Residential proxy
A residential proxy routes your request through somebody's home internet connection. Proxy Compare prices 265 residential plans across 33 providers, read 5 Oct 2026, normalised from $0.01 to $8.00 per GB. It is the dearest tier here, and the one where how the address was obtained matters more than the rate.
Why it costs you money
It is priced per gigabyte rather than per address, so your bill scales with how much you download rather than how many connections you open. A scraper pulling images or full HTML burns residential bandwidth many times faster than one pulling JSON, and the same job can differ tenfold in cost depending on what you request.
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Related terms
- Proxy poolThe set of addresses a provider can route you through. The advertised size is a vendor claim nobody outside can verify.
- Rotating proxyA connection that hands you a different address on each request, or on a timer. The default for scraping at volume.
- ISP proxyA hosted address registered to a consumer internet provider. Residential-looking identity at datacenter speed, and it stays yours.
- Bandwidth overageWhat a provider charges once you pass the gigabytes your plan includes. Often several times the headline rate.
- Mobile proxyAn address on a phone carrier's network, shared by thousands of real subscribers. The hardest to block and the most expensive.
- Success rateThe share of requests that get through. The number that decides everything, and the one no comparison table can give you.
- Per-GB pricingBilling by the gigabyte you move, the dominant model for residential proxies and the one most comparisons assume.
- IP reputationHow a target site scores an address before serving it, based on what that address has done elsewhere.
- Exit nodeThe address a target website actually sees. Everything before it in the chain is invisible to the site you are fetching.
- Every term we define
Questions
What am I actually renting?
Time on somebody's home internet connection. 265 of the 545 plans priced here are residential across 33 providers, read 5 Oct 2026, normalising from $0.01 to $8.00 per GB.
How did the provider get those addresses?
Some publish the channel and most do not. This site's sourcing section records what each provider says on its own pages, and where a provider says nothing that silence is recorded as a finding rather than left as a blank field.
Is it legal to use them?
Buying and using residential proxies for business work is lawful in most places. What varies is how the household consented and what you do with the connection, which is the narrower question the sourcing pages answer.