This list is built around what brand protection work actually breaks on: geographic granularity down to the city, session control that survives a multi-step check on a marketplace, and the price of a successful request rather than the price of a gigabyte. Twelve providers below sell rotating residential, unlimited residential or static residential addresses, and each of the three covers a different part of the job.
| Provider | Rotating residential, from | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| NodeMaven | $2.75/GB | Long sticky sessions |
| Relayox | $2.75/GB | Crypto-only mid volumes |
| Proxyscrape | $1.50/GB | Continuous unlimited monitoring |
| Proxy Seller | $1.30/GB | Widest country coverage |
| Thordata | $1.80/GB | Predictable monthly volume |
| Evomi | $0.49/GB | Cheapest gigabyte on volume |
| ProxyEmpire | $1.50/GB | Static addresses by traffic |
| DataImpulse | $0.80/GB | Wide marketplace sweeps |
| 2extract | $3.99/GB | Flat, predictable budgeting |
| Webshare | $2.80/GB | Static residential watchlists |
| CyberYozh | $1.99/GB | Static IPs, broad geography |
| BirdProxies | $4.30/GB | Cheap static, few locations |
What brand protection work actually demands from a proxy
The job splits into three modes, and each one wants a different product. Sweeping marketplaces and classified boards for counterfeits is high-volume, low-value-per-request work: you want rotating residential traffic at the lowest sane price per gigabyte, because most of what you pull is discarded. Checking search results and ad placements in specific countries and cities is the same product, but the deciding factor moves from price to targeting depth. Watching one seller, one storefront or one account over weeks is the opposite job: you need the same address to come back tomorrow, which means static residential addresses billed per IP per month. If the platform you are watching has already learned to reject residential addresses outright, the next step up is mobile, not more residential traffic.
Pool size is the least useful number on any pricing page here. What decides whether a monitoring run works is whether the provider can hand you an address in the right city and the right network, and whether the same address stays available long enough to complete a login, a search and three page loads. A counterfeit listing that only shows in one metro area is invisible from a country-level exit node, and no pool of a hundred million addresses fixes that if the targeting stops at the country.
Country coverage separates almost nobody: the wide providers all sit at the same ceiling, and the real differences start below the country level.
Top 12 proxy providers for brand protection and monitoring
The order below is the order of the list, not a ranking by price. Each section says what the provider is good for and where it stops being the right tool.
1. NodeMaven
Official website: https://nodemaven.com/
NodeMaven filters addresses before handing them out and holds sticky sessions for a long time, which is exactly what watching a single seller account through a sequence of pages requires. For that mode the per-gigabyte price matters less than not losing the session halfway through a checkout flow or a review page.
The cost is visible at entry: $5/GB on 5-8 GB against $3.50/GB at Thordata on the same tier. For a continuous catalog sweep that difference compounds fast, so use NodeMaven for the targeted, session-heavy part of the work and buy the bulk crawl elsewhere. There is no money-back window, but a $3.50 trial lets you check the pool before committing.
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. Relayox
Official website: https://relayox.com/
Relayox has a flat, easy-to-plan grid: $4/GB at 5-8 GB falling to $2.75/GB from 200 GB and staying there. That makes it a reasonable middle-volume option for monitoring across a broad country list, with city targeting available.
Two practical constraints. Payment is crypto only, which rules it out for teams that need a card invoice. It is also a new provider, so the 168-hour money-back window and the $1 trial for 200 MB are worth using before you commit a monitoring budget.
Relayox
https://relayox.com/
$2.75/GB
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies
Pool of IPs
20M+ IP
Date established
2026
Headquarters
Cyprus
Pros & Cons
- 190+ countries on both rotating products
- Pool of 20M+ IP addresses
- Trial package for $1
- Money-back window of 168 hours
- New proxy provider
- Cryptocurrency is the only payment method
3. Proxyscrape
Official website: https://proxyscrape.com/
The reason Proxyscrape belongs on a brand monitoring page is the unlimited residential plan: a fixed monthly fee instead of a meter, which suits a crawler that runs around the clock against the same set of marketplaces. When the sweep never stops, the per-gigabyte question stops being the right question.
On metered traffic it is expensive early. A 150 GB month of monitoring costs roughly $195 more here than at Thordata on the same volume. Buy the unlimited plan or buy volume; the small metered tiers are the worst way to use this provider.
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. Proxy Seller
Official website: https://proxy-seller.com/
Proxy Seller has the widest country list here, 220 countries on rotating residential with city-level targeting, which matters when your monitoring brief covers markets that most pools only nominally support. Entry is $3.50/GB pay-as-you-go, and the grid keeps moving down to $1.30/GB at the top, so there is no early ceiling on the discount.
The second tool is static residential sold per IP per month across 24 countries, useful for a fixed watchlist of storefronts. A 24-hour money-back window and a $1.99 trial are enough to verify the geography you actually need before scaling.
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
5. Thordata
Official website: https://thordata.com/
Thordata's grid is deliberately flat: $2.20/GB across 40-150 GB, then $1.80/GB from 500 GB and no further movement. For a team with a stable monthly volume that is a feature, because the invoice is the same every month and there is nothing to renegotiate.
Two limits. The floor at $1.80/GB means very large sweeps stop getting cheaper, and at 1,000 GB DataImpulse charges less than half that. There is also no money-back and no trial, so the first purchase is the test.
Thordata
https://thordata.com/
$1.80/GB
Proxy Type
Residential Proxies
Pool of IPs
60M+ IP
Date established
2018
Headquarters
Hong Kong
Pros & Cons
- User-friendly interface
- Advanced web scraping solutions
- No trial period or money-back guarantee
6. Evomi
Official website: https://evomi.com/
Evomi has the cheapest residential gigabyte on volume in this list, and the discount arrives early: the rate drops to $0.49/GB once you pass 100 GB and then stops moving, so there is nothing to gain from buying a bigger package than you need. On a 500 GB monthly sweep that is $245 against $900 at Relayox for the same traffic.
We measured its residential endpoint in August 2026: median response 635 ms, 90th percentile 698 ms, 8 of 8 requests successful.
The constraint is geography. The residential pool covers 48 countries and the static product only two, Germany and the United States. If your monitoring brief is Europe plus North America, that is fine; if it includes Latin America or Southeast Asia, this is not your main supplier. A 168-hour refund window makes it cheap to find out.
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 is the one provider here that sells static residential addresses by traffic rather than per IP: $2.86/GB at entry down to $1.50/GB from 1,000 GB, across 18 countries. That inverts the usual calculation. If you need a stable address but barely use it, paying for consumed traffic beats paying a monthly fee per IP; if you need a stable address and hammer it, per-IP billing wins.
Rotating traffic sits mid-table: $2.22/GB at 100-150 GB, more than double DataImpulse and well above Evomi on the same tier. There is no money-back, though a $1.97 trial exists.
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 is the cheapest entry in the list and stays cheap: $1/GB from the smallest tiers all the way to 850 GB, $0.80/GB from 1,000 GB. For a broad sweep of marketplaces and classified sites, where most requests return nothing useful, that flat low price is the single biggest lever on cost per successful result. Coverage is 195 countries with city targeting.
What is missing is a static product, so long-term observation of one seller has to be bought elsewhere. A 168-hour money-back window covers the first purchase.
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 at every volume, from pay-as-you-go to 1,000 GB. For planning that is genuinely convenient: the budget is a multiplication, not a lookup. For anything past a modest monthly sweep it is expensive, and at 500 GB you would pay roughly $1,750 more than at Evomi for the same traffic.
It is also the youngest provider here, founded in 2025, with no trial and no money-back. Treat it as a supplementary source rather than the backbone of a monitoring pipeline.
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. Webshare
Official website: https://webshare.io/
Webshare's argument for this task is static residential: from $2.10 per IP per month at 20-30 addresses down to $1.47 from 2,000, across 11 countries. If your watchlist is a fixed set of storefronts, seller pages and review sections that you check daily, a small block of stable addresses is both cheaper and more reliable than rotating through a pool.
Rotating residential is the most expensive entry here at $7/GB for 1 GB and $4.90/GB at 40-60 GB, so do not buy the crawl side from Webshare. A 48-hour refund window and a free tier let you test the static addresses first.
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)
11. CyberYozh
Official website: https://app.cyberyozh.com/
CyberYozh sells static residential at one flat price, $5.29 per IP per month, across 52 countries. That is the broadest static geography in this list by a wide margin, and it is the right answer when the accounts you monitor have to look like they live in specific and unusual markets.
Rotating traffic is above average: $3.90/GB at entry and $2.50/GB at 100-150 GB. The bigger limitation for this task is the absence of city-level targeting, which rules it out for local ad verification where two neighbourhoods in the same country see different creatives.
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, ISP Proxies, Datacenter Proxies
Pool of IPs
7M+ IP
Date established
2014
Headquarters
Serbia
Pros & Cons
- Quality proxies
- Large IP pool in over 100 countries
- Virtual numbers for SMS activation
- User-friendly interface
- Additional commission when topping up the balance
12. BirdProxies
Official website: https://birdproxies.com/
BirdProxies inverts the usual pairing: static residential at a flat $1.58 per IP per month, cheaper than Proxy Seller and CyberYozh, while rotating residential is the priciest in the list at $4.30/GB even on volume. The combination points at one use: a small number of long-lived addresses watching a fixed set of pages.
Static coverage is six countries, so the geography has to match your markets exactly. Mass catalog crawling should go to a cheaper traffic provider; the money-back window is 24 hours and there is no trial.
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, ISP Proxies
Pool of IPs
72M+ IP
Date established
2024
Headquarters
Germany
Pros & Cons
- High-quality proxies
- Low-cost ISP proxies
- ISP proxies tailored for specific tasks
- Great and user-friendly website design
- No free trial available
- Minimum purchase of 10 ISP proxies
Prices side by side
Rotation Residential Proxies, $/GB
| Provider | 5-8 GB | 40-60 GB | 500-600 GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| NodeMaven | $5.00 | $3.98 | - |
| Relayox | $4.00 | $3.30 | $2.75 |
| Proxyscrape | $4.85 | $4.25 | $2.75 |
| Proxy Seller | - | $2.30 | $1.70 |
| Thordata | $3.50 | $2.20 | $1.80 |
| Evomi | $0.99 | $0.99 | $0.49 |
| ProxyEmpire | $2.85 | $2.50 | $1.75 |
| DataImpulse | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| 2extract | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 |
| Webshare | - | $4.90 | $3.50 |
| CyberYozh | $3.90 | $3.20 | $2.20 |
| BirdProxies | $5.45 | $4.60 | $4.30 |
Evomi and DataImpulse are cheapest at every tier, and the gap widens with volume: a 500 GB month costs $245 at Evomi and $500 at DataImpulse, while the mid-table providers land between $875 and $2,150 for the same traffic. Below roughly 60 GB the choice is closer, because the absolute difference is a few tens of dollars and pool quality in your target geography matters more.
Static Residential Proxies, $/IP per month
| Provider | 10 IPs | 50 IPs | 200-250 IPs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proxy Seller | $2.91 | $2.70 | $2.40 |
| Evomi | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Webshare | - | $1.89 | $1.68 |
| CyberYozh | $5.29 | - | - |
| BirdProxies | $1.58 | $1.58 | $1.58 |
Watching fifty fixed storefronts costs $50 a month at Evomi and $135 at Proxy Seller, so per-IP billing beats traffic as soon as the watchlist is stable and the pages are checked often; you pay for geography, and CyberYozh's 52 countries are what its higher price buys.
Static Residential Proxies sold by traffic, $/GB
| Provider | 5-8 GB | 40-60 GB | 500-600 GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| ProxyEmpire | $2.86 | $2.50 | $1.75 |
ProxyEmpire's static addresses are metered, so the price cannot sit in the table above: a dollar figure per gigabyte and a dollar figure per IP per month measure different things, and the comparison only becomes real once you know how much traffic each watched page generates.
Proxyscrape's unlimited residential plan is a separate category again: a flat monthly fee for a crawler that runs continuously against the same targets, priced against uptime rather than volume, which is why it does not belong in a per-gigabyte comparison. Full grids for both models live in the unlimited residential section.
How to choose for your task
For broad marketplace and classifieds sweeps looking for counterfeits, buy the cheapest reliable traffic and spend the savings on more coverage: DataImpulse at $1/GB across almost the whole grid, or Evomi at $0.49/GB once you pass 100 GB. The full ladder for both sits in the residential proxies section.
For search results and ad checks by country and city, targeting depth decides. Proxy Seller covers 220 countries with city-level selection; CyberYozh is out for this specific mode because it stops at the country. Budget the traffic at the tier you actually reach, not at the headline entry price.
For long observation of one seller, one storefront or one account, buy static addresses per IP: BirdProxies at $1.58 if six countries cover your markets, Webshare for eleven, CyberYozh for fifty-two when the geography is unusual. If you also need those addresses to look like a home connection under heavier scrutiny, compare against the ISP proxy section before you commit to a year of monthly fees.
FAQ
- Which proxy type should I use for counterfeit detection?
- Rotating residential traffic. Marketplace and classifieds sweeps are high-volume and mostly discarded, so the price per gigabyte drives the cost of each real find: DataImpulse charges $1/GB across most of its grid, Evomi $0.49/GB from 100 GB.
- Can datacenter proxies handle brand monitoring?
- For internal dashboards and unprotected sources, yes. For marketplaces, ad platforms and search results they are recognised by their hosting network and filtered early, which turns the saving into retries. See the datacenter section for where they do work.
- Rotating or static addresses for this job?
- Rotating for discovery: many pages, many locations, no need to be recognised. Static for observation: the same seller page or account checked daily, where a changing address looks like a new visitor every time and can trigger extra verification.
- How much traffic does a month of monitoring consume?
- It depends on how many pages you pull, but a useful anchor is 500 GB a month for a mid-size sweep. That is $245 at Evomi, $500 at DataImpulse and $1,995 at 2extract, on identical volume.
- Which providers here offer a refund or a trial?
- Evomi, DataImpulse and Relayox give a 168-hour money-back window; Relayox also sells a $1 trial for 200 MB. Proxy Seller has a 24-hour window and a $1.99 trial, NodeMaven a $3.50 trial with no refund. Thordata, ProxyEmpire and 2extract have no money-back.
- Do I need city-level targeting?
- If you verify ads or local search results, yes: creatives and listings differ between metro areas inside one country. CyberYozh does not offer it; Proxy Seller, Evomi, Webshare, DataImpulse, Proxyscrape, NodeMaven, ProxyEmpire, Relayox and 2extract do.
- What if residential addresses stop working on one platform?
- Add a second provider with a different network mix before increasing spend on the same pool. If the platform still rejects residential exits, the next step is mobile proxies, where the address belongs to a carrier and blocking it costs the site real users.
- Does traffic bought for monitoring expire?
- Retention rules differ between providers and are not always shown on the pricing page. Confirm how long unused gigabytes stay on the balance before paying for a large package.
