Residential proxies cost a median $2.80 per GB for a 10 GB purchase in November 2026. The rate falls as the order grows: a median $3.00 per GB for 1 GB, $2.00 for 100 GB and $1.40 for 1,000 GB. We priced each size on 58 providers' price lists, ours included, read from September 26 to November 12, 2026. The spread runs from $0.30 to $9.99 per GB for 10 GB. HProxy Residential Lite costs $0.47 per GB for those 10 GB, the second lowest of 58, and $0.50 for a single GB, the lowest of 58 by what a buyer pays.
How much do residential proxies cost per GB?
The price of a gigabyte depends on how many you buy. For each provider we found the cheapest single purchase that covers the amount, and took its rate per GB. A pack could be bought more than once, and a monthly plan counted once. We used regular prices: no discount codes, no one-time offers for new customers, and no sales with a closing date.
- Median of the 58
- HProxy Lite
| Order size | Median per GB | Middle half |
|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | $3.00 | $2.00 to $4.00 |
| 10 GB | $2.80 | $2.00 to $3.50 |
| 100 GB | $2.00 | $1.50 to $2.75 |
| 1,000 GB | $1.40 | $0.78 to $2.00 |
Fewer providers appear at the larger sizes because some publish no plan that big. At 100 GB one drops out, and at 1,000 GB four. Their pages offer a quote instead, stop at a smaller plan, or show plan sizes only through a script.
What changed since October?
We re-read all 57 competitors' price pages on November 2, 2026, and this page now gets that check every month. On 25 pages, every price in our records was still printed. Most of the others draw their tables with a script, which our reader cannot run, so those lists keep their dated records.
One change stands out. ProxyHat cut its 10 GB rate from $6.50 to $4.00 per GB and its 100 GB rate from $4.75 to $2.90. IPCook now prints a $0.50 per GB subscription rate beside a crossed-out $3.20, with no end date and no terms we could read, so we left it out.
Since November 12, 2026, our own price list is part of the sample, read from our live price list by the same rule as every other. Without it, the November records give $3.00 for 1 GB, $2.85 for 10 GB, $2.01 for 100 GB and $1.50 for 1,000 GB, within five cents of the October medians at every size. With it, the medians are $3.00, $2.80, $2.00 and $1.40.
How widely do residential proxy prices vary?
Widely. For the same 10 GB, the cheapest list charged $0.30 per GB and the priciest $9.99, a factor of 33.
The four under $1 are Proxiware's Eco pool, at $0.30 on a 10 GB monthly plan, our own Residential Lite at $0.47, Rainproxy at $0.60 and Evomi at $0.99, sold from 15 GB. The four at $6 or more include Bright Data's $8 list rate and Massive's $80 Starter plan. Our cheapest residential proxies ranking names the 12 lowest, each with its condition.
How are residential proxies priced?
By the gigabyte, nearly always. Our records hold a current residential price list for 68 providers. Of those, 61 publish a price per GB, and 45 sell in no other unit. Fourteen also sell by the day, mostly "unlimited" plans sized by connection speed. IPDeep listed 100 Mbps for $28.50 a day, and Novproxy 100 Mbps for $38.33 a day, in our records of September 27, 2026. A few sell by the hour, the week, the port or the address. Our own residential pools sell by the gigabyte only.
A price per GB is the one unit that compares across sellers, so this study uses it. A day of unlimited traffic only beats it when the job moves a lot of data through one fast line.
What do the best-known providers charge?
Searches for one provider's price are common, so here are ten of the names people search, at two sizes, with our own Lite pool first. Each figure comes from the provider's own page, read on October 22, 2026, unless marked.
| Provider | 10 GB, per GB | 100 GB, per GB |
|---|---|---|
| HProxy Lite (ours) | $0.47 | $0.42 |
| DataImpulse | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Webshare | $2.75 (record) | $2.25 (record) |
| Rayobyte | $3.50 | $2.00 (record) |
| ProxyEmpire | $3.50 | $2.22 |
| Decodo | $3.50 | $2.75 |
| MarsProxies | $3.99 | $2.99 |
| IPFoxy | $4.99 | $2.99 |
| NodeMaven | $5.00 (record) | $3.00 (record) |
| Oxylabs | $5.00 (record) | $4.00 (record) |
| Bright Data | $8.00 | $8.00 |
Among these ten names, Lite is the lowest at both sizes, under half of DataImpulse's $1.00. Our row comes from our live price list, so it follows our prices. "Record" marks a figure from our price records of October 12, 2026, where the page draws its table with a script. Bright Data's figures are list rates; a code printed on its page halves them. The best residential proxies comparison sets these providers side by side on billing, expiry, targeting and payment too.
Why is the advertised price lower than what you pay?
Because the lowest number on a price list usually belongs to its largest plan. In October we compared each provider's rate for 10 GB with the lowest rate its page prints. The median provider charged a 10 GB buyer 2.0 times its lowest printed rate. Nearly half, 28 of the 57, charged at least twice as much.
The gap takes four shapes:
- A volume floor. Rayobyte charges $3.50 per GB from 1 to 49 GB and $0.70 from 1,000 GB, five times less.
- A monthly plan. Webshare's $1.40 belongs to a 3,000 GB monthly plan; its 1 GB plan costs $3.50 per GB.
- A different pool. Shifter prints "from $0.10 /GB" for a pool with no location choice, on large monthly plans. Its 10 GB plan costs $2.00 per GB, the widest gap in our sample at 20 times.
- A discount code. Bright Data's page prints the code RESIGB50 beside its rates. Without it, pay as you go costs $8 per GB.
Our own list steps down by volume as well: Lite costs $0.47 per GB for 10 GB and $0.23 per GB at 10,000 GB+, with no plan and no code.
Undated discounts make the advertised number move 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. ProxyEmpire, for one, showed its $3.50 pay-as-you-go rate as half off $7 (HProxy vs ProxyEmpire).
Have residential proxy prices fallen since 2022?
For the same providers, mostly yes. We took seven providers with an archived price list from 2022 or January 2023. For each, we compared the price of the smallest purchase then and now.
Bright Data's pay-as-you-go rate was $15 per GB in July 2022 and is $8 at list today. Oxylabs' smallest plan fell from $15 to $6 per GB, and Rayobyte's first tier from $15 to $3.50. Decodo's figure for 2023 is Smartproxy's: the company announced in April 2025 that Smartproxy "has officially introduced its new name, Decodo". The low end barely moved, because it was already low: DataImpulse charged $1.00 per GB in December 2022 and still does.
The archive holds only some providers in each year. This panel therefore tracks the same seven companies and makes no claim about the market's average then.
What does the person behind the address get paid?
Very little of the price. PacketStream, which sells residential traffic at "$1 per GB" with "No subscription", also runs the app that supplies it. Its own home page offers the people who run that app "$0.10 for every GB of traffic that passes through it". On its own two pages, then, the seller's price is ten times what the device owner earns. The pages we read do not say how other providers pay for their addresses. Our comparison with PacketStream covers its terms.
Where does HProxy sit?
Our Residential Lite costs $0.50 per GB for the first gigabytes and $4.70 for 10 GB, then steps down to $0.23 per GB at 10,000 GB+. For one GB it is the lowest of 58 by what a buyer pays. At 10 GB its rate is the second lowest of 58, after Proxiware. Proxiware's Eco pool sells monthly plans: $3 buys 10 GB for one month there, against $4.70 for 10 GB of Lite with no expiry date. At 100 GB Lite is the third lowest of 57, after Proxiware and Rainproxy, and at 1,000 GB the fourth lowest of 54, after Proxiware, Shifter and Rainproxy; Shifter's $0.20 there is a 2.5 TB monthly plan with no location choice. Among the ten best-known names above, Lite is the lowest at both sizes.
Lite targets by country only. Residential Premium adds state, city and ISP targeting from $1.45 per GB, falling to $0.65 per GB at 1,000 GB+. At the largest sizes our packages, sold on request from 15 TB, go down to $0.05 per GB at 100 TB, below Proxiware's Eco plans at $0.15 for 10,000 GB a month and Rainproxy at $0.24 for 1 TB.
How do you price your own job?
- Measure the traffic. Run a small batch of real requests and read how much data it used.
- Price that amount on each ladder. The provider that wins at 10 GB often loses at 1,000 GB.
- Read the condition beside the low number. Plan size, monthly billing, the pool it belongs to, and any code.
- Check expiry. Monthly plans and 30-day packages charge the full price in a quiet month.
- Test before you scale. Our proxy checker app checks proxies from your own connection.
For the same comparison across datacenter, ISP and mobile proxies, see how much proxies cost. Our longer guide to what residential proxies cost walks through plan types and traps. When you are ready, our residential proxies start at $0.50 per GB, and the residential pricing page lists every step.
Method
The sample. 58 providers: the 57 whose current residential price lists sit in our records, each taken at its latest reading, and our own. We read 16 of the pages again through our server on October 22, 2026. The other 41 come from records made between September 26 and October 14, 2026, and every page was checked again on November 2, 2026. Our own list is read from our live price list on November 12, 2026. Some providers we track are not in the sample. Among them are those that price in other currencies, and two whose pages show a headline with no plan.
The rule. For each amount, the cheapest single purchase that covers it, per GB. Pay-as-you-go amounts were priced at the rate for their size, packs could be bought more than once, and monthly plans counted once. We used regular prices without codes, one-time offers or sales with a closing date, and left out IPv6-only pools. When a provider sells several pools, the cheapest pool counts. Our own list follows the same rule: its cheapest pool, Residential Lite, without the packages we sell only on request.
The history. Archived pricing pages from the Internet Archive, March 24, 2022 to January 5, 2023, for the seven providers in the panel. Each archived figure is the rate of the smallest purchase that page offered.
Our records have been corrected before, after a re-check in August 2026, as correcting our own price data explains.
What this page could not check
- Prices only. We measured no speed, success rate or pool size at any provider, ours included.
- Pages drawn by script. 41 of the other 57 providers' figures come from our records rather than the October 22 reads, because those pages show prices only through a script. Any of them may have moved since.
- Pools differ. The cheapest pool at a provider may target fewer places or hold fewer addresses than its main one.
- Taxes. Several providers add VAT at checkout.
- The archive. The Internet Archive captured only some pages in each year, so the history covers seven providers.
- Check by January 22, 2027. Prices in this market move monthly; the next refresh re-reads every page.
Sources
- HProxy price records: the residential price lists of 57 providers, read September 26 to November 2, 2026, from each provider's own pricing page.
- Internet Archive captures of the pricing pages of Bright Data (July 11, 2022), Oxylabs (July 13, 2022), Rayobyte (July 12, 2022), Smartproxy (January 5, 2023), Proxy Cheap (March 24, 2022), ASocks (August 18, 2022) and DataImpulse (December 3, 2022).
- Bright Data, Oxylabs, Decodo, SOAX, Webshare, Rayobyte, MarsProxies, IPFoxy, NodeMaven, DataImpulse, Evomi, Rainproxy, Shifter, Proxiware and ProxyEmpire, pricing pages, read October 22, 2026.
- PacketStream, home and pricing pages, read October 22, 2026.
- Smartproxy, "Smartproxy Rebrands to Decodo: A New Era of Web Data Solutions", press release, April 22, 2025.
- HProxy, "The Permanent Sale: 8 of 20 Proxy Vendors Are Discounting and Only 1 Says When It Ends", August 10, 2026.
- HProxy's live residential price list, read November 12, 2026.
