Last updated: 2026-08-10
This page compares ten providers we track for scraping work. The ranking criteria are simple and checkable: price at the same volume steps, country coverage, which proxy types are sold, and whether you can test the proxies before paying real money. Everything is compared inside one product type, because a residential gigabyte and a datacenter gigabyte are different goods at different prices, and mixing them produces a number that means nothing.
The list is for people who run scrapers at some scale: price monitoring, SERP collection, marketplace catalogs, travel data, LLM training corpora. If your target has weak protection, the cheapest datacenter traffic in this list will do the job, and paying residential rates for it is money thrown away. If your target runs a serious anti-bot stack, no discount on datacenter IPs will save you and residential or mobile is the only working answer. That decision comes first, the provider second.
| Provider | Price from | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| NodeMaven | $2.75/GB residential | Filtered IPs, hard targets |
| Webshare | $0.0224/IP shared datacenter | Cheap datacenter IP lists |
| Proxyscrape | $0.023/IP shared datacenter | Unlimited residential plans |
| BrightData | $0.42/GB datacenter traffic | Enterprise scraping projects |
| Proxy Seller | $0.05/IP IPv6 | Widest product range |
| Evomi | $0.30/GB datacenter traffic | Cheapest traffic overall |
| ProxyEmpire | $0.35/GB datacenter traffic | Residential and ISP by traffic |
| DataImpulse | $0.45/GB datacenter traffic | Flat, predictable pricing |
| 2extract | $3.99/GB residential | One price, any volume |
| Novada | $0.55/GB datacenter traffic | Large volumes, big pool |
Which proxy type to use for scraping
Rotating residential proxies are the default for scraping. The IP belongs to a real home connection, the gateway hands you a new address on every request or on a timer, and most protected sites treat that traffic as ordinary visitors. You pay per gigabyte, so the cost of the job scales with how heavy the pages are, not with how many IPs you touch.
Rotating datacenter proxies and shared datacenter lists cost several times less per gigabyte and work fine on targets that only rate-limit by IP: small catalogs, public registries, RSS-like endpoints, internal APIs without a bot vendor in front of them. The moment your success rate on a target drops below something you can live with, switching to residential is cheaper than fighting the blocks.
Rotating mobile proxies are the answer to the most aggressive detection systems, because carrier IPs are shared by hundreds of real users and blocking them is expensive for the site. They cost more per gigabyte than residential everywhere in this list, so use them on the handful of targets that need them rather than for the whole crawl.
ISP proxies and static residential are billed per IP per month with no traffic meter at most providers. That makes them the right tool for long sessions on one host: logged-in accounts, paginated crawls where the site ties the session to an IP, and any job where a mid-session IP change costs you the session. If you are not sure which of the two fits your target, the comparison of ISP and residential proxies covers the difference in detail.
The chart below compares rotating residential traffic at 40-60 GB, 100-150 GB and 1000 GB across the nine providers that publish a price at all three. Datacenter traffic is cheaper at every step and is compared separately further down.
For static IPs the picture is different in kind, not in degree: they are rented per address per month with no traffic meter, so no gigabyte price can be put next to them. Those numbers are in the ISP and static residential table further down.
Best proxies for web scraping
Below is one section per provider, in the order approved for this page. Each section says what the provider is actually good at for scraping work, where it stops being a good deal, and what the traffic costs at the volumes people buy.
1. NodeMaven
Official website: https://nodemaven.com/
NodeMaven filters IPs before handing them to you instead of pushing whatever the pool returns, which is the whole argument for paying its rates. For scraping this shows up as fewer retries on targets that check IP reputation, and retries are the hidden cost line in every crawl budget. Rotating residential covers 195 countries, and the ISP product is available in 6 countries at $4.99 per IP at every step from 1 to 400-500 IPs.
Residential traffic runs $5.00/GB at 5-8 GB, $3.98/GB at 40-60 GB, $3.75/GB at 100-150 GB and $2.75/GB at 1000 GB. That is the second most expensive entry point among the traffic-based providers here, and on small volumes the gap is brutal: 50 GB costs $199 against $50 at DataImpulse. The case for NodeMaven is that you are buying a cleaner pool, not cheaper bytes.
Two things to weigh before buying. There is no refund window, so the $3.50 trial is the only cheap way to find out whether the pool works on your targets, and you should spend it on the actual sites you plan to scrape rather than on an IP echo service. The provider has been operating since 2023 and works from Estonia, with a 30M+ pool and card or crypto payment only.
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, ISP Proxies
Pool of IPs
30M+ IP
Date established
2023
Headquarters
Estonia
Pros & Cons
- High-quality proxies
- Many positive reviews
- With monthly plans, unused traffic is carried over to the next month
- Pay-as-you-go option available
- Limited payment methods
2. Webshare
Official website: https://webshare.io/
Webshare is the cheapest way in this list to get a large list of datacenter IPs. Shared datacenter runs $0.0299 per IP at 100-250 IPs and drops to $0.0224 per IP at 10000+, which turns a thousand-IP list into pocket change compared to any traffic plan. For parallel crawling of weakly protected targets, where you want many source addresses and do not care about IP reputation, this is the pricing model that fits.
Dedicated datacenter is $1.33 per IP at 20-30 IPs, $1.19 at 100 and $0.77 at 10000+, and ISP covers 11 countries at $2.10 per IP for 20-30 IPs down to $1.47 at 2000-3000. The ISP list is short but it includes the countries most scraping projects actually need, and per-IP billing means no traffic meter running while your crawler idles.
Residential is the weak spot. At $5.20/GB for 25-38 GB and $4.90/GB at 40-60 GB, Webshare charges roughly five times what DataImpulse does at the same step, and even at 1000 GB it sits at $3.00/GB. Buy Webshare for the IP lists, buy residential elsewhere. The company has been running since 2018 from the United States, offers a free trial and a 48 hour refund window.
Webshare
https://webshare.io/
$2.80/GB
Proxy Type
Residential Proxies, ISP Proxies, Datacenter Proxies
Pool of IPs
80M+ IP
Date established
2018
Headquarters
United States
Pros & Cons
- User-friendly interface
- Inexpensive static residential (ISP) proxies
- 10 free proxies provided
- Reliable company, operating since 2017
- Minimum purchase of 20 IPs (inconvenient for personal use)
3. Proxyscrape
Official website: https://proxyscrape.com/
Proxyscrape sells shared datacenter IPs at $0.025 per IP at 1000-1500 and $0.023 at 5000, which is the same league as Webshare, but only across 9 countries. Dedicated datacenter is United States only, at $1.90 per IP for 5-30 IPs down to $1.40 at 400-500. If your crawl needs many US datacenter addresses and nothing exotic, this is a clean fit.
The other reason to look here is the unlimited residential plan, priced from $2630 per month. That model stops making sense to compare per gigabyte: you are buying concurrency and bandwidth instead of a traffic meter, and it pays off only when your monthly consumption is large enough that metered pricing would cost more. Against Proxyscrape's own metered residential at $2.00/GB for 1000 GB, the unlimited plan starts winning somewhere north of a terabyte per month.
Metered residential is expensive at the bottom: $4.85/GB at 5-8 GB and $4.25/GB at 40-60 GB, which is more than four times DataImpulse at the same volume. It only becomes competitive at 1000 GB and above. Proxyscrape operates from Belgium since 2018, covers 176 countries in the residential pool, has a free trial and a 72 hour refund window.
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, Datacenter Proxies
Pool of IPs
120M+ IP
Date established
2018
Headquarters
Belgium
Pros & Cons
- High-quality proxies
- The cost of proxies is below average
- Many payment methods available
- There is a plan with unlimited traffic for residential proxies
- Data center proxies can be purchased starting from 1,000 units (cannot be purchased individually)
4. BrightData
Official website: https://brightdata.com/
BrightData charges the highest residential rates in this list: $8.00/GB pay as you go, $7.00/GB at 100-150 GB, $6.00/GB at 250-350 GB and $5.00/GB from 700 GB up. Nothing here is cheap, and if price per gigabyte is your deciding factor, this section is not for you. What you get instead is 181 countries on every product line, dedicated datacenter from $2.50 down to $1.30 per IP at 1000+, and ISP across 50 countries from $4.00 down to $2.50 per IP at 1000+.
Shared datacenter traffic is the part worth attention for scraping: $0.60/GB pay as you go, $0.51/GB at 100-200 GB and $0.42/GB from 700 GB up. That is competitive with the cheap end of the market, and it comes with the same infrastructure and the same country list as the expensive residential product. For a project that scrapes a mix of soft and hard targets from one account, running both product lines at one vendor removes a lot of plumbing.
BrightData is built around corporate procurement: it has been operating since 2014 from Israel, has a 150M+ pool, and pays attention to compliance in a way that matters if your legal department asks questions. There is no money-back window, but a free trial is available, and account restrictions on sensitive targets are lifted only after verification. Budget for setup time.
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, ISP Proxies, Datacenter Proxies
Pool of IPs
150M+ IP
Date established
2014
Headquarters
Israel
Pros & Cons
- Popular and reliable company
- High-quality, ethically sourced proxies
- Flexible pricing (including pay-as-you-go)
- Excellent choice for those who need proxies and web scraping tools
- Above-average cost
- KYC is required to access all websites.
- The interface is complex and geared toward developers.
5. Proxy Seller
Official website: https://proxy-seller.com/
Proxy Seller has the widest product range on this page: datacenter in 41 countries, ISP and static residential in 24, IPv6 in 17, mobile in 21, and rotating residential across 195. For a scraping team that needs several proxy types under one invoice, that breadth is the selling point.
The number that matters most here is IPv6: $0.16 per IP up to 30 IPs, $0.11 at 50-250, $0.08 at 400-1500 and $0.05 at 5000+. Many targets that serve IPv6 do not police it nearly as hard as IPv4, and at these rates you can put thousands of unique addresses behind a mass parser for the price of a few dozen dedicated IPv4. Dedicated datacenter runs $1.48 per IP at 20-30 down to $0.90 at 2000+, and ISP is $2.85 at 20-30 IPs down to $1.89 at 1000+.
Rotating residential is mid-market: $3.50/GB pay as you go, $2.40/GB at 25-38 GB, $2.30/GB at 40-60 GB and $1.45/GB at 1000 GB. Testing costs $1.99, and there is a 24 hour money-back window, which is short but real. The company has been operating since 2014 from Cyprus, with a 20M+ pool, four payment methods and SDKs for PHP, Python, Node.js, Java and Go, which saves a day of integration work on a serious pipeline.
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, Individual IPv6 Proxies, ISP Proxies, Datacenter Proxies
Pool of IPs
20M+ IP
Date established
2014
Headquarters
Cyprus
Pros & Cons
- High-quality proxies
- Competitive prices
- Wide selection of proxies
- Convenient payment methods
- 24/7 support
6. Evomi
Official website: https://evomi.com/
Evomi has the cheapest traffic in this comparison on both lines that matter for scraping. Residential is $0.99/GB pay as you go and at 5-8 GB, and drops to $0.49/GB from 100-150 GB all the way through 5000 GB. Shared datacenter traffic is $0.45/GB at 1 GB, $0.40/GB at 200 GB and $0.30/GB at 1000 GB. Against BrightData residential at the same 100-150 GB step, that is a fourteen-fold difference in price per gigabyte.
Cheap traffic usually raises the question of whether the proxies respond at all. Our own measurement through an IP echo endpoint returned 8 successful requests out of 8, with a median response time of 635 ms and a 90th percentile of 698 ms. That is a small sample and it says nothing about how the pool behaves against a protected target, but it does rule out the failure mode where a cheap gateway simply does not connect.
The real limitation is geography. The rotating residential pool covers 48 countries, against 195 at NodeMaven, Webshare and Proxy Seller, and ISP and static residential exist only in Germany and the United States. If your crawl is Europe and North America focused, that is not a problem; if you need long-tail countries, this is the wrong vendor. Evomi operates from Switzerland since 2014, has a free trial, a 168 hour refund window and seven payment methods including Apple Pay and WeChat Pay.
Evomi
https://evomi.com/
$0.49/GB
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, ISP Proxies, Datacenter Proxies
Pool of IPs
100M+ IP
Date established
2014
Headquarters
Switzerland
Pros & Cons
- Competitive prices
- High-quality proxies
- User-friendly interface
- A pay-as-you-go plan is available with no monthly fees
- VAT is additionally charged when paying by card
7. ProxyEmpire
Official website: https://proxyempire.io/
ProxyEmpire bills both residential and ISP by traffic rather than per IP, which is unusual and useful. ISP traffic costs $2.86/GB at 5-8 GB, $2.50/GB at 40-60 GB, $2.22/GB at 100-150 GB and $1.50/GB from 1000 GB, across 18 countries. If you need ISP-grade IPs but your consumption is spiky, paying per gigabyte instead of renting IPs by the month can be the cheaper structure.
Rotating datacenter is the other strong line: $0.625/GB at 40-60 GB, $0.55/GB at 100-150 GB, $0.40/GB at 1000 GB and $0.35/GB at 5000 GB, across 61 countries. Rotating residential runs $3.50/GB pay as you go, $2.85/GB at 5-8 GB, $2.50/GB at 40-60 GB and $1.50/GB from 1000 GB, with a 195 country pool.
One condition applies to all of that: the listed prices are the promo prices, and the PROMO50 code has to be entered at checkout to get them. Check the final amount on the payment screen before confirming, on the first purchase and on renewals. Dedicated mobile is a different story entirely at $125 per IP per month, the most expensive per-IP product in this list, so treat ProxyEmpire as a traffic vendor. Testing costs $1.97, there is no refund window, and the company has been operating from Bulgaria since 2020 with a 9.5M+ pool.
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, ISP Proxies, Datacenter Proxies
Pool of IPs
9.5M+ IP
Date established
2020
Headquarters
Bulgaria
Pros & Cons
- Users note the high quality of the proxies
- Easy proxy server setup
- Unlimited mobile proxies available
8. DataImpulse
Official website: https://dataimpulse.com/
DataImpulse does something none of the others do: it charges $1.00/GB for residential at every step from 5-8 GB through 700-850 GB, and $0.80/GB from 1000 GB up. There is no volume ladder to climb and no threshold to hit. For a project whose monthly consumption swings between 20 and 200 GB, that flat price is worth more than a lower headline rate that only applies at a volume you rarely reach.
Rotating datacenter is $0.50/GB from 10-13 GB through 700-850 GB and $0.45/GB at 1000 GB and above, across 122 countries. Residential covers 190 countries and mobile 179, so the geography is broad enough for almost any crawl. Pay as you go starts at $0.80/GB for residential and $0.45/GB for datacenter.
There is no trial, which is the one friction point, but there is a 168 hour money-back window, the longest in this comparison. In practice that inverts the usual order: you buy the smallest plan, run it against your targets for a few days, and ask for the money back if the pool does not perform. The company has been operating since 2023 from the United States with a 90M+ pool and three payment methods including crypto and AliPay. If you want alternatives with a similar profile, we have a separate list of DataImpulse alternatives.
DataImpulse
https://dataimpulse.com/
$0.80–$1.00/GB
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, Datacenter Proxies
Pool of IPs
90M+ IP
Date established
2023
Headquarters
United States
Pros & Cons
- Low proxy cost
- State/City/Zip/ASN Targeting
- Pay-as-you-go (traffic does not expire)
- No free trial
9. 2extract
Official website: https://2extract.com/
2extract charges $3.99/GB for rotating residential and $4.99/GB for rotating mobile, and those numbers do not move: the same price at pay as you go, at 40-60 GB, at 250-350 GB and at 1000 GB. There is no discount for committing to volume, which makes the vendor a poor choice for large crawls and a straightforward one for small, irregular jobs where you want the invoice to be a simple multiplication.
Coverage is the strong point: 195 countries on residential and 107 on mobile, from a 10M+ pool. The CAPROXY code takes 15% off the first order, which brings the entry cost closer to the mid-market for a single purchase.
This is a new operation, founded in 2025 and working from Singapore, with card and AliPay payment, no trial and no refund window. That combination means the first order is the test, so keep it small. At 50 GB per month 2extract costs $199.50 against $50 at DataImpulse, and the gap only widens with volume, so the case for it rests on the pool suiting your specific targets rather than on price.
2extract
https://2extract.com/
$3.99/GB
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies
Pool of IPs
10M+ IP
Date established
2025
Headquarters
Singapore
Pros & Cons
- Transparent pay-as-you-go pricing
- Developer-friendly API and documentation
- Unlimited concurrent connections
- Ethically sourced residential IPs
- New provider with a limited track record
- No free trial with proxy traffic
- Small IP pool compared to market leaders
10. Novada
Official website: https://novada.com/
Novada runs a 160M+ pool, the largest here, across 195+ countries, with rotating residential in 191. Residential pricing is a proper ladder: $2.30/GB at 10-13 GB, $1.90/GB at 40-60 GB, $1.50/GB at 100-150 GB, $1.32/GB at 250-350 GB, $1.08/GB at 500-600 GB, $0.90/GB at 1000 GB and $0.78/GB at 3000 GB. The discount at the top is real, and a terabyte-scale crawl gets a price most vendors here cannot match without a sales call.
Rotating datacenter follows the same shape: $2.80/GB at 5-8 GB, $1.33/GB at 40-60 GB, $1.00/GB at 100-150 GB and $0.55/GB at 1000 GB, though only across 29 countries. There is also an unlimited residential plan from $2250 per month for teams that would rather buy capacity than count bytes.
Static IPs are where Novada is expensive. ISP and static residential start at $7.00 per IP for 1-5 IPs, $4.40 at 10 and $2.50 at 100-250, while Webshare charges $1.79 per ISP IP at 100. Dedicated datacenter is $4.50 per IP at the bottom and $2.10 at 400-500, against $1.12 at Webshare for the same step. Buy Novada traffic, buy static IPs elsewhere. The company launched in 2025, operates from Germany, has no trial and a 24 hour refund window.
Novada
https://novada.com/
$0.78/GB
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, ISP Proxies, Datacenter Proxies
Pool of IPs
160M+ IP
Date established
2025
Headquarters
Germany
Pros & Cons
- Discounts for large orders
- Wide selection of proxies
- 24/7 support
- A new proxy provider
- Poor customer support
Price comparison by proxy type
Three tables, same volume steps in each, one product type per table. Dashes mean the provider does not publish a price at that step, not that it is cheaper or more expensive there.
Rotation Residential Proxies, $/GB
| Provider | 5-8 GB | 40-60 GB | 1000 GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| NodeMaven | 5.00 | 3.98 | 2.75 |
| Webshare | - | 4.90 | 3.00 |
| Proxyscrape | 4.85 | 4.25 | 2.00 |
| BrightData | - | - | 5.00 |
| Proxy Seller | - | 2.30 | 1.45 |
| Evomi | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.49 |
| ProxyEmpire | 2.85 | 2.50 | 1.50 |
| DataImpulse | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.80 |
| 2extract | 3.99 | 3.99 | 3.99 |
| Novada | - | 1.90 | 0.90 |
Evomi is the cheapest at every step and DataImpulse is second, with the difference between them at 40-60 GB coming to about a dollar per gigabyte. At 1000 GB per month the spread across this table runs from $490 to $5000, which is the difference between a line item and a budget item. NodeMaven and BrightData are priced as premium pools and only make sense when block rates on your targets justify them.
Rotation and Shared Datacenter Proxies, $/GB
| Provider | 5-8 GB | 40-60 GB | 1000 GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| BrightData | - | - | 0.42 |
| Evomi | - | - | 0.30 |
| ProxyEmpire | - | 0.625 | 0.40 |
| DataImpulse | - | 0.50 | 0.45 |
| Novada | 2.80 | 1.33 | 0.55 |
Datacenter traffic costs roughly one third of residential at the same provider and the same volume, which is exactly why the type decision matters more than the vendor decision. DataImpulse is the flattest option and the cheapest at moderate volumes, while Evomi wins at a terabyte. Novada only becomes competitive once you are buying in the hundreds of gigabytes.
ISP and Static Residential, $/IP per month
| Provider | 10 IPs | 100 IPs | 1000-1500 IPs |
|---|---|---|---|
| NodeMaven | 4.99 | 4.99 | - |
| Webshare | - | 1.79 | 1.58 |
| BrightData | 3.50 | 2.75 | 2.50 |
| Proxy Seller | 2.91 | 2.55 | 1.89 |
| Evomi | 1.00 | 1.00 | - |
| Novada | 4.40 | 2.50 | - |
Evomi is the cheapest per IP but sells ISP in Germany and the United States only, so for anything outside those two countries Webshare is the practical floor and Proxy Seller covers the widest country list at a mid price. A hundred ISP IPs for a month costs $100 at Evomi and $499 at NodeMaven, and since these products carry no traffic meter, the whole comparison is a flat monthly number.
Country coverage is the one criterion that no discount compensates for, and the chart below shows how far apart these providers are on it.
Five providers sit at 195 countries and one sits at 48. If your crawl needs Latin America, Africa or Southeast Asia at country granularity, the coverage number filters the list before price does. If you only scrape the US and Western Europe, coverage stops being a criterion and you can buy on price alone.
How much a scraping project actually costs
Two concrete cases, both priced from the tables above.
50 GB of residential traffic per month. This is a typical price monitoring job: a few hundred thousand product pages a month, HTML only, images blocked in the scraper. At Evomi that is $49.50 at the 40-60 GB step. At DataImpulse it is $50.00, because the price is flat. At NodeMaven it is $199.00. Over a year the gap between Evomi and NodeMaven is about $1794, which buys a lot of developer time to handle retries yourself. The counter-argument is that a pool with a higher block rate makes you pay for the same page twice or three times, so the cheap gigabyte is only cheap if it delivers the page on the first attempt. Spend the $3.50 trial at NodeMaven and the $1.99 trial at Proxy Seller against your actual targets before committing to a year of anything.
200 dedicated datacenter IPs for parallel crawling. This is the setup for weakly protected targets where you want many concurrent workers, each on its own address, and traffic is effectively unlimited. Webshare charges $1.12 per IP at the 200-250 step, so $224 per month. Proxy Seller charges $1.15, so $230. Proxyscrape charges $1.60, so $320, US only. BrightData charges $1.70, so $340, but across 181 countries. Novada charges $2.25, so $450. If the same job can run on shared IPs instead of dedicated ones, 200 shared datacenter proxies at Webshare cost $5.98 per month, and that difference is worth testing before you buy dedicated.
When the volume discount pays off. Ladders only reward you if you actually consume the volume. At Novada, moving from the 40-60 GB step to the 100-150 GB step drops residential from $1.90 to $1.50 per gigabyte. Buying 100 GB costs $150; buying 50 GB at the higher rate costs $95. So the bigger plan pays for itself only once you genuinely use more than about 79 GB a month, and buying a plan you do not consume is the most common way scraping teams overspend. The same arithmetic applies at every provider with a ladder, which is precisely why the flat pricing at DataImpulse and 2extract is worth something to teams with unpredictable load.
Trials, refunds and payment
Four of these providers let you test for a token amount or for free before committing. Proxy Seller charges $1.99 for a trial, NodeMaven charges $3.50, ProxyEmpire charges $1.97, and Webshare, Proxyscrape, Evomi and BrightData each offer a free trial. DataImpulse, 2extract and Novada have no trial, so with them the smallest plan is your test. A broader list of vendors with testing options is collected in our roundup of providers offering a free trial.
Refund windows vary more than most buyers expect. Evomi and DataImpulse give 168 hours, Proxyscrape gives 72, Webshare gives 48, and Proxy Seller and Novada give 24. NodeMaven, BrightData, ProxyEmpire and 2extract have no money-back window at all. The 168 hour window is long enough to run a real crawl and judge the result; the 24 hour one is long enough to confirm that the proxies connect and respond, and not much more. Whether unused traffic expires at the end of the billing month or carries over is worth confirming with support before you pay, because it changes the real cost of any plan you do not fully consume.
Payment options matter if your team is not in Europe or the US. Evomi accepts seven methods including Apple Pay, WeChat Pay and Twint, Novada takes six including Kakao Pay and Samsung Pay, and Proxy Seller and Proxyscrape both handle crypto and PayPal. Webshare takes cards and wallets only, and NodeMaven takes cards and crypto.
User ratings across this group are clustered near the top, which the chart below makes clear.
The takeaway from that chart is that satisfaction does not separate these vendors, so it should not be the criterion you buy on. Price at your volume, country coverage and refund terms do the separating.
Which one to choose
Lowest price per gigabyte. Evomi at $0.99/GB for small residential volumes and $0.49/GB from 100 GB, with DataImpulse right behind at a flat $1.00/GB. If your targets sit in the 48 countries Evomi covers, this is the cheapest working setup on the page.
Widest geography. NodeMaven, Webshare, Proxy Seller, ProxyEmpire and 2extract all reach 195 countries on residential, with Novada at 191 and DataImpulse at 190. Pick on price within that group rather than on the coverage number.
Enterprise project. BrightData, for 181 countries on every product line, dedicated datacenter and ISP under one contract, and the compliance posture that procurement departments ask about. You will pay $5.00 to $8.00 per residential gigabyte for it.
Static IPs for long sessions. Webshare for the best per-IP price outside Germany and the US, Evomi at $1.00 per IP inside them, Proxy Seller for the widest ISP country list. If the job needs many addresses on soft targets, Proxy Seller IPv6 at $0.05 per IP in bulk is the cheapest route to thousands of unique sources.
A predictable invoice. DataImpulse at a flat $1.00/GB or 2extract at a flat $3.99/GB, where the bill is one multiplication and no volume threshold changes it. For a scraper that runs unevenly across the month, this is often worth more than a lower rate you never qualify for.
Whichever you pick, the tool on the other end matters as much as the proxy: our list of web scraping tools covers what to run behind these proxies, and the guide to setting up rotating residential proxies covers the connection details.
FAQ
- Can I use free proxies for web scraping?
- No. Free lists are almost always datacenter IPs that thousands of people have already burned, so they arrive pre-blocked on any target worth scraping, and they are slow and unstable on top of that. Paid datacenter traffic starts at $0.30/GB at Evomi and $0.45/GB at DataImpulse, which is low enough that free lists are not worth the failed requests.
- How many proxies do I need for scraping?
- With rotating proxies you do not buy a count of IPs, you buy traffic and the gateway hands you a new address per request. Sizing is by bandwidth: estimate pages per month times average page weight. With per-IP products the count follows your concurrency, roughly one IP per parallel worker, so 200 workers means 200 dedicated IPs at about $224 per month at Webshare.
- Residential or datacenter proxies for scraping?
- Start with datacenter on any target that only rate-limits by IP: it costs about a third of residential at the same provider. Move to residential when your success rate on that target drops, since retries cost more than the price difference. Residential runs $0.99 to $5.00 per GB at 5-8 GB across the providers here, datacenter $0.30 to $2.80 per GB.
- HTTP(S) or SOCKS5 for a scraper?
- HTTP(S) is the practical default for scraping, since every HTTP client and scraping framework supports it natively and it carries everything a crawler needs. SOCKS5 is worth choosing when you need to proxy protocols other than HTTP or when your tool handles it better. The details are covered in our SOCKS5 vs HTTPS comparison.
- What am I paying for in unlimited residential plans?
- Bandwidth and concurrency, not gigabytes. Proxyscrape prices unlimited residential from $2630 per month and Novada from $2250. Against metered pricing they only make sense past very large monthly consumption: at Proxyscrape's own metered rate of $2.00/GB at 1000 GB, the unlimited plan starts to pay off well above a terabyte per month.
- Can I test the proxies before paying full price?
- Yes, at most of them. Proxy Seller charges $1.99, ProxyEmpire $1.97 and NodeMaven $3.50 for a trial, while Webshare, Proxyscrape, Evomi and BrightData offer a free one. DataImpulse, 2extract and Novada have none, but DataImpulse has a 168 hour refund window, which serves the same purpose.
- Why does price per gigabyte fall with volume?
- Providers discount committed volume because it makes their own capacity planning predictable. The ladder only benefits you if you use what you buy: at Novada, moving from $1.90/GB at 40-60 GB to $1.50/GB at 100-150 GB costs $150 instead of $95, so the larger plan wins only past roughly 79 GB of actual consumption per month.
- Which providers have no refund window?
- NodeMaven, BrightData, ProxyEmpire and 2extract. Evomi and DataImpulse offer 168 hours, Proxyscrape 72, Webshare 48, and Proxy Seller and Novada 24. Confirm how long unused traffic stays on your balance before paying, as that is not part of the refund terms.
