Top 7 Rotating Proxy Service Providers in 2025

We benchmarked major rotating proxies (residential, datacenter, and mobile) using more than 200,000 requests, including 100,000 parallel requests, for major eCommerce and social media sites. See the top solutions based on our tests and follow the links to learn more from these vendors:

Provider		For
1.	Bright Data	The most reliable residential provider, with the lowest success rate change based on our benchmark
2.	Webshare	Generous free plan
3.	Oxylabs	Mobile proxies with the lowest cost & ease-of-use in proxy setup
4.	Smartproxy	Rotating residential proxies with the lowest cost
5.	NetNut	Mobile proxies at high volumes
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6.	Nimble
7.	IPRoyal

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Bright Data

The most reliable residential provider, with the lowest success rate change based on our benchmark

2.

Webshare

Generous free plan

3.

Oxylabs

Mobile proxies with the lowest cost & ease-of-use in proxy setup

4.

Smartproxy

Rotating residential proxies with the lowest cost

5.

NetNut

Mobile proxies at high volumes

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6.

Nimble

7.

IPRoyal

Feature-based comparison of the best rotating proxies

What is the price of rotating proxy services?

Sorting: Ascending order based on the lowest price level for rotating residential proxies, with the exception of sponsors with links to their websites.

Notes:

• Flexible rotating options*: Timed rotation (every 5/10/15…/60 minutes), rotation with each request, or sticky.
• Starts from**: The initial cost for rotating residential proxies is determined from the smallest package available.

Methodology for provider list compilation

We divided the rotating proxies into two groups based on how they manage IP rotation:

1. Static proxies that have IP rotation capabilities: These proxies provide a fixed list of static IP addresses but also have an automatic feature that is dependent on a variety of variables, like the volume of requests.
2. IP address with default rotation option: Also known as rotating proxies, these proxies rotate among a huge pool of IP addresses automatically, needing less user control. The supplier handles the IP rotation automatically.

We included the “IP address with the default rotation option” proxy solutions in our benchmark.

How to control or customize the IP rotation settings?

By default, rotating proxy providers offer rotation; however, you have the ability to customize the rotation settings to suit your preferences. Our testing identified the primary IP rotation options offered by the proxy providers, which you can adjust to your preferences.

1. Time-based IP rotation: Automatically rotate IP addresses based on predetermined time intervals. The cycle of rotating IP addresses continues as long as the user is connected to the proxy pool.
2. Session-based IP rotation: IP addresses change with each session. When a new session begins, the proxy server assigns a different IP address.
3. Random IP rotation: Time-based and session-based rotations follow a predictable pattern. Random IP rotation changes IPs in an unpredictable and non-sequential manner.
4. Rotation through proxy server: The proxy server automatically manages and rotates IP addresses based on specific rules.

Bright Data

Bright Data offers default IP rotation for both mobile and residential proxies. Users can customize the IP rotation settings using the following methods:

1. Basic rotation: Session-based IP and constant IP rotation (connection routed through a specific proxy IP).
2. Advanced rotation with proxy manager: You can rotate the IP addresses per response time, connection time, response body, or header, or based on HTTP response codes.

Bright Data provides an open-source Proxy Manager, allowing clients to set the number of requests allowed before changing the IP, determine the time interval between IP changes, and specify the number of IPs in their rotation pool. You can target specific locations using criteria such as city, state, zip code, or ASN with residential and mobile proxies.

Pricing:

• Pay-as-you-go: Available for all proxy types.
• Free trial: 7-day trial for registered companies.

New users of Bright Data’s rotating proxies can benefit from a first deposit match of up to $500, increasing their available balance.

Webshare

Webshare offers different connection types: direct, backbone (don’t offer default rotation) and rotating proxy endpoint (default rotation). The rotating proxy endpoint automatically rotates IP addresses in your proxy pool and is available with all proxy types. You can modify the rotating settings with the rotating proxy endpoint. The proxy provider offers 10 shared datacenter proxies for free with 1 GB of bandwidth.

Rotating proxies do not provide a sticky session option by default. If you need both rotating and sticky proxies, you can choose static proxies with the proxy rotator add-on.

Pricing:

• Free trial: 10 shared datacenter proxies free

Oxylabs

Oxylabs offers rotating residential and mobile proxies for each new request by default. Oxylabs’ dedicated datacenter proxies themselves do not come with a rotation feature. A rotation is started by each new page (URL) that a browser accesses, which is a separate request.

You can use port 8000 to enable rotation for dedicated datacenter proxies, which will choose a random IP address from your proxy list for every request. Mobile proxies rotate their IP address with each request by default. However, the proxy provider offers users the option to maintain the same IP address for a period of up to 30 minutes.

Pricing:

• Free trial: They provide two types of trials for customers: a 7-day trial for those signing up on behalf of a company, and a 3-day money-back guarantee for individuals signing up in their personal capacity. The pay-as-you-go option is non-refundable.
• Pay-as-you-go: For residential and mobile proxies.

Smartproxy

Smartproxy’s rotating proxy pool consists of residential, mobile and shared datacenter IP addresses. Residential proxies enable targeting at the city and ZIP code level, while datacenter proxies allow for targeting at the country level, and mobile proxies provide targeting based on ASN and country level. Residential proxies enable users to rotate IP addresses with each request or maintain the same one for up to 30 minutes.

Pricing:

• Pay-as-you-go: Only residential and mobile proxies provide the option to pay based on usage.
• Free trial: Get 100MB free trial credits to explore Smartproxy’s residential proxies. Smartproxy provides a free trial for proxies upon submission of information about your company.

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NetNut

NetNut offers rotating residential, shared datacenter, and mobile proxy pools for data extraction activities. The proxy service provider changes proxies for each individual session by default. NetNut provides a custom rotation feature for both residential and mobile proxies by default.

Pricing:

• Free trial: 7-day
• Pay-as-you-go: Unavailable

Nimbleway

Nimble provides rotating residential proxies, featuring a pool of dedicated IP addresses. These residential proxies are integrated with Nimble’s web scraping APIs. Users have the flexibility to employ these residential proxies either with their own in-house scraper or with third-party scraping APIs. Residential proxies offer automatic IP address rotation as a standard option, and include sticky sessions that rotate after a 10-minute period of inactivity.

Pricing:

• Pay-as-you-go: 8/GB
• Free trial: 7-day free trial

IPRoyal

IPRoyal offers rotating residential and mobile proxies with the flexibility to set any rotation interval up to 24 hours directly in the widget. The proxy provider allows users to manually rotate mobile IPs by clicking the ‘rotate IP’ button. Three rotation methods are available for residential proxies:

1. Randomized IPs: Proxies that use randomized IPs alter in response to every request.

2. Sticky IPs: As long as the IP provider remains connected, you can select the sticky option for up to seven days.
3. Manual rotation: You first choose the sticky option while using manual rotation. After that, you may click the “Clear sessions” option in the dashboard to rotate the proxies whenever you’d like

However, a notable limitation is that IPRoyal’s proxy pool size is relatively smaller when compared to premium providers like Bright Data, Smartproxy, and Oxylabs.

Pricing:

• Free trial: Although they don’t provide a free trial, you can try their service for a reasonable price by purchasing a minimum of 1 GB of traffic.
• Pay-as-you-go: Does not provide a pay-as-you-go option.

What is a rotating proxy?

A rotating proxy is a type of proxy server that assigns a different IP address from its pool of IPs to each of your internet connection.

Why do you need rotating proxies?

Static proxy management at scale can be challenging. IP selection for various domains or websites with anti-scraping measures must be done by hand. Regarding which IP address to use for which domain and how many requests each IP address can make before rotating, you must have a solid plan in place.

Rotating proxy providers automatically assign IP addresses without any manual input from the user. Rotation can happen based on various triggers like the number of connection requests, for each new session, and time intervals.

Why should you use rotating proxies?

1. Automatic IP rotation: Automatically assigning IP addresses without any manual input from the user. Rotation can happen based on various triggers like the number of connection requests, for each new sessions, time intervals.
2. Manual IP rotation: Users decides when to change the IP addresses by manually selecting a new IP from a pool provided by the proxy service provider.
3. Time-based IP rotation: Automatically rotate IP addresses based on predetermined time intervals. The cycle of rotating IP addresses continues as long as the user is connected to the proxy pool.
4. Session-based IP rotation: IP addresses change with each session. When a new session begins, the proxy server assigns a different IP address.
5. Random IP rotation: Time-based and session-based rotations follow a predictable pattern. Random IP rotation changes IPs in unpredictable and non-sequential manner.
6. Rotation through proxy server: The proxy server automatically manages and rotates IP addresses based on specific rules.

What type of proxies can be rotated?

1. Rotating residential proxies

• Residential proxies have the benefit of assigning residential IPs for each connection request.
• They are owned by internet service providers and are registered to a particular home address.
• Since residential IPs are verified and associated with a real person, they are less likely to get blocked out from target websites as compared to datacenter IPs.

2. Rotating mobile proxies

• IP addresses are sourced from mobile IPs.
• Provide a high degree of anonymity and privacy.
• Change users’ IP addresses periodically.

3. Rotating datacenter proxies

• These are not tied to any specific internet service provider but to the organization that owns the data center.
• traced back to the organization owning the data center.
• Carry a risk of the target website banning all IPs originating from the concerned data center.

Is it legal to use a rotating proxy server?

Using proxies is legal in most of the countries, including both static and rotating. However, two things are important in determining the legality of your proxy usage:

• How are proxies acquired? Malware-infected residential computers can be provided as proxies by malicious actors. Provision or use of such proxies would be illegal; therefore, we recommend working with legitimate proxy providers. We have a regularly updated list of proxy providers.
• How are proxies used? For example, using them to launch denial of service attacks or to collect personal information would be illegal.

Please note that this is not legal advice. We recommend users get legal advice beforehand on the intended use to ensure no legal laws are being broken.