Comparing residential proxy prices is harder than it should be: every provider quotes a different mix of pay-as-you-go rates, subscription tiers, minimum spends and promo pricing. This index cuts through that. We scrape the public pricing page of each provider with the same extraction infrastructure that powers our Extract API, normalize everything to US dollars per gigabyte, and publish the result with a source link for every row. No estimates, no affiliate rankings — just the numbers each provider advertises, re-verified monthly.
| Provider | Pay-as-you-go $/GB | Cheapest tier $/GB | Minimum commitment | Trial / refund |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QuantumProxies — Residential Basic | $1.00 | $0.80 | $5 minimum, no subscription | free trial available |
| DataImpulse | $1.00 | $0.80 | $5 (5 GB); $0.8/GB from 1 TB, custom pricing from 5 TB | none shown on page |
| PacketStream | $1.00 | $1.00 | $50 minimum purchase, no subscription, balance never expires (single flat rate) | trial on request (free-trial form) |
| QuantumProxies — Residential Premium | $2.50 | $2.50 | pay per GB | free trial available |
| Proxy-Cheap | $2.60 | $0.78 | UNVERIFIED: homepage card reads '$2.60 $0.78/GB' and the JS-only product page could not be read (404 + bot challenge), so it is not clear whether $0.78 is a promo or a bulk tier; PAYG, no monthly commitment | none for rotating residential (the 7-day $1.99 trial is for static residential / datacenter IPv4) |
| Webshare | $3.50 | $1.40 | monthly plan, no PAYG top-up (1 GB plan at $3.50/GB, cancel anytime); $1.40 tier requires a 3,000 GB/mo plan | free plan: 10 datacenter proxies / 1 GB per month, no card; refund within 2 days if under 0.1 GB used on rotating residential |
| 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') | none shown |
| 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 | 3-day free trial (100 MB), 14-day money-back |
| SOAX | $5.00 | $0.85 | none (Sandbox $0/mo at $5.00/GB); $0.85 tier requires the $3,000/mo Enterprise plan | Sandbox plan ($0/mo, pay per GB); no free trial shown |
| 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) | paid trial $3.50 / 750MB |
| 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' | $1.97 trial on all plans |
| IPRoyal | $7.35 | $1.75 | none; $1.75/GB only on subscription from 10 TB (PAYG bulk is $1.84/GB from 10 TB) | none ('No free trial available') |
| Bright Data | $8.00 | $2.50 | none (PAYG) / $1,999-mo (798 GB plan) for $2.50 tier | free trial; 50% off for 3 months with code RESIGB50; first deposit matched up to $500 |
| Oxylabs | — | $2.50 | no PAYG; $30/mo (5 GB Starter at $6/GB); $2.50 tier requires $2,500/mo (1 TB Corporate) | free trial on request (Book a demo / [email protected]), once per client |
| NetNut | — | $0.00 | NOT VERIFIABLE on 2026-09-08: netnut.io/pricing/ and netnut.io/residential-proxies/ both returned a page titled 'Seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation' (HTTP 200 via Cloudflare, no pricing content). Re-check by hand before publishing. | unknown |
Verified 2026-09-08. All prices are advertised list prices in USD per GB for rotating residential proxies, as published on each provider’s public pricing page on the verification date. Promotional coupons are excluded from the pay-as-you-go column. "Cheapest tier" is the lowest advertised per-GB rate at any volume or subscription tier, which may require a large monthly commitment.
The two headline columns answer different questions. "Pay-as-you-go $/GB" is what you pay to start today with no subscription — the honest entry price. "Cheapest tier $/GB" is the lowest rate the provider advertises anywhere, which usually assumes a large monthly plan: Bright Data’s $2.50 requires a $1,999/month commitment, IPRoyal’s $1.75 starts at 10 TB. If you are testing a project or running irregular workloads, the pay-as-you-go column is the one that matters.
Across the ten providers in this index, advertised pay-as-you-go rates for rotating residential proxies span from $1.00 to $8.00 per GB — an 8x spread for what is nominally the same product. The mid-market clusters around $4–$7/GB (Decodo, SOAX, Proxy-Cheap, Webshare, IPRoyal), premium enterprise networks list $8/GB before discounts (Bright Data), and the value tier sits at $1/GB or below (DataImpulse, QuantumProxies Residential Basic). Volume changes everything: at committed tiers nearly every provider lands between $0.50 and $2.75 per GB.
Four factors explain most of the spread. Pool sourcing and quality filtering: networks that screen IPs for fraud scores and blacklists charge for the cleaner pool. Geo-targeting granularity: country-level exit is standard, but city, state, ZIP or ASN targeting is either free (Bright Data, QuantumProxies) or a paid add-on that quietly raises the effective rate. Session control: long sticky sessions and unlimited concurrency cost providers more to maintain. And commitment structure: providers that monetize through big monthly minimums can advertise a low per-GB rate that most users will never actually reach.
The cheapest advertised rate is not always the cheapest project. Check four things before deciding: whether traffic expires (never-expiring GB, as offered by IPRoyal and QuantumProxies, are worth more than use-it-or-lose-it monthly quotas); the minimum first purchase; surcharges for the targeting you actually need; and above all the success rate — a $2/GB pool that fails a third of requests costs more per successful request than a $3/GB pool at 99%. Price per successful request, not price per GB, is the metric that decides what you really pay.
Bright Data vs Oxylabs: both premium networks bottom out at $2.50/GB, but Bright Data offers a true no-commitment pay-as-you-go ($8 list) while Oxylabs starts at a $30/month subscription — Oxylabs has no PAYG option at all. IPRoyal vs Webshare: both quote around $7/GB to start; Webshare gets to $1.40 at volume. DataImpulse vs QuantumProxies Residential Basic: both charge $1.00/GB pay-as-you-go with a $5 minimum — the differences are pool composition, targeting options and the surrounding platform, which is exactly why a per-GB table should be the start of your evaluation, not the end of it.
Every row is scraped from the provider’s public pricing page using the QuantumProxies Extract API (TLS fingerprint fetch plus AI extraction), then checked against the page’s own structured data where available. We record the advertised pay-as-you-go rate, the lowest advertised per-GB rate at any tier, the minimum commitment and the trial terms, all in USD. The index is re-scraped and re-published monthly; the verification date is shown above the table and every competitor row links to its source. QuantumProxies rows use our own published pricing and are marked in the table. Found an error? Tell us at [email protected] and we will re-verify within 48 hours.
Prices move: providers reprice tiers, run promos and change minimums throughout the year. Bookmark this page — it is re-verified every month on the date shown above. And if pay-as-you-go value is what you are optimizing for — but the sources are all linked, so check our claims the same way you would check anyone else’s.
Advertised pay-as-you-go rates across major providers range from $1.00 to $8.00 per GB in 2026. Committed volume tiers bring nearly every provider down to $0.50–$2.75 per GB. The full breakdown by provider is in the index table above, each row linked to its source.
In our verified index, DataImpulse and QuantumProxies Residential Basic share the lowest pay-as-you-go rate at $1.00/GB with a $5 minimum. At large volume tiers, DataImpulse advertises $0.50/GB and Proxy-Cheap $0.52/GB, while most premium networks bottom out around $2.50/GB.
The spread comes from pool sourcing and IP quality filtering, geo-targeting granularity (city/ZIP/ASN targeting may be free or paid), session and concurrency features, and commitment structure — some providers advertise low per-GB rates that only apply at multi-terabyte monthly plans.
No. The real metric is price per successful request: a cheap pool with a low success rate costs more in practice than a slightly pricier pool that succeeds on 99% of requests. Also check whether traffic expires, what the minimum purchase is, and whether the targeting you need carries a surcharge.
Four things: minimum first purchase, whether unused traffic expires, surcharges for geo-targeting or sticky sessions, and the provider’s measured success rate. A $5/GB plan can effectively become $6–7/GB once targeting surcharges and failed requests are priced in.
Monthly. Every provider’s public pricing page is re-scraped with the QuantumProxies Extract API and the verification date above the table is updated. Each competitor row links to the exact source page so every number can be independently checked.
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