This 2025 buying guide distills the video’s review of the top three proxy providers—Decodo, Oxylabs, and WEBSHARE—into a practical, search-optimized summary for teams running web scraping, ad verification, market intelligence, price monitoring, social media/e-commerce multi-accounting, and app testing. The short list uses measurable criteria: >=99% uptime and success rate, low p95 latency, global IP coverage, flexible pricing (including pay-as-you-go), enterprise controls (IP whitelisting, roles, usage analytics), free trials, and 24/7 support. Decodo stands out as an all-in-one stack with a 125M+ IP pool in 195 countries, seamless integrations with 30+ proxy managers/scrapers/SEO tools, a Scraping API that handles rotation and CAPTCHA solving, and an AI Parser to turn URLs into structured data with minimal code. Oxylabs targets scale and automation with a 175M+ ethically-sourced IP pool (Datacenter/ISP/Residential), AI-driven scraping infrastructure, JavaScript rendering, vertical scraper APIs (e-commerce/real estate/SERPs), OxyCopilot (natural-language to working scrapers), and an unblocking browser for agent-driven extraction. WEBSHARE offers beginner-friendly onboarding, three core proxy types (Datacenter, Static Residential, Rotating Residential), >80M IPs across 195 countries, bandwidth-based pricing, useful add-ons (high concurrency, high-priority network), and a free test of 10 data-center proxies—ideal for pilots. This guide also explains when to choose Residential vs. Datacenter, why rotating proxies improve pass rates, how to design a proxy PoC (success rate, CAPTCHA ratio, retries/backoff, $/1k successful requests), and compliance basics (respect ToS, robots.txt, and data-protection laws).
