We tested the top mobile proxy solutions, analyzing 8 batches of requests to 1,800 e-commerce URLs during Dec 2024 and Jan 2025, totaling 57,600 requests.You can find the rationale behind each selection by following the links:
| Provider | Focus | |
|---|---|---|
1. | Enterprise users looking for compliance and advanced features | |
2. | The lowest starter pricing | |
3. | Ease-of-use in proxy setup | |
4. | Mobile proxies for high volume scraping | |
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6. | ||
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8. | Flexible static IP sessions | |
Top mobile proxy providers
| Proxy providers | Traffic/GB | Monthly price | Free trial | PAYG/GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bright Data | 69 | $499 | 7 days | $8.40 |
| Smartproxy | 2 | $15 | 14-day money-back | $8 |
| Oxylabs | 12 | $99 | 7 days | $9 |
| NetNut | 13 | $99 | 7 days | ❌ |
| ProxyScrape | 5 | $24.25 | 1 GB for $2 | ❌ |
| NodeMaven | 5 | €30 | 500 MB for €3.99 | €7 |
| Infatica | 3 | $45 | $1.99 with 100 MB | $18 |
| SOAX | 15 | $99 | 3-day trial for $1.99 | ❌ |
Differentiating features of mobile proxy services
| Proxy providers | Reviews | IP type | Sticky sessions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bright Data | 4.8 based on 265 | Shared & dedicated | Customizable |
| Smartproxy | 4.6 based on 189 | Shared & dedicated | Up to 30 minutes |
| Oxylabs | 4.5 based on 120 | Shared | Up to 30 minutes |
| NetNut | 4.9 based on 146 | N/A | Until it is disconnected |
| ProxyScrape | - based on - | Shared | Up to 120 minutes |
| NodeMaven | N/A | Shared | Up to 24 hours |
| Infatica | 4.8 based on 32 | Dedicated | Up to 60 minutes |
| SOAX | 4.8 based on 57 | N/A | Up to 60 minutes |
Every provider included in the table provides IP rotation for each connection request.
Mobile proxies benchmark
Compare mobile proxy services’ response times in our benchmark:
Mobile proxies pricing benchmark
You can see detailed price change graph in the next graph for different mobile proxy provider. For detailed information, see our benchmark’s pricing approach.
Bright Data
Mobile proxy users on Bright Data can receive a first deposit match of up to $500, adding extra credit to their accounts.Bright Data offers mobile residential IPs, including 3G/4G/5G mobile proxy network. The mobile proxy provider enables users to rotate IP addresses with each connection request or maintain the same IP address for as long as available. You can customize the stick sessions using Bright Data’s Proxy Manager.
Features:
Proxy pool: 7 million 3G/4G mobile proxy network
Targeting: Supports country, city, zip code, carrier & ASN targeting
Proxy control panel or API: Allows users to manage and track their mobile IPs.
Rotating IPs from mobile devices: You can change mobile IPs at regular intervals or for each request.
Shared and dedicated IP types: You can use shared or dedicated mobile IPs based on your specific need and application.
Pricing:
Starting price (mo): $7.14 for 1 GB
Free trial: : 7-day free trial for businesses, 3-day refund for individuals
Decodo
Smartproxy provides a vast proxy pool of mobile proxies spanning over 160 locations and more than 700 ASNs, with options for country-level, ASN, and OS-specific targeting. The service allows for OS filtering by iOS and Android.
Features:
Proxy pool: 10 million
Targeting: City and country-level targeting
Shared and dedicated IP types: You can use shared or dedicated mobile IPs based on your specific need and application.
Extras: Browser Extension, Proxy checker, and X Browser (antidetect software)
Pricing:
Starting price (mo): $7.5 for 1 GB
Free trial: 14-day money back option
Oxylabs
Best for large teams running large-scale operationsOxylabs provides an extensive mobile proxy network with coverage across various locations, allowing users to target specific ASNs and coordinates. You can also customize rotation settings to meet your specific needs.
Features:
Proxy pool: 20 million
Targeting: Country, state, city, ASN, and coordinates
HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 protocol support: You can use mobile proxies to redirect your internet traffic through the service provider’s supported protocols.
Extras: API and browser extension
Pricing:
Starting price (mo): $8.25 for 1 GB
Free trial: 7-day free trial for companies, 3-day refund for individual users
NetNut
NetNut provides access to 5 million rotating mobile proxies across more than 100 countries. While city and state-level targeting is available, it comes with additional fees. The service also offers sticky sessions, allowing the same IP to be maintained until the connection is terminated.
Features:
Proxy pool: 5 million
Targeting: Country, state, and city
Extras: API for resellers
Pricing:
Starting price: $99 for 13 GB ($7.6/GB)
Free trial: Available for companies
ProxyScrape
ProxyScrape’s mobile proxies are rotating backconnect proxies, assigning a new IP from the pool for each request. You can set sticky sessions for up to 120 minutes by default. State-level targeting for New York, Florida, Texas.
Features:
Proxy pool: 12,000+ mobile IPs available daily
Targeting: Country and city
Pricing:
Starting price: $24.25 for 5 GB ($4.85/GB)
Free trial: 1 GB of data for $2 available as a trial
NodeMaven
NodeMaven’s proxy service plans provide provide access to both shared mobile and residential IP addresses, including a mobile pool of over 295K IP addresses from 150 countries.
The mobile IP pool is shared across users.Once an IP address is used, it is placed to the end of the list, making it less likely to be reused by another user. The IP pool is updated daily.
Features:
Proxy pool: 10 million
Targeting: Country, region, city, and ISP
Pricing:
Starting price (mo):€30 for 5 GB
Free trial: 500 MB for €3.99
Infatica
Infatica provides dedicated mobile proxies with customizable targeting options for country, city, and ASN. Their pricing is more geared towards mid-sized to enterprise-level businesses, and may be considered costly for individual users.
Features:
Proxy pool: 5 million
Targeting: Country, city, and ASN level targeting
Pricing:
Starting price (mo): $15 for 1 GB
Free trial: 3-day trial for $1.99
SOAX
SOAX provides the largest mobile proxy pool compared to other providers in our research. It also offers flexible sticky session durations, ranging from 10 seconds to 3600 seconds (60 minutes). For enterprise plans, users are assigned a customer success manager.
Features:
Proxy pool: 30 million
Targeting: Allows users to select proxies based on mobile carrier and city associated with a specific city and carrier.
Extras: API, customer success manager
Pricing:
Starting price: $99 for 15 GB ($6.6/GB)
Free trial: 3-day trial for $1.99
What is a mobile proxy?
A mobile proxy is a gateway that uses the IP addresses of a mobile network. Mobile proxies provide a layer of privacy between a mobile device and the target web server to hide users’ real mobile IP addresses.
How do mobile proxies work?
Mobile proxies work much like regular proxies such as residential and datacenter proxies. Mobile proxies assign mobile IPs to mobile devices (e.g. tablets, smartphones) to conceal the real IP addresses of users. Here is a simplified steps involved in how mobile proxies work:
Making request: When a user access to a website on their mobile device, their connection request first goes to the mobile proxy server.
Forwarding user request: The mobile proxy receives the request and forwards it to the target website by assigning you a new IP address.
Response: The target website takes the request provide the required information back to the mobile proxy server. The website sees the IP of the mobile proxy as the source of your request.
Data delivery: The mobile proxy server forwards the response to the user device.
Comparing residential, datacenter and mobile proxies
Datacenter proxies are IP addresses that belong to data centers. It is one of the cheapest ways to mask users’ real IP addresses. However, since they come from cloud server providers, they can be identified and blacklisted more easily compared to mobile and private proxies.
Residential proxies are IP addresses provided by an ISP (Internet Service Providers). Unlike other proxy services, residential proxies are more difficult to blacklist because they provide real IP addresses.
Mobile proxies are 3G/4G connections assigned to users by mobile operators. Mobile proxies also work very similarly to residential proxies. Detecting mobile proxies is difficult because they provide dynamic IPs.
3 Ways to Leverage Mobile Proxies for Your Business
1. Scraping data from social media accounts
While scraping web data, organizations can use mobile IPs to bypass IP bans and captcha. Captcha is one of the most common types of website security techniques. It identifies scraping bots and denies them access to websites to minimize web scraping practices. Mobile proxies are used to tackle this problem and allow web scraping bot access. They use dynamic IPs instead of static IP addresses.
The difference between a dynamic and a static IP address is that static IP addresses do not change over time while dynamic IP addresses are updated regularly and change over time. This increases privacy and anonymity.
Mobile proxies are also the best option for managing multiple social media accounts. They give social media managers different IP addresses so that they can easily access multiple accounts without IP bans.
If you log out of one of your social media accounts and then log in to another account, your IP address remains the same since you use the wireless or mobile network. Most of the time, social media platforms deny access to users who create multiple accounts with the same IP address. Mobile proxies prevent such scenarios by assigning different IPs.
See our in-depth guide on social media scraping to learn more about its legality, benefits, and use cases.
2. Ad verification
Ad verification helps businesses understand that their digital ads are being displayed in the desired location and reaching the desired audience. Here are the main benefits of ad verification for businesses:
It helps businesses and advertisers parse the traffic not delivered to their target audience and calculate a more realistic reach for their online campaign.
With ad verification, businesses can keep track of their brand’s reputation. They can make sure that their ads are displayed on credible sources.
Monitoring every single ad is not feasible, especially for large companies, as they often run multiple campaigns simultaneously. Companies can integrate mobile proxies into their web scrapers. This allows them to crawl websites at different times without being blacklisted.
3. Enabling access to region-specific content
Geoblocking is one of the most common barriers to tracking competitive data. Companies can use mobile proxies to gather geo-specific data without IP bans in order to obtain regional data in real-time. With a mobile proxy, your IP address is changed every time you make a request. Mobile proxies gain access to all content available in their region and can easily scroll mobile-first websites.
If you believe that your business may benefit from a web scraping solution, check out data-driven list of web scrapers, and reach out to us:
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