12 Best Residential Proxy Service Providers in 2025

As AIMultiple’s CTO, I lead data collection from thousands of websites and run a residential proxy benchmark, including a load test with 100,000 parallel requests. See the top solutions based on our tests and follow the links to learn more from these vendors:

Vendor		Focus
1.	Bright Data	Enterprise users looking for compliance and advanced features
2.	Decodo	Affordable proxy plans with minimal interaction
3.	Oxylabs	For a stable residential proxy infrastructure for high volume requests
4.	Webshare	For beginners, offering a simple UX without complex features
5.	NetNut	US-based rotating residential proxies
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6.	ProxyScrape	Lowest starter pricing
7.	Nimbleway
8.	NodeMaven
9.	IPRoyal	Best overall speed

1.

Bright Data

Enterprise users looking for compliance and advanced features

2.

Decodo

Affordable proxy plans with minimal interaction

3.

Oxylabs

For a stable residential proxy infrastructure for high volume requests

4.

Webshare

For beginners, offering a simple UX without complex features

5.

NetNut

US-based rotating residential proxies

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6.

ProxyScrape

Lowest starter pricing

7.

Nimbleway

8.

NodeMaven

9.

IPRoyal

Best overall speed

Not all residential proxies are equal:

• Response times differ..
• Though vendors claim ~0.1% error rates, high-traffic websites can frequently block residential proxies. However, actual blocking rates depend on multiple factors, as outlined in proxy server success rates.

Best Residential Proxy Providers: Performance and Features

See residential proxy providers’ median response times in our benchmark. The ranges below show the 95% confidence interval for the response times:

See the methodology for calculating these response times.

Residential proxy features

See below the top residential proxy providers in terms of features like :

Table features explained:

• Rating from the top 2 B2B review platforms.
• Unblocker: Web unblockers offer a mechanism to bypass anti-scraping technologies employed by websites.
• City-level targeting: The ability to select a proxy server located in a specific city.

Success rates

We don’t report proxies’ success rates by brand since they depend on multiple factors, such as the time of crawl and proxy configurations. For more details, see proxy provider success rates.

If you want to use tens of thousands of residential proxies, then response rates will differ by brand. Our high-scale web scraping benchmark shows which brands have a more stable residential proxy infrastructure.

If you are having low success rates, you either need to:

• Vary your crawling approach and try different configurations or
• Use unblockers or web scraping APIs that enable users to access websites easily without working on proxy configuration.

What is the price of residential proxy services?

Sorting: Ascending orders based on the lowest price level, except for sponsors with website links.

* *Per GB price with pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pricing.

** Refers to the minimum cost of a residential proxy service.

Price comparison for top residential proxies

The following graph illustrates the prices for different residential proxy providers. For further details, see our benchmark pricing strategy.

Though residential proxies are expensive, they are necessary for many websites that rely on anti-scraping measures. For easier-to-scrape websites, you can rely on datacenter proxies.

Bright Data

Bright Data’s residential proxies use a default IP rotation setup, and the rotation frequency is per request. If you need more control over IP rotation, Bright Data offers several options for managing it (see IP rotation). There are no bandwidth limitations.

Key features:

• Geo-targeting: Country, city, ASN, and Zip code level targeting.
• Shared and dedicated: You can opt for shared or dedicated residential IP addresses.
• IP rotation: Session Control (each unique session ID is assigned a unique IP), directing Requests to Specific IPs (for zones with dedicated residential proxies, specific parameters through a particular IP address), constant IP binding (the same IP is used for the duration of the session).

Insights from benchmarking and user experience

Each residential proxy’s pros and cons are derived from our experience during benchmarking or user reviews. All of these points are either validated based on our experience, or they are about customer support, which is a topic where every user can have a different experience:

Pros:

• Bright Data is among the most resilient residential proxy networks.
• The support team provides timely assistance and resolves issues efficiently. We experienced this with AIMultiple accounts, and when we signed up under different domains to test their responsiveness.

Cons:

• As the largest residential proxy provider by number of employees, most of its revenues likely come from enterprises or large startups. As a result, its product is feature-rich. New users need some time to familiarize themselves, and proficiency requires hands-on experience.

Decodo

Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) offers a rotating residential proxy pool with global country coverage. ZIP code-level targeting is available only in the US. Decodo’s residential proxies can rotate with every connection request to the target server, and you can also customize the IP rotation settings.

Key features:

• Geo targeting: Country, city, US states, and zip code level targeting.
• Dedicated & shared residential IPs
• IP rotation: Residential proxies support two session types: sticky sessions (24 hours) and rotating sessions (each new request).

Use code RESI50 to explore Decodo’s residential proxies.

Pros:

• Decodo features an intuitive dashboard and integration tools with residential solutions like an anti-detect browser.
• The provider offers granular scaling with their pricing plans. You can buy just 2 GB or 8 GB, without overcommitting.

Cons:

• The free trial period may be insufficient; they offer a 3-day free trial with 100MB of residential proxy traffic.

Oxylabs

Oxylabs offers shared residential proxies. Residential IPs are assigned based on entry nodes or any parameters you set. Applying granular targeting with residential proxies is free.

Residential proxy servers rotate IP addresses by default with each new request. If you need to keep the same IP for a more extended period, there are two options: session ID (up to 10 minutes) and session time (up to 30 minutes).

Key features:

• Geo-targeting: Country, city, and state-level
• IP rotation: Assigns a different residential IP with each request and allows users to customize the desired length of the session to maintain the same IP (up to 30 mins).

Use the 7-day free trial to test Oxylabs’ services.

Pros:

• It is among the best residential proxy networks for large-scale web data collection.

Webshare

Webshare has restricted targeting choices and lacks custom rotation features but is friendly to beginners with a simple UI.

Key features:

• Geo-targeting: Country level.
• IP rotation: For every 5 minutes, you can customize the rotation duration.
• Pricing: minimum package at $7 for 1 GB

Pros:

• Webshare focuses on smaller companies compared to other providers and provides a simpler, user-friendly interface.

Cons:

• Customer support is not accessible 24/7.
• Lacks ASN or ZIP code level targeting options.
• Lacks a flexible pay-as-you-go package.

NetNut

NetNut provides shared residential proxies with precise targeting options. The provider offers U.S. city and state-level proxy targeting.

Key features:

• Geo-targeting: Country, city, and state
• Dedicated IP pool: Shared residential proxies
• IP rotation: Every request

You can get started as a business with a 7-day trial.

Cons:

• Experienced increased failure rates during our web data collection load test.

ProxyScrape

ProxyScrape provides a shared residential pool that rotates for each connection request. ProxyScrape’s residential proxies support both HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 protocols.

ProxyScrape does not offer a free trial for residential proxies, but you can test the service at a low cost. The proxy provider guarantees a refund if you use less than 1 GB of data and are unsatisfied within 3 days of purchase.

Key features:

• Geo-targeting: Support country, state, and city-level targeting
• Shared IPs: Offers a shared residential proxy pool
• IP rotation: Change with each new connection

NodeMaven

NodeMaven offers residential proxies to small- and medium-sized businesses, marketers, and sneaker bots.

NodeMaven’s residential proxy network covers over 150 countries and 1,400 cities, providing country, city, and region-level targeting.

They emphasize the quality of their proxies in their claims, which include:

• A proprietary IP quality filter to ensure that users receive only high-quality IPs
• Sticky sessions up to 24 hours

We’ll soon be testing these in an update of our proxy benchmark.

Key features:

• Geo-targeting: Country, region, city, and ISP
• Shared IPs: Shared
• IP rotation: Up to 24-hour sticky sessions, IP rotation for each request

Pricing details:

• Traffic rollover: Unused traffic rolls over to the next period in subscriptions
• Minimum package price: €6/GB
• Free trial: Paid trial plan for €3.99

Pros:

• Sticky residential proxies keep the same IP address for up to 24 hours.

Cons:

• NodeMaven offers only a paid trial (500 MB for €3.99), which may be less appealing than competitors’ fully free trials.

Nimble

Nimble offers rotating residential proxies that support different configuration options for IP replacement:

• Replace IP when unavailable: Automatically swaps in a new IP if the sticky IP drops or becomes unavailable.
• Select another IP within the same ASN: This replaces the failed IP with another from the same Autonomous System Number (ISP network), keeping the network profile similar.
• Do not replace – Fail request: If the sticky IP becomes unavailable, the system fails the request instead of replacing the IP.

Key features:

• Geo-targeting: Country and state
• Dedicated IPs: Private residential proxies
• IP rotation: Residential proxies that automatically change IP addresses as a default feature, and offer sticky sessions that rotate after 10 minutes without activity.

Pricing details:

• Minimum package price: $150/month includes residential proxies and scraping API
• 7-day free trial

IPRoyal

IPRoyal offers 32 million rotating residential proxies that allow users to customize the rotation interval up to 24 hours. It’s important to note that IPRoyal’s proxy pool has a smaller residential proxy plan than leading providers such as Bright Data and Oxylabs.

Key features:

• Geo-targeting: Country, state, and city
• Dedicated & shared IPs
• IP rotation: Automatic proxy rotation every 1, 10, or 30 minutes

Pros:

• The fastest residential proxy is responding according to our response time measurements.

Cons:

• No free trial available, unlike many competing providers.

SOAX

SOAX proxy network covers diverse proxy types, such as rotating residential, US ISP, mobile, and US datacenter proxies. Residential proxies are available in almost all countries.

Key features:

• Geo-targeting: Offers granular targeting options such as city and ASN (Autonomous System Number) level.
• IP rotation: Provides rotation options ranging from 90 seconds to 600 seconds. You can keep your IP address for a set duration if your IP stays connected online.

Infatica

Infatica’s residential proxy network includes 10 million Residential IP addresses compatible with HTTP/SOCKS protocols. You can keep the same IP for 30 minutes before it changes.

Key features:

• Geo-targeting: Country, state, city, and ASN level targeting
• IP rotation: Extend proxy sessions for up to 30 minutes. Multiple proxy rotation options, including scheduled rotation at intervals ranging from 5 to 60 minutes, rotation with every request, or a sticky option.

Cons:

• Infatica does not provide a free trial; instead, it offers a 7-day paid trial for $4.00.

Rayobyte

Rayobyte sources its residential proxy IPs through a proxyware app called Cash Raven. Their residential service covers over 150 countries.

Key Features:

• Targeting Options: Country and city
• IP Pool: The size of Rayobyte’s IP pool has not been disclosed.
• IP Rotation: Rotate with each connection request and support sticky sessions lasting between 1 and 120 minutes.

ProxyEmpire

ProxyEmpire offers rotating residential IPs in more than 170 countries. Each residential proxy plan includes VIP integration support, which helps users set up their proxies.

Key features:

• Targeting: Country and city level

What is a residential proxy?

Residential proxies serve as a gateway between clients and web servers, preventing the actual API addresses of clients from being revealed. They do that by masking the IP addresses of client machines and assigning a different IP address. Unlike datacenter proxies or mobile proxies, residential proxies’ IP addresses are provided by an ISP (Internet Service Provider). Based on IP rotation, residential proxies are divided into two groups:

1. Rotating residential proxies: Rotating residential proxies alter the IP addresses of their clients with each new request.
2. Static residential proxies: Static residential proxies assign clients the same IP address for each connection request to the destination.

How do residential proxies work?

In general, each proxy server operates in the same manner. The steps in the process are roughly shown in Figure 3. However, several factors, such as the proxy IP rotation function, influence how a proxy server operates.

For example, suppose you use a rotating residential proxy rather than a static residential proxy. In that case, the proxy server returns to the IP pool and selects a different IP address for each of your connection requests before forwarding them to the target website.

Figure 3: Step-by-step breakdown of how proxy services work

Why do you need residential proxies?

People utilize proxy services for various reasons, including:

Bypassing geographical restrictions on content. Since websites use web tracking technologies such as browser fingerprinting, they can easily detect your IP address and identify your geolocation based on that. If you are in a restricted area, the website will block your IP address so you cannot access the content.

Obtaining web data. Most websites employ anti-scraping techniques to manage a high volume of client requests and prevent their servers from becoming overloaded with incoming connection requests.

If the target website has robust  protection mechanisms such as honeypot traps, CAPTCHA blockers, etc, you should use a residential proxy network to access and retrieve data without risk of IP blocking. Residential Proxy IPs are more reliable and trustworthy than datacenter proxies due to their provision by a real ISP. Blacklisting residential proxies is more difficult.

Datacenter vs residential

1. IP source: The source of the IP address is the main difference between residential and datacenter proxies. Residential proxy IPs are assigned by ISPs that belong to real people. (e.g., someone’s phone or computer), whereas datacenter proxies use cloud servers and data center’s IP pools. 
2. Proxy anonymity level: Unlike residential proxies, datacenter IPs are not associated with an internet service provider. This makes it easier for websites to identify proxy users and block them from accessing the website content. Residential proxies, as opposed to datacenter proxies, rotate clients’ IP addresses each time they connect to a website. If you intend to collect a large amount of data, you must constantly rotate your IP address to avoid revealing your actual IP address. Otherwise, the website you’re trying to scrape will suspect your activity and block your IP address to prevent data scraping.
3. Cost: Residential proxies offer a high level of anonymity and extensive geo-location targeting options. For this reason, the cost of residential proxies is typically higher than that of datacenter proxies.
4. Speed: Datacenter proxies are faster than residential proxies because their IP addresses are sourced from a remote cloud server. If you need to complete tasks quickly, dedicated datacenter proxies are a good option. Because shared datacenter proxies are overused, they perform slower than dedicated ones.
5. Use case evaluation: Both datacenter and residential proxies can be utilized for the following use cases. However, to get the most out of a proxy solution, you should be aware of the primary differences between the two and select the proxy solution that best fits your use case.

More on proxy servers

• Top 10 Proxy Service Provider for Web Scraping
• Geonode Proxies Features, Pricing and Reviews
• The Ultimate Guide to Proxy Server Types

For guidance to choose the right residential proxy service, check out data-driven list of residential proxy providers, and reach out to us: