Mobile proxies cost a median $4.00 per GB on a seller's smallest plan. That is across 33 sellers whose price lists we recorded from August to October 2026. The middle half charge between $3.00 and $5.00, and the largest plans fall to a median $2.20. A mobile proxy sends your traffic out through a carrier's 4G or 5G network, where one public address is shared by many subscribers. A 2016 study found that sharing, carrier-grade NAT, in over 92% of cellular networks. For targets that accept home addresses, residential costs less, a median $3.50 per GB on the smallest plan.
Below are the market prices, what a carrier address changes and how sellers bill. The last sections cover where mobile pools come from and what to check before you pay.
What do mobile proxies cost per GB in 2026?
Between $1 and $8 on the smallest plan, with the middle half between $3 and $5. We took each seller's latest price list from our records, captured from its own pricing page. Then we read the price per GB of the smallest plan:
Volume lowers the rate: on the largest published plan the median is $2.20 per GB. Four sellers, read on October 25, 2026:
| Seller | Smallest paid start | Price per GB |
|---|---|---|
| HProxy | 1 GB | $1.50/GB |
| Proxidize | a 25 GB plan, KYC | $2.00 |
| Databay | 5 GB | $3.55 |
| Oxylabs | $30 a month | $7.50 |
Proxidize keeps $2.00 per GB at every plan size, and its page says KYC is required. Databay falls to $2.50 per GB at 512 GB. Oxylabs falls to $3.50 per GB from 714 GB, on Enterprise plans from $2,500 a month, and offers $5 of welcome credits.
What does a mobile proxy change compared with a residential one?
The address belongs to a carrier, and carriers share their addresses. A 2016 study by TU Berlin, ICSI and others found carrier-grade NAT, or CGN, in "over 92%" of cellular networks. It found the same in 17 to 18% of non-cellular consumer networks, and 13.3% of all non-cellular ones:
Some providers told the researchers they put up to 20 subscribers on one IPv4 address. The internet standards reserve address space for this: RFC 6598 set aside 100.64.0.0/10 "to accommodate the needs of Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN) devices". A site that blocks one carrier address can block real subscribers along with it. Our explainer on CGNAT covers the mechanism.
The carrier address changes only the address. Your headers, cookies, browser fingerprint and timing pass through as your program sends them. Our comparison of mobile vs residential proxies sets the two side by side.
When should you buy mobile proxies instead of residential?
When the job needs a carrier network, or the target treats carrier addresses differently. Seeing a page, an ad or an app the way a phone user on a carrier network sees it is one such job. Where a target accepts home addresses, residential costs less at the median, $3.50 per GB against $4.00 on the smallest plan.
The cheap test settles it. Buy a gigabyte of residential traffic, run your real target, and count what works. Move to mobile only if residential falls short there. Our comparison of the best residential proxies and the cost breakdown show what a residential gigabyte costs a tier down.
How are mobile proxies priced: per GB or per proxy?
Two models, and the volume decides between them:
- Per GB from a shared pool. You draw exits from the seller's carrier pool and pay for the data you move, pay as you go or in a monthly plan. Our mobile pool works this way, at $1.50 per GB.
- Per proxy. Some sellers rent one address or device for a period; Proxidize, for one, sells per GB or per proxy. "Dedicated mobile proxy" draws about 170 searches a month on Google.
A monthly plan costs its full price in a quiet month, while a pay-as-you-go balance waits until you use it. If you cannot yet predict your volume, start per GB and let a month of real traffic decide. The same logic applies to pay-as-you-go residential proxies.
Where do mobile proxy IPs come from?
Often from apps on ordinary phones. A 2021 study of mobile proxy networks found four providers paying app makers to embed proxy code. The going rate was "$50K per month per 1M MAU", or monthly active users. It counted 1,701 Android app files with that code, most on Google Play, with at least 300 million installs between them.
Of those files, 48.43% were flagged as malicious by at least five antivirus engines. By October 2019, 86.60% of the apps were gone from Google Play. One kit relayed traffic "without showing any notifications". The study also captured 625,000 cellular proxy addresses.
So ask any seller how its mobile exits join the network, and what the device owner agreed to. A seller's own word "ethical" proves nothing without a published consent process.
How do you check that a mobile proxy is real?
Look the exit up. Our free IP lookup shows the network that owns an address. The proxy checker runs the same test through a proxy you paste in. A mobile exit belongs to a carrier. One that belongs to a hosting company is a datacenter address with a mobile label.
Then test a small amount on your real target before you scale. Check the country, the carrier and the share of requests that work.
Can you buy mobile proxies for a specific country?
Yes, at most sellers, and the depth differs. Ours target by country, and picking a carrier is not offered on them. Databay lists country or continent, and Oxylabs lists continent, country, state, city, coordinates and network. Searches such as "buy mobile proxies usa" or "uk" ask the right question, so check the seller's coverage in your country before you buy.
What do HProxy's mobile proxies include?
The facts, from our own product pages on October 25, 2026:
| What you compare | HProxy mobile |
|---|---|
| Price | $1.50/GB, any volume |
| Smallest order | 1 GB |
| Billing | a GB balance, no modem fee |
| Targeting | country; no carrier choice |
| Sessions | rotating, or sticky up to 7 days |
| Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 |
| Payment | card, crypto, Alipay, QRIS, Pix |
A card payment starts at $10 and a crypto payment at $3, and both fund one balance; PayPal is not offered. The mobile pricing page has the details, and the pricing page lists every product. If the residential test covers your job, our residential proxies cost $0.50 per GB for one GB, falling to $0.44/GB at 2,000 GB+. The method for judging any seller is in best place to buy residential proxies.
What this page could not check
- No test of any network. We measured no speed, success rate, pool size or carrier mix at any seller, ours included.
- Old mechanism data. The carrier-grade NAT figures date from 2016 and the app study from 2021.
- Latest captures only. The price records hold 33 sellers' latest lists from August to October 2026, and some lists carry one price.
- Sellers' own words. Pool sizes and "ethical" claims on sellers' pages are theirs, unverified.
- Check by January 25, 2027. Prices, KYC rules and plans change often, and every figure here needs a fresh read by then.
Sources
- Philipp Richter and others, "A Multi-perspective Analysis of Carrier-Grade NAT Deployment", ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 2016.
- Xianghang Mi and others, "Your Phone is My Proxy: Detecting and Understanding Mobile Proxy Networks", Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, February 2021.
- IETF, RFC 6598, "IANA-Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space", April 2012.
- Proxidize, mobile proxy pricing page, read October 25, 2026.
- Databay, mobile proxies page, read October 25, 2026.
- Oxylabs, mobile proxies page, read October 25, 2026.
- HProxy, mobile proxies product page and price catalog, read October 25, 2026.
- HProxy price records: the mobile price lists of 33 sellers, captured August 3 to October 14, 2026, and the residential lists of 66 sellers, captured July 2 to October 22, 2026.
- Google Ads Keyword Planner, worldwide searches a month, read October 25, 2026.
