Residential and web-scraping proxies
Residential and scraping proxies, ranked on what they actually cost
I pay for these plans, run them on real jobs, and track what each one really costs per gigabyte once failed requests are counted. No provider buys a better spot.
Not sure where to start? Read the table below for every provider at a glance, jump to a head to head if you are choosing between two, or pick by use case. If you just want the cheapest for your volume, run the calculator.
Every provider, side by side
New to this? Residential proxies route through real consumer IP addresses, so sites are far less likely to block them, and you pay by the gigabyte of traffic. That real cost per GB, once failed requests are counted, is what the table tracks.
| Provider | Starting price | Pool | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bright Data | from $4.00/GB | 400M+ | web-scraping, ad-verification | Visit |
 Webshare | from $3.50/GB | 80M+ | budget, seo | Visit |
 Oxylabs | from $6.00/GB | 175M+ | enterprise, ad-verification | Visit |
 Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) | from $4.00/GB | 115M+ | mid-market, social | Visit |
 ScraperAPI | request-based pricing | 5M+ residential | web-scraping, managed-api | Visit |
 IPRoyal | from $7.35/GB | 32M+ | pay-as-you-go, no-expiry | Visit |
Head to head
- Bright Data vs Webshare
- Bright Data vs Oxylabs
- Bright Data vs Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)
- Bright Data vs ScraperAPI
- Bright Data vs IPRoyal
- Oxylabs vs Webshare
Best for
Best for ad verificationBest for budgetBest for the cheapestBest for enterpriseBest for high successBest for InstagramBest for managed apiBest for mid market
Residential prices researched from official vendor pricing pages on 2026-06-21 (source per entity). Bright Data and Webshare entry rates are current promotions and will revert to roughly double; the freshness cron keeps these live.