diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7085-sanity.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7085-sanity.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..53fb245e3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/7085-sanity.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "oci_utils module utils - avoid direct type comparisons (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7085)."
+  - "proxmox_user_info - avoid direct type comparisons (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7085)."
diff --git a/plugins/module_utils/oracle/oci_utils.py b/plugins/module_utils/oracle/oci_utils.py
index 3d9c20f2ac..9d8e16e5a3 100644
--- a/plugins/module_utils/oracle/oci_utils.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/oracle/oci_utils.py
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ def are_lists_equal(s, t):
     s = to_dict(s)
     t = to_dict(t)
 
-    if type(s[0]) == dict:
+    if isinstance(s[0], dict):
         # Handle list of dicts. Dictionary returned by the API may have additional keys. For example, a get call on
         # service gateway has an attribute `services` which is a list of `ServiceIdResponseDetails`. This has a key
         # `service_name` which is not provided in the list of `services` by a user while making an update call; only
@@ -604,9 +604,9 @@ def get_attr_to_update(get_fn, kwargs_get, module, update_attributes):
         user_provided_attr_value = module.params.get(attr, None)
 
         unequal_list_attr = (
-            type(resources_attr_value) == list or type(user_provided_attr_value) == list
+            isinstance(resources_attr_value, list) or isinstance(user_provided_attr_value, list)
         ) and not are_lists_equal(user_provided_attr_value, resources_attr_value)
-        unequal_attr = type(resources_attr_value) != list and to_dict(
+        unequal_attr = not isinstance(resources_attr_value, list) and to_dict(
             resources_attr_value
         ) != to_dict(user_provided_attr_value)
         if unequal_list_attr or unequal_attr:
@@ -936,9 +936,9 @@ def tuplize(d):
     list_of_tuples = []
     key_list = sorted(list(d.keys()))
     for key in key_list:
-        if type(d[key]) == list:
+        if isinstance(d[key], list):
             # Convert a value which is itself a list of dict to a list of tuples.
-            if d[key] and type(d[key][0]) == dict:
+            if d[key] and isinstance(d[key][0], dict):
                 sub_tuples = []
                 for sub_dict in d[key]:
                     sub_tuples.append(tuplize(sub_dict))
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ def tuplize(d):
                 list_of_tuples.append((sub_tuples is None, key, sub_tuples))
             else:
                 list_of_tuples.append((d[key] is None, key, d[key]))
-        elif type(d[key]) == dict:
+        elif isinstance(d[key], dict):
             tupled_value = tuplize(d[key])
             list_of_tuples.append((tupled_value is None, key, tupled_value))
         else:
@@ -969,13 +969,13 @@ def sort_dictionary(d):
     """
     sorted_d = {}
     for key in d:
-        if type(d[key]) == list:
-            if d[key] and type(d[key][0]) == dict:
+        if isinstance(d[key], list):
+            if d[key] and isinstance(d[key][0], dict):
                 sorted_value = sort_list_of_dictionary(d[key])
                 sorted_d[key] = sorted_value
             else:
                 sorted_d[key] = sorted(d[key])
-        elif type(d[key]) == dict:
+        elif isinstance(d[key], dict):
             sorted_d[key] = sort_dictionary(d[key])
         else:
             sorted_d[key] = d[key]
@@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@ def check_if_user_value_matches_resources_attr(
 
         if (
             user_provided_value_for_attr
-            and type(user_provided_value_for_attr[0]) == dict
+            and isinstance(user_provided_value_for_attr[0], dict)
         ):
             # Process a list of dict
             sorted_user_provided_value_for_attr = sort_list_of_dictionary(
@@ -1547,7 +1547,7 @@ def delete_and_wait(
     except ServiceError as ex:
         # DNS API throws a 400 InvalidParameter when a zone id is provided for zone_name_or_id and if the zone
         # resource is not available, instead of the expected 404. So working around this for now.
-        if type(client) == oci.dns.DnsClient:
+        if isinstance(client, oci.dns.DnsClient):
             if ex.status == 400 and ex.code == "InvalidParameter":
                 _debug(
                     "Resource {0} with {1} already deleted. So returning changed=False".format(
diff --git a/plugins/modules/proxmox_user_info.py b/plugins/modules/proxmox_user_info.py
index a515f2b453..20154528a6 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/proxmox_user_info.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/proxmox_user_info.py
@@ -193,14 +193,14 @@ class ProxmoxUser:
                 self.user[k] = v
             elif k in ['groups', 'tokens'] and (v == '' or v is None):
                 self.user[k] = []
-            elif k == 'groups' and type(v) == str:
+            elif k == 'groups' and isinstance(v, str):
                 self.user['groups'] = v.split(',')
-            elif k == 'tokens' and type(v) == list:
+            elif k == 'tokens' and isinstance(v, list):
                 for token in v:
                     if 'privsep' in token:
                         token['privsep'] = proxmox_to_ansible_bool(token['privsep'])
                 self.user['tokens'] = v
-            elif k == 'tokens' and type(v) == dict:
+            elif k == 'tokens' and isinstance(v, dict):
                 self.user['tokens'] = list()
                 for tokenid, tokenvalues in v.items():
                     t = tokenvalues
diff --git a/tests/unit/mock/loader.py b/tests/unit/mock/loader.py
index 948f4eecd9..f7aff17c32 100644
--- a/tests/unit/mock/loader.py
+++ b/tests/unit/mock/loader.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class DictDataLoader(DataLoader):
 
     def __init__(self, file_mapping=None):
         file_mapping = {} if file_mapping is None else file_mapping
-        assert type(file_mapping) == dict
+        assert isinstance(file_mapping, dict)
 
         super(DictDataLoader, self).__init__()