Best Residential Proxies: 8 Providers Ranked by Real Cost per GB

The best residential proxies for most buyers are Evomi if price per GB matters most, Decodo for the best all-round value, and Oxylabs for large scraping operations. Rayobyte and SOAX are strong alternatives for volume and mobile traffic, while IPRoyal suits occasional use because its pay-as-you-go traffic never expires.

Residential proxy prices vary more than almost any other software category. On the plans we compared, 100 GB of residential traffic costs anywhere from $49 to $500 a month, depending on the provider and the bundle you land in.

Every figure below comes from each provider’s own pricing page, checked in September 2026. Pool sizes are the vendors’ own claims. Confirm current prices on the vendor page before you buy.

Best Residential Proxies, Ranked

What Are Residential Proxies?

Residential proxies route your requests through IP addresses that internet providers assign to real homes, so websites see ordinary household visitors instead of a server. That makes them far harder to block than datacenter proxies, which is why they are the default choice for price monitoring, ad verification, SEO rank tracking and scraping sites with bot protection.

Almost every provider bills residential proxies per GB of traffic. You can usually choose between rotating sessions, where the IP changes on every request, and sticky sessions, where you keep the same IP for a set time. For a wider look at every proxy type, see our guide to the best proxy providers, or browse all proxy guides.

What 10 GB, 100 GB and 1 TB Actually Cost

Your real monthly bill depends on which plan your usage falls into, not on the lowest rate a provider advertises. Low headline rates usually need large commitments, and some providers have big gaps between bundles. This table prices three common usage levels using each vendor’s published plans.

Bright Data and Webshare are left out of this table because their public pages did not show plan prices clearly enough to price these exact usage levels without guessing.

The gap is large. At 100 GB a month, Evomi costs about a tenth of Oxylabs. The premium networks justify their price with larger pools, more targeting options and enterprise support, so the cheapest option is not automatically the right one for protected targets.

Best Residential Proxies for Price and Value

Evomi is the cheapest residential proxy option we found, and Decodo is the best value among the large premium networks. Evomi charges $0.49/GB on its 100 GB plan, while Decodo’s plans run from $3.75/GB on 3 GB down to $2.75/GB on 100 GB, with a much larger claimed pool.

Evomi

Evomi’s Core Residential pool costs $49 a month for 100 GB ($0.49/GB), with extra GB at the same rate. If you do not want a subscription, pay as you go costs $0.99/GB from 15 GB and $0.79/GB from 1,000 GB, and that data does not expire. Rotating and sticky sessions, country and city targeting, and HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 are included on every plan. The pricing page lists a pool of 54M+ residential IPs and a free trial; the refund window is 30 days, capped at 10% of your data or 1 GB, whichever is smaller. Evomi also sells a Premium Residential pool from $3.98/GB pay as you go for harder targets.

Choose Evomi if cost per GB is your main concern. Look elsewhere if you need the largest possible pool for heavily protected sites.

Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)

Decodo’s monthly plans cost $3.75/GB (3 GB), $3.50/GB (10 GB), $3.25/GB (25 GB), $3.00/GB (50 GB) and $2.75/GB (100 GB). Enterprise plans run from $2.50/GB on 250 GB to $2/GB on 1 TB, and pay as you go is $4/GB. Every plan includes the full 115M+ IP pool (vendor claim), ZIP and ASN targeting, and sticky sessions of up to 30 minutes. New users get a 3-day trial with 100 MB.

Choose Decodo if you want a large premium pool at mid-market prices. Look elsewhere if you use hundreds of GB a month and price matters more than pool size.

Rayobyte

Rayobyte prices residential traffic in usage bands: $3.50/GB from 1 to 49 GB, $2/GB from 50 to 249 GB, $1.50/GB from 250 to 999 GB, and $0.70/GB from 1,000 to 4,999 GB, with enterprise rates as low as $0.50/GB above 5,000 GB. Residential free trials start by creating an account. Rayobyte states that it sources residential IPs only from users who opt in and are compensated.

Choose Rayobyte if you use 50 GB or more and want simple volume pricing. Look elsewhere if you need under 10 GB, where Evomi is cheaper.

Best Residential Proxies for Scale and Enterprise

Oxylabs and Bright Data are the two enterprise-grade options, with Oxylabs offering clearer self-serve pricing. Both have large claimed pools and enterprise support, but both charge well above budget providers until you reach very high volumes.

Oxylabs

Oxylabs sells residential traffic in four monthly bundles: Starter (5 GB, $6/GB, $30), Basic (20 GB, $5/GB, $100), Advanced (125 GB, $4/GB, $500) and Corporate (1 TB, $2.50/GB, $2,500). Its pricing page lists 100M+ residential IPs. Starter and Basic allow top-ups of up to 100 GB.

Choose Oxylabs if you run steady, large scraping jobs and value enterprise support. Look elsewhere if your usage sits between bundles, such as 10 to 15 GB.

Bright Data

Bright Data advertises residential rates from $5.88/GB and lists 400M+ rotating residential IPs in 195 countries, the largest claimed pool here. Its monthly plans are sized at 141 GB, 332 GB and 798 GB, with custom enterprise pricing above that. When we checked, it was running a 50% off code for the first 3 months and a deposit match of up to $500; treat both as temporary promos.

Choose Bright Data if you need maximum coverage, enterprise SLAs and its data tools. Look elsewhere if you use under 100 GB a month.

Best Residential Proxies for Flexible and Mixed Use

SOAX suits teams that mix residential and mobile traffic, IPRoyal suits irregular projects, and Webshare suits small budgets. Each solves a specific problem that the ranked leaders do not.

SOAX

SOAX charges one rate for residential and mobile traffic, priced by country tier. The free Sandbox plan charges $5.00/GB for Tier 1 countries, $4.00/GB for Tier 2 and $2.00/GB for Tier 3. Paid plans are Builder ($200/mo), Team ($500/mo), Scale ($1,500/mo) and Enterprise ($3,000/mo), with Tier 1 rates falling from $3.00/GB to $0.85/GB. Credits roll over for 60 days.

Choose SOAX if you need mobile IPs without paying a mobile premium.

IPRoyal

IPRoyal’s pay-as-you-go residential traffic costs $7.35/GB for 1 GB, $6.25/GB for 2 GB and $5.51/GB for 10 GB, with 5% off on subscription. Custom plans reach $1.75/GB from 10 TB. Its pricing page lists 64M+ IPs, sticky sessions of up to 7 days, and traffic that never expires.

Choose IPRoyal if you buy a few GB at a time and do not want unused traffic to vanish.

Webshare

Webshare advertises rotating residential proxies from $1.40/GB, and was promoting 50% off residential plans when we checked. It is best known for cheap datacenter proxies, including a free plan with 10 proxies.

Choose Webshare if you want a low-cost pool for light work and already use its datacenter proxies.

Rotating vs Sticky Residential Proxies

Use rotating sessions for scraping many pages, and sticky sessions for tasks that need one identity, such as logging into an account. Rotating sessions give each request a new IP, which spreads your traffic and avoids rate limits. Sticky sessions keep the same IP for a set time, from up to 30 minutes on Decodo to up to 7 days on IPRoyal. If you need the same IP for weeks, you want static residential (ISP) proxies instead, which are billed per IP rather than per GB.

How to Choose a Residential Proxy Provider

Estimate your monthly GB first, then pick the provider whose plan fits that number without forcing you into a bigger bundle. Under 15 GB, compare Evomi pay as you go, Decodo’s small plans and IPRoyal. Between 50 GB and 250 GB, Evomi, Rayobyte and Decodo are the most cost-effective. Above 1 TB, request quotes from Oxylabs, Bright Data, SOAX and Decodo, because enterprise rates are negotiable.

Then check three things that change the real cost: whether unused traffic expires, which targeting levels (city, ZIP, ASN) your plan includes, and whether refunds survive a trial.

How We Evaluated These Providers

We compared published residential pricing, plan sizes, targeting options, session types, trial and refund terms, and pool size claims, using only each provider’s own pricing and product pages, checked in September 2026. We did not run our own speed or success-rate tests, so we do not publish performance scores. Rankings weigh cost at common usage levels, pool size and plan flexibility. No provider paid for placement. See our editorial policy.

The Bottom Line

Evomi is the cheapest residential proxy option at $0.49/GB on its 100 GB plan. Decodo is the best value premium network, Oxylabs and Bright Data serve large enterprise workloads, Rayobyte offers simple volume pricing from 50 GB, SOAX fits mixed residential and mobile use, IPRoyal suits occasional buyers thanks to non-expiring traffic, and Webshare is a low-cost starter.

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