13 providers compared
Proxy providers whose published protocol list includes SOCKS5. UDP support is called out only when the vendor states it.
Evomi
SOCKS5 is a protocol, not a kind of IP. It carries TCP traffic and, when the provider enables it, UDP. Browsers, antidetect tools and many scrapers speak HTTP. SOCKS5 matters for clients that are not HTTP, and for UDP.
Good to knowA provider is listed only when SOCKS5 appears in the protocol list we recorded. An empty protocol list means we have not verified it. It does not mean the provider lacks SOCKS5. The price in the table is the entry price of the provider's main product, not a separate SOCKS5 fee.
Evomi advertises the lowest base residential rate in this comparison ($0.49/GB on a subscription) and lets you add filters such as fraud score or minimum uptime as paid upgrades.
Verified November 4, 2026
Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) sells self-service proxies with pay-as-you-go traffic and one of the widest product ranges of the mid-market: residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter.
Verified November 4, 2026
Webshare is best known for cheap datacenter and ISP proxies with a fully self-service, customizable subscription. Its residential network was added later and has grown quickly.
Verified November 4, 2026
Bright Data advertises the largest residential network on the market (400M IPs) and the broadest toolbox, including an open-source Proxy Manager. It targets business users and runs KYC for sensitive use cases.
Verified November 4, 2026
DataImpulse sells pay-as-you-go residential traffic at $1/GB (down to $0.80/GB at 1 TB) with no expiry, plus a pricier premium tier.
Verified November 4, 2026
Oxylabs is an enterprise-oriented provider with a 175M-IP residential pool, ISP and datacenter proxies, and a large scraping API line-up.
Verified November 4, 2026
Proxy-Seller sells dedicated datacenter and ISP proxies per IP with no traffic or thread limits, in 40+ countries, aimed at small buyers.
Verified November 4, 2026
NodeMaven focuses on IP quality: residential IPs are screened against several databases and can be filtered by quality, speed and pool size before use.
Verified November 4, 2026
Byteful (formerly Ping Proxies) has a mid-sized residential pool, a transparent dashboard showing IP availability per location, and a traffic-optimization engine that routes non-essential requests through datacenter IPs.
Verified November 4, 2026
Rayobyte is a long-standing datacenter specialist that also sells residential and ISP proxies, with non-expiring packages that scale down in price.
Verified November 4, 2026
Infatica sells rotating residential proxies, a separate IPv6 pool, mobile proxies, dedicated ISP IPs and both shared and dedicated datacenter proxies, with pay-as-you-go and monthly plans.
Verified November 4, 2026
SOAX sells a 155M-IP residential network with very flexible rotation (by time, by request count, or strict sessions) and lets you mix mobile IPs into the same pool.
Verified November 4, 2026
IPRoyal offers non-expiring residential traffic that gets cheaper as you buy more, plus static ISP and datacenter proxies in dozens of countries.
Verified November 4, 2026
Scores blend price (35%), reach (20%), features (20%), support (10%) and trial terms (15%) from published data. Benchmarks are not included yet. Read the methodology. Some links are affiliate links.
Profiles
Evomi advertises the lowest base residential rate in this comparison ($0.49/GB on a subscription) and lets you add filters such as fraud score or minimum uptime as paid upgrades.
Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) sells self-service proxies with pay-as-you-go traffic and one of the widest product ranges of the mid-market: residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter.
Webshare is best known for cheap datacenter and ISP proxies with a fully self-service, customizable subscription. Its residential network was added later and has grown quickly.
Bright Data advertises the largest residential network on the market (400M IPs) and the broadest toolbox, including an open-source Proxy Manager. It targets business users and runs KYC for sensitive use cases.
DataImpulse sells pay-as-you-go residential traffic at $1/GB (down to $0.80/GB at 1 TB) with no expiry, plus a pricier premium tier.
Oxylabs is an enterprise-oriented provider with a 175M-IP residential pool, ISP and datacenter proxies, and a large scraping API line-up.
Proxy-Seller sells dedicated datacenter and ISP proxies per IP with no traffic or thread limits, in 40+ countries, aimed at small buyers.
NodeMaven focuses on IP quality: residential IPs are screened against several databases and can be filtered by quality, speed and pool size before use.
Byteful (formerly Ping Proxies) has a mid-sized residential pool, a transparent dashboard showing IP availability per location, and a traffic-optimization engine that routes non-essential requests through datacenter IPs.
Rayobyte is a long-standing datacenter specialist that also sells residential and ISP proxies, with non-expiring packages that scale down in price.
Infatica sells rotating residential proxies, a separate IPv6 pool, mobile proxies, dedicated ISP IPs and both shared and dedicated datacenter proxies, with pay-as-you-go and monthly plans.
SOAX sells a 155M-IP residential network with very flexible rotation (by time, by request count, or strict sessions) and lets you mix mobile IPs into the same pool.
IPRoyal offers non-expiring residential traffic that gets cheaper as you buy more, plus static ISP and datacenter proxies in dozens of countries.
Buying guide
Many plans say SOCKS5 and mean TCP. UDP is a separate claim. Read the protocol line before you rely on it.
SOCKS5 on residential traffic is a different buy from SOCKS5 on a datacenter IP. Confirm the product.
Username and password are universal. IP whitelisting is not on every plan.
FAQ
A proxy that speaks the SOCKS5 protocol. It can forward more than HTTP traffic. It does not, by itself, make the IP residential or undetectable.
Usually no. HTTP and HTTPS cover normal page fetches. Use SOCKS5 when the client requires it, or when you need UDP.
No. Anonymity depends on the IP type and the provider's logging, not on the protocol name.
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