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 costs per gigabyte once failed requests are counted. List prices hide a lot. This table is where every provider lands right now, with no provider buying a better spot.
Price-per-GB calculator
Enter your monthly volume and proxy type. Get the real effective cost per provider, ranked.
Every provider, side by side
| 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 web scrapingBest for ad verificationBest for enterprise useBest for a tight budgetBest for SEO toolsBest for hard-to-crack targets
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.