Oxylabs offers a comprehensive proxy and scraping suite aimed at enterprises. KnoxProxy delivers comparable residential quality at a lower price point with simpler onboarding.
Choose KnoxProxy for straightforward proxy access with transparent pricing and instant onboarding. Choose Oxylabs if you need their SERP API, Scraper API, or integrated data pipeline products alongside proxies.
| KnoxProxy | Oxylabs | |
|---|---|---|
| Residential pool | 90.4M | 100M+ |
| Residential price /GB | $2.10 PAYG | $4.00 PAYG |
| Failed-request billing | Never billed | Billed |
| Countries | 195 | 195 |
| City / ASN targeting | All plans | All plans |
| Protocols | HTTP/S, SOCKS5 | HTTP/S, SOCKS5 |
| Getting started | Instant, 14-day money-back | 7-day trial |
| SERP API | Via proxy | Dedicated product |
| Support | 24/7 chat, median 4 min | 24/7 chat + CSM |
| Task | Pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| General web scraping | KnoxProxy | Lower per-GB cost with comparable success rates |
| SERP tracking at scale | Oxylabs | Dedicated SERP API handles parsing and scaling |
| Price monitoring | KnoxProxy | Cost advantage compounds at volume |
| Turnkey data pipelines | Oxylabs | Integrated scraping products beyond raw proxies |
Provider marketing sells the biggest number on the page. Buyers should buy the smallest one that matters: cost per successful request on their own targets. List price, billing rules, success rate, and how much of the product your tier actually unlocks all feed it.
A rigged table is worthless to a buyer and obvious to a reviewer.
Pool size and pool quality are different axes. A large pool of recycled, previously flagged addresses can lose to a smaller, well-maintained one on your actual targets. Compare the numbers below, then verify with your own benchmark -- ask about IP hygiene, not headcount.
Score both finalists on all five, weight by what your program values, and the winner is usually obvious -- and defensible to whoever signs off.
The protocol is identical -- host, port, credentials. The migration isn't hard; the discipline is running both in parallel long enough to trust the numbers on your real workload.
Replace Oxylabs gateway host and credentials with gw.knoxproxy.com and your KnoxProxy credentials.
Oxylabs uses username-based targeting similar to KnoxProxy. Adjust country and session flag syntax per our docs.
Run both providers for a week, compare per-target success, then cut over.
Yes, for raw proxy access -- comparable quality at roughly half the Oxylabs residential rate ($2.10 vs $4.00/GB), plus 2xx-only billing that never charges for failed requests. Oxylabs pulls ahead if you need its dedicated SERP API, Scraper API, or a larger 100M+ IP pool for rare geographies.
Oxylabs reports a 100M+ residential IP pool versus KnoxProxy's 90.4M, so Oxylabs has more raw depth in rare micro-geos. Both pools run deep enough for mainstream targets, and KnoxProxy adds 2xx-only billing plus a lower $2.10/GB rate versus Oxylabs' $4.00/GB, which matters more at volume than pool size alone.
Yes -- both use standard proxy protocol, so migration is mostly a config swap. Replace the Oxylabs gateway host and credentials with gw.knoxproxy.com, adjust country and session flag syntax to match the KnoxProxy format, then run both providers in parallel for a week before cutting over fully.
Replace Oxylabs gateway host and credentials with gw.knoxproxy.com and your KnoxProxy credentials. Most teams run both providers in parallel for about a week, comparing per-target success, before cutting over fully.
Nothing beyond the gateway host and credentials changes -- the underlying proxy protocol (HTTP/S and SOCKS5) is the same, so your existing scraping code, retry logic, and session handling keep working as-is. Most teams simply point requests at gw.knoxproxy.com and run both providers in parallel for a few days before cutting over fully.
Yes. Enterprise plans include signed MSAs, standard invoicing, committed-use volume discounts, and a named account manager once usage passes 1 TB/mo. Below that threshold, every account still gets self-serve PAYG pricing, 2xx-only billing, and 24/7 live chat support, so enterprise-grade terms and everyday self-serve billing sit on the same platform.
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Test against your real targets -- same endpoints, your benchmark, 14-day money-back guarantee.