FleetProxy vs Oxylabs
Oxylabs if you want managed scraping products with an account team behind them. FleetProxy if you want the network, priced per gigabyte, with no sales cycle.
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Head to head
Bright Data is the largest and most feature-complete company in this market. It sells a platform — proxy networks plus scraping infrastructure, managed unblocking, dataset products and a compliance apparatus built for procurement review at large organisations. If you are evaluating it against us, the honest framing is not cheap versus expensive. It is platform versus network.
FleetProxy sells the network. Residential, ISP, mobile and datacenter egress with country, city and ASN targeting, a per-GB rate that falls with volume, and bandwidth that does not expire at the end of a month. The tooling around it is deliberately thin: a dashboard, an API, usage telemetry, and credentials that work with the HTTP client you already have.
Which of those is right depends far less on price than on whether you have engineers who want to own the collection layer. If you do, a platform you are paying for and not using is expensive at any rate. If you do not, a raw network is not a saving, it is a project.
Last reviewed 15 Jan 2026.
At a glance
Choose FleetProxy when your team owns the scraping stack and needs egress. Choose Bright Data when you want the collection problem outsourced.
The dividing line is who writes and maintains the unblocking logic. FleetProxy gives you addresses, targeting and usage data and expects your code to handle retries, fingerprinting and parsing. Bright Data will sell you a layer that does much of that for you, along with the enterprise procurement surface — audit trails, compliance documentation, named account management — that a large organisation's legal review expects to see. Teams that already run their own collectors tend to find they are paying for a platform they route around; teams without that engineering capacity find the platform is the entire value.
How the claims on this page are written
Bright Data
A full data-collection platform aimed at large organisations, with proxy networks as one component alongside managed unblocking, browser infrastructure and packaged datasets. Pricing is tiered with self-serve entry points and quote-based enterprise agreements.
Side by side
Eight dimensions that actually change the decision. Rows describe positioning rather than quoting figures we cannot keep current.
| Dimension | FleetProxy | Bright Data |
|---|---|---|
| What you are buying | Proxy egress with targeting and usage telemetry | A data-collection platform of which proxy egress is one part |
| Ideal buyer | Engineering teams that already own their collectors | Organisations that want collection outsourced or procured under one contract |
| Commercial motion | Self-serve. Card or crypto, no minimum, no contract | Self-serve entry tiers alongside quote-based enterprise agreements |
| Bandwidth model | Prepaid gigabytes that do not expire | Plan-based allowances with tiering; terms vary by product and agreement |
| Targeting | Country, city and ASN on every bandwidth-billed product, set in the username | Extensive targeting across products, configured per zone |
| Managed unblocking | Not sold. You own retries, fingerprinting and parsing | Available as a product, and a core part of the platform's value |
| Time to first request | Minutes: sign up, claim the trial, paste the credential | Longer for the platform products, which have more to configure |
| Support model | Direct technical support, no seat fees, no tiering by spend | Tiered support with named account management at enterprise level |
Rotating residential proxies
A fresh residential IP on every request, or one held for 30 minutes
The honest part
A comparison that concludes we win on every axis is an advertisement. These are the conditions we would use ourselves.
Your team already runs its own scrapers
You will use the network and route around the platform. Paying for managed collection you disable on day one is the most common way to overspend in this category.
You need bandwidth that survives a quiet quarter
Prepaid gigabytes here do not expire. Seasonal workloads — retail price monitoring, travel fares — stop paying for months when they are not collecting.
You want to start without a sales conversation
The trial is 50MB with no card, the rate card is public, and the entry tier is the same product the volume tiers are.
Cost per successful request is the metric you are managed against
A thin network priced per gigabyte, with volume breaks and no platform overhead, is the cheapest denominator for that ratio when your own code is doing the unblocking.
You need the collection problem solved, not the egress problem
Managed unblocking, browser infrastructure and prepared datasets are real products that save real engineering months. We do not sell them and will not pretend otherwise.
Procurement requires a vendor with an enterprise compliance surface
Large organisations run security reviews, DPIAs and vendor assessments. Bright Data has built for that process for years and it shows in the paperwork.
You want one contract covering proxies, collection and datasets
Consolidating suppliers has real value inside a large company, and a broad platform is the point of consolidating.
Questions
Recommendation
Both companies are selling something real. The mistake is buying a platform to solve an egress problem, or buying egress to solve a collection problem. Work out which one you have — usually by asking whether you would keep your own retry and fingerprinting code if the proxy vendor offered to take it — and the choice follows.
Oxylabs if you want managed scraping products with an account team behind them. FleetProxy if you want the network, priced per gigabyte, with no sales cycle.
Two providers built for the same buyer. Choose on bandwidth expiry, ASN targeting and how you want to pay — not on pool-size claims.
IPRoyal for the smallest budgets and one-off jobs. FleetProxy when the workload is recurring and targeting depth starts to matter.
Every claim on this page is checkable in an afternoon. Claim 50MB of free residential bandwidth, run your own hostname list through it, and compare block rate and cost per successful request against whatever you use now.
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