Proxy Pricing: How Much Do Proxies Cost per GB and per IP?

TL;DR: This guide explains proxy pricing by proxy type and billing unit, using prices read on October 7, 2026. Shared datacenter IPs start at $2.99 a month for 100 at Webshare. Residential proxies average $4.16 per GB at 5 GB, per Proxyway, and dedicated ISP proxies cost $2 to $4 per IP. Size your job in GB or IPs first. Then price your real volume, not the lowest advertised rate.

Proxy pricing can look random. One proxy can cost about $0.03 a month or $180 a month. Both prices are real, and both come from vendor pages I read this week.

The cheap one is a shared datacenter IP at Webshare, where 100 proxies cost $2.99 a month. The costly one is a dedicated Verizon 5G mobile proxy at Proxy-Seller.

First, two quick terms. A proxy is a server that sends your web requests through a different IP address. An IP address is the number that identifies a device online.

So why the gap? Proxies are sold in different units. Some charge per GB of data. Others charge per IP, per day or per 1,000 requests. And the “from” price in an ad often needs the biggest plan.

In this guide, you get one price table by proxy type, the billing units in plain words and three worked budgets. I pulled every price from vendor pages on October 7, 2026. We didn’t test any proxy, and no vendor pays to be listed here.

For the full picture across residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, see our best proxy providers guide.

How Much Do Proxies Cost per GB and per IP?

Proxies cost from about $3 a month to thousands of dollars, depending on the type and the billing unit. Shared datacenter IPs start at $2.99 a month for 100 at Webshare. Residential proxies run from $1 per GB at DataImpulse to $8 per GB at Bright Data’s regular rate. Dedicated ISP proxies cost $2 to $4 per IP, per Proxyway.

Four proxy types show up below. Datacenter proxies use IPs from hosting companies. Residential proxies use home internet IPs. ISP proxies are home-provider IPs hosted on servers, and mobile proxies use phone carrier IPs. Our residential vs datacenter proxies guide explains them in depth.

The table shows real starting plans for each type. They are examples that cover the range, not a ranking.

Two rows show promos. Bright Data’s $4 rate needs a coupon code, so budget on the $8 regular rate. Decodo’s mobile cards carry a “SAVE 50%” label with no end date shown.

How does that compare with the wider market? Proxyway’s 2026 market research put the average residential price at $4.16 per GB for 5 GB and $3.00 at 50 GB. The median mobile price was $4.38 per GB at 5 GB.

Proxyway also found that dedicated ISP proxies generally cost $2 to $4 per IP before discounts. Note that Proxyway earns affiliate commissions from proxy vendors.

What changed in 2026: NetNut’s domains were seized on July 2, 2026, according to Krebs on Security, so we don’t list it. Oxylabs moved to one credit subscription for all its products. Rayobyte relaunched its site and pricing pages on October 1. SOAX’s pricing page no longer lists ISP or datacenter proxies. And Proxyway reports that Bright Data ended its mobile proxy product in April.

What is not in the sticker price:

• Minimum spend. After DataImpulse’s $5 Intro plan, its next plan is $50 for 50 GB.
• Credit expiry. Oxylabs says unused credit expires at the end of each billing cycle. Bright Data says unused plan traffic does not roll over.
• Targeting surcharges. DataImpulse bills state, city, ZIP and network (ASN) targeting at double the standard rate. So $1 per GB becomes $2 (our math).
• Fair-use caps. Each Bright Data ISP IP includes a 100 GB monthly allowance. Extra charges may apply above it.
• KYC. That stands for “know your customer.” Bright Data runs this check before you can use residential proxies.
• Refund limits and tax. Decodo’s 14-day money-back option ends once you use 20% of your traffic or 1 GB, whichever comes first. Its prices are shown before VAT, a sales tax.

Proxy Pricing Units: Per GB, Per IP, Per Port and Per Request

Most confusion about proxy cost comes from the unit. Here are the five you’ll meet.

• Per GB. A GB, or gigabyte, is a measure of data. You pay for the traffic you send through the proxy. Residential and mobile plans work this way. Decodo’s 10 GB residential plan costs $35 a month plus VAT. SOAX says it counts data in both directions, including retries.
• Per IP. You rent a set number of addresses for a set time. Datacenter and ISP proxies are usually sold like this. Bright Data lists 10 shared ISP IPs at $18 a month. Traffic is included, up to a cap.
• Per port or per day. This unit is common for mobile proxies. A port is one access point to a mobile connection. HydraProxy rents a US mobile port for $2.95 a day or $59.95 for 30 days.
• Per 1,000 requests. Many scraping APIs bill this way. These tools manage the proxies and retries for you. Bright Data’s Web Unlocker costs $1.50 per 1,000 successful requests.
• Per credit. Credits come in two kinds. At Oxylabs, your monthly fee becomes a dollar balance for any product. The $30 Starter plan buys up to 5 GB of residential traffic at $6 per GB. Oxylabs says unused credit expires at the end of the cycle. Our Oxylabs pricing guide has the full rate table.

The second kind is a points system. ScraperAPI’s Hobby plan costs $49 a month for 100,000 credits. A normal page costs 1 credit, and a Google page costs 25. So those credits cover 100,000 simple pages or 4,000 Google pages (our math).

Which unit is cheaper? Heavy traffic through a few IPs favors per-IP plans. Light traffic spread across many IPs favors per-GB plans.

What Moves Proxy Pricing Up or Down?

Proxy pricing moves with five things: the proxy type, how much you buy, whether you share the IP, how long you commit and the location you need. Volume is the easiest one to see. Decodo’s residential rate falls from $3.75 per GB at 3 GB to $2 per GB at 1,000 GB.

Proxy type. Every proxy needs an IP address, and the common kind, called IPv4, is in short supply. The North American registry, ARIN, ran out of free IPv4 addresses in September 2015. Amazon’s cloud has charged $0.005 per hour for each public IPv4 address since February 2024. That is about $3.65 a month (our math).

A broker, IPv4.Center, estimated the lease rate at about $0.59 per IP a month in the first half of 2026. Our read is that this gives dedicated IPs a price floor. Residential and mobile IPs belong to homes and phone carriers, so vendors charge for traffic instead.

Volume. Proxyway’s average residential price drops from $4.16 per GB at 5 GB to $1.94 at 1,000 GB. But the lowest rate needs the biggest bill. Decodo’s $2 rate means 1,000 GB for $2,000 a month plus VAT. Our Decodo pricing guide lists every tier.

Shared or dedicated. Several customers use a shared IP. A dedicated IP is yours alone. At Bright Data, 10 shared ISP IPs cost $18 a month and 10 dedicated ones cost $35.

Commitment. Paying for longer cuts the rate. Webshare takes about 30% off for yearly billing. Proxy-Seller takes 12% off a 12-month rental.

Location. Some vendors price by country. On SOAX’s no-fee Sandbox plan, a GB through the US or Germany costs $5.00. A GB through the Philippines costs $2.00.

The market moves too. Proxyway found that residential rates fell by up to 75% between 2023 and 2025. It says prices steadied in early 2026 and even started to reverse.

What Do Three Real Proxy Budgets Look Like?

Three real proxy budgets show how wide the spread is. Ten dedicated ISP IPs cost $29 to $50 a month in our examples. Fifty GB of residential traffic costs $50 to $400. A 500 GB crawl costs $240 on a Decodo datacenter pool, or $1,140 at the average residential rate.

Every figure below is our math from published prices. The vendors are examples, not picks.

Budget 1 fits jobs that need the same IP every day, like QA checks on your own localized pages. Rayobyte charges $5.00 per IP for 5 to 99 IPs, so 10 cost $50. Sharing cuts the bill to $18 at Bright Data.

Budget 2 fits price monitoring on public product pages. DataImpulse’s $1 rate covers country targeting only. Add city targeting, and its double rate brings 50 GB to $100 (our math). Want a ranked list of low-cost plans? See our guide to cheap residential proxies.

Budget 3 is a large crawl of public pages for market research or AI data collection. The average residential bill is almost 5 times the Decodo datacenter pool.

The lowest price is not always enough, though. Proxyway notes that datacenter proxies may struggle with heavily protected targets, such as search engines, social media platforms and e-shops. So test on your own target first.

Which Proxy Type Is Cheapest for Your Job?

The cheapest proxy type is the one that still works on your target site. Shared datacenter proxies cost the least, from $2.99 a month for 100 IPs at Webshare. Residential proxies cost more per GB, but Proxyway says websites are much more likely to ban datacenter IPs. ISP proxies fit steady sessions, and mobile proxies fit carrier checks.

Match your job to a proxy type and a unit below.

Here is my tip. Start with the cheapest type that could work, and test it on your real target. Move up only for the pages that block you.

Ready to compare vendors? Our ranking of the best proxy providers covers every type. Need carrier IPs? See the best mobile proxies.

A Proxy Pricing Checklist Before You Pay

Run these five checks before you pay.

• Size your job first. Count the pages you need each month and how big they are. Then shop in GB or in IPs.
• Price your real volume. Ignore the lowest advertised rate. Proxy-Seller’s “from $0.02 per IP” price is 5,000 IPv6 addresses rented for one week, or $100 in total.
• Check expiry and caps. Ask if unused traffic rolls over. Then read the limit behind any “unlimited” label.
• Add the extras. Put VAT, targeting surcharges and the regular price after any promo into your math.
• Start small. Webshare has a free plan with 10 shared datacenter proxies and 1 GB a month. Oxylabs gives new accounts a one-time $5 credit with no payment details.

One more thing. Use proxies for public data, like prices, search results and ad placements. Check each site’s terms and your local law before you start.

How We Researched This Guide

We read every price on the vendor’s own page on October 7, 2026. We used the rendered pages and opened the tabs, toggles and calculators.

A few things could not be confirmed. Bright Data publishes no mobile proxy price today. IPRoyal shows only “starting from” prices for its per-proxy plans, so we left them out. We could not reproduce Proxy-Seller’s “from $0.49” datacenter price on its calculator. We did not read prices inside dashboards or checkouts.

We did not test these proxies ourselves. The market averages come from Proxyway, a named third party. The budget tables are our math, based on published prices.

No vendor pays to be listed or ranked. You can read more in our editorial policy.

Prices last checked: October 7, 2026.

The Bottom Line

Here is what to take away. First, the unit matters as much as the rate. A plan can bill per GB, per IP, per port or per 1,000 requests. Second, the proxy type sets the range. In our 500 GB example, a datacenter pool cost $240 and the average residential rate cost $1,140.

Third, the advertised “from” price often needs the biggest plan or the shortest rental.

Your next step is simple. Estimate your monthly traffic in GB, or count the IPs you need. Then price that exact volume at two or three vendors, with tax and surcharges added. Start with a small pay-as-you-go order or a free plan.

Do that, and proxy pricing stops looking random. You’ll know what you’re paying for before the first invoice arrives.

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