# Cheapest Residential Proxies

Residential proxies sorted by list price — and what that list price leaves out.

Source: https://proxycompare.io/cheapest-residential-proxies/
Figures quoted for protected targets at 250,000 pages a month.
Success rates and latency on this site are estimates rather than measured results. Prices are taken from each provider's published pricing page.
Proxy Compare is run by Scrape.do, which is shown at the top of every list. No other provider pays for placement or ranking.

This page sorts residential providers by advertised price, lowest first. It is the comparison most buyers start with, and it is the one most likely to lead them to the wrong provider. Residential proxies are billed by bandwidth, and bandwidth meters run whether a request succeeds or not, so the price on the sheet is a floor rather than a total.

Use this ordering to see the market's price range, then switch to the effective cost view to see what those prices turn into once blocked traffic is counted. Providers move position between the two views, sometimes dramatically. The ones that hold their place near the top of both are the genuinely cheap ones.

## Ranking

| # | Provider | Billing | List price / 1k | Success rate | Effective / 1k delivered | Rating |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Scrape.do | Per successful request | $0.11 | 97.8% (est.) | $0.11 | 4.8/5 (69 on trustpilot) |
| 2 | IPRoyal | Per GB, never expires | $0.73 | 90.6% (est.) | $0.80 | not rated |
| 3 | Infatica | Per GB, blocks included | $0.92 | 89.8% (est.) | $1.02 | 3.3/5 (31 on trustpilot) |
| 4 | Decodo | Per GB, blocks included | $1.08 | 94.4% (est.) | $1.15 | 4.2/5 (2091 on trustpilot) |
| 5 | Massive | Per GB, blocks included | $1.21 | 92.1% (est.) | $1.31 | 3.7/5 (1 on trustpilot) |
| 6 | Ake.net | Per GB, pay as you go | $1.25 | 93.8% (est.) | $1.33 | 4.2/5 (110 on trustpilot) |
| 7 | Asocks | Per GB | $1.25 | 93.8% (est.) | $1.33 | 3.1/5 (469 on trustpilot) |
| 8 | ProxyShare | Per GB | $1.25 | 93.8% (est.) | $1.33 | 3.5/5 (9 on trustpilot) |
| 9 | Databay | Per GB, pay as you go | $1.25 | 93.8% (est.) | $1.33 | 3.5/5 (6 on trustpilot) |
| 10 | SOAX | Per GB, blocks included | $1.50 | 93.5% (est.) | $1.60 | 3.4/5 (149 on trustpilot) |
| 11 | NetNut | Per GB, blocks included | $1.62 | 94.0% (est.) | $1.73 | 3.7/5 (95 on trustpilot) |
| 12 | Oxylabs | Per GB, blocks included | $1.67 | 96.2% (est.) | $1.73 | 4.0/5 (766 on trustpilot) |
| 13 | SimplyNode | Per GB | $1.67 | 93.8% (est.) | $1.78 | 4.2/5 (14 on trustpilot) |
| 14 | Bright Data | Per GB, blocks included | $1.75 | 96.8% (est.) | $1.81 | 4.3/5 (1022 on trustpilot) |
| 15 | AnyIP | Per GB | $2.08 | 93.8% (est.) | $2.22 | 4.8/5 (58 on trustpilot) |
| 16 | NodeMaven | Per GB, pay as you go | $2.08 | 93.8% (est.) | $2.22 | 3.7/5 (116 on trustpilot) |
| 17 | Geonode | Per GB | $2.25 | 93.8% (est.) | $2.40 | 4.6/5 (188 on trustpilot) |
| 18 | Byteful | Per GB | $2.50 | 93.8% (est.) | $2.67 | 4.6/5 (200 on trustpilot) |
| 19 | Proxy Empire | Per GB, pay as you go | $2.92 | 93.8% (est.) | $3.11 | 4.5/5 (107 on trustpilot) |
| 20 | Live Proxies | Per GB | $5.42 | 93.8% (est.) | $5.78 | 4.2/5 (839 on trustpilot) |

Effective cost is the list price divided by the share of requests that come back with usable HTML. A bandwidth plan bills blocked responses, a per request plan does not.

## What drives the price of residential proxies

### Why residential costs what it does

The provider is paying for every gigabyte you use. Behind each address is a real consumer connection, and the person or application sharing it is being compensated in cash, in rewards, or in free access to something. That cost does not go away at volume the way server bandwidth does, which is why residential pricing starts around a dollar a gigabyte at the aggressive end and runs past ten at the premium end.

The spread between providers reflects pool size, sourcing quality, targeting granularity and how much of the price is a promotion that will expire. It does not reliably reflect success rate, which is the number that determines what you actually pay per delivered page.

### Where the cheap end cuts corners

Pool overlap is the most common issue. Several budget providers resell access to the same underlying networks, so switching between them can leave you on largely the same addresses with the same block history. If two providers are suspiciously close in price and both are new, this is worth checking before you buy both.

Targeting is the second. A headline rate often covers country-level targeting only, with city, region, ASN or carrier selection sold as an add-on. If your work needs local-level data, the cheap plan may not be cheap once you add what you need.

Session control is the third. Short maximum session durations or unreliable stickiness will break any flow involving a login or a cart, and this limitation rarely appears on the pricing page.

### Promotional pricing and how to read it

A large share of the low prices in this category are introductory. Fifty percent off for three months, a first-deposit match, a capped promotional rate that reverts once you pass a volume threshold. These are real savings and worth taking, but they are not the price you will be paying in month four.

Where a provider's list price and promotional price both exist, this site shows the list price, because that is the number your budget has to survive. The coupon code appears on the card so you can apply it, and the plan details show what the committed tiers cost if your volume justifies one.

### Buying cheaply without regretting it

Test against your hardest target, not an easy one. Residential pools differ most where the defences are strongest, and a pool that handles a simple site fine may collapse on the one you actually care about.

Check whether unused bandwidth expires. Some providers roll it forward, some let it sit indefinitely, most delete it at the end of the billing period. For variable workloads that single term can matter more than the per-gigabyte rate.

And measure your own success rate during the trial rather than trusting the advertised one. Every success-rate figure published in this market, including the ones on this site, is an estimate unless it comes with a stated methodology and sample size. Your own measurement against your own target is the only number that is definitely about you.