Proxy type
Residential
Real home internet connections, rented out by the gigabyte. Hardest to block, most expensive per GB. Use them when a site keeps catching you.
When to use something else
Every provider selling residential, cheapest first
Webshare$3.50Just an emailProxyScrape$3.79Just an emailDataImpulsewarning$3.88Just an emailPacketStreamwarning$3.95Just an emailDecodo$4.50Just an emailIPRoyalwarning$4.55Just an emailProxy-Seller$5.00Just an emailRayobyte$5.50Just an emailSOAX$5.60ID requiredNodeMaven$5.80Just an emailBright Data$5.88ID requiredOxylabswarning$5.88ID requiredGeonode—Just an email
Prices read from each provider's own page. A dash means their pricing does not convert to a per-gigabyte figure honestly, we show nothing rather than a number we had to invent.
Questions
What are residential proxies?
Real home internet connections, rented out by the gigabyte. Hardest to block, most expensive per GB. Use them when a site keeps catching you.
How much do residential proxies cost?
Across the 13 providers we track selling them, the range is $3.50 to $5.88 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.
Which residential providers sell without ID checks?
10 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.
What people buy residential for
- Web scraping, ranked for this job
- SEO rank tracking, ranked for this job
- Multi-accounting, ranked for this job
- Buying sneakers, ranked for this job
- Cheapest overall, ranked for this job
How this compares to the others
- Residential vs datacenter proxies Try datacenter first
- Fixed ISP vs residential proxies Pick ISP when the same address needs to stay yours, an account that must look like one person on one connection
- Mobile vs residential proxies Mobile is the strongest option available and costs the most
- How residential proxies actually work the mechanic all four types share