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Oxylabs UAB
Oxylabs sells proxies and web data collection tools that let businesses gather information from the public internet at scale.
Oxylabs is a web data company. It sells access to huge networks of proxy servers and scraping tools that businesses use to pull public information off the internet — prices, product listings, search results, real estate listings — at a scale and speed a normal computer could never manage.
Here's the problem it solves. If you run an online store and want to know what competitors charge for thousands of products every day, your computer has to visit all those pages. Do it from one address and websites quickly block you, or serve you different prices or captchas. Oxylabs runs a network of millions of IP addresses spread across the world, so each request appears to come from an ordinary person in an ordinary place. It also provides tools to parse the pages into clean, usable data. Customers — e-commerce teams, travel companies, financial firms, ad-tech firms, and especially companies building AI models that need massive amounts of text — pay for that access, usually by subscription or per gigabyte of data pulled. The catch is built into the business. Scraping sits in a gray zone: many sites' terms of service forbid it, and anti-bot and anti-scraping firms like Cloudflare keep getting better at detecting and blocking traffic. For years Oxylabs and its peers also faced accusations — from some large websites and the press — that their residential proxy pools included traffic from users who didn't clearly understand what they were signing up for. Oxylabs has said it audits and polices its network, requires consent from IP providers, and cuts off abusive customers. Its main competitors are other proxy and scraping firms like Bright Data and Zyte.
Oxylabs is a private company, founded in Lithuania in 2015 and still headquartered in Vilnius, with offices in a few other countries. One of its founders had built an earlier online-price-tracking business, so the team knew the scraping problem from the customer side before selling the solution. It doesn't publish detailed financials, so treat revenue numbers floating around as estimates. The big recent tailwind is AI: training and feeding large language models requires enormous volumes of web data, and firms like Oxylabs sit right in that supply chain. That's also its main vulnerability — if big websites lock down their data or regulators tighten rules on automated collection, the business feels it quickly.
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