

Oxylabs offers $5 in welcome credits toward any product.

From official docs
Does Oxylabs offer an MCP server for AI agents?

Yes. It exposes Web Scraper API tools (universal_scraper, google_search_scraper, amazon_search_scraper, amazon_product_scraper) and, with an AI Studio API key, ai_scraper, ai_crawler, ai_browser_agent, ai_search, ai_map, and generate_schema, documented for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and Cursor. The GitHub source repo (oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp) is archived as of Sep 16, 2026.

From official docs
How is the Web Scraper API priced?

Web API /Scrape uses Welcome credits, Starter at $30/month, Basic at $100/month, Flexible at $500/month, and Enterprise from $2,500/month. VAT may apply. The published largest allowances are up to 60,000, 222,000 and 1.43 million results on Starter, Basic and Flexible, and 10 million or more on Enterprise.

From official docs
What are the API rate limits?

Rate limits for the current Starter, Basic, Flexible and Enterprise plans were not established in this review. Confirm total and rendered-job throughput and domain-level throttling with Oxylabs before sizing a workload.

Our read
What proxy types does Oxylabs sell?

Residential (175M+ IPs), Mobile (20M+), Datacenter, Dedicated Datacenter, ISP, and Dedicated ISP proxies, sold separately from the Web Scraper API. Listed starting prices: Residential $2.5/GB, Mobile $3.5/GB, Datacenter $0.7/IP, ISP $1.2/IP, Dedicated ISP $2.5/IP.

Vendor's own claim
Does Oxylabs have a public status page?

Yes.

From official docs

Verify before you buy

  • Oxylabs pricing fields checked 2026-10-15. Scope: pricing fields only.
  • A published OpenAPI/Swagger spec for the Web Scraper API or Dashboard API (only the Enterprise Dedicated Datacenter Proxy API has OpenAPI-format docs)
  • A machine-readable OpenAPI specification was not included in the reviewed source set.

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