# Cheap Residential Proxies – $1/GB, 90M+ IPs | QuantumProxies

Buy cheap residential proxies from $1/GB. 90M+ real ISP-assigned IPs in 200+ countries, rotating and sticky sessions, HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5. $5 minimum, no subscription.

Cheap residential proxies don't have to mean recycled, abused IPs. Residential Basic draws from the same 90M+ real-home IP pool as our premium tier and simply routes it through leaner infrastructure — real ISP-assigned addresses in 200+ countries from $0.80/GB, with rotating and sticky sessions included.

## What Are Cheap Residential Proxies?

A cheap residential proxy is a real home IP address offered at a budget price per gigabyte — in our case by streamlining the routing layer, not by sourcing lower-quality IPs. Traffic still exits through genuine ISP-assigned household connections, so targets see an ordinary visitor, not a datacenter range. The trade-off against premium is throughput headroom and targeting granularity, not IP authenticity: Basic targets by country across 200+ locations, while Premium adds state, city, ZIP and ASN-level precision with the fastest routes.

## Residential Basic vs Premium: What Actually Changes?

Both tiers pull from the same 90M+ residential pool, support rotating and sticky sessions, speak HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, and are managed from the same dashboard and REST API. Basic costs from $0.80/GB with country-level targeting and sub-500ms typical response times — right for SEO rank tracking, price monitoring, content verification and light scraping. Premium, from $2.50/GB, adds city and ASN-level targeting, priority routing and the throughput you want for heavy scraping or time-sensitive collection. Start on Basic; if a target needs finer geo control or more speed, switch tiers without changing your integration.

## What Can You Do with Residential Basic?

Budget residential bandwidth shines on steady, repeatable jobs: tracking search rankings across countries, monitoring competitor prices, verifying that content and ads render correctly per market, feeding SEO tools, and collecting public data from sites that block datacenter IPs. Because sessions can stay sticky, it also handles logins and multi-step flows. At $0.80/GB you can afford to run these tasks continuously instead of rationing bandwidth — the typical Basic user runs daily monitoring jobs that would be uneconomical on premium pricing.

## How Much Does It Cost?

Plans are pure pay-per-GB with no subscriptions and no expiry: $50 for 50 GB, $100 for 100 GB ($1.00/GB), $450 for 500 GB ($0.90/GB) and $800 for 1,000 GB — $0.80/GB at the top tier. Every plan includes the full 200+ country pool, rotating and sticky sessions, unlimited concurrent connections and API access. If you're comparing providers, check the effective rate at YOUR volume: many advertise a headline rate that only applies to multi-terabyte commitments.

Residential Basic is the entry point to real residential IPs: the same authentic 90M+ pool, a leaner price, and an upgrade path to premium targeting whenever you need it. Buy a plan, generate your proxy string, and be collecting data minutes from now — with bandwidth is valid for 30 days.

## Sources

- [Proxy server (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server)
- [Proxy-Authorization header (MDN)](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Proxy-Authorization)
- [RFC 7239: Forwarded HTTP Extension](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7239.html)
- [429 Too Many Requests (MDN)](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/429)
- [Requests: Advanced Usage (proxies)](https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/advanced/)