Last updated: 2026-08-12
Rotating residential proxies are the default tool for scraping, SERP tracking, price monitoring and affiliate work, because the exit IP changes while the traffic still looks like a home connection. They are also the product where the price spread inside a single catalog is the widest: on the same 100-150 GB step the range in this list runs from $0.49 to $7 per gigabyte, which is a fourteen-fold difference for a product described with the same three words on every landing page. That is what this page is for.
| Provider | Rotating residential, from | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| NodeMaven | $2.75/GB | Clean IPs, account work |
| Webshare | $3/GB | Free start, self-service |
| Proxyscrape | $1.50/GB | Large predictable scraping |
| BrightData | $5/GB | Enterprise API, hard targets |
| Proxy Seller | $1.30/GB | Cheap paid test, mixed needs |
| Evomi | $0.49/GB | Lowest cost per gigabyte |
| ProxyEmpire | $1.50/GB | Mid-range with promo pricing |
| DataImpulse | $0.80/GB | Flat cheap pricing, no tiers |
| 2extract | $3.99/GB | Tiny volumes, one price |
| Novada | $0.78/GB | Big pool, wide geography |
How we compared rotating residential proxies
Five things decide this purchase, and all five are comparable across providers. First, price per gigabyte at three fixed steps: 40-60 GB for account farming and small scraping jobs, 100-150 GB for a working scraper, 1000 GB for production volume. Second, country coverage, because a plan is worthless if the country you need is missing. Third, how you can test: free access, a cheap paid trial, or a refund window. Fourth, the promo code, since on some grids the advertised price only exists with it. Fifth, the average score users left, which mostly rules out the obviously broken rather than picks a winner.
Rotation is the point of this product: the exit address changes, so rate limits and per-IP bans hit a different address each time. If your task instead needs the same address held for weeks, for example a long-lived account or a service that flags every IP change, a rotating pool is the wrong purchase and static residential proxies are the right one. For scraping-specific setup and target advice there is a separate page on proxies for web scraping.
Country coverage used to separate providers, and it no longer does, with one clear exception at the bottom of the chart.
Nine of the ten list almost the whole world, so geography only becomes a real filter for one provider in this comparison, and only if you need a country outside its list.
Top 10 rotating residential proxy providers in 2026
Each section below gives the grid at the volume steps that matter, who the provider actually fits, and what it costs to test.
1. NodeMaven
Official website: https://nodemaven.com/
NodeMaven sells filtered residential traffic: the pool is 30M+ addresses across 195 countries, which is small next to the biggest networks here, and the pitch is that the addresses handed to you have been checked first. In practice that is the argument for using it on account work and on targets that reject recycled IPs, rather than on bulk crawling where a failed request costs almost nothing.
The grid starts at $5.31/GB for 2 GB and falls to $5 at 5-8 GB, $4.69 at 15-20 GB, $3.98 at 40-60 GB, $3.75 at 100-150 GB, $3.56 at 200 GB and $2.75 at 1000 GB. Pay-as-you-go runs $3.06-6.25/GB. Testing costs $3.50, and there is no refund window, so the trial is the only way in. The promo code in the card takes 35% off a first order, which matters most on the first large plan rather than on a $20 top-up.
Where it stops making sense is high volume with a tight budget. At 1000 GB NodeMaven asks $2.75/GB against $0.80/GB at DataImpulse, which is $2,750 versus $800 for the same terabyte. If your targets tolerate an ordinary pool, that gap buys nothing. Rating on our site is 4.97 and users rated it 5 out of 5.
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 built around self-service: you configure the plan yourself, the dashboard is the simplest of the ten, and there is free access before you pay anything. The residential pool is 80M+ addresses across 195 countries, and the company has been running since 2018 from the United States.
Pricing is the steepest of the mainstream options here: $7/GB for 1 GB, $5.50 at 10-13 GB, $5.20 at 25-38 GB, $4.90 at 40-60 GB, $4.50 at 100-150 GB, $4 at 250-350 GB, $3.50 at 500-600 GB and $3 at 1000 GB. Only BrightData is more expensive at the top of the scale. What you get for it is a free tier to check integration, a 48-hour refund window, and three payment methods including Google Pay and Apple Pay.
It is also the only provider in this list whose user score sits below 5, at 4.5 out of 5, while our own rating is 4.89. Take Webshare if the free start and the dashboard are worth paying a premium per gigabyte; if you already know your volume, the same 100-150 GB costs $4.50/GB here and $1/GB at DataImpulse, which is $675 versus $150 on 150 GB.
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 is a scraping-first provider, and its grid is shaped accordingly: expensive at the entry point, competitive once the volume is real. Small plans cost $4.85/GB at 5-8 GB, $4.75 at 10-13 GB, $4.50 at 15-20 GB and $4.25 at 40-60 GB. From there it drops hard: $3.50 at 100-150 GB, $3.25 at 250-350 GB, $2.75 at 500-600 GB, $2.50 at 700-850 GB, $2 at 1000 GB, $1.85 at 2000 GB, $1.70 at 3000 GB and $1.50 at 5000 GB.
The pool is 120M+ addresses and the rotating residential product lists 176 countries, the second narrowest coverage in this comparison but still wide enough for almost any target list. There is free access to try it and a 72-hour refund window, which is longer than most, and five payment methods including AliPay and crypto.
This is a provider for someone who knows their monthly volume and it is large. Under 60 GB a month you are paying near the top of the market for no reason; at 5000 GB the price per gigabyte is a quarter of what NodeMaven charges at 1000 GB. Our rating is 4.88.
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 is the enterprise end of this list: a 150M+ pool, 181 countries on the rotating residential product, 195 countries claimed overall, an API-heavy platform and a developer-oriented dashboard. It has been in business since 2014 and it prices like an infrastructure vendor rather than a proxy shop.
Pay-as-you-go is $8/GB. Committed plans go $7/GB at 100-150 GB and 200 GB, $6 at 250-350 GB and 500-600 GB, and $5 from 700-850 GB all the way to 5000 GB. There is no volume step below 100-150 GB and no refund window, though free access is available to evaluate the platform.
The arithmetic is worth doing before you sign. A 100 GB month costs $700 here, $100 at DataImpulse and $49 at Evomi. That premium is defensible when you need the API surface, the compliance paperwork, contractual support and the hardest targets to keep working; it is indefensible when you are pulling public catalog pages. Note that the platform restricts some destinations until KYC is completed, so plan for that step if your targets are sensitive. Our rating is 4.85 and users rated it 5 out of 5.
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 selling proxies since 2014 and carries the highest rating on our site in this group, 4.99, with 5 out of 5 from users. Its rotating residential product covers 195 countries out of the 220 the company advertises overall, with a 20M+ pool, and it sits in the middle of the price range rather than at either extreme.
The grid: $3.50/GB pay-as-you-go and at 1 GB, $3 at 3 GB, $2.50 at 10-13 GB, $2.40 at 25-38 GB, $2.30 at 40-60 GB, $2.20 at 100-150 GB, $2.10 at 200 GB, $2 at 250-350 GB, $1.70 at 500-600 GB, $1.50 at 700-850 GB, $1.45 at 1000 GB and $1.30 at 3000 GB. A test costs $1.99, the refund window is 24 hours, and the promo code in the card takes 10% off the order. There are four payment methods and six SDKs plus the API, which is unusual at this price point.
If your work keeps one identity on one address for weeks at a time, the rotating pool is not the cheaper answer, and the ISP proxy grid is a better place to compare. For everything that benefits from a fresh IP per request, Proxy Seller is the safe middle choice: never the cheapest column in the table below, never far from it either.
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 is the cheapest rotating residential option in this comparison and by a wide margin. Pay-as-you-go is $0.99/GB, the same $0.99 holds at 5-8 GB, 25-38 GB and 40-60 GB, and from 100-150 GB upward the price is a flat $0.49/GB through 500-600 GB, 1000 GB, 2000 GB and 5000 GB. A 150 GB month therefore costs $73.50, which is less than a single 20 GB plan at several providers above.
Cheap usually means untested, so we measured it: 8 out of 8 requests succeeded, median response time was 635 ms and the 90th percentile 698 ms. The refund window is the longest here at 168 hours, free access is available, there are seven payment methods including Apple Pay, Google Pay, WeChat Pay and Twint, and the company operates from Switzerland with a 100M+ pool. The promo code in the card gives 5% off plans outside the Core Residential tier.
The one real limitation is geography: the rotating residential product lists 48 countries, against roughly 180 to 195 at everyone else. If your target list is Europe, North America and the main Asian markets, that is not a constraint. If you need a specific country outside that list, this is the single reason in the whole article to pay someone else four times as much. Our rating is 4.89, users rated it 5 out of 5.
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 runs a 9.5M+ pool, the smallest in this list, across 195 countries on the rotating residential product. It has been operating since 2020 from Bulgaria and positions itself on ethically sourced traffic and granular targeting.
Prices: $3.50/GB pay-as-you-go and at 1 GB, $2.85 at 5-8 GB, $2.67 at 25-38 GB, $2.50 at 40-60 GB, $2.22 at 100-150 GB, $1.98 at 250-350 GB, $1.75 at 500-600 GB and a flat $1.50 from 1000 GB through 5000 GB. One thing to be clear about: those are the prices that apply with the promo code shown in the card, so enter it at checkout or you will pay a different number than the one you read here.
A test costs $1.97 and there is no refund window, which makes the paid trial the only safe way to find out whether a 9.5M pool is deep enough for your targets. On the 100-150 GB step ProxyEmpire and Proxy Seller are within two cents of each other, so the choice between them comes down to the trial, the refund and the pool size rather than the price. Our rating is 4.85.
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 removes the volume tier from the decision entirely. Rotating residential costs $1/GB at every step from 5-8 GB through 700-850 GB, and $0.80/GB from 1000 GB up to 5000 GB; pay-as-you-go is quoted at $0.80-1.00/GB. There is nothing to optimise: you buy what you need and the unit price is the same whether that is 10 GB or 800 GB.
The pool is 90M+ across 190 countries on this product, the refund window is 168 hours, and there are three payment methods including crypto and AliPay. Free access is not offered, so the 168-hour refund is your test window: buy the smallest plan, run your real targets, and decide inside the week.
Who it is for: anyone whose monthly volume moves around. If you spend 30 GB one month and 400 GB the next, a tiered grid punishes the small months, and here it does not. Only Evomi and Novada beat it on price at the high end, and Evomi does so with much narrower coverage. Our rating is 4.9, users rated it 5 out of 5.
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 launched in 2025 and sells rotating residential traffic at a single flat price: $3.99/GB, identical at pay-as-you-go, 2 GB, 40-60 GB, 100-150 GB, 500-600 GB and 1000 GB. It is the only grid in this comparison with no volume discount at all.
That has one honest advantage. At 2-3 GB, $3.99/GB is competitive with the small-plan prices at Webshare, Proxyscrape and NodeMaven, and cheaper than BrightData's pay-as-you-go. Past about a hundred gigabytes it is the most expensive option in the table except BrightData: at 1000 GB you would pay $3,990 against $490 at Evomi.
The pool is 10M+ across 195+ countries, there is no trial and no refund window, and payment is card or AliPay only. The promo code in the card takes 15% off a first order, which softens the entry but not the trajectory. Treat 2extract as a small-volume or short-project provider: convenient, predictable, and not where a scraper with real traffic should live. Our rating is 4.89.
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 is new, founded in 2025, and brings the largest pool in this comparison: 160M+ addresses, with 191 countries on the rotating residential product. That combination of a big network and wide geography at low prices is rare.
The grid: $2.30/GB at 10-13 GB, $1.90 at 40-60 GB, $1.50 at 100-150 GB, $1.32 at 250-350 GB, $1.08 at 500-600 GB, $0.90 at 1000 GB and $0.78 at 3000 GB. On the terabyte step only Evomi is cheaper, and Evomi covers 48 countries against Novada's 191. There are six payment methods, including Kakao Pay and Samsung Pay, which matters if you are paying from Korea or China.
The catch is the testing path: no trial, and a 24-hour refund window, the shortest here alongside Proxy Seller. You get one day to point it at your real targets and decide, so plan the test before you buy rather than after. Our rating is 4.82, users rated it 5 out of 5.
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: Rotation Residential Proxies, $/GB
| Provider | 40-60 GB | 100-150 GB | 1000 GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| NodeMaven | $3.98 | $3.75 | $2.75 |
| Webshare | $4.90 | $4.50 | $3.00 |
| Proxyscrape | $4.25 | $3.50 | $2.00 |
| BrightData | - | $7.00 | $5.00 |
| Proxy Seller | $2.30 | $2.20 | $1.45 |
| Evomi | $0.99 | $0.49 | $0.49 |
| ProxyEmpire | $2.50 | $2.22 | $1.50 |
| DataImpulse | $1.00 | $1.00 | $0.80 |
| 2extract | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 |
| Novada | $1.90 | $1.50 | $0.90 |
The market splits into three bands: under a dollar and a half, roughly two to two and a half, and four and above. The band you land in matters little at 40 GB, where the whole table fits inside a few hundred dollars a month, and matters enormously past a hundred gigabytes, where the same traffic can cost $73.50 or $1,050.
The gap between the cheapest and the most expensive offer widens as volume grows instead of closing, which is the opposite of what volume discounts are supposed to do.
Read it as a warning about commitment: picking the wrong band on a small plan costs pocket money, and picking it on a production plan costs more than a developer's monthly salary.
What the price difference looks like per month
Case one: catalog scraping at 100-150 GB a month. Say your crawler pulls 120 GB of product pages. At Evomi's $0.49/GB that is $58.80. At DataImpulse's flat $1/GB it is $120. Novada's $1.50/GB makes it $180, NodeMaven's $3.75/GB makes it $450, and BrightData's $7/GB makes it $840. The cheapest and the most expensive answer to the same job differ by $781 a month, or over $9,000 a year. That difference is only justified if the expensive provider actually returns pages the cheap one cannot, which is exactly what you test during a trial, not after.
Case two: account work at 40-60 GB a month. Account farming and multi-accounting burn far less traffic but punish dirty IPs, so here the premium can pay for itself. At 50 GB: Evomi costs $49.50, DataImpulse $50, Novada $95, Proxy Seller $115, ProxyEmpire $125, NodeMaven $199 and Webshare $245. The step from a dollar-a-gigabyte provider to NodeMaven is about $150 a month at this volume, and one flagged account usually costs more than that to rebuild. Testing both is cheap: NodeMaven's trial is $3.50, Proxy Seller's is $1.99 and ProxyEmpire's is $1.97, so under ten dollars buys you three real comparisons at your own targets. For the account side of this workload there is a dedicated page on proxies for multi-accounting.
One thing to settle before you pay in either case: ask how long unused traffic stays on your balance, because plans differ on whether it rolls over or expires with the billing month.
Trials, refunds and how to test before paying
- Free access: Webshare, Proxyscrape, BrightData and Evomi let you evaluate without paying first.
- Paid trial: NodeMaven at $3.50, Proxy Seller at $1.99, ProxyEmpire at $1.97.
- Nothing up front: DataImpulse, 2extract and Novada, so your only lever is the refund window, and 2extract does not have one.
- Refund windows: 168 hours at Evomi and DataImpulse, 72 hours at Proxyscrape, 48 hours at Webshare, 24 hours at Proxy Seller and Novada, none at NodeMaven, BrightData, ProxyEmpire or 2extract.
Test on your own targets, not on a speed test page, and record two numbers: the share of requests that return the page you expect, and the response time distribution rather than the average. Our own check of Evomi returned 8 successful requests out of 8 with a 635 ms median and 698 ms at the 90th percentile, and that pair of numbers is what you want from every candidate before committing to a plan. If a provider looks fine on a hundred requests and falls apart on ten thousand, you want to discover that inside a 168-hour refund window rather than in month two. Our step-by-step guide on setting up rotating residential proxies covers the rotation and session settings worth checking during that test.
User scores are the weakest signal in this comparison, and the chart shows why.
With almost everyone bunched at the top, ratings only tell you nobody here is broken; the decision comes down to price per gigabyte and country coverage.
Which one to take
Lowest cost per gigabyte, and your countries are in Europe, North America or major Asian markets: Evomi. Cheap and global at the same time, with the biggest pool here: Novada, if you can do your testing inside a 24-hour refund window. Volume that swings month to month and no desire to think about tiers: DataImpulse. Account work where a burned identity costs more than the traffic: NodeMaven. Enterprise contracts, API depth and the hardest targets: BrightData. Starting from nothing and wanting to see the dashboard before paying: Webshare. Large predictable scraping with a known monthly figure: Proxyscrape. A middle-of-the-road option with a $1.99 test and SDKs for most languages: Proxy Seller. Mid-range pricing with promo-based grids: ProxyEmpire. A handful of gigabytes for a short project, one price, no math: 2extract.
FAQ
- What is the difference between rotating and static residential proxies?
- Rotating residential proxies give you a new exit IP from a shared pool, per request or per session, which is what you want against rate limits and per-IP bans. Static residential addresses stay the same for weeks and are billed per IP per month instead of per gigabyte, which suits long-lived accounts and services that flag IP changes.
- Why does the price per gigabyte range from $0.49 to $8?
- Because the product name hides very different offers. At the bottom, Evomi charges $0.49/GB from 100-150 GB upward and DataImpulse $0.80/GB at 1000 GB. At the top, BrightData charges $8/GB pay-as-you-go and $7/GB at 100-150 GB, and that price buys an enterprise API platform and support rather than raw bandwidth.
- Who is cheapest at 1000 GB?
- Evomi at $0.49/GB, then 2extract's flat grid is the opposite extreme at $3.99/GB. Between them: DataImpulse $0.80, Novada $0.90, Proxy Seller $1.45, ProxyEmpire $1.50, Proxyscrape $2, NodeMaven $2.75, Webshare $3 and BrightData $5.
- Which providers let me test without paying?
- Webshare, Proxyscrape, BrightData and Evomi offer free access. NodeMaven charges $3.50 for a trial, Proxy Seller $1.99 and ProxyEmpire $1.97. DataImpulse, 2extract and Novada have no trial, so with them you rely on the refund window, and 2extract has none.
- Does country coverage still matter when choosing?
- Rarely. Proxy Seller, Webshare, NodeMaven, ProxyEmpire and 2extract list 195 countries, Novada 191, DataImpulse 190, BrightData 181 and Proxyscrape 176. The one exception is Evomi at 48 countries: cheapest per gigabyte, but check your target countries against its list before buying.
- Does unused traffic expire?
- It depends on the plan, and the answer changes the real cost if your volume is uneven. Confirm the retention period with the provider before you pay, especially on large prepaid plans.
- Do I need a promo code to get the listed prices?
- With ProxyEmpire, yes: the grid prices apply when the code is entered at checkout. Elsewhere codes are discounts on top, for example 35% off a first order at NodeMaven, 10% at Proxy Seller, 15% at 2extract and 5% on most Evomi plans. All active codes are shown in the provider cards above.
- Are rotating residential proxies legal to use?
- Using them is legal in most jurisdictions; what you do through them is what is regulated. Collecting publicly available data, verifying ads and testing geo-targeted content are ordinary business tasks. Bypassing authentication, breaching a contract you accepted or handling personal data without a legal basis is not, whatever proxy you use.
