Top 10 Proxy Providers in 2026: an Honest Ranking Built on Real Tests
Updated | August 2026
Picking a proxy provider in 2026 is a mess. New vendors pop up every month, all of them promising elite IPs and blazing speed, and half those pools are recycled junk that dies inside an hour. So I stopped reading landing pages and started buying accounts. Fourteen of them. Every IP went through fraud checks, leak tests, speed runs, and a 400-address pool scan. What follows is what survived — who holds up, who is overpriced, and who is quietly reselling someone else’s exhausted pool.
Everything here is ranked on my own numbers, not on vendor claims. Speed, uptime, IP reputation, how the pool behaves under load, whether the dashboard fights you. Rotating residential, static ISP, mobile, plain datacenter — different tools for different jobs, and the cheap ones are not always the wrong answer.
What proxy types exist and what they’re good for:
IPv4 proxies – the baseline for most tasks, a true classic. IPv6 proxies – when the budget is tight or you need volume, cheap and cheerful. ISP proxies (static) – when you need to look like a regular home user. Shared proxies – the most economical option out there. Mobile proxies – perfect for SMM, account farming, and social networks. Residential proxies – for complex tasks where trust level matters, top tier stuff. Datacenter proxies – when you need wild speed for a parser.
Below is the meat. A general overview of the best proxy providers where you can grab proxies for basically any goal. Plenty to choose from.
This best proxy ranking isn’t an ad – it’s a dry summary of tests. I compared where it’s cheaper to buy, who has fresh databases, and who’s selling hot air. Save your time, get what works.
Targeting down to state and city, sticky sessions up to 60 minutes
Residential traffic from $0.35/GB
residential (rotating and static), mobile, datacenter, unlimited + flexible geo targeting
Residential proxies with cashback
from $2/1GB
Sticky sessions up to 7 days
Free test: 2 hours of full access to check quality
Huge IP pool
Choice of country/city/carrier
Targeting down to city and ASN, sticky sessions up to 180 minutes
Residential traffic from $0.49/GB
residential (Core and Premium), unlimited, static ISP proxies + flexible geo/ASN targeting
residential US proxies without overpaying
from $1/GB
195+ locations
residential, mobile, ISP, datacenter
Residential proxies for crypto
from $2.0/GB
SOCKS5, SSH, sticky 120 min
195 countries with city-level targeting
from $10/day
Real user IPs sourced through Pawns.app
City- and state-level targeting, sticky sessions up to 24 hours
Residential traffic from $0.3/GB at volume
retail price $3.2/GB
residential, ISP, datacenter + dedicated SOCKS5, up to 10 sub-accounts, IP whitelist
235 countries, targeting down to city and ASN
Flat $3/GB across all proxy types, no subscription
residential, mobile, corporate
Premium enterprise-grade provider
from $4/1 GB residential (50% off)
HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 protocols
How I tested these providers
I ignored the marketing entirely. Every provider got the same treatment: buy the smallest paid plan, pull real IPs, run them through an antidetect browser with user:pass auth, and measure. Fraud score on Scamalytics and IP2Location. Detection on Pixelscan. ASN, ISP classification, and hosted-domain count on IPinfo and BrowserLeaks. DNS leak checks on every exit. Blacklist status on MXToolbox. Then a bulk run — 400 addresses where I could get them — to see what the pool actually holds versus what the pricing page claims.
Beyond the numbers I looked at whether the thing is usable. Can you export a list as txt without clicking through six menus? Does geo targeting go down to city or state, or does it lie? How long until a human answers when a port dies at 2am? One provider fixed a dead connection for me on December 31st in twenty minutes. That counts for something.
What stayed on this list is what I’d spend my own money on again. Full methodology here, including the tools and the exact test sequence.
Why free proxies don’t work
Public lists are a trap. Those servers stay alive for minutes, crawl at dial-up speed, and are usually already blacklisted by every search engine that matters. And whoever runs that open port sees your traffic. All of it. That is the actual price.
Provider reviews: test data, prices, and what breaks
NiuProxy is a young provider – domain registered September 2025, Hong Kong entity, Chinese team, UK phone number. Went in skeptical (hidden owner, zero Trustpilot, dumping prices), came out surprised. They claim 50M+ residential IPs across 195+ countries and lean hard on price. Six product lines: rotating and static residential, rotating and static mobile, unlimited, and datacenter. Built for budget scraping, SEO, and account work – not compliance-heavy enterprise.
Tests:
Pulled a US California IP (76.32.164.164) through an antidetect browser. BrowserLeaks and IPinfo classified it as real Charter/Spectrum residential ISP, AS20001, hosted domains 0. Scamalytics – 9/100, IP2Location – 0/100 with Anonymous Proxy = No. APIVoid – 0/79 detections, every Anonymous Connection flag False. Pixelscan – no proxy detected, fingerprint consistent. DNS clean, all 12 servers inside Charter. Pool run of 400 proxies – 98.0% success rate, but Hosting 3.6% / Proxy 6.1% / Mobile 8.9% mixed in. FOGLDN and Byteful – OK on all, 0 fails on google.com.
Prices:
- Rotating Residential – from $0.7/GB, down to $0.35/GB on 10TB;
- Static ISP – $1.8/IP, Rotating Mobile – $1.5/GB;
- Static Mobile – $3/IP, Unlimited Residential – $200/day;
- Card, Google Pay, Apple Pay from $10; Alipay and USDT any amount;
- Crypto without KYC, but crypto payments are non-refundable.
Conclusion:
A cheap, fast residential network that punches above its reputation – the individual IPs are real, clean, and quick, and the price is among the lowest in the niche. But the pool isn’t sterile, the traffic counter burned through my quota twice for no clear reason, and there’s zero independent track record or IP-sourcing transparency. For budget scraping, Google SERP checks, and account work through antidetect – solid value if speed matters more than pool purity. Skip it for email, EU compliance, and high-volume jobs that need every IP clean.
- Scamalytics Fraud Score 9/100, IP2Location 0/100 – genuinely clean IP;
- Pixelscan shows no proxy detected, fingerprint consistent, Whoer disguise 100%;
- Real Charter/Spectrum residential, AS20001, hosted domains 0;
- Median download 20.96 Mbps – 2-3x faster than IPPeak and NodeMaven;
- FOGLDN and Byteful 0 fails on google.com, real city spread;
- Very cheap – from $0.35/GB on volume, crypto without KYC.
- Pool not sterile – Hosting 3.6%, Proxy 6.1%, Mobile 8.9% on the 400-IP run;
- Suspicious traffic burn – 2 GB ran out twice faster than expected;
- IP sourcing undisclosed, no GDPR/CCPA section – bad for compliance;
- Domain under a year old, no Trustpilot, not in Proxyway benchmarks;
- Sticky capped at 60 min, broad refund exclusions, crypto non-refundable.
NodeMaven keeps popping up everywhere – competitor rankings, Reddit threads, review aggregators. Went in skeptical, came out wrong. They claim “95% undetectable IPs” and back it with an IP Quality Filter that runs every address before it hits your session. 30M+ residential, 250K+ mobile, 190+ countries. Built for Reddit, social, and local SEO – not bulk scraping.
Tests:
Pulled a US Virginia IP through Dolphin Anty over SOCKS5. Scamalytics – 0/100, lowest possible. Pixelscan – all five blocks green, no proxy detected. IPinfo and IP2Location both classified as residential ISP (VA SkyWire, AS19919). FOGLDN bulk test – 25+ requests, 100% Status OK. Google threw one CAPTCHA at the start, then 20 minutes of active work without a single check. ChatGPT, G2, Trustpilot – zero Cloudflare Challenges.
Prices:
- Trial – $3.50 for premium tier;
- Subscriptions – from $35/month, ~$3.80/GB;
- Pay-As-You-Go – ~$4.44/GB;
- Traffic Rollover – unused GB carry to next month;
- Crypto without KYC: BTC, ETH, USDT, Solana, 10+ more.
Conclusion:
The strongest pick here for clean-reputation work. Sits in the same league as Oxylabs and NetNut on pool quality, minus the KYC paperwork and the sales-call gatekeeping. Reddit, antidetect setups, US local SERP checks. Not for email, not for heavy scraping. For Reddit warming, antidetect setups, and US local SERP checks – best balance of price, quality, and accessibility right now. Skip it for email and heavy scraping.
- Scamalytics Fraud Score 0/100 – best result among tested providers;
- Pixelscan shows no proxy detected, fingerprint consistent;
- Zero Cloudflare Challenges on ChatGPT, G2, Trustpilot;
- ZIP-level targeting across 150+ US locations;
- Sticky sessions up to 7 days, 100% Success Rate on FOGLDN;
- Crypto payments without KYC, $3.50 trial to start.
- Speed is mid – 8.6-9.8 Mbps, weak for heavy scraping;
- Pricey at $3.80/GB vs Decodo ($2.20) or IPRoyal ($1.75);
- Spamhaus listings – useless for email sending;
- TCP/IP fingerprint reads Android while browser is Windows;
- Micro DNS leak – 1 server out of 47 routes through proxy ISP.
MobileProxy.Space is a proper mobile proxy farm with real USB modems – no emulation nonsense. They claim 170M IPs, but the real deal here is the private channel model. You rent a specific port on a physical modem, so no neighbours torching your IP’s reputation before you get to it.
Tests:
Ran the Poland/Kazakhstan proxies through stress tests. 100 threads through automation software handled fine – the modem took 250 simultaneous connections without falling over. Speed hit 4-8 Mbps on Polish proxies, ping around 230-235ms. Scamalytics showed risk score of just 1/100.
Prices:
- Eastern Europe and EU channels — from $25-30/month;
- Tier-1 (USA, Australia) – $80-100+/month;
- Unlimited bandwidth on all plans;
- 2-hour free test available.
Conclusion:
Built for people running paid social campaigns who need mobile IPs with real carrier trust. The dashboard looks like 2014. Works anyway. Not glamorous, but gets the job done for FB/TT campaigns.
- Private channel - you're the only user on your port;
- Unlimited traffic without any FUP restrictions;
- HTTP and SOCKS5 on a single port simultaneously;
- 40+ countries including exotic GEOs;
- API with change_ip and reboot functions.
- Tier-1 countries (USA, Australia) can be pricey $80-100+/mo;
- IP rotation takes 10-15 seconds due to modem reboot;
- Speed fluctuates 3-30 Mbps depending on tower load;
- Dashboard is functional but visually outdated.
IPPeak handed me their premium residential line, not the regular one, so I judged it like premium. Four products in the lineup: Core Residential from $0.49/Gb, Premium from $0.9, Unlimited billed by bandwidth, and static ISP at $4.9 per IP. Traffic was free, the verdict wasn’t – logs and screenshots are saved for every number below.
Tests:
Main IP 73.229.115.43 – IPinfo shows AS7922 Comcast, AS Type isp, hosted domains 0. Scamalytics 6/100 Low Risk, APIVoid 0/79, Whoer 100% anonymity, Pixelscan found neither proxy nor masking and matched IP geo to browser geo. WebRTC clean on all three ICE points, DNS clean – all 20 resolvers inside Comcast, nothing spilling onto Google or Cloudflare. MXToolbox listed it on Spamhaus ZEN and Abusix, which is the PBL every home cable subscriber sits in. Speed is the weak spot: 7.05 Mbps on Speedtest, and a 100-proxy run gave average 8.27 down, median 7.54, min 0.53, max 42. Then the big one – 400 proxies through my VPS script: 99.8% success, 394 unique IPs, p50 417 ms, p95 1045 ms, hosting/proxy/mobile flags all at zero. FOGLDN – OK on every request to google.com, no CAPTCHA. Byteful on microsoft.com – 199 of 200, cities scattered from Miami to Scranton.
Prices:
- Premium Residential – $1.2/Gb on 5 Gb down to $0.9/Gb on 330 Gb;
- Core Residential – $1.19 down to $0.49/Gb on 1000 Gb;
- ISP proxies – $4.9 per static IP, unlimited plans from $8/hour to $1050/month for 100 Mbps;
- Cards, crypto without KYC (USDT-TRC20, BTC, ETH and more), AliPay, UnionPay.
Conclusion:
The cleanest residential pool I’ve measured – built for SEO, SERP scraping, social media and marketplace accounts, ad verification, multi-accounting through antidetect, especially when ISP believability matters. Not for heavy downloads, not for latency-sensitive tasks, not for email. Average across 16 metrics – 4.4/5.
- Best pool test in my reviews so far – 400 proxies, 99.8% success rate, 394 unique IPs out of 399, every one in the US;
- Hosting flag 0.0%, Proxy flag 0.0%, Mobile flag 0.0% – zero datacenter mixed into the premium pool;
- Real Comcast AS7922, Fixed Line ISP, hosted domains 0, abuse contact on comcast.net;
- Scamalytics 6/100, APIVoid 0 detections out of 79, Pixelscan – no proxy detected, fingerprint consistent;
- ASN targeting on top of country, state and city – you can pin the exit to a specific ISP, sticky up to 180 minutes;
- Premium from $0.9/Gb, Core from $0.49/Gb – cheaper than Bright Data and Oxylabs, crypto without KYC.
- Slow for something called premium – pool median 7-8 Mbps down, 5-6 up, worst exit gave 0.53;
- Latency p50 417 ms on the pool, 643 ms median on the speed run – forget HFT and sniping;
- Spamhaus ZEN + Abusix, the IP sits on the PBL – no email straight through the proxy;
- IP2Location calls the address a Residential Proxy with fraud score 45/100 and disagrees with Scamalytics;
- Speed spread inside one pool runs from 0.53 to 42 Mbps – no consistency at all;
- Infrastructure hides behind global.rrp.apexae.top, and the brand is young – barely a footprint in r/proxies.
Floppydata sells residential at $1/Gb and I fully expected a disguised VPS farm with a faked PTR. Got real Comcast Houston instead. Tested only residential, only US – mobile and datacenter are still sitting on my balance untouched. The dashboard has two things I haven’t seen elsewhere: an IP rotation monitor and a site tester that runs your target URL through their pool before you pay.
Tests:
Locked the config to US, Houston, sticky 60 min, HTTP. Got AS7922 Comcast with a live comcast.net hostname in reverse DNS. Scamalytics – 14/100, APIVoid – 0 detections out of 79, Whoer – 100% anonymity, Pixelscan found neither proxy nor masking. No DNS leak. Speed 27-37 Mbps down, 35-42 up, latency 250-350 ms. FOGLDN: 20 out of 20 requests through, median 880 ms, two outliers at 3 and 8 seconds. Byteful: 4/4 success, 738 ms to San Francisco, 963 to London, 1645 to Singapore. MXToolbox flagged 1 of 61 lists – Spamhaus PBL, which every consumer Comcast address sits in by policy.
Prices:
- Residential – from $1.00/Gb on subscription;
- Pay-as-you-go – $1.50/Gb;
- Cards, PayPal, crypto (BTC, USDT, LTC + 70 more);
- Refunds within 3 days and under 1 Gb used, crypto non-refundable.
Conclusion:
Best price-to-cleanliness ratio I’ve seen in the budget segment – works for scraping, social media multi-accounting, sneaker bots, Reddit farms, US SERP checks. Not for email sending, not for HFT or snipes, not for regions outside US/EU. Average across 19 metrics – 4.2/5.
- Real Comcast AS7922 IPs with valid reverse DNS – c-76-31-104-92.hsd1.tx.comcast.net, not an empty PTR;
- Fraud Score 14/100 on Scamalytics, 0 out of 79 detections – clean for the price tier;
- $1/Gb on subscription – 3-4x cheaper than Bright Data and Oxylabs;
- City, state and ASN targeting at no extra cost, sticky sessions up to 60 minutes;
- 65M+ IPs across 195+ locations, strong US pool (344K) and Western Europe (~450K);
- Crypto payments in 70+ currencies plus cards and PayPal.
- One exit node died 30 minutes into testing – had to regenerate the session;
- Latency spikes up to 8 seconds across 20 FOGLDN requests;
- US→Asia 1645 ms – Asian tasks through a US exit are off the table;
- PAYG costs 50% more than subscription: $1.50/Gb instead of $1;
- Thin pools in Eastern Europe (Poland – 5,952 IPs) and LatAm outside Brazil;
- Past fake-review scandal on Trustpilot – public ratings can't be trusted here.
MangoProxy sells residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, claiming 90M+ IPs across 200+ locations from a service roughly two years old. I got 2 Gb of residential traffic and pointed it at the US. The generator has something I haven’t run into elsewhere – you set a target URL right inside it, the service pings your list for liveness and speed, and one button pulls out the best rows. Costs you traffic, but saves the export-test-reimport loop.
Tests:
Main address 174.48.226.150 – AS7922 Comcast, AS Type isp, hostname c-174-48-226-150.hsd1.fl.comcast.net, hosted domains 0. Scamalytics 15/100 Low Risk, APIVoid 0 detections out of 79, Whoer 100% anonymity, Pixelscan fingerprint consistent with no proxy and no masking detected. A second address from the pool came back with IP2Location showing Anonymous Proxy No and fraud score 0 – part of the pool is still unknown to the detectors. DNS clean, 22 resolvers all inside Comcast, nothing spilling to Google or Cloudflare. MXToolbox flagged 1 of 60 – Spamhaus ZEN, the PBL every home cable subscriber sits in. The one real technical problem: WebRTC pushed out an IPv6 (2601: prefix, same Comcast network), tagged as a potential leak while IPv4 held on all three ICE points. Speed – 14.33 Mbps average across 100 proxies, median 13.3, floor 0.54, ceiling 31. The 400-proxy run: 97.8% success, 391 of 391 unique, hosting/proxy/mobile flags at zero, every address in the US, p50 780 ms and p95 1770. Byteful on microsoft.com – 100 of 100, no failures, 797 ms average, exits spread across Hollywood, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Miramar and Hialeah. FOGLDN – OK on every proxy against google.com, most in the 520-850 ms range with roughly every seventh lagging three times behind. Billing is the sore spot: once my traffic ran out the stats section closed and left a -155.22 Mb banner, so the usage history I’d already paid for went with it.
Prices:
- Residential – $3.3/Gb on the 5 Gb entry package, down to $2.0/Gb at 1 Tb;
- Static ISP from $1.9 per IP, mobile from $9 per IP with a stated 2-5 Mbps;
- Crypto in 11+ currencies works immediately, cards only after Stripe KYC;
- No PayPal, no Wise, no invoicing, and refunds are limited to a 48-hour window.
Conclusion:
A network that’s better than its reputation and a customer experience that’s worse than its network – good for scraping moderately protected targets, SEO and SERP monitoring, ad verification and antidetect account work with IPv6 disabled. Not for strict-SLA tasks, enterprise procurement, email, or large upfront deposits. Average across 20 metrics – 4.2/5.
- 400 proxies, 391 unique IPs, zero duplicates – no reseller footprint anywhere in the sample;
- Real Comcast AS7922 with an hsd1.fl.comcast.net hostname and zero parked domains;
- Scamalytics 15/100, APIVoid 0 of 79, IP2Location gave one address a flat 0 and no proxy flag;
- Median 13.3 Mbps across 100 addresses – faster than most residential pools I've measured;
- Built-in checker tests your generated list against a target URL and picks the best ones;
- Targeting by country, state, city and ASN, full protocol set including SOCKS5 and SSH.
- WebRTC leaks an IPv6 address – has to be patched by hand before any account work;
- Latency p50 780 ms and 1115 ms median on the speed run against a claimed 'under 0.5 sec';
- Usage stats disappear the moment your package hits zero, and there's no per-domain breakdown;
- 'All sales are final' with a 48-hour claim window – harsher than any top-six provider;
- The $0.6/Gb on the homepage isn't reachable on normal packages, real entry is $3.3;
- Trustpilot sits at 3.5 with 66% one and two stars, and the homepage shows only Reviews.io.
IPRoyal sits in that sweet spot between budget garbage and overpriced enterprise. Their killer feature? Flat-rate mobile proxies with unlimited bandwidth. Pay per day, download terabytes – no gigabyte counters eating your budget.
Tests:
Bought US mobile proxies to run a set of long-lived social accounts. Connection dropped on Dec 31st – support fixed it in 20 minutes on New Year’s Eve. Respect. Speed showed 15-20 Mbps. But one IP was already on Spamhaus, and iphey.com threw some red flags.
Prices:
- Mobile proxies – flat daily/monthly rate, unlimited traffic;
- Residential – from $1.75/GB;
- Datacenter – budget options available;
- 32M+ IP pool across 195 countries.
Conclusion:
Strong value on unmetered mobile workloads. Screen your IPs before you deploy them – the pool is not clean. Check your IPs for fraud scores before deploying – pool isn’t squeaky clean.
- Truly unlimited bandwidth on mobile proxies – flat daily rate;
- Support works 24/7 even on New Year's Eve – tested personally;
- Ethical IP sourcing through Pawns.app – real user devices;
- 195 countries with ISP/ASN targeting;
- Low entry barrier – buy from 1 day.
- Pool cleanliness issues – got IPs already in Spamhaus;
- Some mobile proxies flagged on iphey.com;
- Speed can be unstable – not enterprise SLA level;
- IP rotation delay 10-30 seconds.
IPcook launched residential publicly in August 2025 and closed out the lineup with ISP and datacenter in December, so the whole product line is about ten months old. Legal entity – HoosTag CO., Limited, Hong Kong. The landing page sells 55M+ IPs, 185+ locations and “from $0.3/GB”, so I took the cheapest real tier – 2 Gb of Basic at $3.2/Gb – and tested US residential out of Phoenix.
Tests:
The pinned sticky IP was 98.161.215.208 – AS22773 Cox Communications, hostname ip98-161-215-208.ph.ph.cox.net, AS Type isp everywhere. Scamalytics 14/100 Low Risk, IP2Location gave Anonymous Proxy No, Proxy Type blank, fraud score 0, Fixed Line ISP. MXToolbox – 0 listings out of 60. DNS clean, both resolvers Cox, though the IPv6 one sits in New York while the exit is in Arizona. WebRTC safe on all three channels, local IPv4/IPv6 not detected, Pixelscan fingerprint consistent with no proxy detected. The catch is the specialized layer: APIVoid and ipinfo both mark the address as a Residential Proxy while clearing VPN, Tor, hosting and relay. Speed – fast.com gave 12/19/19 Mbps down, 29/27/23 up, loaded latency 681-982 ms. FOGLDN: every proxy OK, but the timings split into 800-900 ms and 8000 ms with almost nothing between. Byteful on microsoft.com: 20 proxies, 80 requests, 56 through, average 3838 ms. Geo landed in Phoenix, Tucson, Tempe, Sierra Vista – accurate by state, drifting to New River within the metro. One more thing worth knowing before you buy: the 2 Gb lands on the master account, and a sub-account with a zero limit kills every request before it reaches the network with no warning anywhere.
Prices:
- Basic 1 Gb – $3.2/Gb, Advanced 25 Gb – $2.4/Gb;
- Mid tiers – 100 Gb at $2/Gb, 500 Gb at $1/Gb, 3000 Gb at $0.7/Gb;
- Enterprise 10,000 Gb – $0.3/Gb, plus ISP from $0.046/IP and datacenter from $0.037/IP;
- Visa/Mastercard, PayPal, USDT, Alipay, Google Pay, 100 Mb free to start.
Conclusion:
A solid mid-tier pool for medium-difficulty scraping, US SERP monitoring, geoblock bypass and multi-accounting through an antidetect – good as a second provider on cost-sensitive, high-volume work. Not for protected targets, heavy media, sneaker copping, mobile tasks or regulated industries. Average across 15 metrics – 3.8/5.
- Genuinely residential – Cox Communications AS22773, Fixed Line ISP, correct rDNS on cox.net;
- Fraud score 14/100 on Scamalytics and 0/100 on IP2Location, which doesn't see a proxy at all;
- WebRTC closed, DNS stays inside the Cox network, fingerprint consistent on Pixelscan;
- Clean on all 60 MXToolbox mail blacklists – nobody pushed garbage through this IP before me;
- Traffic never expires, sticky sessions up to 24 hours, 10 free sub-accounts, IP whitelist, real-time monitoring;
- Volume pricing gets genuinely cheap – $1/Gb at 500 Gb, $0.7 at 3 Tb, $0.3 at 10 Tb.
- The advertised $0.3/Gb is the 10,000 Gb floor – retail entry is $3.2/Gb, pricier than Decodo;
- Slow channel – 12-19 Mbps down across three runs, with loaded latency near a full second;
- Bimodal pool on FOGLDN: half the list at 800-900 ms, the other half stuck at 8000;
- Success rate 70% on microsoft.com via Byteful – below my 80% threshold for scraping;
- Specialized detectors (APIVoid, ipinfo) flag the address as a Residential Proxy – trouble on Cloudflare and Datadome targets;
- UX trap – traffic sits on the master account, and a sub-account with zero silently dumps the whole list to FAILED;
- No mobile pool, no ISO/SOC2, HoosTag CO., Limited isn't verifiable in open registries;
- Brand is 10-12 months old with ten Trustpilot reviews clustered right after launch.
A stable option with flexible rotation and unusually wide geo coverage.
Flexible payment system:
- Pay-As-You-Go — $3/GB (MOB/RES/DC types);
- Unlimited plans — from $1/IP.
Reviews Users love the service because the proxies work exactly as promised: no constant crashes, confusing settings, or long waits for support responses.
Convenient interface, a huge IP pool (12+ million across 235+ GEO), open API, and flexible proxy architecture with rotation and geotargeting.
SX.ORG is a dependable workhorse: stable connections, flexible plans, and access to the GEOs you need without the extra hassle.
- Convenient and intuitive system;
- Huge IP pool (12+ million) across 235+ GEO;
- Multiple payment options (crypto with no commission from $10);
- Open API for developers;
- Flexible proxy architecture (rotation, geotargeting).
- Sometimes you have to test several IPs to find the perfect one;
- It's better to configure rotation manually: auto-rotation doesn't always work as intended.
Oxylabs plays in the enterprise league with Bright Data. They’ve got the infrastructure – 100M+ residential IPs, 20M+ mobile, AI-powered scraping tools. But the trial experience was underwhelming. Those 5 free datacenter IPs? Beat to hell with Fraud Scores up to 100.
Tests:
Tested their free San Francisco datacenter proxies. Speed was mediocre – 10-12 Mbps download, 260ms ping. Scamalytics showed Fraud Score 50-100. Multiple Spamhaus blacklists flagged. Pixelscan detected proxy and masking. Not great for a “premium” service trial.
Prices:
- Residential – from $4/GB (50% off), normally $8/GB;
- Datacenter – from $1.2/IP;
- Mobile – from $5.4/GB (40% off);
- Enterprise discounts for 2TB+ volumes.
Conclusion:
Made for procurement departments. ISO 27001, real documentation, real SLA. Solo devs will get better numbers for a quarter of the money. Individual devs should look elsewhere.
- Massive 100M+ residential IP pool;
- 5 free datacenter IPs on registration – no credit card;
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified – enterprise compliance;
- AI tools: Web Unblocker, OxyCopilot code generator;
- City-level targeting in 195 countries.
- Premium pricing – $8/GB without discounts;
- Free trial proxies had Fraud Score 50-100 on Scamalytics;
- Strict refund policy – 3 days, under 20% usage;
- KYC required for residential proxy trials.
How to pick a provider for your use case
Start with the job, not the price tag.
- IP reputation is critical. Managing multiple accounts on platforms that inspect IPs, or verifying ads across regions? Residential or mobile only. A datacenter IP gets flagged before your first page load.
- Throughput is critical. Large-scale scraping where the target doesn’t check reputation – datacenter, every time. Faster and roughly twenty times cheaper per request.
- Session persistence matters. Anything that needs the same IP for hours or days means static ISP. Rotating residential will drop you mid-session and you’ll spend the afternoon re-authenticating.
- Latency matters. Trading bots, exchange APIs, real-time price monitoring, static ISP in a datacenter near your target. Residential adds 200ms+ and jitter you can’t plan around.
- Compliance matters. If legal reviews your vendors, most of this list is out. You need documented IP sourcing, GDPR and CCPA pages, and a certification. Realistically that’s Oxylabs, Bright Data, or NetNut.
One thing people get wrong constantly: paying for premium residential when a $2 datacenter IP would do. Match the tool to the target’s defences. Nothing else.
Proxy Provider Comparison Table
| # | Provider | Best for | Types | Pool / Geo | Price from | Fraud score (our test) | Our score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NiuProxy | Cheap high-volume scraping | Res, ISP, mobile, DC | 50M+ / 195+ | $0.35/GB (10TB) | 9/100 | 3.8 |
| 2 | NodeMaven | Reddit, social, US local SEO | Residential, mobile | 30M+ / 190+ | $3.80/GB | 0/100 | 4.6 |
| 3 | MobileProxy.Space | Facebook / TikTok ad accounts | Mobile (private port) | 40+ countries | $25/mo | 1/100 | 4.4 |
| 4 | IPPeak | Cleanest pool, ASN targeting | Res, unlimited, static ISP | 80M+ / 195+ | $0.49/GB (Core) | 6/100 | 4.3 |
| 5 | Floppydata | Budget US residential | Res, mobile, ISP, DC | 65M+ / 195+ | $1.00/GB | 14/100 | 4.2 |
| 6 | MangoProxy | Fast pool, built-in checker | Res, ISP, DC, mobile | 90M+ / 200+ | $2.00/GB (1TB) | 15/100 — WebRTC IPv6 leak | 4.0 |
| 7 | IPRoyal | Unlimited mobile traffic | Res, mobile, DC | 32M+ / 195+ | $1.75/GB | mixed — Spamhaus hit | 4.0 |
| 8 | IPcook | High-volume, non-expiring traffic | Res, ISP, DC | 55M+ / 185+ | $3.20/GB retail | 14/100 — flagged as res proxy | 3.9 |
| 9 | SX.ORG | Flexible rotation, wide geo | Res, mobile, DC | 12M+ / 235+ | $3/GB PAYG | not yet measured | 3.7 |
| 10 | Oxylabs | Enterprise, ISO 27001 | Res, DC, mobile, APIs | 100M+ / 195+ | $4–8/GB | 50–100 on free DC trial | 3.7 |
TL;DR – which proxy provider to pick in 2026:
- Cleanest IPs (social, Reddit, antidetect): NodeMaven – 0/100 fraud score, zero Cloudflare challenges.
- Cleanest pool at scale: IPPeak – 400 proxies, 99.8% success rate, 0% hosting mixed in.
- Best price per GB for scraping: NiuProxy – from $0.35/GB, fastest speeds we measured. Pool is not sterile.
- Fastest residential pool: MangoProxy – median 13.3 Mbps across 100 addresses, zero duplicates in 400.
- Mobile IPs for ad accounts: MobileProxy.Space – private modem port, unlimited traffic.
- Cheapest way to test anything: IPcook – 100 MB free, or NodeMaven’s $3.50 premium trial.
- Enterprise & compliance: Oxylabs – ISO 27001, city-level targeting, premium price.
- Static ISP for trading and low-latency work: see our ISP proxy ranking.
Proxy FAQ
Which proxy provider is best in 2026?
Depends what you’re doing, and anyone who answers with one name is selling something. From my tests: NodeMaven for clean IP reputation it scored 0/100 on Scamalytics and passed Cloudflare without a single challenge. IPPeak if you need the pool itself to hold up at scale, with 99.8% success across 400 addresses and not one datacenter IP mixed in. NiuProxy when cost per gigabyte drives the decision, at $0.35/GB on volume with the fastest median speed I measured, 20.96 Mbps. Oxylabs when procurement needs ISO 27001 and documented sourcing. MobileProxy.Space for carrier IPs on a private modem port. Full numbers in the table above.
Residential vs ISP vs mobile vs datacenter – what’s the actual difference?
Four different things people keep mixing up.
- Datacenter. Server IPs from a hosting range. Fast, cheap, obvious. Any site that checks ASN will spot it instantly.
- Static ISP. Registered to a real consumer ISP but hosted in a datacenter. Residential trust plus datacenter speed, and the IP never changes. Best of both, priced per IP instead of per gigabyte.
- Residential. Real home connections, usually sourced from users who installed an app in exchange for something. High trust, slower, rotates. Billed per gigabyte and it adds up fast.
- Mobile. Carrier IPs behind CGNAT, shared by thousands of real phone users. Highest trust score available because banning one address means banning a whole cell tower. Slowest and most expensive.
Rough rule: pick the cheapest type your target won’t detect. Most people overpay by two tiers.
How do I check whether a proxy is actually clean?
Six checks, ten minutes, and they’ll tell you more than any review. Including mine.
- Scamalytics – fraud score 0 to 100. Under 10 is clean, over 30 and you’ll eat CAPTCHAs all day.
- IP2Location – look at the Anonymous Proxy flag specifically. If it says Yes, the IP is already tagged in commercial databases and the game is over.
- IPinfo – check the usage type. You want isp. If it reads hosting or business on something sold to you as residential, you were lied to.
- Pixelscan – catches the mismatch between your browser fingerprint and the connection underneath. Worth knowing that a consistent fingerprint here doesn’t clear the IP itself: two providers on this list pass Pixelscan’s fingerprint scan while the specialised engines still have their addresses on file.
- BrowserLeaks – DNS and WebRTC leak tests. Run them more than once. One provider here passes DNS cleanly across 22 resolvers and still pushes an IPv6 address out through WebRTC, which is exactly the kind of thing a single pass won’t catch.
- MXToolbox – blacklist status across 300+ lists. Non-negotiable if the IP will touch email. A Spamhaus listing kills that outright, and most residential IPs carry one by policy.
And test more than one IP. A pool can look spotless on the address they hand you first and turn out 6% flagged proxies across 400 samples. That’s a real number from a real provider on this page.
Which proxy providers are compliant with ISO 27001 and GDPR?
Short list, and it matters more than most buyers realise. If your company’s legal team reviews vendors, you need documented IP sourcing, published GDPR and CCPA terms, a DPA on request, and preferably a certification. Oxylabs holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022. Bright Data and NetNut publish full compliance documentation. IPRoyal is transparent about sourcing through Pawns.app, where users opt in and get paid.
Everyone else on this list – and that includes my number one, either doesn’t say where the IPs come from or has no compliance section at all. One of them can’t even be traced to a verifiable legal entity in open registries. For a side project, fine. For anything that goes through procurement, that silence is a hard no.
Which proxy providers accept crypto payments?
Most of the mid-tier ones now. NodeMaven takes BTC, ETH, USDT, Solana and about ten more with no KYC, starting from a $3.50 trial. Floppydata covers 70+ currencies alongside cards and PayPal. IPPeak accepts USDT-TRC20, BTC and ETH with no verification, plus AliPay and UnionPay. NiuProxy and IPcook both handle USDT and Alipay at any amount.
Two clauses buried in the terms almost everywhere. First, crypto payments are usually non-refundable even where card payments carry a money-back window – pay in USDT and the refund policy quietly stops applying to you. Second, one provider here inverts the usual logic: MangoProxy lets crypto through immediately but only unlocks cards after full Stripe KYC with a passport and a selfie. Read both clauses before you top up a large balance. Full breakdown in our guide to proxies that accept crypto.
What is a low-latency proxy and do I need one?
A proxy where round-trip time stays under roughly 50ms and, more importantly, stays consistent. Jitter is the thing that kills you, not average ping.
You need it for exchange APIs, trading bots, real-time price feeds, and anything where a timeout costs money. Residential is the wrong tool- across the providers here the pool medians ran from 417 ms to over 1100 ms, and a US exit hitting Singapore came back at 1645 ms. Static ISP hosted near your target endpoint is the answer. Rent per IP, keep the session, pick the location deliberately. More on that in our static ISP proxy ranking.
Are free proxies safe?
No. Whoever operates that open port can read everything you send through it, and most of those addresses are already blacklisted anyway. If you want to test a config for five minutes, sure. For anything else, IPcook hands out 100 MB free, MobileProxy.Space gives two hours of full access, and NodeMaven’s premium trial costs $3.50 — all of them real IPs on a real network.