Bright Data 
DataImpulse 
Decodo 
Geonode 
Infatica 
IPRoyal 
Oxylabs 
PacketStream 
Proxy-Cheap 
Proxy-Seller 
ProxyScrape 
Rayobyte 
SOAX 
Storm Proxies 
Webshare The same 10 GB of residential proxy traffic costs from $7.20 to $125.00 a month across the 58 providers we track. Four things explain most of that gap: the unit you pay for, the tier you land in, the smallest plan you can buy and whether unused traffic expires.
Per GB or per proxy
Residential and mobile proxies are usually sold by traffic. You pay for every gigabyte that passes through the provider's network, and each request can leave from a different IP. Datacenter and ISP proxies are usually rented per IP: one fixed address for a month, often with unlimited traffic.
| Products | Sold per GB | Sold per proxy |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 71 | 6 |
| Mobile | 36 | 24 |
| ISP | 11 | 62 |
| Datacenter | 29 | 78 |
The two units don't convert into each other, so we rank them separately. Per-GB plans suit jobs spread over many IPs. Per-proxy plans suit jobs that push a lot of traffic through a few addresses.
The price per GB falls with volume
Nearly every provider sells tiers: buy more and each GB costs less. Across residential providers, a month of traffic costs:
| Traffic a month | Cheapest | Median | Median per GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | $0.88 | $4.50 | $4.50 |
| 10 GB | $7.20 | $30.00 | $3.00 |
| 50 GB | $27.50 | $118.75 | $2.38 |
| 250 GB | $122.50 | $468.75 | $1.88 |
| 1,000 GB | $250.00 | $1,350.00 | $1.35 |
The smallest plan decides your price
The rate in big type on a pricing page usually belongs to the largest tier. The lowest residential rate in our data is $0.10 per GB at Shifter, but only on a plan of 25,000 GB a month, which costs $2,499.00. If you need 10 GB, the cheapest option is Geonode at $7.20 for the month.
So we price every plan at your volume: the plan's minimum or your volume, whichever is larger, times its rate, and we keep the cheapest. Sometimes a 10 GB plan costs less than 9 GB at the 1 GB rate, and then it wins even though you buy more than you need.
Pay as you go or subscription
A subscription renews every month, usually at a slightly lower rate, and unused traffic often expires at the end of the billing period. Pay as you go buys a block of traffic once. 43 of the 58 residential providers sell pay as you go, and at 19 of them that traffic never expires.
Traffic that never expires changes the maths: you can buy a bigger, cheaper block and use it over several months. When we rank, we spread such a purchase over the months it lasts at your volume, up to 12.
What the listed price leaves out
- Tax. Prices here are before VAT or sales tax.
- Extras. Some providers charge more for city or ASN targeting, SOCKS5, more concurrent connections or a fee per port. Where a provider says so, it's in the notes on its page here.
- Promotions. Codes and time-limited discounts run out, so we record the regular price and mention the promotion in the notes.
- Your success rate. A cheap pool that gets blocked can cost more per page you actually get than an expensive one that doesn't.
Read how we compare prices, or price plans at your own volume for residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter proxies.