IPRoyal Review: the cheapest residential entry, with gaps
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IPRoyal publishes the cheapest residential entry rate in this channel — from $1.75/GB, no contracts, with residential traffic stated to never expire, as of 2026-09-19. Our score: 7.0/10. The gaps are on the same page: session types are not published and there is no free tier to verify — and a 'from' price is not the rate you pay at 1 GB.
Bottom line upfront
7.0/10 — the budget entry. IPRoyal’s residential pricing starts from $1.75/GB with no contracts and a published claim that residential traffic never expires, backed by a 64M+ pool — all read . It also publishes ISP (from $1.80/proxy, 500K+ IPs), datacenter (from $1.39/proxy, 60+ locations) and mobile (from $117/mo). What the page does not publish: session types and any free tier. If you are comparing pure entry price, this is the row; if you need sticky-session guarantees, read the whole review first.
Scored by Runein. Scores are ours and stated as such. Prices and pool are IPRoyal's, read from its pricing page on 2026-09-19. Session types and free tier are not published there — the free-trial score is the honest penalty for an unverifiable figure.
IPRoyal publishes the cheapest residential entry rate in this channel — from $1.75/GB, no contracts, traffic that never expires, read 2026-09-19. Our score: 7.0/10. The same page that is cheap is also incomplete: session types and a free tier are not published, and “from” is not the rate you pay at 1 GB.
What IPRoyal is
IPRoyal is a budget-first proxy provider selling residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile lines, plus a web scraping API. Its positioning is plain: cheapest published residential entry, no contracts, and a stated claim that residential traffic never expires. The 64M+ residential pool, 500K+ ISP IPs and 4.5M+ mobile IPs are all published on the pricing page.
How we priced it
Every figure was read from IPRoyal’s own pricing page on 2026-09-19 and logged with its source URL in the dataset. Two fields on that page are empty — session types and any free tier — and this page marks both not published rather than guessing.
Pricing (as of 2026-09-19)
| Product | Published price (as of 2026-09-19) | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | from $1.75/GB | “From” per the pricing page; no contracts, traffic never expires |
| ISP | from $1.80/proxy | 500K+ unique IPs published |
| Datacenter | from $1.39/proxy | 60+ locations published |
| Mobile | from $117/month | 4.5M+ IPs published |
| Web scraping API | from $1.00 / 1,000 requests | “From” per the pricing page |
Source: IPRoyal pricing page, read . All residential/ISP/DC/mobile prices are “from” figures; the full per-tier table is not printed.
What we tested on real machines
We run real requests through IPRoyal sessions and record what we observe against the procedure on How we test. Because the page does not publish session types, we report the observable behaviour of our own sessions rather than a vendor spec — and we say when a behaviour we saw is one session, not a guarantee.
What the pricing page does not tell you
- “From” is doing the work. $1.75/GB residential, $1.80/proxy ISP, $1.39/proxy datacenter and $117/mo mobile are all from-prices. The per-tier table is not printed, so the rate at 1 GB is unknown until you get a quote.
- Session types are absent. Rotating, sticky, or both — the page does not say. That matters for account-adjacent work, where sticky sessions are the point. Providers that publish both are on the ranked list.
- No free tier to verify. There is no published trial or free allowance. For a budget-first provider that is an odd omission, and we mark it instead of assuming.
The bottom line
IPRoyal is the right first look for a budget buyer: the lowest published residential entry in the channel, no contracts, and a published claim that residential traffic never expires. It is not the right first look if you need documented sticky sessions or a trial to test with — those are simply not on the page. Score: 7.0/10. It ranks fourth on best residential proxies of September 2026 for exactly this reason: cheapest, but least complete on paper.
Who wrote this
Written by the Runein operator — the same person who pays for and runs these tools. Corrections and vendor price changes go to [email protected] and are re-read, re-dated and logged.
Pros
- Cheapest published residential entry in the channel: from $1.75/GB (2026-09-19)
- No contracts; residential traffic stated to never expire (vendor page, 2026-09-19)
- Four product lines with published rates: residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile
- Published pool: 64M+ residential, 500K+ ISP, 4.5M+ mobile IPs
Cons
- Session types (rotating vs sticky) not published on the pricing page
- No free tier or trial published to verify
- 'From' prices — the rate you pay at small volume is not printed
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FAQ
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Sources
- IPRoyal — pricing (read 2026-09-19)
- IPRoyal — official site