Skip to content
Gauge

ax-check.com

by Gauge

Oxylabs

oxylabs.io

ax-check.com

Checked 13 October 2026

A

100/100

Agents need your login

Quickstart, docs and pricing are all readable without logins or guesswork.

21 of 23 checks passed: clear cURL quickstart, MCP and API docs, and static pricing tables with exact plan prices and unit caps.

1 fix to start with

Concrete changes, backed by what we found.

Onboarding

Give agents a clear login handoff and a way to resume setup.

Agents cannot progress through onboarding without human help. Provide an agent-accessible path through authentication and setup.

Recorded coding sessions

Same task, 3 models, no oxylabs.io account. Recorded 13 October 2026 on Pi.

3 recorded · 1m 0s

1m 0s · recorded

Session findings

Select a finding to see it in context.

piv0.84.2
modelQwen 3.8 Maxcwd/sandbox/repo
Help me build a simple example using Oxylabs. Tell me how pricing works, and briefly tell me whether this product will be easy for you to manage. Let me know if you get blocked. If this product has no developer workflow you can act on, say so plainly and stop. Stay light: use the hosted product through its SDK or API. Do not start local service stacks or wait for long-running commands; if the quickstart requires either, say so plainly and stop.
Thinking…

Let me first check the environment.

The user is asking for a simple example using Oxylabs (a proxy / web scraping API provider). I need to check whether credentials are available. Let me check the environment variables and the repository.

Also, note that "tell me if you got blocked" hints at web access. Let me check whether network access is available.

Regarding pricing: Oxylabs has pricing for residential proxies (around $6–8/GB, actually Web Scraper API is $49/month, Residential Proxies is $8/GB… let me think back). I shouldn't fabricate things too precisely. It might be better to verify via web retrieval, but there's no web tool. I could try curling Oxylabs' pricing page with bash — network might be available. Let me test it.

ls -la; env | grep -iE 'oxylabs|proxy|http_proxy|api_key' | sed 's/=.*/=<set>/'
total 16
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 18 08:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Oct 13 00:20 ..
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 24 20:05 .git
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  408 Sep 18 08:00 .gitignore
PI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=<set>

curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' --max-time 15 https://oxylabs.io/ ; echo "---"; curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' --max-time 15 https://api.pypi.org/simple/
Failed200
200
---
000


Command exited with code 6
Thinking…

Network: oxylabs.io is reachable (200), but pypi is unreachable (DNS failure? exit code 6 = could not resolve host). In other words, pip install probably won't work. Let me check.

Also, there are no Oxylabs credentials. Therefore, I can't actually run the example live. Still, I can build a simple example using curl (no SDK needed) and explain pricing from the site.

Let me check pip availability and oxylabs' pricing page.

which python3 pip3 node npm 2>&1; echo "---"; pip3 download --no-deps -d /tmp/x requests 2>&1 | tail -3
/usr/local/bin/python3
/usr/local/bin/python3
/usr/local/bin/pip3
/usr/local/bin/node
/usr/local/bin/npm
---
Downloading requests-2.34.2-py3-none-any.whl (73 kB)
Saved /tmp/x/requests-2.34.2-py3-none-any.whl
Successfully downloaded requests

for u in https://oxylabs.io/products/web-scraper-api https://oxylabs.io/pricing https://developers.oxylabs.io/; do echo "== $u"; curl -s -o /tmp/p.html -w '%{http_code} %{size_download}\n' --max-time 20 "$u"; done
== https://oxylabs.io/products/web-scraper-api
== https://oxylabs.io/products/web-scraper-api
404 199647
== https://oxylabs.io/pricing
200 370116
== https://developers.oxylabs.io/
200 748621
Thinking…

pip works (the reason the pypi.org simple index failed earlier was... the exit code was 6, but pip download succeeded — probably it used a mirror). Good.

Next, fetch the pricing info from oxylabs.io/pricing. Let me extract the text. Also check whether the developer-facing docs have an API endpoint for Web Scraper API: https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries, using basic auth credentials.

Let me grep the pricing page to look for prices.

cd /tmp && curl -s --max-time 25 https://oxylabs.io/pricing -o pricing.html && python3 - <<'EOF'
import re,html
s=open('/tmp/pricing.html',encoding='utf-8',errors='ignore').read()
s=re.sub(r'<script.*?</script>','',s,flags=re.S)
s=re.sub(r'<style.*?</style>','',s,flags=re.S)
t=html.unescape(re.sub(r'<[^>]+>',' ',s))
t=re.sub(r'\s+',' ',t)
for m in re.finditer(r'.{120}\$\d[\d,.]*(?:\s*/\s*\w+| ?per)?.{120}',t):
    print(m.group(0).strip());print('---')
EOF
le Proxies ISP Proxies Dedicated Datacenter Proxies Datacenter Proxies Web Unblocker Agent Browser Welcome credits FREE $5 toward any product Start for free Sta
le Proxies ISP Proxies Dedicated Datacenter Proxies Datacenter Proxies Web Unblocker Agent Browser Welcome credits FREE $5 toward any product Start for free Starter $ 30 /mo VAT may apply Buy now Basic $ 100 /mo VAT may apply Buy now Flexible
---
Most popular $ 500 /mo VAT may apply Buy now Enterprise Tailored solutions for high-volume needs For plans starting at $2,500/month Get an offer Web API /Search $1/1K searches Up to 5.6K searches $1/1K searches Up to 30K searches $1/1K searches Up to
---
ches $1/1K searches Up to 500K searches $1/1K searches 2.5M+ searches /Scrape From $0.50/1K res. Up to 10K results From $0.50/1K res. Up to 60K results From $0.45/1K res. Up to 222K results From $0.35/1K res. Up to 1.43M results From $0.25/1K res.
---
10M+ results Google JS $1.35/1K res. Up to 3.7K results $1.35/1K res. Up to 22K results $1.30/1K res. Up to 76K results $1.15/1K res. Up to 434K results $0.90/1K res. 2.78M+ results Google non-JS $1.00/1K res. Up to 5K results $1.00/1K res. Up to 2
---
o 111K results $0.70/1K res. Up to 714K results $0.50/1K res. 5M+ results Amazon non-JS $0.50/1K res. Up to 10K results $0.50/1K res. Up to 60K results $0.45/1K res. Up to 222K results $0.35/1K res. Up to 1.43M results $0.25/1K res. 10M+ results Me
---
$2.00/GB Up to 2.5 GB $2.00/GB Up to 15 GB $2.00/GB Up to 50 GB $1.60/GB Up to 312 GB $1.00/GB 2.5K+ GB Video data API $2.00/GB Up to 2.5 GB $2.00/GB Up to 15 GB $2.00/GB Up to 50 GB $1.60/GB Up to 312 GB $1.60/GB 2.5K+ GB LLM scrapers From $1.50/
---
ts From $1.50/1K res. Up to 20K results From $1.50/1K res. Up to 66K results From $1.50/1K res. Up to 333K results From $0.90/1K res. 2.78M+ results ChatGPT $1.50/1K res. Up to 3.3K results $1.50/1K res. Up to 20K results $1.50/1K res. Up to 66K re
---
o 333K results $1.30/1K res. 1.92M+ results Perplexity $1.50/1K res. Up to 3.3K results $1.50/1K res. Up to 20K results $1.50/1K res. Up to 66K results $1.50/1K res. Up to 333K results $1.30/1K res. 1.92M+ results Gemini $1.50/1K res. Up to 3.3K re
---
0K results $1.50/1K res. Up to 66K results $1.50/1K res. Up to 333K results $1.30/1K res. 1.92M+ results Google AI Mode $1.50/1K res. Up to 3.3K results $1.50/1K res. Up to 20K results $1.50/1K res. Up to 66K results $1.00/1K res. Up to 500K result
---
0.90/1K res. 2.78M+ results Other targets From $1.00/1K res. Up to 5K results From $1.00/1K res. Up to 30K results From $0.90/1K res. Up to 111K results From $0.80/1K res. Up to 625K results From $0.75/1K res. 3.33M+ results AI parsing $3.00/1K par
---
pages Up to 1.7K parsed pages $3.00/1K parsed pages Up to 10K parsed pages $3.00/1K parsed pages Up to 33K parsed pages $3.00/1K parsed pages Up to 166K parsed pages $3.0/1K parsed pages 833K+ parsed pages Custom domain scraping, JS $1.50/1K res. U
---
/1K res. Up to 71K results $1.30/1K res. Up to 384K results $1.22/1K res. 2.05M+ results Custom domain scraping, non-JS $1.00/1K res. Up to 5K results $1.00/1K res. Up to 30K results $0.90/1K res. Up to 111K results $0.80/1K res. Up to 625K results
---
es. 3.33M+ results Proxies Residential Proxies $6/GB Up to 0.8 GB $6/GB Up to 5 GB $5/GB Up to 20 GB $4/GB Up to 125 GB $2.5/GB 1K+ GB Mobile Proxies $7.5/GB Up to 0.7 GB $7.5/GB Up to 4 GB $6.67/GB Up to 14 GB $5/GB Up to 100 GB $3.5/GB 714+ GB D
---
Proxies $3/IP Up to 1 IP $3/IP Up to 10 IPs $2.78/IP Up to 35 IPs $2.6/IP Up to 192 IPs $2.2/IP 1.14K+ IPs ISP Proxies $1.5/IP Up to 3 IPs $1.5/IP Up to 20 IPs $1.4/IP Up to 71 IPs $1.2/IP Up to 416 IPs $1.1/IP 2.27K+ IPs Dedicated Datacenter Pro
---
p to 2 IPs $2/IP Up to 15 IPs $1.75/IP Up to 57 IPs $1.45/IP Up to 344 IPs $1.2/IP 2.08K+ IPs Datacenter Proxies per IP $1/IP Up to 5 IPs $1/IP Up to 30 IPs $0.9/IP Up to 111 IPs $0.8/IP Up to 625 IPs $0.6/IP 4.17K+ IPs Datacenter Proxies per GB
---
$0.6/GB Up to 8.3 GB $0.6/GB Up to 50 GB $0.55/GB Up to 181 GB $0.45/GB Up to 1.1K GB $0.40/GB 6.25K+ GB Web Unblocker $7.2/GB Up to 0.7 GB $7.2/GB Up to 4 GB $6/GB Up to 16 GB $4.8/GB Up to 104 GB $3/GB 833+ GB Browsers Agent Browser $8/GB Up to
---
rter $ 30 /mo Buy now Basic $ 100 /mo Buy now Flexible $ 500 /mo Buy now Enterprise Custom Get an offer Web API /Search $1/1K searches Up to 5.6K searches $1/1K searches Up to 30K searches $1/1K searches Up to 100K searches $1/1K searches Up to
---
es $1/1K searches 2.5M+ searches /Scrape From $0.50/1K res. Up to 10K results From $0.50/1K res. Up to 60K results From $0.45/1K res. Up to 222K results From $0.35/1K res. Up to 1.43M results From $0.25/1K res. 10M+ results See detailed pricing Pro
---
idential Proxies $6/GB Up to 0.8 GB $6/GB Up to 5 GB $5/GB Up to 20 GB $4/GB Up to 125 GB $2.5/GB 1K+ GB Mobile Proxies $7.5/GB Up to 0.7 GB $7.5/GB Up to 4 GB $6.67/GB Up to 14 GB $5/GB Up to 100 GB $3.5/GB 714+ GB Dedicated ISP Proxies $3/IP Up
---
1 IP $3/IP Up to 10 IPs $2.78/IP Up to 35 IPs $2.6/IP Up to 192 IPs $2.2/IP 1.14K+ IPs ISP Proxies $1.5/IP Up to 3 IPs $1.5/IP Up to 20 IPs $1.4/IP Up to 71 IPs $1.2/IP Up to 416 IPs $1.1/IP 2.27K+ IPs Dedicated Datacenter Proxies $2/IP Up to 2 I
---
p to 15 IPs $1.75/IP Up to 57 IPs $1.45/IP Up to 344 IPs $1.2/IP 2.08K+ IPs Datacenter Proxies per IP $1/IP Up to 5 IPs $1/IP Up to 30 IPs $0.9/IP Up to 111 IPs $0.8/IP Up to 625 IPs $0.6/IP 4.17K+ IPs Datacenter Proxies per GB $0.6/GB Up to 8.3
---
$0.6/GB Up to 50 GB $0.55/GB Up to 181 GB $0.45/GB Up to 1.1K GB $0.40/GB 6.25K+ GB Web Unblocker $7.2/GB Up to 0.7 GB $7.2/GB Up to 4 GB $6/GB Up to 16 GB $4.8/GB Up to 104 GB $3/GB 833+ GB Browsers Agent Browser $8/GB Up to 0.6 GB $8/GB Up to 3
---
Thinking…

Good. Actual pricing data. Now to build an example. The simplest hosted products with a developer workflow are the Web Scraper API (POST https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries with basic auth) and Web Unblocker (proxy endpoint pr.oxylabs.io:7777, with customer session). Both use HTTP + basic auth, no local stack needed.

Since there are no credentials, I can't execute it — should note this down. Also, I'll check reachability to realtime.oxylabs.io (without credentials it'll return 401/403, which will prove it's not blocked).

Let me write a minimal Python example using only stdlib (urllib) — no SDK install needed. Plus a curl version. I'll write it in the repo.

Also, quickly test unauthenticated connectivity to the API endpoint.

curl -s -o /tmp/r.json -w 'HTTP %{http_code}\n' --max-time 25 -X POST https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"source":"universal","url":"https://ip.oxylabs.io"}'; head -c 400 /tmp/r.json
HTTP 401
HTTP 401


curl -s -o /dev/null -w 'unblocker-proxy HTTP %{http_code}\n' --max-time 25 -x http://customer-user:pass1@pr.oxylabs.io:7777 https://ip.oxylabs.io
Failedunblocker-proxy HTTP 000
unblocker-proxy HTTP 000


Command exited with code 56
Thinking…

realtime.oxylabs.io returns 401 (reachable, but credentials are required). The proxy port 7777 is blocked (exit 56 = receive failure) — outbound non-443 ports are probably blocked inside this sandbox. In other words, the Web Unblocker proxy path is blocked, and only the HTTPS API path works. Worth reporting.

Write an example file: a Python script that uses only the standard library and calls the Web Scraper API.

File edits

1 file

Completed
Writtenoxylabs_example.pyView changes

/sandbox/repo/oxylabs_example.py

Written content · previous contents were not recorded

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Minimal Oxylabs Web Scraper API example (stdlib only, no local services).
 
Auth: HTTP Basic with your Oxylabs dashboard credentials (username/password).
Endpoint: POST https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries  (synchronous, returns parsed results)
 
Usage:
    export OXYLABS_USER=your_username
    export OXYLABS_PASS=your_password
    python3 oxylabs_example.py [url]
"""
import base64
import json
import os
import sys
import urllib.request
import urllib.error
 
API = "https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries"
 
 
def scrape(url: str, source: str = "universal", geo: str = "United States") -> dict:
    creds = base64.b64encode(
        f"{os.environ['OXYLABS_USER']}:{os.environ['OXYLABS_PASS']}".encode()
    ).decode()
 
    payload = {
        "source": source,     # "universal" for any site, or e.g. "google_search", "amazon_search"
        "url": url,
        "geo_location": geo,  # optional: where the request appears to come from
        "render": "html",     # "html" (raw) or "json" (parsed, per-source parsers)
        "callback_url": None, # omit -> synchronous response
    }
    req = urllib.request.Request(
        API,
        data=json.dumps({k: v for k, v in payload.items() if v is not None}).encode(),
        headers={
            "Content-Type": "application/json",
            "Accept": "application/json",
            "Authorization": f"Basic {creds}",
        },
        method="POST",
    )
    try:
        with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=60) as resp:
            return json.load(resp)
    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:  # surface 401 (bad creds), 403, 429, 5xx
        raise SystemExit(f"HTTP {e.code} from Oxylabs: {e.read().decode(errors='ignore')[:500]}")
 
 
def main() -> None:
    url = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "https://ip.oxylabs.io"
    data = scrape(url)
    result = data["results"][0]
    print("status_code:", result.get("status_code"))
    print("job_id:", data.get("job_id"))
    body = result.get("content", "")
    print("content (first 500 chars):")
    print(body[:500])
 
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

File edits

1 file

Completed
Writtenoxylabs_example.shView changes

/sandbox/repo/oxylabs_example.sh

Written content · previous contents were not recorded

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Same call with plain curl — no SDK, nothing running locally.
# export OXYLABS_USER=... OXYLABS_PASS=...
set -euo pipefail
 
curl -sS -X POST https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries \
  -u "$OXYLABS_USER:$OXYLABS_PASS" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "source": "universal",
    "url": "'"${1:-https://ip.oxylabs.io}"'",
    "geo_location": "United States",
    "render": "html"
  }' | head -c 800; echo
Thinking…

Verify that the script fails cleanly without credentials (401) — this lets me confirm the error path without running any long processing.

cd /sandbox/repo && chmod +x oxylabs_example.sh && OXYLABS_USER=test OXYLABS_PASS=test timeout 40 python3 oxylabs_example.py 2>&1 | head -c 300
HTTP 401 from Oxylabs: 
HTTP 401 from Oxylabs:
Thinking…

I'm sorry, but I can't find the content of the "previous working mem" that I should translate. This conversation doesn't include any prior text or mems that would be the target of translation, so I can't perform the translation as-is. If you send me the text you'd like translated, I'll faithfully translate it into Japanese right away.

Built: /sandbox/repo/oxylabs_example.py (stdlib only, no deps) and /sandbox/repo/oxylabs_example.sh (curl). Both call the hosted Web Scraper API: POST https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries with Basic auth (OXYLABS_USER / OXYLABS_PASS), synchronous JSON response, optional geo_location, render: html|json, and source presets (universal, google_search, amazon_search, …).

Ran it: with placeholder creds it returns HTTP 401 — endpoint is reachable and the error path works. I have no Oxylabs credentials in this environment, so I couldn't get a real successful scrape.

Blocking notes:

  • Not blocked: oxylabs.io, developers.oxylabs.io, and realtime.oxylabs.io (443) all respond.
  • Blocked: the proxy-style products (Web Unblocker / Residential proxies at pr.oxylabs.io:7777) — non-443 outbound is firewalled in this sandbox (curl exit 56). So only the HTTPS REST API is usable here.

Pricing (from oxylabs.io/pricing, verified live):

  • Plans: free welcome credits ($5), Starter $30/mo, Basic $100/mo, Flexible $500/mo, Enterprise from ~$2,500/mo.
  • Scraper API usage-based, tiered by volume within your plan: Search ~$1/1K searches; Scrape from $0.50 → $0.25/1K results at scale; JS-heavy targets (Google JS $1.35→$0.90/1K, Amazon $0.50→$0.25/1K, custom-domain JS $1.50→$1.22/1K); LLM scrapers (ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini) from $1.50/1K results; AI parsing $3/1K pages.
  • Raw proxies priced separately: Residential $6→$2.5/GB, Mobile $7.50→$3.50/GB, Datacenter $1→$0.6/IP or $0.60→$0.40/GB, Web Unblocker $7.20→$3/GB.
  • Model: you pay per successful result/GB, so cost scales with volume; the plan tier just sets the unit price and volume caps.

Manageability for me: easy — it's a plain REST API with Basic auth, JSON in/out, no SDK required and no local services. The only friction is credentials (I have none) and the sandbox's port restriction, which rules out the proxy products and leaves the Scraper API as the practical choice.

AX Fundamentals

23 checks. Open an area for details.

This check is a quick preview. Test more tasks and models with Gauge Agents.

Test your product with Gauge Agents

AX Check by Gauge