Residential Proxy Cost Index

Updated August 7, 2026 · 8 proxy providers checked against their own pricing pages

Residential proxy providers advertise rates from $0.49 to $2.50 a gigabyte, and at 7 of the 8 the advertised rate is not one a new buyer can pay. Priced across one identical month — 100GB of rotating residential traffic, bought the cheapest published way — the same job costs $49 on Evomi and $500 on Oxylabs, across the 6 providers that publish a rate at that volume; the other 2 are named below rather than estimated. The gap between what a provider advertises and what it charges to start runs as high as 5.9 times, at SOAX. Every rate here is quoted from the provider’s own page and printed with the tier that unlocks it.

A per-gigabyte rate on its own is not a price. Every rate on this page is printed with the volume and the commitment that unlock it, because in this category the advertised figure is almost always the cell in a tier table that sits behind the largest plan a vendor sells — and at one provider here, behind a coupon code as well. Rates are for rotating residential traffic unless the product name says otherwise; static, ISP and datacenter proxies are priced per IP per month and scraping APIs per request, and none of those is converted into a per-GB figure here.

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What one identical month costs

Ranked by the cheapest published way to buy 100GB of rotating residential traffic in a month, with the providers whose rates stop short of that volume at the end and the reason in the cell rather than a blank. A rate shown as “From” is the provider’s own word, not ours.

The gap between the advertised rate and the entry rate

This is the distinction the category turns on, and every provider makes it themselves — it is simply never collected in one place. Each provider below advertises a low per-gigabyte figure and charges a different one to a buyer walking in. The widest gap here is 5.9 times, at SOAX. The narrowest belongs to Evomi. None of this is hidden: every figure below is on the provider’s own page, usually a scroll apart.

A starting rate is not a trick and none of these providers hides one. It is a statement that the figure bounds the cost from below, which is a different thing from setting it, and a comparison that ranks advertised rates against each other without saying what unlocks them is comparing marketing rather than prices.

The providers whose rates cannot be totalled

2 of the 8, and the reason is stated rather than left as a gap. Neither is a criticism: publishing rates only up to a volume, or pricing a different unit entirely, are both normal choices.

• IPRoyal: IPRoyal publishes residential rates up to 10 GB and then jumps straight to a custom plan its own page says begins at 10 TB. At the 100 GB this index prices there is no published rate to use, so nothing is computed for it.
• Zyte: Zyte does not sell rotating residential bandwidth by the gigabyte at all. It prices successful responses instead, so there is no per-GB figure on its own page and none is constructed for it here.

What buying without a commitment costs

6 of the 8 providers sell traffic with no monthly commitment and 2 do not, selling only monthly plans with included allowances (Oxylabs and Webshare). The useful finding is what the option actually buys: at 2 of the 8 providers, including every one of the largest, buying without committing costs more per gigabyte than that same provider’s biggest plan. What it buys is a smaller minimum purchase, not a lower rate.

• Bright Data: $4 a GB with no commitment against $2.50 on Residential proxies, $1999 tier — 1.6 times.
• Decodo: $4 a GB with no commitment against $2 on Residential, enterprise 1,000 GB — 2.0 times.

Every residential rate each provider publishes

The complete set, with the commitment attached to each. This is the table the advertised figures come out of.

• Bright Data, Residential proxies, pay as you go: $4 a GB with no monthly commitment — “PAY AS YOU GO $8 $4.00 / GB No commitment” Needs the code RESIGB50.
• Bright Data, Residential proxies, $499 tier: $3.50 a GB on $499 a month for 141 GB — “141 GB Included $7 $3.50 / GB $499 Billed monthly” Needs the code RESIGB50.
• Bright Data, Residential proxies, $999 tier: $3 a GB on $999 a month for 332 GB — “332 GB Included $6 $3.00 / GB $999 Billed monthly” Needs the code RESIGB50.
• Bright Data, Residential proxies, $1999 tier: $2.50 a GB on $1,999 a month for 798 GB — “798 GB Included $5 $2.50 / GB $1999 Billed monthly” Needs the code RESIGB50.
• Oxylabs, Residential Proxies, Starter: $6 a GB on $30 a month for 5 GB — “Starter 5GB $ 6 / GB $ 30 billed monthly VAT may apply”
• Oxylabs, Residential Proxies, Basic: $5 a GB on $100 a month for 20 GB — “Basic Most popular 20GB $ 5 / GB $ 100 billed monthly VAT may apply”
• Oxylabs, Residential Proxies, Advanced: $4 a GB on $500 a month for 125 GB — “Advanced 125GB $ 4 / GB $ 500 billed monthly VAT may apply”
• Oxylabs, Residential Proxies, Corporate: $2.50 a GB on $2,500 a month for 1000 GB — “Corporate 1TB $ 2.50 / GB $ 2,500 billed monthly VAT may apply”
• Decodo, Residential, 3 GB: $3.75 a GB on $11.25 a month for 3 GB — “3 GB $ 3.75 / GB Total: $ 11.25 + VAT billed monthly”
• Decodo, Residential, 25 GB: $3.25 a GB on $81.25 a month for 25 GB — “25 GB POPULAR $ 3.25 / GB Total: $ 81.25 + VAT billed monthly”
• Decodo, Residential, 100 GB: $2.75 a GB on $275 a month for 100 GB — “100 GB $ 2.75 / GB Total: $ 275 + VAT billed monthly”
• Decodo, Residential, pay as you go: $4 a GB with no monthly commitment — “Pay as you go $ 4.0 / GB Total: $ 4 + VAT”
• Decodo, Residential, enterprise 1,000 GB: $2 a GB on $2,000 a month for 1000 GB — “"title":"1000 GB","discount":null,"discountLabel":null,"price":2,"priceOld":null,"pricePer":"GB","priceTotal":2000”
• SOAX, Sandbox: $5 a GB with no monthly commitment — “Cost per GB, Tier 1 $5.00/GB $3.00/GB $2.20/GB $1.50/GB $0.85/GB”
• SOAX, Builder: $3 a GB on $200 a month — “Best fit: Builder · $300 total for 100 GB · Effective rate $3/GB at this volume Builder Cost per GB, Tier 1 $3.00/GB Plan price, monthly $200 Extra credits $100”
• SOAX, Team: $2.20 a GB on $500 a month — “Plan price, monthly $0 $200 $500 $1,500 $3,000”
• SOAX, Scale: $1.50 a GB on $1,500 a month — “Cost per GB, Tier 1 $5.00/GB $3.00/GB $2.20/GB $1.50/GB $0.85/GB Plan price, monthly $0 $200 $500 $1,500 $3,000”
• SOAX, Enterprise: from $0.85 a GB on $3,000 a month — “from $ 0.85 /GB 0..5 TB → $ 0.85 /GB 5..15 TB → $ 0.75 /GB 15 TB+ → $ 0.50 /GB”
• Webshare, Rotating Residential, 1 GB: $3.50 a GB on $3.50 a month for 1 GB — “1 GB Save 50% $7.00 $3.50 /GB $3.50 $7.00 billed monthly”
• Webshare, Rotating Residential, 25 GB: $2.60 a GB on $65 a month for 25 GB — “25 GB Save 62% $7.00 $2.60 /GB $65.00 $175.00 billed monthly”
• Webshare, Rotating Residential, 100 GB: $2.25 a GB on $225 a month for 100 GB — “100 GB Save 67% $7.00 $2.25 /GB $225.00 $700.00 billed monthly”
• Webshare, Rotating Residential, 3,000 GB: $1.40 a GB on $4,200 a month for 3000 GB — “3,000 GB Save 80% $7.00 $1.40 /GB $4,200.00 21,000.00 billed monthly”
• IPRoyal, Residential, 1 GB subscription: $7 a GB on $7 a month for 1 GB — “Subscription (5% off) Pay As You Go 1GB $7.00 /GB Buy Now”
• IPRoyal, Residential, 10 GB subscription: $5.25 a GB on $52.50 a month for 10 GB — “Most popular 10GB $5.25 /GB”
• IPRoyal, Residential, custom plans: from $1.75 a GB — “Custom plans $1.75 /GB Buy Now $1.75/GB available from 10 TB (10,000 GB)”
• IPRoyal, Residential, 1 GB pay as you go: $7.35 a GB with no monthly commitment for 1 GB — “1GB $7.35 /GB Buy Now Try fast, reliable Residential Proxies without commitment”
• IPRoyal, Residential, 10 GB pay as you go: $5.51 a GB with no monthly commitment for 10 GB — “Most popular 10GB $5.51 /GB”
• Evomi, Core Residential, 100 GB: $0.49 a GB on $49.99 a month for 100 GB — “100GB /month $49.99 /month $0.49 /per extra GB”
• Evomi, Core Residential, pay as you go: $0.49 a GB with no monthly commitment — “Core Residential Monthly Pay As You Go For Just $0.49 /GB”
• Evomi, Premium Residential, 100 GB: $3.20 a GB on $320 a month for 100 GB — “100 GB $320/mo Account Manager Price per GB $3.20/GB”
• Evomi, Premium Residential, pay as you go: $4 a GB with no monthly commitment — “Pay as you go $4/GB Account Manager Price per GB $4.00/GB”
• Evomi, Premium Residential, 5,000 GB: $2.20 a GB on $11,000 a month for 5000 GB — “5,000 GB $11,000/mo Account Manager Price per GB $2.20/GB”

Provider-stated details worth knowing before you buy

Each of these comes from the provider’s own page or is a plain reading of what it publishes. None is a claim about how any network performs.

• Bright Data: Every residential rate on the page is a coupon price. The struck-through figure beside it is what the page shows without the code, and the code is printed on each card rather than applied automatically.
• Bright Data: The monthly amounts reconcile with the coupon rates, not the struck-through ones: 141 GB at $3.50 is about $499, while 141 GB at $7 is about double that. Read the tier amount as the coupon price of the allowance.
• Bright Data: The header navigation advertises residential from $2.50 a GB. That is the coupon rate on the $1,999 a month tier, not a rate available at any smaller commitment.
• Bright Data: The deposit match is a credit toward usage, not a discount on a rate, and it applies once.
• Oxylabs: Oxylabs states two different starting rates for residential proxies on its own pricing page: $2.50 a GB in the page navigation and $6 a GB on the page's own residential card. Both are quoted here and neither is adopted; the lower one is the rate on a $2,500 a month plan.
• Oxylabs: There is no pay-as-you-go residential option. The smallest residential purchase published is a $30 monthly plan.
• Oxylabs: Every residential card carries a tax note, so the printed amount is not the amount charged in a jurisdiction where VAT applies.
• Oxylabs: The residential product page at oxylabs.io/products/residential-proxy-pool/pricing returns HTTP 404; the tier table lives on the product page one level up.
• Decodo: The page's headline rate of $2 a GB is the enterprise 1,000 GB tier, which its own structured data prices at $2,000 a month. No tier in the regular view reaches it; the cheapest there is $2.75 a GB.
• Decodo: Every Decodo figure is stated before VAT, on the tier cards and on the pay-as-you-go card alike.
• Decodo: Pay as you go is the most expensive way to buy from Decodo per GB, dearer than every committed tier including the smallest one.
• Decodo: Decodo trades under a different name from the one much of the web still uses; its own page title records the change.
• SOAX: SOAX is the only provider in this index whose per-GB rate changes with the country the traffic exits from. Its own pricing page publishes three country tiers and the rate this index uses throughout is the tier-1 rate, which is its most expensive; traffic exiting the countries in its lower tiers is cheaper.
• SOAX: Every plan amount on the page is stated before VAT.
• SOAX: Credits included with a plan roll over for 60 days on monthly billing and 365 days on annual billing, by the page's own note.
• SOAX: The plan amount is not a cap. SOAX bills usage above the included credits at the plan's own per-GB rate, which its own cost model demonstrates by adding extra credits to a plan amount.
• Webshare: The $1.40 a GB rate in the site navigation is the 3,000 GB tier, which the same table prices at $4,200 a month.
• Webshare: The stated savings on each row are not all the same discount: the page prints 50% on the smallest residential tier and 80% on the largest, both measured against the same $7 reference rate.
• Webshare: The yearly column shows a lower per-GB rate on every tier while still describing the amount as billed monthly, so read the billing term selector before comparing a Webshare rate with anyone else's.
• IPRoyal: IPRoyal's headline residential rate is available from ten terabytes, and IPRoyal says so on its own page. At the volumes most buyers actually purchase, the published rate is between $5.25 and $7.35 a GB.
• IPRoyal: Between 10 GB and 10 TB the page publishes no rate at all, so a buyer of 100 GB has no IPRoyal figure to work from.
• IPRoyal: The pay-as-you-go column costs more than the subscription column at every published volume, which IPRoyal labels as a five per cent subscription discount.
• IPRoyal: The pricing page and the mobile product card state the mobile rate in different units, one per GB and one per month; neither is adopted here.
• Zyte: Zyte's headline rate is the cheapest cell in a large matrix: the simplest websites, a plain response with no browser rendering, on the deepest published monthly commitment. Its own page publishes both ends of every band, and the dearest published cell is orders of magnitude above the headline.
• Zyte: Because Zyte prices responses rather than bandwidth, no per-GB figure for it exists on its own page and none is constructed here.
• Zyte: Zyte publishes a rule about exceeding a commitment that the rest of this index does not address either way.
• Evomi: Evomi prices two residential products on one page. Core Residential is the one its headline rate refers to; Premium Residential costs several times as much for the same 100 GB. A figure quoted for Evomi without the product name attached is close to meaningless, and this index never compares a rate on one of its products against a rate on the other.
• Evomi: The pay-as-you-go rate for the premium product is higher than every one of its committed tiers, including the smallest.
• Evomi: The trial on the cheaper product is stated in days on the card, and it is one.

A provider this index does not list, and why

This category moves, and a comparison that quietly drops a name is hiding the most checkable thing it knows. So the removal is recorded rather than performed silently.

• NetNut: Both netnut.io and netnut.io/pricing/ return HTTP 200 serving a single black page whose document title is the quote stored here, with no pricing content of any kind. No rate for NetNut can be read first-party, so it is not listed as a purchasable option in this index. RangeYourself makes no claim about the underlying matter and has none to make: this record states only what the URL returned and when. Requested 2026-08-07 at https://netnut.io/pricing/; the document title returned was “Seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation”.

How this index is verified

Every rate on this page was read from the provider’s own pricing page and is stored with that page’s URL, a verbatim quote, and the date it was checked (most recent: August 7, 2026). Where a provider publishes no rate at a volume, we say so instead of extrapolating one from a rate it publishes somewhere else. A rate the provider itself prefixes with “from” is printed as a floor, because that is the provider’s own distinction and not ours. Where a provider is currently discounting, both its list rate and the rate you can actually pay today are printed, and the ranking follows the one you can actually pay. Totals are arithmetic on published rates and published tier allowances only. See our editorial standards and how we verify.

Which providers are in it. The residential-proxy and web-data providers an English-speaking buyer is most likely to shortlist, chosen before any rate was read and not filtered afterwards. A provider whose rate card is unreadable or whose product is not purchasable stays out rather than being listed as though it were an option, and the reason is recorded in `removed` rather than left as a silent gap.

What the rates cover. Per-gigabyte rates in this index are ROTATING RESIDENTIAL rates unless the product name says otherwise. They are not comparable across product types: an ISP or datacenter proxy is priced per IP per month and a scraping API is priced per request, so neither is converted into a per-GB figure here. Where a vendor sells more than one residential product, each is priced separately under its own name and the two are never blended.

What the scenario is. Chosen before any rate was read: a volume small enough that a working scraper reaches it in a month and large enough that the tier discounts in this category start to bite. It is arithmetic on published rates and published tier allowances only, never a quote. Where a vendor publishes a tier whose included allowance covers the volume, that tier's monthly amount is the cost; where it publishes a rate with no minimum, the cost is the rate times the volume; the cheaper of the two is used. It excludes VAT and sales tax where a vendor states its figures exclude them, any coupon a vendor does not print on its own pricing page, and every product other than rotating residential.

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