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Proxy providers

Dated comparisons of datacenter, residential and mobile proxy providers: what the pool actually is, what a gigabyte costs on the date shown, and the fine print — sourcing, session types, KYC — that decides whether the cheap row stays cheap.

11 pagesFigures dated 2026-09-18

This channel tracks proxy providers — datacenter, residential and mobile — and answers one question per page: what does this provider actually sell, what does it cost on the date shown, and where does it run out? Prices are read from the vendor’s own pricing page, never from an aggregator, and each figure carries the date it was read. Where a provider does not publish something (a per-GB rate, a sourcing policy, a session limit), the page says not published instead of estimating.

What lives here

  • Reviews — one provider per page. URL pattern: /proxy/<brand>-review/ (for example /proxy/brightdata-review/). Each page covers the pools on offer (datacenter, residential, mobile, ISP), the entry and volume prices, session types (rotating vs sticky), targeting depth, free trials and KYC requirements.
  • The data table. Every figure on these pages is backed by a dated row in the dataset — see the Data hub. The dataset is free, has no tracking and no sign-up.
  • The ranked toplist. Once two or more provider reviews are published, this section ranks them by score, price and date.
  • The vendor directory. Every provider with a page on this site is listed in this section. If a provider is not here, it has not been reviewed yet.

The questions every page answers

  • What is the cheapest published entry price, and what billing term does it require?
  • Is the rate pay-as-you-go or subscription-only? (Oxylabs, for example, publishes subscriptions but no pay-as-you-go per-GB rate on its pricing page.)
  • What does the pool consist of, and does the vendor document where the IPs come from?
  • What does the provider require before you can buy — KYC, a registered company, a sales call?
  • What happens when the promo price ends?

How the numbers are collected

Every figure on this channel was read from the provider’s own pricing, documentation or legal page on the date shown on the page. If a provider changes a price, the row is re-read, re-dated and logged in the changelog. The full procedure — including what we test on real machines and what we refuse to guess — is on the How we test page.

1 Guide2026-09-19

Bright Data Alternatives: 7 Cheaper and Sharper Options, Dated

Bright Data's entry is $4.00/GB (promo, list $8.00). Cheaper published alternatives on 2026-09-19: IPRoyal from $1.75/GB, Decodo $3.75/GB flat, Webshare $3.50/GB, ProxyEmpire $3.50/GB. Oxylabs and SOAX cost more but sell different products.

Bright Data is the coverage leader (400M+ published pool), but …
2 Review2026-09-19

Bright Data Review: the 400M+ pool, priced and dated

Bright Data publishes the largest residential pool on this site (400M+ IPs, 195 countries) and free geo targeting, with residential from $4.00/GB pay-as-you-go — a 50% promo off the $8.00/GB list. Our score: 8.2/10.

8.2 Bright Data
3 Review2026-09-19

Decodo Review: the flat-rate residential proxy (no promo games)

Decodo publishes flat residential pricing with no promo games — $3.75/GB at 3 GB, $2.75/GB at 100 GB, PAYG $4.00/GB — a 115M+ pool and free trials. Our score: 8.0/10, the cleanest flat-rate deal in the channel.

8 Decodo
4 Review2026-09-19

IPRoyal Review: the cheapest residential entry, with gaps

IPRoyal publishes the cheapest residential entry in the channel — from $1.75/GB, no contracts, traffic never expires — with a 64M+ pool. Our score: 7.0/10; session types and free tier are not published.

7 IPRoyal
5 Review2026-09-19

Oxylabs Review: enterprise tooling, priced at a premium

Oxylabs publishes the broadest product line in the dataset — residential from $6.00/GB, scraper API from $49/mo, unblocker from $9.40/GB — but no pool size or country count on its pricing page. Our score: 6.0/10.

6 Oxylabs
6 Guide2026-09-19

Proxy for Instagram: What Operators Actually Use (Priced, September 2026)

Instagram work needs ISP-registered IPs, not datacenter ones. On 2026-09-19 the tools in the dataset: mobile from $117/mo (IPRoyal), residential from $1.75/GB (IPRoyal), flat $3.75/GB (Decodo) — with sticky sessions and low request rates as the operational core.

The proxy for Instagram work is an ISP-registered one — …
7 Comparison2026-09-19

Residential vs Datacenter Proxies: The Price Gap Is the Answer

Datacenter rotating proxies start at $0.30/GB (Rayobyte) and residential at $1.75/GB (IPRoyal) — a 6x gap that is really a reputation gap. Datacenter wins on price and speed; residential wins wherever the target blocks server ranges.

The datacenter-vs-residential question is a price question …
8 Ranking2026-09-19

The Best Proxies for Scraping in September 2026

For scraping in September 2026: start with datacenter rotating at $0.30/GB (Rayobyte), upgrade to residential from $1.75/GB (IPRoyal) or $3.75/GB flat (Decodo) when targets block you, and use a scraping API from $49/mo (Oxylabs) when you want managed parsing.

The proxy for scraping is the cheapest one your target …
9 Ranking2026-09-19

The Best Residential Proxies of September 2026

IPRoyal publishes the cheapest entry rate ($1.75/GB), Decodo the cleanest flat pricing ($3.75/GB at 3 GB), Bright Data the largest published pool (400M+ IPs). NetNut is not ranked: its domain shows a seizure banner.

IPRoyal publishes the cheapest entry rate at $1.75/GB, Decodo …
10 Guide2026-09-19

What Is a Residential Proxy? (And What It Costs in September 2026)

A residential proxy routes your traffic through an IP issued by an internet provider, so targets see a real household connection instead of a datacenter. Entry rates on 2026-09-19: IPRoyal from $1.75/GB, Decodo $3.75/GB, Bright Data $4.00/GB promo.

A residential proxy is an IP address issued by an internet …
11 Guide2026-09-19

What Is an ISP Proxy? (Static Residential, Priced and Dated)

An ISP proxy is a static IP registered to a real ISP but hosted in a datacenter — residential reputation with datacenter speed. Published rates on 2026-09-19: Bright Data from $1.30/IP, IPRoyal from $1.80/proxy, Rayobyte $5.00/IP (USA), Webshare $0.30/proxy.

An ISP proxy gives you a static IP that is registered to a …