13 providers compared
Residential proxy providers for web scraping, compared on price per GB, pool size, targeting and rotation. For teams that already run their own scraper.
Evomi
Evomi
A scraping proxy is the IP layer under a scraper you operate. Residential pools are the default when the site filters datacenter ranges. You still handle parsing, scheduling and rendering yourself. If you want the vendor to return the page, use a scraping API instead.
Good to knowThis table is the residential line, because that is the product most scraping jobs start with. Datacenter pools are cheaper when the target allows them. Mobile is the upgrade when household IPs are blocked and the volume is small.
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
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
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
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
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
Thordata sells residential, ISP, mobile and datacenter proxies plus a Web Scraper API. Residential starts at $2/GB for 1 GB and reaches $0.65/GB at 5 TB.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NodeMaven focuses on IP quality: residential IPs are screened against several databases and can be filtered by quality, speed and pool size before use.
Thordata sells residential, ISP, mobile and datacenter proxies plus a Web Scraper API. Residential starts at $2/GB for 1 GB and reaches $0.65/GB at 5 TB.
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
Price per GB is meaningless if the pages fail. Spend the trial on the real domain.
Rotate per request for independent fetches. Use a sticky session when the site expects one visitor.
Prices, stock and search results change by location. Confirm city or ZIP targeting if you need it.
FAQ
Residential, for targets that block datacenter IPs. Datacenter, when the site is tolerant and volume is high. Mobile, for a short list of URLs that reject household ranges.
Proxies if you already have a scraper and want control. A scraping API if you want rotation, rendering and retries included, billed per request.
Collecting public data is lawful in many places. Site terms, privacy law and copyright still apply. The proxy does not change that.
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