The Best Residential Proxy Providers in 2026

Buy Bright Data when the site rejects a datacenter address and you can wait for a compliance review.

The coupon lasts 3 months, and the invoice after that is the higher card, so a yearly forecast on the discount alone comes up short.

Oxylabs is the self-serve pool with a buy button, if you can accept the categories it will not serve.

Decodo is for a USD total before a sales call, and the wrong page if tax must already be inside it.

IPRoyal fits a paused scrape because unused traffic does not expire, and mid-size months have no printed price.

SOAX fits a US exit that needs that country's rate, because the cheap column is other countries.

Toolradar data: the directory homepage lists 10,680+ tools across 401+ categories, checked 24 September 2026.

Residential bandwidth is not its own shelf there, so open Bright Data, Oxylabs, Decodo, and NodeMaven, then use the ladders below for the gigabyte rate.

How we ranked: seven providers, each read on the vendor's own pricing page on 24 September 2026.

The order follows the published dollar rate for a production scrape, what a gigabyte includes, and whether the cheap line needs a coupon, a 10 TB commit, or a sales call.

A managed fetch is a different bill from these per-GB pools.

That job is the web scraping tools guide and the Firecrawl review.

A residential proxy sends your request out through an IP an ISP assigned to a household connection, so the site sees a consumer address instead of a server.

Datacenter proxies cost less and get blocked more often, so they are the wrong buy on defended targets.

ISP proxies are sold per IP, not per GB, so that invoice is different.

The bill is almost always bandwidth in both directions, so headers and the body both count.

Bright Data includes request headers, POST bodies, response headers, and response data, so a retry inflates the gigabyte.

SOAX counts partial responses, retries, and interrupted connections, and defines a GB as one billion bytes.

Sticky sessions keep one IP for a login flow, and rotating sessions change the IP per request for a public crawl. A rotating exit breaks a login that expects the same address.

Country, city, and ZIP targeting is included on the leaders here, so treat it as already in the price.

A 100 GB month is a different company on each ladder. On Decodo that volume is the $275 plan, a card you can hand to finance.

On Oxylabs it sits between the $100 plan and the $500 plan, so you buy the larger card or you top up.

On IPRoyal the public cards stop at 10 GB and resume at 10 TB, so a 100 GB job has no printed rung.

Devshot data: 28,000 developer readers get this brief, and the audience file updated 20 September 2026 puts the open rate at 30%.

They compare a gigabyte the way they compare a cloud bill, so a coupon with no end date is the month-four mistake. Later sticker changes land in the Devshot brief for the next rate check.

Pair the pool with something that tells you the job failed, because a silent retry is a missed row and extra bandwidth.

The monitoring tools guide and the Datadog review cover the log invoice, which grows when a scraper retries.

A datacenter VPS, covered in the DigitalOcean review, is not a substitute, because a site that blocks servers will block that VPS too.

Geo checks on your own API belong with API testing tools, and the gateway in front is a separate buy in the API gateways guide.

Budget the rate that survives month four, because the coupon will not defend the later invoice.

Bright Data bills in USD, RESIGB50 is 50% off for 3 months, and the coupon bills are $499/mo, $999/mo, and $1,999/mo, with anything above 1 TB on a quote.

Decodo's FAQ, excluding VAT, prices 100 GB at $275/mo, 250 GB at $625/mo, and 1 TB at $2,000/mo, which is the cost of a real month.

Oxylabs prints monthly totals of $100, $500, and $2,500 beside Starter, takes wires in dollars or euros, and says VAT may apply.

A US exit on SOAX is tier 1, so the Enterprise line from $0.85/GB is not the Sandbox column.

IPRoyal's floors start at 10 TB, so that headline does not price a pilot.

NodeMaven's 1,000 GB monthly rung is $2.20/GB against $2.45/GB on pay as you go, a gap that matters only at that volume.

Rayobyte's Consumer band is $2/GB, verified on each vendor's pricing page, September 2026.