People search for the best proxy provider and then land on a table of success rates they cannot rerun. This index does not print those rates. A lab that fires millions of requests can. We did not. What we can stand behind is the public price, the unit, and whether a normal team can start without a sales call.
Start with the job, then the door
If a hosting IP already returns the page, you do not need residential. Datacenter shared lists, Webshare’s entry around $0.03 per IP, are the cheap test. If the target rejects hosting networks and you are collecting public pages you are allowed to collect, residential is the meter, and it is dollars per gigabyte. If the same address must exist tomorrow, that is an ISP lease, dollars per IP. Mobile is the last test, not the first.
The order on this site
- Decodo first. Pay as you go is $4 per GB plus VAT. The smallest subscription is 3 GB at $3.75. You can start and leave.
- Oxylabs second when the buyer is a company. The smallest public residential rung we cite is about $30 for 5 GB. There is no pay-as-you-go cell on that grid.
- Bright Data third when the platform is the product. List pay-as-you-go is $8 per GB. A coupon often shows $4. The coupon is not the list, and residential KYC can close the door.
- IPRoyal when leftover gigabytes must not die. The 1 GB pack is $7.35 and does not expire. That is a different product from a monthly floor.
- SOAX when targeting is the reason. Sandbox pay-as-you-go is $5 per GB plus VAT.
- DataImpulse is the $1 per GB vendor sticker, plus VAT, non-expiring, with a top-up after the intro. Cheapest is labeled. It is not first.
- Webshare and Proxy-Seller are the static lists: shared datacenter and ISP at Webshare, dedicated ISP from about $3 per IP at Proxy-Seller.
- NetNut and Rayobyte stay Quote. On 28 Sep 2026, netnut.io and netnut.com showed a seizure notice, not a price. We do not link those domains.
What not to rank on
Pool sizes in the hundreds of millions are vendor sentences. A 50% coupon is a promotion. A $2 per GB line at a terabyte is not the plan a new team will buy. A success percentage from someone else’s lab is their measurement. Copying it into our table would pretend we ran the test.
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