Last updated: 2026-08-10
This page collects ten providers that sell residential proxies and puts them side by side on the only basis that lets you decide anything: the price per gigabyte at the same volume tiers. Every provider here is measured at 5-8 GB, 100-150 GB and 1000 GB, plus country coverage, pool size and the conditions for getting in without paying for a full month (trial price, refund window). The list is built for people who scrape at volume, run multiple accounts, and monitor search results across regions.
The spread inside a single product type is enormous. Rotating residential traffic in our catalog starts at $0.49/GB with Evomi and reaches $8/GB pay-as-you-go with BrightData, a sixteenfold difference for a category that sounds identical on every marketing page. Most of that difference is not IP quality. It is country coverage, tooling, pool size and, quite often, simply the segment the provider chose to sell into. The rest of this page explains what the extra money buys and where it stops being worth paying.
Prices below are the tier prices from the catalog, without promo codes unless a code is explicitly required to reach them. Where a provider has no plan at a given tier, the cell is empty rather than filled with the neighboring price.
| Provider | Rotating residential, from $/GB | Best suited for |
|---|---|---|
| NodeMaven | $2.75 | Account farms, IP quality |
| Webshare | $3.00 | Self-service, ISP lists |
| Proxyscrape | $1.50 | Steady scraping pipelines |
| BrightData | $5.00 | Enterprise data teams |
| Proxy Seller | $1.30 | Mixed proxy shopping lists |
| Evomi | $0.49 | Cheapest bulk traffic |
| ProxyEmpire | $1.50 | Wide geo, promo pricing |
| DataImpulse | $0.80 | Flat, predictable pricing |
| 2extract | $3.99 | Small volumes, no commitment |
| Novada | $0.78 | Largest pool, unlimited plans |
How we compare residential proxies
Comparisons only mean something inside one product type. A provider that sells five products has five different price floors, and a table that merges them tells you nothing about the thing you are actually buying. Everything on this page is compared inside residential proxies, and inside that type, at fixed volume steps. The steps matter because discount curves are shaped differently: NodeMaven drops from $5.00/GB at 5-8 GB to $2.75/GB at 1000 GB, while 2extract charges $3.99/GB no matter how much you buy. Comparing an entry tier of one provider with the bulk tier of another produces a ranking that reverses as soon as your volume changes.
Rotating and static residential proxies are also priced in different units, and mixing them is the most common error in proxy comparisons. Rotating traffic is billed per gigabyte: you get a gateway into a pool and pay for what passes through it. Static residential and ISP addresses are billed per IP per month with the address assigned to you. Webshare charges $2.10 per IP at 20-30 addresses and $1.47 at 2000-3000, and none of those numbers can be placed in the same column as $1/GB. If your task needs one address to stay the same for weeks, the per-GB tables on this page are the wrong tables, and static residential proxies are the product to look at.
One more trap: the cheapest number on a provider's price list is almost never the price of residential traffic. It is usually shared datacenter bandwidth, which costs several times less and behaves nothing like a residential IP on a protected target.
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. Same product, same steps: that is what makes the bars comparable.
Read it as a map of how far down each provider's cheapest product goes. The residential prices in the tables further down are substantially higher for nearly everyone on that chart, and for a few providers the gap between the catalog floor and the residential tier is close to tenfold.
The 10 best residential proxy providers in 2026
The sections below follow the order of the summary table, and each one covers the same three things: what residential traffic costs at real tiers, how wide the coverage is, and what it takes to test the service before committing money.
1. NodeMaven
Official website: https://nodemaven.com/
NodeMaven sits firmly in the premium half of the market. Rotating residential starts at $5.00/GB at 5-8 GB, holds $4.69/GB at 15-20 GB and $3.75/GB at 100-150 GB, and only reaches $2.75/GB at 1000 GB. On a 100 GB month that is $375, against $100 with DataImpulse at the same tier. The company was founded in 2023, operates from Estonia, and its residential and mobile networks share the same 102 countries and the same 30M+ pool.
What the price buys is filtering. NodeMaven's pitch is that addresses are checked before they reach you, and its position in our rating (4.97) and the user score of 5/5 reflect an audience that buys proxies for account work rather than for raw bandwidth. That is the profile where paying four to five dollars a gigabyte is rational: a banned account costs more than the traffic. There is a $3.50 trial, no money-back window, and the promo code in the card cuts the first order substantially, so the effective entry price is lower than the list price suggests.
Where it does not fit is bulk scraping. 102 countries is roughly half of what Webshare, Proxy Seller and ProxyEmpire advertise, and if your job is pulling millions of pages from mainstream markets, the extra per gigabyte buys you nothing you can measure. NodeMaven's ISP addresses are also priced at a flat $4.99/IP at every tier from 1 to 400-500 addresses, which is the highest static price in this list.
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 covers 195 countries for rotating residential with an 80M+ pool, and it is the most self-service oriented provider here: you configure, you buy, you get a list. Residential traffic is priced above the middle of the market, at $7/GB for a single gigabyte, $5.20/GB at 25-38 GB, $4.50/GB at 100-150 GB and $3/GB at 1000 GB. Compared with Proxyscrape at the same 1000 GB tier ($2/GB), a terabyte costs $1,000 more with Webshare.
The real strength is elsewhere in the catalog. ISP and static residential addresses run from $2.10/IP at 20-30 to $1.47/IP at 2000-3000, which is the cheapest static residential pricing in this comparison, and dedicated datacenter addresses go down to $0.77/IP at the top volume. If your workflow mixes a rotating pool with a stable list of addresses, Webshare covers both without a second vendor. Static coverage is narrower than rotating: 11 countries for ISP and static residential.
Webshare is also the only provider here with a user score below the top mark, 4.5/5 across the reviews on its page, and it offers a 48 hour refund window. Founded in 2018, operating from the United States.
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 covers 176 countries for rotating residential with a 120M+ pool, and its curve is the classic scraping shape: $4.85/GB at 5-8 GB, $4.25/GB at 40-60 GB, $3.50/GB at 100-150 GB, $2/GB at 1000 GB and $1.50/GB at 5000 GB. Below roughly 100 GB it is one of the more expensive options here; above a terabyte it becomes competitive with the mid-market. Belgium-based, founded in 2018, 4.88 in our rating.
Two things make it a natural fit for infrastructure that runs continuously. First, the discount curve keeps moving all the way to 5000 GB rather than flattening at a terabyte, so a pipeline whose volume grows keeps getting cheaper per unit. Second, there are unlimited residential plans, which change the arithmetic entirely once your monthly traffic passes the point where a per-gigabyte plan costs more than a fixed subscription. If unlimited is the model you want, unlimited residential plans are worth comparing across providers before you commit.
The refund window is 72 hours and a trial is available. Mobile coverage is only 3 countries, so treat Proxyscrape as a residential and datacenter vendor rather than a mobile one.
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 sells the most expensive residential traffic in this list: $8/GB pay-as-you-go, $7/GB at 100-150 GB, $6/GB at 250-350 GB and $5/GB from 700-850 GB upward. At 100 GB a month that is $700, seven times what DataImpulse charges at the same tier and more than fourteen times Evomi's price. The discount curve stops at $5/GB and does not move again no matter how much you buy, which means BrightData never becomes cheap at scale, it simply stops getting more expensive.
What that pays for is breadth and tooling: 181 countries for residential, mobile and datacenter alike, a 150M+ pool, 50 countries of ISP addresses at $4/IP falling to $2.50/IP at a thousand addresses, and an ecosystem of scraping products around the proxy network. Founded in 2014, operating from Israel, 4.85 in our rating. For a company with a data engineering team, a procurement process and compliance requirements, this is a defensible purchase.
For an individual it usually is not. There is no money-back window, the platform takes real time to learn, and the per-gigabyte price means every mistake in your configuration is expensive. If you are one person with a scraper and a budget, almost any other entry on this page delivers the same pages for a fraction of the cost.
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 been operating since 2014, out of Cyprus, and it is the widest catalog here after BrightData: 220 countries in the profile overall, 195 for rotating residential, 24 for ISP and static residential, 41 for datacenter, 21 for mobile. The pool is 20M+. Rotating residential runs $3.50/GB pay-as-you-go, $2.40/GB at 25-38 GB, $2.20/GB at 100-150 GB, $1.45/GB at 1000 GB and $1.30/GB at 3000 GB, which puts it in the lower middle of this list at every tier without ever being the cheapest.
The reason to buy here is usually not the residential price alone. It is that one account covers rotating residential, ISP at $2.91/IP for ten addresses down to $1.89/IP at a thousand, dedicated datacenter from $1.64/IP to $0.90/IP, individual IPv6 at $0.16/IP, and mobile. A team that needs four proxy types for four tasks spends less time on vendor management than it saves by shaving cents off one of them. Payments go through crypto, cards, PayPal and Volet, and there are SDKs for PHP, Python, Node.js, Java and GoLang alongside the API.
Entry is cheap: a $1.99 trial and a 24 hour refund window. The promo code in the card takes 10% off the order. Our rating is 4.99, the highest here, and users score it 5/5.
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 lowest residential price on this page and the narrowest residential footprint, and both facts matter equally. Rotating residential is $0.99/GB pay-as-you-go and stays $0.99/GB all the way to 40-60 GB, then drops to $0.49/GB from 100-150 GB and holds that price at 500-600, 1000, 2000 and 5000 GB. A terabyte costs $490. The same terabyte is $2,000 with Proxyscrape, $3,000 with Webshare and $5,000 with BrightData. Founded in 2014, operating from Switzerland, 4.89 in our rating.
Our own response-time check backs up the pricing: a median of 635 ms and a 90th percentile of 698 ms, with 8 of 8 requests succeeding. The refund window is 168 hours, the longest here, and a free trial is available, so there is essentially no cost to verifying this yourself before committing to volume.
The catch is coverage: 48 countries for rotating residential, against 176 to 195 for most of this list. Static residential and ISP addresses exist in only two countries, Germany and the United States, at $1/IP from 5 addresses upward, which is aggressive pricing inside a very small map. If your targets sit in Western Europe and North America, those 48 countries almost certainly cover the job, and everything else here is more expensive for no gain. If you need Vietnam or Nigeria, Evomi is not in the running regardless of price. For the broader picture on entry-level pricing, see our roundup of the cheapest rotating residential providers.
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 covers 195 countries for rotating residential and mobile, and 61 for rotating datacenter, on the smallest pool in this comparison at 9.5M+. Residential traffic is $3.50/GB pay-as-you-go, $2.85/GB at 5-8 GB, $2.67/GB at 25-38 GB, $2.22/GB at 100-150 GB and $1.50/GB from 1000 GB onward, where the curve flattens completely through 5000 GB. Founded in 2020, operating from Bulgaria, 4.85 in our rating.
One condition changes how you read all of that: those tier prices require the promo code shown in the card at checkout. Without it you pay list price, and the comparison against Proxy Seller or Novada goes the other way. Check the total before you confirm the order, every time, not just on the first purchase.
ProxyEmpire is also unusual in selling ISP and static residential per gigabyte rather than per IP, at $2.68/GB at 25-38 GB down to $1.50/GB at a terabyte, which makes it directly comparable to its own rotating product instead of to other vendors' per-IP pricing. Entry is a $1.97 trial; there is no refund window, so the trial is the only way to test before paying for a plan.
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 prices rotating residential at a flat $1/GB from 5-8 GB all the way through 700-850 GB, then $0.80/GB from 1000 GB. There is no ladder to climb and no tier to hit: 10 GB costs $10, 300 GB costs $300, and your first purchase is priced the same as your hundredth. Coverage is 190 countries on a 90M+ pool, with 179 countries for mobile and 122 for datacenter. Founded in 2023, operating from the United States, 4.9 in our rating and 5/5 from users.
Flat pricing is worth more than it looks when you are budgeting a project whose volume you cannot predict. With a stepped provider, an estimate that is off by a factor of three lands you in a different tier and rewrites the whole spreadsheet. Here the monthly bill is just the traffic multiplied by one. Against Proxy Seller at 25-38 GB the saving is $1.40/GB, and against Webshare at the same tier it is $4.20/GB, which on a 30 GB month is the difference between $30 and $156.
There is no trial, and that is the one friction point: the way in is the 168 hour refund window, which is generous but requires paying first. Rotating mobile is a flat $2/GB up to 850 GB and $1.60/GB above, and rotating datacenter is $0.50/GB flat, so the same predictability applies across the catalog.
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 that is the entire price list. Pay-as-you-go, 25-38 GB, 100-150 GB, 1000 GB: the same $3.99 everywhere, with no volume discount at all. Rotating mobile works the same way at $4.99/GB. Coverage is 195+ countries for residential and 107 for mobile, on a 10M+ pool. The company was founded in 2025 and operates from Singapore; our rating is 4.89.
For occasional work this is a clean proposition. There is no minimum tier to reach, no plan to size, and the promo code in the card takes 15% off the first order. Somebody who needs a few gigabytes across scattered countries pays $3.99 per gigabyte and nothing else, which is less than NodeMaven or Webshare charge at their entry tiers and less than half of BrightData's pay-as-you-go rate.
For anything at scale the arithmetic collapses. A terabyte costs $3,990 here, against $490 with Evomi and $800 with DataImpulse. There is no trial and no refund window either, so the first payment is the commitment. Buy small, verify the countries you need, and move volume elsewhere.
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 brings the largest pool in this comparison, 160M+ addresses across 191 countries for rotating residential and mobile, and prices traffic aggressively: $2.30/GB at 10-13 GB, $1.90/GB at 40-60 GB, $1.50/GB at 100-150 GB, $1.08/GB at 500-600 GB, $0.90/GB at 1000 GB and $0.78/GB at 3000 GB. That last figure is the second lowest residential price on this page, and it comes with coverage four times wider than Evomi's.
Unlimited residential plans are available as well, which is the alternative worth pricing once your monthly traffic gets large enough that per-gigabyte billing stops being the cheaper model. Static residential and ISP addresses cover 66 countries at $4.40/IP for ten falling to $2.35/IP at 400-500, and rotating datacenter runs $2.80/GB at 5-8 GB down to $0.55/GB at a terabyte. Payments include crypto, cards, AliPay, Paymentwall, Kakao Pay and Samsung Pay, which is the widest set here for buyers in Asia.
The reservation is age. Novada was founded in 2025, our rating is 4.82, and the refund window is 24 hours with no trial, so a serious commitment rests on a short verification period. Test the specific countries you care about inside that window rather than after it.
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
The tables below use the same three volume steps throughout so they can be read one under the other. Products billed in different units are separated: per-gigabyte traffic and per-IP monthly addresses live in different tables, because $1/GB and $1.47/IP answer different questions. An empty cell means the provider has no plan at that tier, not that the price is unknown.
Rotating residential proxies, $/GB
| Provider | 5-8 GB | 100-150 GB | 1000 GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| NodeMaven | $5.00 | $3.75 | $2.75 |
| Webshare | — | $4.50 | $3.00 |
| Proxyscrape | $4.85 | $3.50 | $2.00 |
| BrightData | — | $7.00 | $5.00 |
| Proxy Seller | — | $2.20 | $1.45 |
| Evomi | $0.99 | $0.49 | $0.49 |
| ProxyEmpire | $2.85 | $2.22 | $1.50 |
| DataImpulse | $1.00 | $1.00 | $0.80 |
| 2extract | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 |
| Novada | — | $1.50 | $0.90 |
Evomi is cheapest at every tier shown, and at 100 GB a month the gap against BrightData is $651 for the same nominal product. DataImpulse and Novada are the next two, and they matter because they hold near-Evomi pricing with roughly four times the country coverage: at 100 GB, Novada costs $101 more per month than Evomi and gives you 191 countries instead of 48.
Rotating mobile proxies, $/GB
| Provider | 5-8 GB | 100-150 GB | 1000 GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| NodeMaven | $5.00 | $3.75 | $2.75 |
| Proxyscrape | $4.85 | $3.50 | $2.00 |
| BrightData | — | $7.00 | $5.00 |
| Evomi | $3.75 | $3.20 | $2.60 |
| ProxyEmpire | $4.17 | $2.96 | $2.00 |
| DataImpulse | $2.00 | $2.00 | $1.60 |
| 2extract | $4.99 | $4.99 | $4.99 |
| Novada | $5.00 | $2.50 | $1.50 |
NodeMaven, BrightData and 2extract charge exactly the same for mobile as for residential or close to it, so switching IP type there costs nothing extra. Novada and DataImpulse have the narrowest absolute gap in dollars between their two products, which makes them the practical choice when a task genuinely needs carrier IPs; the full picture is in our mobile proxy rating.
Static residential and ISP proxies, $/IP per month
| Provider | 10 IPs | 50 IPs | 200-250 IPs |
|---|---|---|---|
| NodeMaven | $4.99 | $4.99 | $4.99 |
| Webshare | — | $1.89 | $1.68 |
| BrightData | $3.50 | $3.00 | $2.75 |
| Proxy Seller | $2.91 | $2.70 | $2.40 |
| Evomi | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Novada | $4.40 | $2.70 | $2.50 |
Evomi is flat and cheapest at every count, but only in Germany and the United States; from 50 addresses upward Webshare is the cheapest option with real geographic choice, across 11 countries, and Proxy Seller covers 24 countries for roughly a dollar more per address. These numbers cannot be compared with the per-gigabyte tables above: an address here is yours for a month regardless of how much traffic you push through it, so the right comparison is cost per account or per session, not cost per gigabyte.
Country coverage and pool size
Wide coverage is the default selling point in this market and the most commonly over-bought feature. A price monitoring project that touches Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States needs four countries, and paying a premium for 195 changes nothing about the result. That is exactly the case where Evomi's 48 countries at $0.49/GB beats a 195-country network at $2.20/GB: the coverage you are not using is not a feature. Coverage becomes decisive the moment your target list includes markets outside Western Europe and North America, or when a single missing country blocks the whole job. Rare geography also tends to mean fewer addresses in that specific country, which is where a large total pool starts to pay off, since a bigger pool usually means more distinct IPs behind any given location.
The chart below compares advertised country coverage and makes the two outliers obvious: everything from Proxyscrape upward sits in the same broad band, and only two providers are meaningfully narrower.
The practical reading is that coverage is not a differentiator among the top eight, so choosing between them on that basis is pointless; price and billing model decide. The two narrower networks trade geography for something concrete, and only you know whether that trade fits your target list. Pool sizes range from 9.5M+ with ProxyEmpire to 160M+ with Novada, and that difference matters most for high-concurrency scraping, where you want to avoid reusing an address you burned an hour ago.
What users say and what the ratings mean
User scores across this list are compressed near the top, and the reason is arithmetic rather than universal excellence. A 5/5 built from one or two reviews carries far less information than a 4.5/5 built from a larger sample, and several providers here have exactly one published review. Treat the score as a weak signal in either direction and put weight instead on things that do not average out: how long the company has operated, whether the refund window gives you time to test, and whether the price list changes shape when you apply a promo code.
Here is the distribution of user scores, and the useful takeaway is how little separates the providers rather than which bar is tallest.
Age is the more informative field. Proxy Seller, BrightData and Evomi have been operating since 2014, Webshare and Proxyscrape since 2018, ProxyEmpire since 2020, NodeMaven and DataImpulse since 2023, and Novada and 2extract only since 2025. That does not make the newcomers bad, and Novada's pricing and pool are genuinely competitive, but it does mean the shorter refund window they offer covers less of the risk.
Trials, refunds and how to test before you commit
Nobody should size a residential plan without running their own targets through the network first, and the providers here offer three different ways in. Paid trials: $3.50 with NodeMaven, $1.99 with Proxy Seller, $1.97 with ProxyEmpire, all cheap enough to be a rounding error against a month of traffic. Refund windows: 168 hours with Evomi and DataImpulse, 72 with Proxyscrape, 48 with Webshare, 24 with Proxy Seller and Novada. And neither: BrightData, ProxyEmpire and 2extract have no money-back window, so with 2extract in particular the first payment is the test.
DataImpulse is the interesting case, since it has no trial but the longest refund period, which means the way to evaluate it is to buy a small amount, run it hard for a few days and decide inside the week. One thing to settle before you pay anywhere: ask support how long purchased traffic stays valid, because an expiry date turns a cheap bulk tier into an expensive one if you cannot use the volume in time. If you want to test more broadly first, our roundup of providers offering a free trial lists the terms side by side.
Which one to pick
For high-volume scraping where cost per gigabyte dominates everything, Evomi at $0.49/GB from 100-150 GB is the answer if its 48 countries cover your targets, and Novada at $0.90/GB at 1000 GB is the answer if they do not, since it delivers 191 countries and the largest pool here. For a project whose monthly volume you cannot forecast, DataImpulse at a flat $1/GB removes tier arithmetic from the budget entirely.
For multi-accounting, where a blocked account costs more than the bandwidth, NodeMaven at $4.69/GB at 15-20 GB is the deliberate premium purchase, and the $3.50 trial makes it cheap to verify against your own platforms; our guide to proxies for multi-accounting covers the workflow side. For a narrow geographic task in a country that most networks barely cover, buy on coverage first and check Proxy Seller (195 countries for rotating residential, 220 in the profile overall) or ProxyEmpire, then compare prices only among the providers that actually have the location.
For long sessions on a fixed address, ignore the per-gigabyte tables and buy per IP: Webshare at $1.89/IP for 50 addresses across 11 countries, or Proxy Seller at $2.70/IP for the same count across 24. For a corporate setup where procurement, compliance and a full scraping toolchain matter more than the unit price, BrightData at $5/GB from 700 GB is the one built for that, and it is the wrong purchase for everybody else.
FAQ
- What is the difference between rotating and static residential proxies?
- Rotating proxies give you a gateway into a shared pool and change the exit IP on a schedule or per request, and they are billed per gigabyte. Static residential and ISP proxies assign a fixed address to you and are billed per IP per month, for example $1.89/IP for 50 addresses with Webshare. Rotating suits scraping, static suits long logged-in sessions.
- How much traffic does a typical task use, and how do I budget for it?
- Budget by multiplying your expected monthly gigabytes by the price at that tier, not at the entry tier. At 100 GB a month the same product costs $49 with Evomi, $100 with DataImpulse, $220 with Proxy Seller, $450 with Webshare and $700 with BrightData, so the provider choice matters more than shaving requests. Start with a trial or a small purchase, measure the traffic your job actually consumes, then buy the tier that fits.
- Why does the price per gigabyte fall as volume grows?
- Providers discount committed volume, so the same traffic costs less when you buy more of it upfront: NodeMaven goes from $5.00/GB at 5-8 GB to $2.75/GB at 1000 GB. Not everyone does this. 2extract charges $3.99/GB at every volume, and DataImpulse holds $1/GB up to 850 GB before dropping to $0.80/GB.
- Do I need a large IP pool?
- It matters for high-concurrency scraping, where a bigger pool means less chance of reusing an address that a target already blocked. Pools here run from 9.5M+ with ProxyEmpire to 160M+ with Novada. For low-volume account work with sticky sessions, pool size is far less important than IP quality and the country list.
- What do the promo codes cover?
- It depends on the provider and it changes the comparison. ProxyEmpire requires its code at checkout to reach the tier prices listed here, so without it you pay more. NodeMaven's code applies 35% to the first order, 2extract's gives 15% off the first order, Proxy Seller's gives 10% on the order, and Evomi's gives 5% on all plans except Core Residential. Check the total before confirming.
- Which providers offer a refund?
- Evomi and DataImpulse give 168 hours, Proxyscrape 72, Webshare 48, and Proxy Seller and Novada 24. BrightData, NodeMaven, ProxyEmpire and 2extract have no money-back window, so with those the trial, where one exists, is your only pre-purchase test.
- Can I test residential proxies before buying a plan?
- Yes, in three ways. Paid trials cost $3.50 with NodeMaven, $1.99 with Proxy Seller and $1.97 with ProxyEmpire. Evomi, Webshare, Proxyscrape and BrightData have a free trial available. With DataImpulse and Novada there is no trial, so testing means buying a small amount inside their refund windows of 168 and 24 hours.
- Does purchased traffic expire?
- Terms differ by provider, and it changes the value of a cheap bulk tier: unused gigabytes you cannot carry forward are money spent. Confirm the validity period with support before paying for a large volume.
