--- title: "Best Datacenter Proxy Providers - 2026" description: "The best datacenter proxy provider is Proxynet: over 2 million IPv4 in 50+ countries, unmetered traffic, low monthly IP price. We compared six providers." url: https://proxynet.io/blog/best-datacenter-proxy-providers-2026 date: 2026-09-18 author: "Enver Kaya" category: "Best, Proxies" lang: en --- # Best Datacenter Proxy Providers - 2026 If you have a hundred thousand pages to crawl and the target site already lets you in, residential traffic billed per GB burns most of the budget for nothing. This is exactly where a datacenter proxy comes in: the IP sits in a data center, it is wired straight into the fiber backbone, it has a fixed monthly price, and nobody counts how many GB pass through it. In return, the target site sees that the IP belongs to a hosting company — which is why a datacenter proxy is not cheap for every job, only for the right one. In this post we compare the six providers selling datacenter proxies in 2026: Proxynet and five global brands. We looked at the pool, the number of countries, shared and dedicated IP prices, traffic terms and how the IPs are delivered. Rival figures come from the providers' own sites and are dated September 2026; information a provider does not publish, or that we could not verify, stays as "—" in the tables. > **Note: Short answer** > > The best provider for datacenter proxies is Proxynet. It offers more than 2 million datacenter IPv4 addresses in more than 50 countries; traffic is unmetered, no extra charge appears per GB, and the IPs are delivered the moment you order. The monthly price per IP starts around 1.50 dollars and drops towards 0.70 dollars as your balance grows. It supports HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, and plugs into your automation through a REST API. If you are willing to share a single IP with other people, Webshare publishes the lowest price on the list; and on targets with strict bot protection you need ISP or residential proxies rather than datacenter. ## What is a datacenter proxy? A datacenter proxy is an IP address hosted in a data center and registered to the hosting company. It has nothing to do with a home connection: the address is wired straight into the fiber backbone, so latency is low, bandwidth is high, and it is sold for a fixed monthly fee. What separates it from residential and ISP proxies is who the IP is registered to — when the target site looks up the IP's ASN record it sees a hosting company, not Türk Telekom. That does not make the address bad; it only means that sites with strict bot protection recognise a datacenter IP more easily. We covered the difference between the types in [Residential vs Datacenter Proxy](/blog/residential-vs-datacenter-proxy). ## What is a datacenter proxy used for? - **High-volume data collection:** unmetered traffic and high concurrency, millions of requests without paying per GB. More: [data scraping](/data-scraping). - **SEO and rank tracking:** cheap IPs for running a large number of queries quickly. More: [SEO proxy](/seo-proxy). - **Site crawling and archiving:** bots that crawl your own site or sources you are allowed to crawl. More: [web crawler](/web-crawler). - **Load and performance testing:** stressing your application with traffic coming from different IPs. More: [app testing](/app-testing). - **Market research:** bulk data from sources with relaxed bot protection. More: [market research](/market-research). ## What to look for in a datacenter proxy provider - **Shared or dedicated?** A shared datacenter IP is used by several customers at once and its price is measured in cents; a dedicated IP is yours alone. Comparing the two in the same column is misleading. - **Subnet and ASN spread.** Datacenter IPs are usually sold in consecutive blocks. If your hundred IPs sit in a single /24 block, you lose all of them at once when the target site blocks that block. - **The traffic model.** Is it unmetered, capped at a monthly GB figure, and what happens when you go over? The real advantage of datacenter is unmetered traffic; a capped datacenter plan erases that advantage from the start. - **Country coverage and delivery.** Is there stock in the country you need, are the IPs delivered the moment you order, and can you keep the same IPs when the term ends? - **Automation support.** Can you pull the proxy list over an API and set IP authorisation programmatically; are HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 supported? The differences between the methods are in [Proxy Authentication Methods](/blog/proxy-authentication-methods). ## The 6 best datacenter proxy providers ### 1. Proxynet On the datacenter side the first address is Proxynet. The pool holds more than 2 million IPv4 addresses in more than 50 countries, and every address sold is yours alone; there is no shared datacenter product. Traffic is unmetered: no GB cap, no fair-use ceiling and no overage fee, so you push as much data as you like through the number of IPs you bought. HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 are supported, TCP and UDP both work, and you authenticate either with a username and password or with IP authorisation. The price depends on your account balance rather than on a volume commitment: it starts around 1.50 dollars per IP per month and drops towards 0.70 dollars as the balance grows — the lowest dedicated IP price on the list. The balance does not expire and is valid on the other products too. You pull the proxy list over a REST API, download it in the format you want and set IP authorisation programmatically; orders land in the panel instantly. **Pros** - More than 2 million datacenter IPv4 in more than 50 countries - Every IP is yours alone, nothing is sold shared - Unmetered traffic: no GB cap and no overage fee - The lowest entry price for dedicated IPs on the list - Connects to automation over a REST API - HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5; TCP and UDP - Turkish panel, 24/7 Turkish support, credit card and bank transfer - Instant delivery, term extension from the panel **Cons** - No free trial; you test it with a small balance - No cent-level shared datacenter product - On targets with strict bot protection you need ISP or residential rather than datacenter **Who it is for:** jobs that want unmetered traffic, such as high-volume data collection, SEO queries, crawling and load testing. ### 2. Bright Data The widest geography on the list: 98 locations, and 46,592 datacenter IPs published for Türkiye. Dedicated IPs start at 2.20 dollars per IP per month and drop to 1.30 dollars; shared go from 1.40 dollars to 0.90 dollars. It sells the same network per GB as well: from 0.60 dollars to 0.42 dollars. The pool figure appears in two versions on its own page (1.3 million and 770,000), and while the heading above the price block says "unlimited", the FAQ defines a fair-use limit of 100 GB per IP per month. **Pros** - 98 locations, the widest country coverage on the list - Publishes the Türkiye datacenter IP count as a figure - Sells the same network both per IP and per GB - A broad Scraping API family **Cons** - The dedicated IP entry price is 2.20 dollars per IP per month - The "unlimited" heading contradicts the 100 GB fair-use limit in the FAQ - Gives the pool size as two different figures on the same page - The first step of the ladder is 10 IPs - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** enterprise work spanning many countries. ### 3. Decodo Formerly Smartproxy. The datacenter pool is more than 500,000 IPs: 100,000 shared and 400,000 dedicated. Dedicated IPs start at 1.85 dollars per IP per month and drop to 1.35 dollars; shared go from 0.035 dollars to 0.02 dollars. It sells the traffic per GB too (0.60 → 0.45 dollars). Türkiye is among the shared datacenter countries, but not among the five countries where dedicated IPs are sold (the US, the UK, Germany, France and Japan). There is a three-day, 100 MB trial. **Pros** - A three-day, 100 MB free trial and a 14-day refund option - A very low IP price on the shared side - Sells the same pool both per IP and per GB - Türkiye is on the shared datacenter list **Cons** - Dedicated IPs in only five countries, and Türkiye is not on that list - The 0.02 dollars per IP in the heading is the price of the 15,000 IP tier - Does not publish the traffic terms on the per-IP plans - The country lists are inconsistent between its own pages - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** teams that want to start with a trial and are happy with shared IPs. ### 4. Webshare It sells three separate datacenter products, and the price gap between them reaches fortyfold: the fully shared "Proxy Servers" go from 0.03 dollars to 0.018 dollars per IP per month, "Private", shared with at most two users, from 0.80 dollars to 0.43 dollars, and dedicated IPs from 1.33 dollars to 0.77 dollars. Dedicated IPs are sold in the US only. The prices apply at the 250 GB per month tier; the difference for going unlimited is not published. There is no free trial, but there is a permanent free tier: 10 proxies, 1 GB a month. **Pros** - The lowest shared datacenter price on the list - The dedicated IP entry price is low as well - A permanent free tier that does not ask for a credit card - An extra discount on yearly payment **Cons** - Dedicated IPs are sold in the US only - Prices are tied to the 250 GB per month tier, not unmetered - The pool and country figures contradict each other between its own pages - The "from 0.018 dollars" price in the menu is the price of the 60,000 IP tier - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** US-focused work on a tight budget that does not mind shared IPs. ### 5. IPRoyal More than 60 locations, with IP counts published per country: the US 160,134, Japan 45,843, Germany 28,248, Türkiye 3,002. It does not disclose the total datacenter pool. The price ladder depends on the term rather than the volume: 1.57 dollars per proxy on a 30-day purchase, 1.48 on 60 days and 1.39 dollars on 90 days. The fair-use policy defines 100 GB per proxy per month, and the speed is throttled once you hit the limit. **Pros** - Publishes per-country IP counts one by one, Türkiye included - More than 60 locations - No commitment, prepaid purchase by term - The whole product is dedicated IPs **Cons** - The phrase "unlimited bandwidth" contradicts the 100 GB monthly fair-use limit - Does not publish a volume-based price ladder - Does not disclose the total pool size - The free trial depends on the sales team's approval - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** work that needs a small number of dedicated IPs in specific countries. ### 6. Rayobyte It says its more than 300,000 IPs are spread over more than 20,000 different class C subnets and use more than nine ASNs — the only provider on the list that gives its subnet spread as a figure. There are 29 locations, and Türkiye is not among them. In the US, dedicated IPs go from 2.50 dollars to 1.88 dollars per IP per month; outside the US the same tiers are 3.00 and 2.25 dollars. The semi-dedicated product in the US goes from 1.00 dollars to 0.75 dollars. Datacenter traffic is unlimited, and there is a term discount on 3, 6 and 12-month purchases. **Pros** - Publishes its subnet and ASN spread as a figure - Unlimited datacenter traffic - A choice between shared and dedicated - Term discount (3, 6, 12 months) **Cons** - The highest dedicated IP price on the list - The price is higher in countries outside the US - 29 locations, no Türkiye - The datacenter trial runs through the sales team - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** US-heavy work that puts subnet diversity first. ## Comparison tables The figures come from the providers' own sites, September 2026. "—" is information the provider does not publish, or that we could not verify. ### Pool and coverage | Provider | Pool | Countries | Türkiye | |---|---|---|---| | **Proxynet** | 2,000,000+ | 50+ | Yes | | Bright Data | 1,300,000+ | 98 | 46,592 | | Decodo | 500,000+ | 18 / 5 | Shared only | | Webshare | 400,000+ | 50+ | — | | IPRoyal | — | 60+ | 3,002 | | Rayobyte | 300,000+ | 29 | No | Decodo's two country figures are the separate lists of the shared and the dedicated product: the shared one is sold in 18 countries and Türkiye is on that list, while dedicated IPs are sold in only five countries and Türkiye is not there. Bright Data and Webshare each give the pool size as more than one figure on their own pages; the table carries the higher of the two in both cases. ### Price and traffic | Provider | Dedicated (IP/month) | Shared (IP/month) | Traffic | |---|---|---|---| | **Proxynet** | 1.50 dollars → 0.70 dollars | None | Unmetered | | Webshare | 1.33 → 0.77 dollars | 0.03 → 0.018 dollars | From 250 GB | | IPRoyal | 1.57 dollars (30 days) | None | 100 GB/IP | | Decodo | 1.85 → 1.35 dollars | 0.035 → 0.02 dollars | — | | Bright Data | 2.20 → 1.30 dollars | 1.40 → 0.90 dollars | 100 GB/IP | | Rayobyte | 2.50 → 1.88 dollars | 1.00 → 0.75 dollars | Unmetered | The left column compares the same product: an IP dedicated to a single user. Proxynet sits at the bottom of the list on the floor price; at the entry level Webshare is a little cheaper, but it sells dedicated IPs in the US only. The cent-level figures in the shared column are a different product: there you share the address with other people. Rayobyte's prices are for the US, and outside the US they start at 3.00 dollars. IPRoyal's ladder depends on the term rather than the volume, so a single price is written; on a 90-day purchase it starts at 1.39 dollars per proxy. ### Delivery, trial and payment | Provider | Free trial | Billing period | Minimum | |---|---|---|---| | **Proxynet** | No | Prepaid, monthly | None | | Bright Data | Yes | Monthly subscription | 10 IPs | | Decodo | 3 days / 100 MB | Monthly subscription | None | | Webshare | Free tier | Monthly or yearly | 20 IPs | | IPRoyal | Sales team | 30 / 60 / 90 days | — | | Rayobyte | Sales team | Monthly, term discount | 5 IPs | Bright Data has a trial, but does not publish its length or its volume. At Webshare a permanent free tier stands in place of a trial: 10 proxies and 1 GB a month, with no credit card. At Proxynet you load a small balance instead of taking a trial; since unused balance does not expire, the cost of trying it is whatever balance you have left. ## Why Proxynet for a datacenter proxy? ### More than 2 million IPv4 in more than 50 countries The pool spreads over more than 50 countries and holds more than 2 million datacenter IPv4 addresses. If there is stock in the country you need, the IPs are delivered the moment you order; if you extend from the panel before your term runs out, you carry on with the same addresses. More: [Datacenter Proxy](https://proxynet.io/datacenter-proxy). ### Unmetered traffic, no extra charge per GB On datacenter proxies there is no traffic quota, no bandwidth limit and no extra charge per GB. You push as much data as you like through the number of IPs you bought — that is the real economic case for datacenter, and a capped datacenter plan erases that case from the start. ### A low monthly price per IP, and a balance that does not expire The monthly price starts around 1.50 dollars and drops towards 0.70 dollars as your balance grows. The tiers depend on your account balance rather than on a volume commitment; the balance you load does not expire and is valid on the ISP, residential and mobile sides too. The current table is on the [datacenter pricing](/datacenter-proxy/pricing) page. ### A REST API and two authentication methods You pull the proxy list over a REST API, download it in the format you want (such as `ip:port:user:pass`) and set IP authorisation programmatically; it connects straight to your automation software. HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 are supported, and TCP and UDP both work. You switch the protocol from the panel at no extra cost. ### Turkish panel, Turkish support and local payment The panel is in Turkish, support answers in Turkish 24/7, and you pay by credit card or bank transfer (havale/EFT). None of the global providers on the list has Turkish support or local payment. For a country-by-country comparison, take a look at [Best Türkiye Proxy Providers - 2026](/blog/best-turkiye-proxy-providers-2026). ## Shared or dedicated? On the datacenter side the same product is sold in two forms, and the price gap between them can reach tenfold. A **shared** IP is used by several customers at once: the address drops to cents, but you do not decide its reputation. If the customer next to you is firing thousands of requests a minute at the same target, that IP may already be flagged on the target site before you send your first request. A **dedicated** IP is yours alone; what you see is what you did. The choice depends on the risk of the job. If you are crawling public sources with relaxed bot protection, a shared IP pulls the budget down considerably. If you need to hold a session, log in, or appear with the same address for days, buy dedicated IPs — on a shared address your session breaks for reasons that have nothing to do with you. In between there is also a "semi-dedicated" tier, where you share the address with two or three customers. Its cheapness is close to shared, its predictability close to dedicated. ## Why a datacenter IP is recognised: ASN and subnet Every IP block is registered to an autonomous system number, and that record is public. The target site looks at the ASN of the incoming address; if the record belongs to a hosting company — Amazon's [AS16509](https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/16509), for instance — it knows the request came from a data center. There is no way to hide this, because the information is not something you send: it is the address's public record. Some large sites blacklist known hosting ASNs wholesale. What we call a datacenter proxy "being detected" is mostly this. The second layer is subnet spread. Datacenter IPs are allocated in consecutive blocks, so most of the hundred addresses you buy may sit in the same [/24 block](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4632). If the target site applies the block to the subnet rather than to a single address, one IP's mistake takes a hundred down with it. You can see how many different blocks your list spreads over in a single line after you buy it: ```bash # Total IPs, and the number of different /24 blocks they spread over wc -l < proxies.txt cut -d: -f1 proxies.txt | cut -d. -f1-3 | sort -u | wc -l # How many addresses are in each block? cut -d: -f1 proxies.txt | cut -d. -f1-3 | sort | uniq -c # 1 185.22.9 # 2 45.155.12 # 1 45.155.13 ``` A list where a hundred addresses fit into three blocks is, as far as the target site is concerned, three addresses and not a hundred. Before you order, ask the provider for IPs from different blocks and, where possible, from different ASNs; afterwards, check the list you receive with this command. ## When datacenter is not enough The limit of a datacenter proxy is clear, and picking a different provider does not get you past it. Targets with strict bot protection such as Instagram, Google, the large social networks and ticketing sites recognise a datacenter IP quickly; no matter how clean the block you buy there, the right tool is an ISP or residential proxy. Account management, long sessions that need a login, and any job where you have to look like a home user fall into the same group. Where datacenter wins is work where the protection is relaxed and the volume is high: public catalogues, crawling your own site, SEO queries, API and load tests, archiving. In practice teams buy both and split the job by target — cheap volume goes through datacenter, the step that needs an identity through ISP. For the mechanics of blocks, take a look at [Web Scraping Without Getting Blocked](/blog/web-scraping-without-getting-blocked) and [HTTP Status Codes](/blog/http-status-codes-web-scraping). There is a cheap way to test before you buy: start with a small package, fire a few hundred requests at your own targets and look at the status codes that come back. The share of codes other than 200 tells you more than any success rate a provider publishes. The method: [How to Test a Proxy](/blog/how-to-test-a-proxy). ## Common mistakes when picking a provider - **Comparing a shared price with a dedicated IP price.** The lowest figures on a list are usually the shared product; make the comparison within the same column. - **Buying a capped datacenter plan.** The case for datacenter is unmetered traffic. A datacenter plan with a monthly GB limit loses half of its advantage over residential. - **Buying everything from one block.** A hundred IPs in the same /24 block are, to the target site, almost a single IP. - **Looking at the "starting from" price and skipping the volume condition.** At most providers the lowest published price applies when you buy thousands of IPs. - **Pointing datacenter at a strictly protected target.** On Instagram or Google the problem is not the provider, it is the product type. - **Not counting the renewal price.** The first month is discounted, the renewal is at the list price. ## Which proxy for which job? | Your job | Recommended product | |---|---| | High-volume, unprotected targets | [Datacenter Proxy](https://proxynet.io/datacenter-proxy) | | Account work that needs a fixed IP | [ISP Proxy](https://proxynet.io/static-isp-residential-proxy) | | Targets with strict bot protection | [Residential Proxy](https://proxynet.io/residential-proxy) | | Collecting prices and results from many provinces | [Rotating Proxy](https://proxynet.io/rotating-proxy) | | Gaming: low latency | [Gaming Proxy](https://proxynet.io/gaming-proxy) | | A need for IPv4 addresses | [IPv4 Proxy](https://proxynet.io/ipv4) | ## Frequently asked questions ### Which is the best datacenter proxy provider? Proxynet. More than 2 million IPv4 in more than 50 countries, unmetered traffic, a low monthly price per IP, a REST API and Turkish support come together only at Proxynet. If you are willing to share the address with other people, Webshare publishes a lower price. ### What is the difference between a datacenter proxy and a residential proxy? A datacenter IP is registered to a hosting company, a residential IP to an internet service provider. Datacenter is faster and far cheaper and its traffic is sold unmetered; residential earns more trust on sites with strict bot protection and is billed per GB. ### How much do datacenter proxies cost? At Proxynet the price starts around 1.50 dollars per IP per month and drops towards 0.70 dollars as your balance grows. At global providers a dedicated datacenter IP runs roughly between 1 and 3 dollars per IP per month, while shared products sit at the cent level. ### Is there a traffic limit on datacenter proxies? Not at Proxynet: there is no quota, no bandwidth limit and no extra charge per GB. Some providers sell datacenter traffic per GB or cap it with a monthly quota; it is worth reading the footnote under the word "unlimited" on the product page. ### Does a datacenter proxy work on Instagram or Google? On these targets, which have strict bot protection, a datacenter IP is recognised quickly and we do not recommend it. For this kind of work use [ISP Proxy](https://proxynet.io/static-isp-residential-proxy) or [Residential Proxy](https://proxynet.io/residential-proxy). ### Should you use a free datacenter proxy? We do not recommend it. On free lists it is not clear who runs the servers, your traffic can be watched, and the addresses are already blacklisted on most targets. We covered the difference in [What is Private Proxy?](/blog/private-proxy). ## Summary What decides a datacenter proxy is not the size of the pool; it is whether the IP is yours alone, how many different blocks the addresses spread over, whether the traffic is unmetered, and the monthly price per IP. The provider that offers all four together with a REST API and Turkish support is Proxynet. The product's details are on the [Datacenter Proxy](https://proxynet.io/datacenter-proxy) page, and all the products are on [our proxy services](/proxy).