Fixed ISP

Datacenter machines wearing home-internet addresses. The address stays yours as long as you pay, exactly what logins and steady traffic need.

Across the 13 providers we track selling them, the range is $0.01 to $5.00 per GB on their cheapest comparable plans. Each figure comes from the provider's own pricing page and carries the date it was read, see the list above.

7 of the 13 we track will sell to you with an email address alone; the rest ask for identity documents. Neither is automatically better, some buyers need to avoid ID checks, and some read their absence as a warning sign about how the network was built.

Webshare, at $0.23 an address on its cheapest comparable plan, of the 13 providers we track selling this type. That figure came off Webshare's own pricing page and the list above carries the date it was read. Cheapest is not the same as suitable: the sign-up and payment rows matter as much.

Because the advertised rate is the bottom rung of the largest plan sold. Among these 17 providers the median rate on the smallest plan is $3.00 an address and on the largest $1.30 an address. A first purchase normally lands on the first of those, and the landing page normally quotes the second.

From the 13 providers listed on this page, each with the price it publishes and the date we read it. The order is set by price in the unit each one actually sells in, which for this type is the address rather than the gigabyte. We declare no winner and run no benchmark yet, so the ordering is a price ordering and nothing more.