# IPRoyal Alternative: $1/GB vs $7.35/GB | QuantumProxies.io

IPRoyal vs QuantumProxies, side by side: residential proxies at $1.00/GB against IPRoyal's $7.35/GB pay-as-you-go, and $0.80/GB at 1 TB with no 10 TB tier.

## IPRoyal vs QuantumProxies: The Cheaper IPRoyal Alternative

IPRoyal sells rotating residential proxies at $7.35 per GB pay-as-you-go, and its lowest rate, $1.75 per GB, needs a 10 TB subscription. QuantumProxies Residential Basic is $1.00 per GB and $0.80 at 1 TB, with no subscription: the same rotating and sticky residential sessions for under a seventh of the entry price.

## The verdict: QuantumProxies

On rotating residential bandwidth, QuantumProxies costs less per gigabyte at every size IPRoyal publishes, from a single gigabyte to its 10 TB tier. The features both providers list match, and Residential Basic adds ASN targeting.

- 7.35 times cheaper to start: $1.00/GB against $7.35/GB pay-as-you-go.
- At 10 GB: $1.00/GB against $5.51/GB pay-as-you-go, or $5.25 on subscription.
- Our $0.80/GB needs a 1 TB purchase; IPRoyal's $1.75/GB needs a 10 TB subscription.
- Country, state, city and ASN targeting, rotating and sticky sessions, HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 on every plan.

## IPRoyal vs QuantumProxies: what a residential gigabyte costs

| What you actually pay | QuantumProxies Residential Basic | IPRoyal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Entry price per GB | $1.00 / GB | $7.35 / GB |
| Minimum to start | $5 (5 GB, no subscription) | $7.35 (1 GB, pay-as-you-go rate) |
| Pay-as-you-go without a plan | Yes | Yes |
| Cheapest advertised rate | $0.80 / GB | $1.75 / GB |
| What that cheapest rate requires | A 1 TB purchase ($800). No monthly contract. | a 10 TB (10,000 GB) subscription |

Competitor prices verified 2026-09-08. IPRoyal figures are advertised list prices for rotating residential proxies from its public residential pricing page, recorded in our residential proxy pricing index on the verification date shown above; we read the page again on 26 October 2026 and the prices were unchanged. IPRoyal's static ISP, datacenter and mobile proxies are priced separately. QuantumProxies figures are from our live plan catalogue. All prices in USD, excluding VAT.

## IPRoyal vs QuantumProxies, feature by feature

Price is where the two providers differ most, but it is not all a buyer checks. These are the other things both publish for rotating residential proxies, each taken from the provider's own pages.

| What each provider publishes | QuantumProxies Residential Basic | IPRoyal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Locations | 200+ countries | 195+ countries |
| Targeting | Country, state, city and ASN | Country, state and city |
| Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 |
| Sessions | Rotating and sticky | Rotating and sticky |
| Concurrent sessions | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Rate at 10 GB | $1.00 / GB | $5.51 / GB pay-as-you-go, $5.25 on subscription |

IPRoyal column read from its residential proxies page on 26 October 2026, which lists targeting by country, state and city; the provider is named here, not linked. QuantumProxies column from our Residential Basic page. These are published features, not the result of an independent test.

## Other IPRoyal alternatives, compared on price

Switching away from IPRoyal usually means shortlisting three or four providers, not one. This is the rest of our pricing index: every residential provider we track, the rate a new account pays, the cheapest rate each one advertises, and what that cheapest rate costs to unlock. We name them and we do not link to them — the index itself records a source page for every figure, so any of it can be checked without taking our word for it.

| Provider | Pay-as-you-go per GB | Cheapest advertised rate | Minimum to start |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| QuantumProxies — Residential Basic | $1.00 | $0.80 | $5 minimum, no subscription |
| DataImpulse | $1.00 | $0.80 | $5 (5 GB); $0.8/GB from 1 TB, custom pricing from 5 TB |
| PacketStream | $1.00 | $1.00 | $50 minimum purchase, no subscription, balance never expires (single flat rate) |
| Webshare | $3.50 | $1.40 | monthly plan, no PAYG top-up (1 GB plan at $3.50/GB); $1.40 tier requires a 3,000 GB/mo plan |
| Proxy-Seller | $3.50 | $2.20 | $220/mo (100 GB plan) for $2.20/GB; page advertises 'From $1.30/GB' for custom/enterprise volumes via sales ('save up to 30% on large projects') |
| Decodo | $4.00 | $2.00 | $11.25/mo (3 GB at $3.75/GB); $2.00 tier requires the 1,000 GB/mo enterprise plan |
| SOAX | $5.00 | $0.85 | none (Sandbox $0/mo at $5.00/GB); $0.85 tier requires the $3,000/mo Enterprise plan |
| NodeMaven | $5.00 | $2.20 | none (PAYG from 2 GB at $5.00/GB); $2.20 tier requires the 1,000 GB monthly plan (PAYG 1,000 GB is $2.45/GB) |
| ProxyEmpire | $7.00 | $3.00 | none (PAYG 1 GB); $3.00/GB list ($1.50 with EMPIRE50) requires the 1,000 GB Enterprise plan at $3,000/mo list ($1,500 promo); custom 5 TB+ 'From $0.75/GB' |
| Bright Data | $8.00 | $2.50 | none (PAYG) / $1,999-mo (798 GB plan) for $2.50 tier |
| Oxylabs | No pay-as-you-go rate | $2.50 | no PAYG; $30/mo (5 GB Starter at $6/GB); $2.50 tier requires $2,500/mo (1 TB Corporate) |

Competitor prices verified 2026-09-08. Sorted by pay-as-you-go rate, lowest first. That is an arithmetic order, not a ranking: providers publishing no pay-as-you-go rate appear last, and nothing here scores quality, success rate or support. Figures are advertised list prices taken from each provider's own public pricing page on the verification date shown above, in USD, excluding VAT.

IPRoyal sells residential bandwidth by the gigabyte, on subscription or pay-as-you-go. People who search for it usually want three answers: what a gigabyte really costs, whether the headline rate is reachable, and what customers and reviewers report. This page gives all three, from IPRoyal's own published prices and from named third-party reviews, next to what we charge.

## What IPRoyal charges at each size

IPRoyal's residential pricing page lists three sizes and a custom tier. Pay-as-you-go, 1 GB costs $7.35, 2 GB costs $6.25 per GB and 10 GB costs $5.51 per GB; on subscription the same sizes are $7.00, $5.95 and $5.25. The custom tier is $1.84 per GB pay-as-you-go or $1.75 on subscription, available from 10 TB. Residential Basic is $1.00 per GB on every plan up to 100 GB, $0.90 at 500 GB and $0.80 at 1 TB.

## The $1.75 rate needs 10,000 GB

The "from $1.75/GB" in IPRoyal's advertising is a real price, but it belongs to the custom subscription tier, which starts at 10 TB. A project that buys 10 GB at a time pays $5.51 per GB pay-as-you-go. Our lowest rate, $0.80 per GB, is a single 1 TB purchase at $800 with no monthly contract: a tenth of the volume, for a lower rate than IPRoyal's floor.

## One of the highest entry rates in our index

Of the ten providers in our residential proxy pricing index that publish a pay-as-you-go rate, IPRoyal's $7.35 per GB is the second highest: only Bright Data charges more to start. The table above lists all of them, sorted by the rate a new account pays, with the date each figure was checked.

## Same session types, wider targeting

On the features both providers publish, the two are close: rotating and sticky sessions, HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, and unlimited concurrent sessions. Where they differ, the difference is ours. Residential Basic adds ASN targeting to country, state and city, so traffic can be pinned to one internet provider's network, and it lists 200+ countries against IPRoyal's 195+.

## What independent reviews say about IPRoyal

PCMag's review, published in June 2025, calls IPRoyal a mixed bag and stops short of recommending it, citing its refund policies, Trustpilot reviews it describes as suspicious-looking and extra charges for proxy name changes. vpnMentor's review, last updated in March 2026, scores IPRoyal 4.6 out of 10 and recorded large speed drops on every proxy it tested. In February 2026 a customer on Reddit's r/proxies, who reported spending about $5,000 over two years, wrote that the account was closed after a refund request. These are third-party accounts, not our tests; each one is linked in the sources below.

## What you get for $1.00 per GB

Real ISP-assigned residential addresses in 200+ countries, from Residential Basic's own pool, with rotating and sticky sessions, HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, and country, state, city and ASN targeting. Authentication is by username and password or IP whitelist, concurrent sessions are unlimited, and proxy strings come from the dashboard or the REST API.

## Volume pricing without a subscription

The rate falls with the size of the plan and nothing recurs: $1.00 per GB up to 100 GB, $450 for 500 GB ($0.90 per GB) and $800 for 1 TB ($0.80 per GB). Each plan is a one-off purchase. Nothing renews, and nothing is charged again unless you buy again.

## Paying, including without a card

Card, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay are supported, along with Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, Monero and around 300 other cryptocurrencies. Crypto and account-balance payments carry no VAT, while card, PayPal and Stripe add 22%.

## Moving from IPRoyal

Switching is a connection string. Generate a Residential Basic proxy in the dashboard with the country, and optionally the state, city or ASN, plus a rotating or sticky session; then replace the IPRoyal host, port and credentials in your scraper, browser profile or tool. Send a sample of your real URLs through it before you move all of your traffic.

## Sources

- [PCMag: IPRoyal review (June 2025)](https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/iproyal)
- [vpnMentor: IPRoyal review (updated March 2026)](https://www.vpnmentor.com/reviews/iproyal/)
- [Reddit r/proxies: "2 Years With IPRoyal and I Feel Completely Scammed" (February 2026)](https://www.reddit.com/r/proxies/comments/1qu301b/2_years_with_iproyal_and_i_feel_completely/)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Is IPRoyal good?

It is not cheap to start and its reviews are mixed. IPRoyal's pay-as-you-go rate, $7.35 per GB, is the second highest in our pricing index; PCMag stops short of recommending it and vpnMentor scores it 4.6 out of 10. For rotating residential bandwidth, QuantumProxies Residential Basic is $1.00 per GB.

### How much do IPRoyal residential proxies cost?

On its residential pricing page, read on 26 October 2026: $7.35 per GB for 1 GB pay-as-you-go ($7.00 on subscription), $5.51 per GB for 10 GB ($5.25 on subscription), and $1.84 per GB pay-as-you-go or $1.75 on subscription from 10 TB.

### Is IPRoyal cheaper than QuantumProxies?

No. On rotating residential bandwidth QuantumProxies is $1.00 per GB against IPRoyal's $7.35 pay-as-you-go, and $0.80 per GB at 1 TB against IPRoyal's lowest rate of $1.75, which needs a 10 TB subscription.

### What is the best IPRoyal alternative?

On price per gigabyte, QuantumProxies Residential Basic: $1.00 per GB with no subscription and $0.80 per GB at 1 TB, with country, state, city and ASN targeting. No provider in our pricing index publishes a lower pay-as-you-go rate; the table on this page lists them all.

### Is IPRoyal legit?

IPRoyal is an operating proxy provider; the questions buyers raise are about price and after-sales. PCMag cites its refund policies, and a February 2026 post on Reddit reports an account closed after a refund request. Read the sources on this page, and test any provider on your own targets before you buy in volume.

### Who are IPRoyal's main competitors?

Bright Data, Oxylabs, Decodo (formerly Smartproxy), Webshare and SOAX come up most often, with QuantumProxies at the value end. Our residential proxy pricing index compares them all on price per gigabyte.

### How do I switch from IPRoyal to QuantumProxies?

Create an account, buy a Residential Basic plan and generate a proxy string in the dashboard with the country and session type you need. Replace the IPRoyal host, port and credentials in your tools with it; rotating and sticky sessions work the same way, so most setups only need the connection string changed.

## So: is QuantumProxies the better IPRoyal alternative?

For rotating residential proxies, yes. It costs $1.00 per GB where IPRoyal charges $7.35 to start and $5.51 at 10 GB, and its lowest rate needs a 1 TB purchase instead of a 10 TB subscription. The features both providers publish match, and ours add ASN targeting. The quickest way to settle it is your own targets: buy a plan and run them.

## Keep reading

- [Residential Basic proxies from $1/GB](https://quantumproxies.io/residential-basic-proxies)
- [Residential proxy pricing index](https://quantumproxies.io/residential-proxy-pricing)
- [QuantumProxies coupon codes](https://quantumproxies.io/coupon-codes)
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- [Bright Data Alternative](https://quantumproxies.io/alternatives/bright-data)
- [Decodo (Smartproxy) Alternative](https://quantumproxies.io/alternatives/decodo)
- [Webshare Alternative](https://quantumproxies.io/alternatives/webshare)
- [DataImpulse Alternative](https://quantumproxies.io/alternatives/dataimpulse)
- [NodeMaven Alternative](https://quantumproxies.io/alternatives/nodemaven)
- [PacketStream Alternative](https://quantumproxies.io/alternatives/packetstream)
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