Where the numbers come from
Every price, plan and feature comes from the provider's own website: pricing pages, product pages, documentation and terms. Each provider page lists the URLs used and the date they were read. We don't take numbers from review sites or sales calls. Pool sizes and location counts are what providers claim; we haven't measured them.
How a volume is priced
Providers sell in tiers: buy at least 10 GB and each GB costs $5.25, say. For any volume, we take each plan a provider sells, buy either the volume or the plan's minimum, whichever is larger, and keep the cheapest result.
So if you need 9 GB and a 10 GB plan costs less than 9 GB at the 1 GB rate, the 10 GB plan wins, and the ranking notes that you buy more than you need. A provider whose smallest plan is larger than your volume is priced at that smallest plan. Above a provider's largest public tier, the extra is priced at that tier's rate.
The exception is pay-as-you-go traffic that never expires. A purchase bigger than a month's need lasts several months, so its cost is spread over the months it lasts, up to 12. A 50 GB minimum purchase at 10 GB a month counts as a fifth of its price per month.
Monthly plans and pay-as-you-go purchases are compared on the same footing: what that volume costs in a month. The "No subscription" filter drops monthly plans.
What the costs leave out
- Prices are in US dollars before VAT or sales tax.
- Time-limited promotions and coupon codes are left out because they expire. Where a provider runs one, its page here says so.
- Tiers you can only buy through sales or after an application are left out, even when their price is public; the provider's page lists them in its notes. Tiers that only need an ID check at checkout are included.
- Some providers charge extra for city or ASN targeting, SOCKS5 or extra threads. Where the provider says so, it's in the plan notes on its page.
Antidetect browsers
Browser prices come from each browser's own pricing page, as one month on monthly billing; yearly discounts are in the notes on its page. For a number of profiles we take the cheapest plan that allows that many, and add team members at the plan's price per member where the browser sells them. Prices shown only in euros are converted to US dollars at the European Central Bank's reference rate, 1.1193 on 23 Oct 2026.
Pages that pair browsers with proxies count one static ISP proxy per profile, priced from the cheapest provider at that number of proxies.
What we don't measure yet
Speed, success rates against particular websites, and the real size and quality of each pool. A cheap pool that gets blocked can cost more per successful request than an expensive one that doesn't, so use a trial before buying in volume.
Security reports
Some residential and mobile proxy networks have been traced to malware-infected devices. Where security researchers or established news outlets have reported this about a provider, or about the network it resells, the provider's page lists each report with a link, and rankings mark the provider with ⚠. Studies that survey many providers at once don't count. A report doesn't move a provider in the rankings. Provider pages also give the provider's own account of where its IPs come from.
A provider that a government agency, a court or a platform's threat-intelligence team names as part of a botnet or malware operation is not ranked. It keeps its page, without a Visit link, and is left out of rankings and comparisons.
Corrections
If a price or plan here is wrong, email hello@proxytable.com with the page and what changed. We check it against the provider's own site, fix it and update the page's date. More about who runs the site is on the about page.
How the site makes money
Rankings are sorted by price and nothing else; no provider pays for a position. Some "Visit" links are affiliate
links: if you buy through one, the provider may pay us a commission. Those links are marked
rel="sponsored".