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Rayobyte 
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Storm Proxies 
Webshare All four kinds of proxy send your requests out through someone else's IP address. What differs is whose address it is. That decides how often websites block it and what it costs.
| Type | Providers | Volume | Cheapest | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 58 | 1 GB | $0.88 | $4.50 |
| Mobile | 34 | 1 GB | $1.60 | $5.75 |
| ISP | 44 | 10 proxies | $6.00 | $30.00 |
| Datacenter | 44 | 100 proxies | $2.99 | $100.00 |
Datacenter proxies
Addresses owned by hosting companies and cloud providers. They're fast, stable and cheap: 100 proxies cost from $2.99 a month, $100.00 at the median. The catch is that any website can look up who owns an IP, and many block or challenge address ranges that belong to data centres.
Use them first for targets that don't block them: public pages on most sites, APIs, monitoring your own services.
Residential proxies
Addresses of home internet connections, reached through apps and SDKs installed on people's devices (see where residential IPs come from). To a website they look like ordinary visitors. Providers pool millions of them, rotate them for you and let you pick a country, often a city.
They're sold by the GB: 1 GB cost from $0.88 a month, $4.50 at the median. Use them when datacenter IPs get blocked or keep hitting CAPTCHAs.
ISP proxies
Also called static residential. The addresses are registered to consumer internet providers but run on servers in data centres, so they're as fast as datacenter proxies and stay the same for as long as you rent them: 10 proxies cost from $6.00 a month, $30.00 at the median.
Use them for anything that needs one stable identity for days: logged-in accounts, long sessions, IP allow-lists.
Mobile proxies
Addresses of mobile carriers, from phones or 4G and 5G modems. Carriers share each public IP among many subscribers, so blocking one would block real customers, and websites are slow to do it. Mobile traffic costs the most: 1 GB cost from $1.60 a month, $5.75 at the median. Dedicated mobile proxies are rented per device instead.
Use them for targets that block residential addresses too.
Where to start
Start with the cheapest type your target accepts and move up only when you see blocks: datacenter, then residential, then mobile. Pick ISP when you need the same address for days. Our IP check shows which type a website sees for your current connection, and testing a proxy covers the rest.