# Residential Proxy Pricing Index: 9 Providers Compared

Real residential proxy prices from Bright Data, Oxylabs, Decodo, IPRoyal, SOAX, Webshare & more — verified monthly, $/GB compared side by side.

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.

## Residential Proxy Price Comparison: How to Read the Index

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.

## How Much Do Residential Proxies Cost in 2026?

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.

## Residential Proxy Cost per GB: What Drives the Price

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.

## Cheapest Residential Proxies: Look Beyond the Sticker Price

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.

## Provider Pricing Head-to-Head

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.

## Methodology: Where These Numbers Come From

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 support@quantumproxies.io 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.