The Cheapest Residential Proxies in 2026 (Honestly Compared)

The cheapest residential proxies in October 2026 cost under $1 per GB, and few sellers offer that rate on a small order. We priced 10 GB of residential traffic at 57 providers, from their own price lists, read between September 26 and October 22, 2026. Three of them charge a 10 GB buyer less than $1 per GB. They are Proxiware's Eco pool at $0.30 on a monthly plan, Rainproxy at $0.60 and Evomi at $0.99. Our own Residential Lite costs $0.50 per GB from the first gigabyte. The median of the 57 is $2.90 per GB, about $29 for the 10 GB.

What are the cheapest residential proxies in 2026?

The chart ranks the 12 cheapest of the 57 price lists for a buyer who needs 10 GB, with our Lite rate added. Each bar is the rate on the cheapest single purchase that covers 10 GB. A pack may be bought twice, and a monthly plan counts once. We used regular prices: no discount codes, no one-time offers for new customers, and no sales with a closing date.

Across all 57, the middle half charge a 10 GB buyer between $2.00 and $3.50 per GB. Fourteen charge less than $2, and eleven charge $4 or more. Every rate in the chart rests on three conditions: the purchase size, the expiry, and the pool the price belongs to.

Proxiware Eco, $0.30 per GB

Proxiware's Eco pool had the lowest rate in our records: $0.30 per GB on its Starter plan of 10 GB a month. We recorded it on September 27, 2026. It is a subscription. Proxiware says unused data "never expires while your subscription is active", so it lapses with the plan. Eco is the cheaper of two pools, with a stated 30M+ addresses against 100M+ for Premium. On October 22 the page showed a "Limited-time offer". It also drew its plan prices with a script our reader could not run, so confirm the rate at checkout.

HProxy Residential Lite, $0.50/GB

This is our own pool. Lite costs $0.50 per GB for any amount from one gigabyte, so 10 GB costs $5. The rate steps down to $0.44/GB at 2,000 GB+. Lite targets by country only. Bought traffic has no scheduled expiry date under our terms, and pay as you go needs no subscription.

Rainproxy Smart, $0.60 per GB

Rainproxy sells 1 GB of its Smart pool for $0.99 and charges $0.60 per GB for 5 or 10 GB. The rate falls to $0.40 at 100 GB and $0.24 at 1 TB. Its pricing page says "Pay once. Traffic never expires". Smart is the cheapest of its three pools; the Exclusive pool, with city and ASN targeting, starts at $2.98 per GB.

Evomi, $0.99 per GB

Evomi prints $0.49 per GB, and that rate belongs to its 100 GB monthly plan at $49 a month. Pay as you go costs $0.99 per GB, sold from 15 GB "with no commitment and no expiry". A 10 GB buyer therefore pays $14.85 for 15 GB. We compare the two price lists line by line in HProxy vs Evomi.

DataImpulse, Fastproxy and NSTData, $1.00 per GB

Three sellers charge $1.00 per GB at 10 GB, each with its own condition. DataImpulse offers new customers a one-time $5 start for 5 GB, then sells top-ups of $50 for 50 GB. It says its traffic never expires. Fastproxy's budget pool has no minimum spend and covers 50+ countries. NSTData sells its Lite pool at $10 for a 10 GB package that runs 30 days; nstproxy.com now redirects to it.

ProxyRack, $1.10 per GB on a 100 GB plan

ProxyRack's metered plan held 100 GB a month for $110 in our record of September 27, 2026. That is $1.10 per GB, and a buyer who needs 10 GB pays for 100. The plan is set out in HProxy vs ProxyRack.

Why is the advertised price lower than what you pay?

Most price lists lead with their lowest rate, and that rate sits on their largest plan. The chart sets each seller's rate on its smallest purchase against the lowest rate it prints, both without discount codes.

Bright Data lists $8 per GB pay as you go and $5 on its 798 GB monthly plan. A code printed on the same page, RESIGB50, halves both: $4 pay as you go, and $1,999 a month for the 798 GB plan. The page also matches a first deposit dollar for dollar, up to $500. Details are in HProxy vs Bright Data.

SOAX charges $5.00 per GB on its free Sandbox plan. Its "from $0.85/GB" rate belongs to the $3,000 a month plan.

Rayobyte charges $3.50 per GB from 1 to 49 GB, and $0.70 from 1,000 GB in our October 12 record. Its pricing page leads with a "Scale" offer at $0.0150 per GB: $100 a month for 6,600 GB. A buyer has to apply for it.

Webshare starts at $3.50 per GB "for a 1GB plan" and drops to $1.40 at 3,000 GB, "billed monthly". Decodo charges $4 per GB pay as you go and $3.75 on its 3 GB monthly plan. Its $2 rate needs a 1 TB enterprise plan.

IPFoxy prints "start from $1.99/GB", while its 10 GB plan costs $4.99 per GB on the same page (HProxy vs IPFoxy). MarsProxies sells 1 GB at $4.99 and 10 GB at $3.99 per GB. It says the traffic does not expire (HProxy vs MarsProxies).

A rate that needs 798 GB a month is a fair price for a buyer who uses 798 GB a month. Everyone else should compare the rate at their own volume. Discounts move the target too. In August 2026, 8 of the 20 residential price lists we re-read carried a discount. Only one gave an end date, as the permanent proxy sale records.

Which cheap residential plans expire?

A low rate on traffic you cannot finish is a high rate on the traffic you use. Take a 10 GB package for $10 that lasts 30 days. If you use 4 GB in that time, each used gigabyte cost $2.50.

Expiry and plan size work together. Webshare and Decodo bill their plans every month, so a quiet month still costs the plan. Proxiware rolls unused data over only while the subscription runs. A balance with no expiry date costs nothing while it sits unused, which suits jobs that come in bursts. Our guide to pay-as-you-go residential proxies covers how such balances work.

What do the cheapest residential proxies leave out?

• Location targeting. Cheap pools often stop at the country. Our Lite pool targets by country, and NSTData's Lite page lists "Country level targeting". Shifter prices its pools by targeting, all on monthly plans: city and ASN targeting from $0.75 per GB, country only from $0.48, and no location choice from $0.10.
• The pool behind the price. Many sellers run a cheap pool beside a dearer one. Evomi's core pool costs $0.99 per GB pay as you go and its premium pool $3.98. Rainproxy's Smart pool costs $0.99 for 1 GB and its Exclusive pool $2.98. Fastproxy's premium pool adds city targeting at $2.50.
• Sales with a clock. On October 22, 2026, PowerProxy's home page ran a "Halloween Flash Sale" on its Lite pool: $0.65 per GB, against a stated regular $1.25, with a countdown. Shifter offered a second month free. Our charts use regular prices.
• Who may buy. Bright Data's residential network is "available only to verified companies that pass a human-reviewed KYC" check, its documentation says. Accounts on a personal email are not eligible, and the rule covers every residential zone created after July 7, 2026.
• One address for weeks. A rotating pool hands out many addresses. If a job needs one address for weeks, a static ISP proxy is sold per address instead, at $2.70/IP for a month with us.

Plans sold as "unlimited" residential are another way to buy, priced by time or connection speed. Our page on unlimited residential proxies explains what they can and cannot include.

Are the cheapest residential proxies any good?

A price list cannot answer that. Sellers print success rates for their own networks: DataImpulse states 99.51%, NSTData 99.5% and 711Proxy 99.7%. These are their own figures, and we found no independent measurement behind them.

The number that decides your real cost is the cost per successful request. It is what you spent, divided by the requests that returned the page you wanted. A pool that succeeds on half your requests doubles the price of every useful gigabyte. Retries also cost time, and they can trip a site's rate limits.

Where the addresses come from is the other unknown. In January 2026, Google named 13 "ostensibly independent" proxy and VPN brands controlled by the people behind IPIDEA. Among them are IP 2 World and Luna Proxy. Both still appear in published rankings of cheap residential proxies. A low price says nothing about consent. Ask any seller how it recruits the devices behind its addresses. Our explainer on what a residential proxy is describes the four ways providers do it. Inside the IPIDEA cluster maps that one network.

Test before you buy in bulk. Our free proxy checker app checks proxies from your own connection and shows the fraud score of the exit. The IP lookup shows whether an address is datacenter or residential, and whether it is a known proxy. Our free proxy list is enough to try a tool's proxy settings before you pay for anything.

Is HProxy the cheapest residential proxy?

For a 10 GB job, nearly. Our Lite rate came second of the 58 price lists we compared, behind Proxiware's Eco plan. Lite costs $0.50 per GB, so 10 GB costs $5. Proxiware's Eco Starter cost $3 for 10 GB a month in our record.

At volume the order changes. Rainproxy's rate falls to $0.40 per GB at 100 GB and $0.24 at 1 TB, while ours steps down to $0.44/GB at 2,000 GB+. Shifter's pool with no location choice starts at $0.10 per GB on large monthly plans.

Lite also leaves things out. It targets by country only. For state, city or ISP targeting, Residential Premium costs $1.49 per GB and falls to $1.00 per GB at 1,000 GB+. Buying needs no KYC for standard use; our terms allow a basic identity check on crypto payments above €1,000.

For a small job, the enterprise price lists lose on price. At list rates, 10 GB costs $80 at Bright Data and $80 on Massive's Starter plan. Oxylabs' smallest plan that holds 10 GB costs $100 a month. The same 10 GB costs $6 at Rainproxy and $5 on our Lite pool.

How do you find the cheapest residential proxy for your job?

1. Measure your volume. Run a small batch of your real requests, read the traffic it used, and multiply out to a month.
2. Price your volume on each ladder. Use the rate for the amount you will buy, never the lowest rate a page prints.
3. Check expiry and billing. A monthly plan or a 30-day package costs the full price even in a quiet month.
4. Check the targeting. If you need a city or an ISP, compare only the pools that offer it.
5. Test the cheapest two or three on your target. Buy the smallest amount, count the requests that worked, and divide the spend by them. Our provider vetting checklist covers what else to check.

If pay as you go with no expiry date fits your job, our residential proxies cost $0.50 per GB from one gigabyte. The residential pricing page shows every step down to $0.44/GB, and the pricing page lists every product. Card and crypto are among the payment options. For prices across datacenter, ISP and mobile, see how much proxies cost. For the full field judged on more than price, see the best residential proxies. Every price list we hold is in the residential proxy price study.

Two other kinds of home address are sold differently. ISP vs residential proxies prices the static kind per IP, and mobile vs residential proxies shows carrier traffic costing more per GB at most sellers. For one address kept by a single buyer, see private residential proxies.

What this page could not check

• Prices only. We measured no speed, success rate or pool size at any seller, ours included.
• Pages drawn by script. Proxiware, Proxy Cheap, Novproxy, ProxyRack, Proxylogic and Webshare's 10 GB plan show their prices only through a script. Those figures come from our records of September 26 to October 14, 2026, and may have moved.
• Sales and codes. We used regular prices. A seller running a sale on the day you read this may charge less.
• Taxes and currency. Several sellers add VAT at checkout, and Bright Data calls its local currency figures indicative.
• Sourcing. No price list shows how a seller obtains its addresses.
• Check by January 22, 2027. Prices in this market move monthly, so every figure here needs a fresh read by then.

Sources

• Proxiware, Eco Residential and Residential pricing pages, read October 22, 2026; Eco plan prices from our record of September 27, 2026.
• Rainproxy, pricing page, read October 22, 2026.
• Evomi, pricing page, read October 22, 2026.
• DataImpulse, residential proxies page, read October 22, 2026.
• Fastproxy, pricing page, read October 22, 2026.
• NSTData, Residential Lite pricing page, read October 22, 2026.
• IPDeep, dynamic residential page, read October 22, 2026.
• 711Proxy, residential proxies pricing page, read October 22, 2026.
• Bright Data, residential proxies pricing page, read October 22, 2026.
• Bright Data documentation, "Residential network access", updated September 1, 2026, read October 22, 2026.
• Oxylabs, residential proxy pricing page, read October 22, 2026; per-GB rates from our record of October 12, 2026.
• Decodo, residential proxies pricing page, read October 22, 2026.
• SOAX, pricing page, read October 22, 2026.
• Webshare, rotating residential and pricing pages, read October 22, 2026.
• Rayobyte, pricing and residential proxies pages, read October 22, 2026.
• MarsProxies, ProxyEmpire, IPFoxy, PowerProxy, Shifter, IPBurger and Massive, pricing pages, read October 22, 2026.
• Google Threat Intelligence Group, "No Place Like Home Network: Disrupting the World's Largest Residential Proxy Network", January 28, 2026.
• HProxy, "The Permanent Sale: 8 of 20 Proxy Vendors Are Discounting and Only 1 Says When It Ends", August 10, 2026.
• HProxy price records: the residential price lists of 57 providers, read September 26 to October 22, 2026.
• HProxy Terms of Service, sections "Payment methods" and "Traffic balances", read October 22, 2026.