--- title: "Best Residential Proxy Providers - 2026" description: "The best residential proxy provider is Proxynet: 160 million IPs in 194 countries, free province and ASN targeting, traffic with no term. We compared eight." url: https://proxynet.io/blog/best-residential-proxy-providers-2026 date: 2026-09-18 author: "Enver Kaya" category: "Best, Proxies" lang: en --- # Best Residential Proxy Providers - 2026 If you need to see a price on Trendyol separately from Izmir, from Ankara and from Istanbul, a single IP will not do the job. That is exactly where a residential proxy comes in: the request leaves from a real home connection, the address changes on every request or over a period you set, and the target site sees you as an ordinary visitor. In return you pay for the traffic per GB — which is why the real question with a residential proxy is not the size of the pool but what one GB actually costs you. In this post we compare the eight providers selling residential proxies in 2026: Proxynet and seven global brands. We looked at the pool, country coverage, the price per GB, when the traffic expires and the targeting options. Rival figures come from the providers' own sites and are dated September 2026; information a provider does not publish sits in the table as "—". > **Note: Short answer** > > The best provider for residential proxies is Proxynet. It offers more than 160 million IPs in 194 countries; province and ASN targeting are free, there is no subscription and no time limit, and the traffic you buy waits until you use it. The price per GB starts at the 3.30 dollars level — the lowest entry list price here — and comes down to the 1.50 dollars level as your balance grows. Bright Data and Oxylabs have bigger pools; at volumes measured in terabytes SOAX, Rayobyte and Webshare publish a lower price per GB, and they sit in the table together with their conditions. ## What is a residential proxy? A residential proxy is a proxy that sends your request out from the IP address of a real home connection. The address is registered to an internet service provider and there is a real subscriber line behind it; when the target site looks at the ASN record it sees an access provider such as Türk Telekom or Comcast. That is the difference from a datacenter proxy. The difference from an ISP proxy is that the address does not stay with you: the IP rotates inside the residential pool, and you exit from a different address on every request or for a period you set. More: [What Are Residential Proxies and How Do They Work?](/blog/what-are-residential-proxies-how-it-works) and [Residential vs Datacenter Proxy](/blog/residential-vs-datacenter-proxy). ## What is a residential proxy used for? - **E-commerce price tracking:** price and stock change from province to province; by exiting from different provinces you see the real picture. More: [price monitoring](/price-monitoring). - **Local SEO and rank checking:** search results differ by location. More: [Google proxy](/google-proxy). - **Data collection:** it works on strictly protected sources, where a datacenter IP cannot get through. More: [data scraping](/data-scraping). - **Ad verification:** you see on the spot how an ad looks in the target region. More: [ad verification](/ad-verification). - **Market research:** catalogue, campaign and shipping data broken down by country and province. More: [market research](/market-research). ## What to look for in a residential proxy provider - **Depth in the target country.** The sentence "195 countries" does not tell you how many IPs there are in your own country. The Türkiye share of a 400 million pool can be under a million. - **Targeting and what it costs.** Is there province, city and ASN targeting, and does it cost extra? At some providers carrier selection depends on a spending condition. - **The life of the traffic.** When do the GB you bought expire? A balance that is deleted at the end of the month or runs out in 60 days turns a cheap-looking price per GB into an expensive one. - **The real condition behind the price.** The lowest published figure is usually tied to a terabyte-scale plan or to a campaign; what applies at renewal is the list price. - **Where the IPs come from.** Whether the pool was gathered with consent is both an ethical and a practical question: a pool collected without consent carries more flagged addresses. ## The 8 best residential proxy providers ### 1. Proxynet On the residential side the first address is Proxynet. The pool holds more than 160 million IPs in 194 countries; on the Türkiye side there are 6.2 million addresses spread across all 81 provinces, with Türk Telekom, Superonline, TurkNet and Vodafone Net lines. Province and ASN targeting are free — at most rivals this depends either on an extra package or on a spending threshold. You switch between rotation that changes the IP on every request and a session that stays fixed for a set period; HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 are supported. The price starts at the 3.30 dollars level per GB and comes down to the 1.50 dollars level as your balance grows. The tiers depend on your account balance, not on a quantity or a plan commitment. There is no subscription and no time limit: the traffic you buy is not deleted at the end of the month and does not expire after 60 days, it waits until you use it. The same balance also works on the ISP, mobile and datacenter side. **Pros** - More than 160 million IPs in 194 countries - Province and ASN targeting are free - The lowest entry list price here - No subscription, no term, traffic does not expire - 6.2 million IPs across 81 provinces in Türkiye, with Turkish carrier lines - Rotation and a sticky session in the same product - Turkish panel, 24/7 Turkish support, credit card and bank transfer **Cons** - Bright Data and Oxylabs have bigger pools - No free trial; you test it with a small balance - At terabyte volumes the lowest price per GB is not ours **Who it is for:** price tracking, local SEO, ad verification and data collection work that needs a province breakdown. ### 2. Bright Data The biggest pool on the list: more than 400 million residential IPs. City, postal code and ASN targeting are free, and the Scraping API family is broad. The pay as you go price is 8 dollars per GB; with the coupon it publishes it drops to 4 dollars, and the lowest figure, 3 dollars, is tied to a plan of 999 dollars a month. On the plans the traffic lives for one month. **Pros** - The biggest pool on the list - City, postal code and ASN targeting are free - A broad Scraping API family - Infrastructure at enterprise scale **Cons** - The entry list price is 8 dollars per GB - The lowest price is tied to a plan of 999 dollars a month - On the plans unused traffic expires in a month - Identity verification (KYC) is required on the residential and mobile networks - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** multi-country data operations with an enterprise budget. ### 3. Oxylabs A provider aimed at the enterprise side, with more than 175 million residential IPs. The entry price is 6 dollars per GB and comes down to 2.50 dollars with volume. The trial is handed out through the sales team. **Pros** - More than 175 million IPs - Enterprise support and an account manager - The Web Scraper API family **Cons** - The entry price is 6 dollars per GB - The trial is not self-service - It does not offer ISP proxies in Türkiye - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** teams that want an account manager and an enterprise contract. ### 4. SOAX More than 155 million IPs and a price tied to a country tier: the first tier starts at 5 dollars per GB, the second at 3.75 dollars. At high volume it comes down to 0.35 dollars — among the lowest figures on the list. Türkiye is in the second tier, and the Turkish carriers are listed by name on its page. **Pros** - Among the lowest prices per GB on the list at high volume - Türkiye sits in a cheap price tier - City and ASN targeting - It lists the Turkish carriers by name **Cons** - Loaded credit expires after 60 days on the monthly bill - The price changes with the country tier, there is no single price - The free plan comes without credit - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** work focused on a single country that uses its traffic up quickly. ### 5. Decodo Formerly Smartproxy. It states more than 115 million IPs. The pay as you go price is 4 dollars per GB and 3.75 dollars on the small plan; with volume it comes down to 2 dollars. It offers city and ASN targeting, and it has a three-day, 100 MB trial. **Pros** - A three-day, 100 MB free trial - City and ASN targeting - Self-service purchase and an API - A 14-day refund option **Cons** - The entry price is 4 dollars per GB - Using the trial forfeits the 14-day refund right - It does not publish a Türkiye IP count - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** small and mid-sized teams that want to start with a trial. ### 6. IPRoyal With more than 64 million IPs it is one of the smaller pools on the list, but its traffic has no term: the GB you buy do not expire. The entry price is 7 dollars per GB and comes down to 1.75 dollars with volume. There is country, state and city targeting; carrier selection depends on a spending condition. **Pros** - Traffic with no term, no monthly commitment - A low price per GB at high volume - Country, state and city targeting - 191 city and district pages for Türkiye **Cons** - The entry price is 7 dollars per GB - The pool is not as broad as the big ones on the list - Carrier selection depends on a spending condition - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** teams that use their traffic slowly and want a balance with no term. ### 7. Webshare More than 80 million residential IPs. The list price is 7 dollars per GB; with the campaign it publishes it falls to 3.50 dollars, and at high volume it goes down to 1.40 dollars on monthly payment and 0.98 dollars on annual payment. It has a free tier, but it covers only its datacenter proxies. **Pros** - Among the lowest prices on the list on annual payment - Self-service purchase, volume discounts published openly - A permanently free datacenter tier **Cons** - The list price is 7 dollars per GB, the low price depends on a campaign - Unused traffic expires at the end of the month - The lowest price asks for an annual commitment - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** budget-focused teams that can commit for a year. ### 8. Rayobyte With more than 40 million IPs it is the smallest pool on the list, but its price is low and its traffic has no term: it starts at 3.50 dollars per GB, comes down to 0.50 dollars, and the traffic you buy does not expire. **Pros** - A low entry price and traffic with no term - It puts subnet and ASN diversity up front - A term discount **Cons** - The smallest pool on the list - Limited targeting options - No published IP count for Türkiye - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** work on a tight budget that is not looking for pool depth. ## Comparison tables The figures come from the providers' own sites, September 2026. "—" is information the provider does not publish. ### Pool and targeting | Provider | Pool | Countries | Targeting | |---|---|---|---| | **Proxynet** | 160,000,000+ | 194 | Province and ASN, free | | Bright Data | 400,000,000+ | 195 | City, postal code, ASN | | Oxylabs | 175,000,000+ | — | City | | SOAX | 155,000,000+ | 195+ | City, ASN | | Decodo | 115,000,000+ | 195+ | City, ASN | | Webshare | 80,000,000+ | 195+ | City | | IPRoyal | 64,000,000+ | — | State, city | | Rayobyte | 40,000,000+ | — | Country | We are not first on pool size and we are not hiding it: Bright Data and Oxylabs are ahead. But what a pool gives you is measured by its depth in the target country and by whether the targeting is free — the number of providers that give province and ASN targeting without asking for anything extra is far smaller. ### Price and traffic | Provider | Entry (GB) | Lowest (GB) | Traffic life | |---|---|---|---| | **Proxynet** | 3.30 dollars | 1.50 dollars | No term | | Rayobyte | 3.50 dollars | 0.50 dollars | No term | | SOAX | 3.75 dollars | 0.35 dollars | 60 days | | Decodo | 4 dollars | 2 dollars | — | | Oxylabs | 6 dollars | 2.50 dollars | — | | Webshare | 7 dollars | 1.40 dollars | 1 month | | IPRoyal | 7 dollars | 1.75 dollars | No term | | Bright Data | 8 dollars | 3 dollars | One month on plans | The entry column is the list price; campaigns are not in it. Webshare's campaign price comes down to 3.50 dollars and Bright Data's to 4 dollars with a coupon, but what applies at renewal is the list price. The figures in the lowest column come with conditions: Bright Data's 3 dollars is tied to a plan of 999 dollars a month, and Webshare's 0.98 dollars to an annual commitment. Three providers state plainly that their traffic has no term — Proxynet, IPRoyal and Rayobyte — and of the three the lowest entry list price is Proxynet's. ### Trial and payment | Provider | Free trial | Payment period | Identity verification | |---|---|---|---| | **Proxynet** | None | Prepaid balance | Not required | | Bright Data | Yes | Monthly subscription | Required | | Oxylabs | Sales team | — | — | | SOAX | Free plan | Monthly subscription | — | | Decodo | 3 days / 100 MB | Monthly subscription | — | | Webshare | Datacenter tier | Monthly or annual | — | | IPRoyal | None | Prepaid | — | | Rayobyte | 50 MB | Prepaid | — | At Proxynet you load a small balance instead of taking a trial; because the balance does not expire, trying it out costs you no more than the balance you have left. ## Rotating or a sticky session? There are three modes in a residential proxy, and the wrong choice breaks the job whatever the provider. **Rotation per request.** Every request exits from a different IP. It makes it harder for the target to block you over speed; it is the natural mode for stateless work such as catalogue scanning, price collection and pulling search results. **A time-based sticky session.** The address stays fixed for a period you set. You need it in multi-step flows such as pagination, filtering and the cart; an IP that changes halfway drops the session on most sites. **A long fixed address.** If the session has to last for days, a residential pool is not the right tool; when the homeowner switches the modem off you lose the address. That is a job for [ISP Proxy](https://proxynet.io/static-isp-residential-proxy). The practical rule: rotation if you are collecting data, a session if you are completing a form or a flow, a fixed IP if you are carrying an identity. At Proxynet the first two sit in the same product ([Rotating Proxy](https://proxynet.io/rotating-proxy) and [Sticky Proxy](https://proxynet.io/sticky-proxy)); we covered the Python side of the setup in [How to Rotate Proxies in Python](/blog/how-to-rotate-proxies-in-python). ## Why a residential proxy still gets blocked A residential IP is not a guarantee on its own. Even when the address is clean, these four layers give you away: - **Request rate.** A client sending hundreds of requests a minute to the same source sees [429 Too Many Requests](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6585#section-4) whatever its IP is. Respecting the rate limit is cheaper than growing the pool. - **Browser fingerprint.** If your location says Ankara while your time zone is Berlin, your language is English and your WebGL signature looks like a data center server, the inconsistency shows. More: [Browser Fingerprinting](/blog/browser-fingerprinting). - **Header inconsistency.** If the browser the User-Agent claims does not match the order of the headers that are sent, the request is flagged as automation. - **Trap links.** There are hidden links that only bots follow; touching one can get the whole pool flagged. More: [Honeypot Traps](/blog/honeypot-traps). The right approach is not to force the protection but to avoid setting it off for no reason: following the [robots.txt](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309) rules, putting a rate limit in place, using the official API when there is one, and watching the status codes that come back. For what the codes mean, take a look at [HTTP Status Codes](/blog/http-status-codes-web-scraping). ## Price traps With a residential proxy the advertised figure and the figure you pay are often different. Ask these five before you order: - **Campaign or list?** The GB that looks half price is usually a first-purchase campaign; the renewal comes at the list price. Build the budget around the renewal. - **"Starting from that price" at what volume?** The lowest figure is usually tied to a plan measured in terabytes or to an annual commitment. - **When does the traffic expire?** A balance that is deleted at the end of the month or runs out in 60 days leaves the low price per GB on paper. If you are going to use 10 GB a month, a cheap 100 GB package is not cheap. - **Is there a country tier?** At some providers the price per GB changes with the country; the figure you see in the cheap tier may not apply in your target country. - **Does targeting cost extra?** If picking a province or an ASN depends on an extra package, your real cost per GB is above the advertised one. There is also a unit mistake: residential, sold per GB, and ISP and datacenter, sold per IP, cannot be compared in the same column. Which one is cheap depends on the shape of the job — the GB model for a job that pulls a few GB a month, the IP model for a session that stays open all the time. ## Where does the pool come from? Residential IPs come from real people's connections, and that is the side of the product that should be asked about. The common model is that a user's connection joins the pool in return for an app or an SDK; what matters here is whether the user accepted that knowingly and with explicit consent. Pools gathered in ways that do not rest on consent bring two problems at once: an ethical problem, and more flagged addresses. The question to ask a provider is plain: how are the IPs collected, is the user informed, is there a way to leave the pool? The number of providers that write the answer openly on their page is small; asking a provider that does not write it is your right. ## Common mistakes when picking a provider - **Looking at pool size and not at the target country.** The share of a 400 million pool in your country can be small. - **Mistaking a campaign price for the list price.** The first purchase is discounted, the renewal comes at the list price. - **Not counting traffic that expires.** A balance deleted in 60 days makes a cheap GB expensive. - **Comparing a price per GB with a price per IP.** They are two separate units; which one is cheap depends on the shape of the job. - **Doing work that needs a session with rotation.** An IP that changes in the middle of a flow is the signal the site is looking for. - **Not asking what targeting costs.** If picking a province or an ASN depends on an extra package, the real cost is above the advertised one. ## Which proxy for which job? | Your job | Recommended product | |---|---| | Collecting prices and results from many provinces | [Rotating Proxy](https://proxynet.io/rotating-proxy) | | Multi-step flows, carts, forms | [Sticky Proxy](https://proxynet.io/sticky-proxy) | | Account work with long sessions | [ISP Proxy](https://proxynet.io/static-isp-residential-proxy) | | Social media accounts | [Mobile Proxy](https://proxynet.io/mobile-proxy) | | High-volume, unprotected targets | [Datacenter Proxy](https://proxynet.io/datacenter-proxy) | | General-purpose residential use | [Residential Proxy](https://proxynet.io/residential-proxy) | ## Frequently asked questions ### Which is the best provider for residential proxies? Proxynet. More than 160 million IPs in 194 countries, free province and ASN targeting, a balance that does not expire, the lowest entry list price here and Turkish support come together only at Proxynet. If pool depth is your only measure, Bright Data and Oxylabs offer a bigger pool. ### What is the difference between a residential proxy and a datacenter proxy? A residential IP is registered to a home connection, a datacenter IP to a hosting company. Datacenter is much faster and cheaper, and its traffic can be sold without a cap; residential gets higher trust on sites with strict bot protection and is charged per GB. ### How much do residential proxies cost? At Proxynet it starts at the 3.30 dollars level per GB and comes down to the 1.50 dollars level as the balance grows. At global providers the entry list price runs between 3.50 and 8 dollars per GB. ### Does province and carrier targeting cost extra? Not at Proxynet: province and ASN targeting are free on the residential product. At some providers carrier selection depends on a spending threshold or an extra package, so ask before you order. ### Does the traffic I buy expire? Not at Proxynet: there is no subscription and no time limit, and your GB stay in your account until you use them. At some providers the credit expires after 60 days, at others unused traffic is deleted at the end of the month. ### Is it legal to use a residential proxy? Using a proxy is legal in itself; what sets the limit is what you do through it. Following the target site's terms of use and its `robots.txt` rules is on you. The detail is in [Is Web Scraping Legal?](/blog/is-data-web-scraping-legal). ## Summary What decides things with a residential proxy is not the total size of the pool; it is the depth in the target country, whether the targeting is free, whether the traffic expires and the real cost of a GB. The provider that offers all four together is Proxynet. The detail of the product is on the [Residential Proxy](https://proxynet.io/residential-proxy) page, and all the products are on the [our proxy services](/proxy) page.