A shared proxy serves several customers at the same time, and a dedicated one serves only you. At six sellers' price pairs, a dedicated IP or pool cost 1.7 to 7 times the shared grade in October 2026. Bright Data, for one, charges $1.45 per shared ISP IP at 100 IPs and $2.75 per dedicated one. Our static ISP and datacenter proxies are dedicated, at $2.70/IP and $1.58/IP a month.
What is the difference between shared and dedicated proxies?
Who else uses the address. A shared IP carries several customers' traffic at once, so its reputation also reflects what they do. A dedicated IP carries only yours for the period you rent it.
Sellers use different words for the grades in between:
| Seller | Grade name | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Oxylabs | semi-dedicated | shared ISP IPs, up to 3 users |
| Webshare | private | shared with 1 to 2 users |
| Webshare | dedicated | "Fully owned by you" |
| Evomi | shared, private, virgin | graded by how many customers used the address |
| HProxy | private proxies | dedicated datacenter IPv4, one customer |
So read the definition behind the word before you compare prices. Rotating pools sit at the shared end by design. Rayobyte writes of its mobile network that each IP is "shared by many phone users". Rainproxy runs its per-GB ISP traffic on "the shared static pool".
How much more does a dedicated proxy cost?
At the six same-seller pairs we found, dedicated cost 1.7 to 7 times shared:
Webshare's gap is the widest: $2.10 per dedicated ISP IP against $0.30 shared, both at 20 IPs. Rainproxy charges $2.98 per GB for its Exclusive Residential pool and $0.99 for its Smart pool. Evomi charges $1.00 for a shared IP, $2.50 for a private one and $4.50 for a virgin one.
One pair falls far outside the range. Webshare's dedicated datacenter IP costs $1.33 at 20 IPs, and its shared Proxy Server plan $0.0299 per proxy, or $2.99 a month for 100. That plan is a large pool sold by the hundred, so the ratio says more about the product than the grade.
Does the gap close at volume?
Barely, at Bright Data. Its ISP prices fall with size for both grades, and the ratio stays near two:
Its datacenter IPs show a smaller gap that narrows with volume: 1.6 times at 10 IPs, 1.7 at 100 and 1.4 at 1,000. Shared datacenter addresses are cheap elsewhere too. Proxy6 charged $0.41 per shared IPv4 for 30 days, and Proxyline, ProxyStores and SpaceProxy $0.99, in our records of October 10 to 14, 2026.
What does a shared IP cost besides money?
Its history. Sites judge an address partly by what came through it, and on a shared IP that includes other people's traffic. Free proxies show the extreme. We checked the working ones in Australia, Poland, the UAE and Japan on October 25 and 26, 2026. An IP reputation check had flagged every one.
A shared grade can also limit what you do with the address. You cannot ask a target to allowlist an IP that other customers use. And fair-use rules apply to the address as a whole: Bright Data gives each ISP IP a "100 GB fair usage allowance per month".
When is a shared proxy enough?
When another user's history on the address costs you little. Reading public pages, checking prices and testing code all fit. So do jobs that need many exits rather than one fixed identity, which is what rotating residential and mobile pools are built for.
When should you pay for a dedicated proxy?
When something is tied to the address. That covers an account or login you keep for weeks and an allowlist on your own systems or a partner's. It also covers a session that must keep one identity. For mobile, a dedicated proxy also pays off on volume: MarsProxies rents one for $95 for 30 days with unlimited data. Our comparison of the best mobile proxies works out where that beats per-GB pools.
Where does HProxy sit?
Our static proxies are dedicated. Static ISP proxies cost $2.70/IP a month and private proxies, our dedicated datacenter IPv4, $1.58/IP a month. IPv6 addresses cost $0.10/IP. We sell no shared static grade.
Our rotating residential and mobile proxies bill per GB, at $0.50/GB and $1.50/GB for one GB. They draw exits from shared pools by design. Our ISP proxy price study compares the static prices of 31 sellers.
What this page could not check
- We tested no block rate or speed on shared or dedicated IPs, at any seller or ours.
- We could not check how many customers really share each shared IP.
- The price pairs come from five sellers. Two prices come from our records of September 26, 2026.
- Sellers use the same words for different grades, so a name alone proves nothing.
- We will check every number on this page again by January 26, 2027.
Sources
- Bright Data, ISP and datacenter price pages, read October 26, 2026, and dedicated datacenter prices as recorded September 26, 2026.
- Oxylabs, ISP proxies and dedicated ISP proxies pages, read October 26, 2026.
- Evomi, pricing page, read October 26, 2026.
- Webshare, pricing page, read October 26, 2026, and its static residential and proxy server grades as recorded September 26, 2026.
- Rainproxy, pricing page, read October 26, 2026.
- Rayobyte, mobile proxies page, read October 26, 2026.
- MarsProxies, mobile proxies pricing page, read October 26, 2026.
- Proxy6, Proxyline, ProxyStores and SpaceProxy, shared IPv4 prices as recorded October 10 to 14, 2026.
- HProxy, free proxy measurements of October 25 and 26, 2026, and product pages, read October 26, 2026.
