أفضل موفري البروكسي السكني لعام 2026 (تم اختباره ومقارنته)

Choosing between residential proxy providers in 2026 is no longer just a question of price per gigabyte. It is a compliance decision. In July 2026 the FBI, working with Google, Lumen and Shadowserver, seized hundreds of domains belonging to NetNut — a well-known network run by the publicly traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies — over alleged links to the Popa botnet, which investigators say enrolled roughly two million devices as proxy nodes. Anyone who had built a pipeline on that network woke up to a seizure banner.

That single event reframed the market. Pool size and per-GB rates still matter, but the question that decides whether a provider is safe to build on is simpler: can it prove where its IP addresses come from? Below are the residential proxy providers worth your money in 2026, with pricing checked on each vendor's own site at the time of writing.

One naming note before we start, because it trips people up constantly: Smartproxy is now Decodo. The rebrand completed on 22 April 2025, endpoints and credentials carried over unchanged, and any roundup still listing both as separate providers is out of date.

Residential vs datacenter vs mobile (the 60-second version)

If you only remember one thing: not all proxies are equal, and the type you pick decides whether you get blocked.

Datacenter proxies — fast and cheap, but the IPs come from servers, so sophisticated sites spot and block them easily. Great for simple, tolerant targets.
Residential proxies — real IP addresses from real home internet connections, so traffic looks like an ordinary person browsing. Harder to detect, which is why they're the workhorse for serious data work. Pricier, usually billed per GB.
Mobile proxies — IPs from actual mobile carriers. The hardest to block and the most expensive — reserved for the toughest targets like certain social platforms.
ISP (static residential) proxies — a hybrid: residential-looking but hosted, giving you speed plus a stable, long-lived IP.

For most of the use cases people care about — scraping, verification, multi-account — residential is the sweet spot. That's where we'll focus. To see what an exit node looks like from the outside, check the address your session is using with what's my IP, then run it through an IP information lookup to confirm the country, ASN and network type match what you paid for.

How we evaluated them

We weighed each provider on six things that matter day to day: the size and quality of the IP pool, real-world success rate against tough targets, speed, how honest the pricing is, the dashboard and documentation, and — now the deciding factor — sourcing ethics and compliance. The NetNut seizure turned that last point from a nice principle into an operational risk with a date attached.

Quick comparison

Provider	Best for	Standout strength	Entry residential pricing (vendor site)
Live ProPwxies	Private residential workflow	Private IP allocation + session control	From $70 for 4 GB / 30 days
Byteful	Flexible residential proxy use	Geo-targeting + non-expiring bandwidth	Per GB
Bright Data	Enterprise data teams	Largest pool + tooling	Plans from $499/mo; PAYG listed at $8/GB
NodeMaven	Web Scrapping and Automation	High Success Rate + Quality Filtering	Residential from the $2.20/GB trial with 750MB for $3.50
Oxylabs	Large-scale scraping	Reliability + support	Starter 5 GB at $6/GB ($30/mo)
Decodo (ex-Smartproxy)	Best all-round value	Ease of use + price	3 GB at $3.75/GB; PAYG $4/GB
IPRoyal	Budget & pay-as-you-go	Traffic that never expires	From $7/GB at 1 GB, falling with volume
Webshare	Beginners & small jobs	Free tier + simplicity	1 GB at $3.50/GB; 100 GB at $2.25/GB
SOAX	Precise geo-targeting	Country-tiered pricing	Builder plan from $200/mo
GoProxies	Mixed proxy workloads	All four proxy types in one account	Residential from $1.40/GB
Rayobyte	Ethics-focused buyers	Consent-based sourcing	Starter $3.50/GB, 1 GB minimum

Best for enterprise: Bright Data & Oxylabs

If you're running data collection at serious scale, these two are the names you'll keep hearing. Bright Data has the largest IP pool in the business and a full suite of scraping tools on top — powerful, well-documented, and priced accordingly. Its residential network lists pay-as-you-go at $8 per GB, with monthly commitments at $499 for roughly 141 GB, $999 for about 332 GB and $1,999 for about 798 GB; promotions that halve those headline rates run frequently, so check what is live before you budget.

Oxylabs sits alongside it with a reputation for reliability and good enterprise support, plus AI-driven scraping products. Its residential tiers are more approachable at the bottom: Starter is 5 GB at $6 per GB ($30 a month), Basic 20 GB at $5 per GB ($100), Advanced 125 GB at $4 per GB ($500), and Corporate 1 TB at $2.50 per GB ($2,500), with a free trial available once per customer.

Best for private residential access: Live Proxies & Byteful

Live Proxies offers residential proxies and mobile proxies for teams that need greater control over IP allocation and session behavior. Its network includes millions of IPs across 55 countries, with strong coverage in the US, Canada, and the UK. The service supports country, city, and ASN targeting, HTTP and SOCKS5 protocols, unlimited threads, and sticky sessions lasting up to 24 hours.

Private IP allocation is the main differentiator. B2C users receive privately allocated IPs, while enterprise configurations are designed to avoid overlap on the same or similar targets. Residential plans start at $70 for 4 GB over 30 days, with custom enterprise options available for larger workloads.

Byteful is another option for private residential access, offering 35M+ residential IPs across 195+ countries. The service supports country, region, city, and ISP targeting, along with rotating and sticky sessions, HTTP and SOCKS5 protocols, and unlimited concurrent sessions.

Byteful also provides non-expiring residential bandwidth, API access, and flexible proxy management options. Residential plans start at $3.25/GB, with volume discounts available for larger plans. This makes it suitable for web scraping, SEO monitoring, market research, and other workflows that require reliable residential IPs.

Best for quality-focused scraping: NodeMaven

NodeMaven combines a 30M+ residential IP pool with 190+ countries of coverage, making it easy to run reliable web scraping, SEO monitoring, market research, and other location-sensitive workflows. Country, city, and ZIP targeting give you precise control over where requests come from, while sticky sessions help maintain consistent connections when needed.

A key advantage is NodeMaven’s built-in IP Quality Filter. Proxies are selected from a pre-screened pool of high-performing IPs and checked again in real time for reputation and fraud signals, helping provide cleaner, lower-risk connections. The filter is included by default, with residential pricing starting at $2.20 per GB.

Best all-round value: Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)

Decodo — the network that operated as Smartproxy until April 2025 — is the pick we recommend most often to teams who want enterprise-grade results without the enterprise invoice. The pool is large and clean, the dashboard is among the friendliest in the category, and the pricing is legible: residential plans run from 3 GB at $3.75 per GB up to 100 GB at $2.75 per GB, with pay-as-you-go at $4 per GB and a three-day free trial. Legacy Smartproxy endpoints kept working through the rebrand, so older configs generally still apply.

Best for flexible proxy infrastructure: GoProxies

If your requirements extend beyond rotating residential proxies alone, GoProxies is worth considering. The platform offers residential, ISP residential, datacenter, and mobile proxies from a single provider, making it easier to match the network to the workload without switching services. Its published entry rates put rotating residential from $1.40 per GB, ISP proxies at $3.55 per GB and shared datacenter proxies at $0.39 per GB, with dedicated datacenter IPs sold per address. It also supports rotating and sticky sessions alongside geo-targeting by country, state, city, ISP, and ASN — a flexible option for web scraping, SEO monitoring, ad verification and market research that can scale as requirements evolve.

Best budget & pay-as-you-go: IPRoyal & Webshare

Not every project needs a six-figure data pipeline. IPRoyal is a favourite for smaller teams because its traffic never expires — useful if your usage is bursty. Residential rates start around $7 per GB on a 1 GB subscription, reach roughly $5.25 per GB at 10 GB, and drop to about $1.75 per GB only at multi-terabyte custom orders. Read that curve carefully: IPRoyal is cheap to start with, not cheap per gigabyte at small volumes.

Webshare is the gentlest on-ramp of all, with a free tier of 10 proxies that needs no card, plus simple per-IP options for light jobs. Its rotating residential traffic is priced from $3.50 per GB at 1 GB down to $2.25 per GB at 100 GB, with yearly commitments cutting that further. Worth knowing for due diligence: Webshare has been part of Oxylabs since 2022 while continuing to operate as its own brand, so choosing "two providers" here does not actually diversify your supplier risk.

Best specialists: SOAX & Rayobyte

SOAX stands out for precise geo-targeting — down to the city and carrier — and prices by country tier, which is unusual and often advantageous. Tier 1 countries such as the US and UK run from $5 per GB on its free Sandbox tier down to $1.50 per GB on Scale, while Tier 3 regions start at $2 per GB and fall to $0.60. Its smallest committed plan, Builder, starts at $200 a month. If your research sits in cheaper tiers, that model can undercut flat-rate rivals substantially.

Rayobyte has built its name on consent-based IP sourcing — it states that its residential IPs come from real devices whose owners opt in, are compensated, can set restrictions and can leave at any time. Pricing is straightforward volume banding: $3.50 per GB for 1–49 GB, $2.00 for 50–249 GB, $1.50 for 250–999 GB, $0.70 for 1,000–4,999 GB and $0.50 above 5,000 GB, with a 1 GB minimum. For compliance-minded buyers, that documented consent chain is the product.

What happened to NetNut, and why it matters

Earlier editions of this guide recommended NetNut for speed-critical work. That recommendation is withdrawn. On 2 July 2026 the FBI seized netnut.com, with netnut.io following a day later; sister domains including proxyjet.io and divinetworks.com were taken too, and the parent company's own site displayed a seizure notice within the week. Investigators tied the network to the Popa botnet, alleging that SDKs bundled into consumer apps and devices turned around two million endpoints into proxy nodes without meaningful consent, and that the traffic was used for mass scraping, ad fraud and account takeover. Alarum Technologies said it would cooperate with law enforcement; its share price fell sharply.

The practical lessons are worth internalising even if you never touched NetNut:

Ask for the sourcing story in writing. "Ethically sourced" on a landing page is marketing; a documented consent flow, opt-out mechanism and compensation model is evidence.
Avoid single-supplier dependency. Keep a second provider configured and tested, so a takedown or price change is a config switch rather than a rebuild.
Check who owns whom. Two brands under one parent are one point of failure, as the Oxylabs and Webshare relationship illustrates.
Prefer providers that publish abuse controls. Networks that police their own customers are the ones least likely to attract a seizure warrant.

Understanding the pricing (where people overpay)

Residential proxies are almost always billed per gigabyte of traffic, not per IP — and that trips a lot of newcomers. A job that loads images and heavy pages burns data far faster than one pulling plain HTML. The table below assumes 100,000 requests a month and shows what the same job costs at three realistic page weights (calculated at 1 GB = 1,000,000 KB, the way vendors bill).

What you fetch	Average page weight	Monthly bandwidth	At $1.40/GB	At $3.00/GB	At $5.25/GB
Raw HTML only	150 KB	15 GB	$21	$45	$79
HTML plus CSS and JS	800 KB	80 GB	$112	$240	$420
Full page render with images	2,500 KB	250 GB	$350	$750	$1,312

The spread between the top and bottom row is roughly seventeen times — far larger than the gap between the cheapest and dearest provider here. Blocking images and fonts in your scraper is worth more to your bill than any amount of vendor haggling.

How to size and test a proxy plan, step by step

Fetch 50 representative target pages without a proxy and record the bytes transferred.
Convert the total to gigabytes with a bytes to GB converter, or use the memory and storage converter if your logs are mixed units.
Multiply the average by your planned monthly request count to get a baseline bandwidth figure, then add 30–40% for retries and failed requests.
Strip what you do not need: block images, fonts and media, and request raw markup rather than rendering where possible. Re-measure and use the new figure.
Check whether the target needs a headless browser at all — a JavaScript SEO checker shows how much content sits in the server-rendered HTML before any script runs.
Buy the smallest paid plan or a pay-as-you-go top-up from two shortlisted providers and run the same job through both.
Compare success rate, median latency and actual GB consumed — not the advertised pool size — then commit to the winner for one month only.
Re-benchmark quarterly. Pool quality, per-GB rates and block rates all drift.

What people actually use residential proxies for

The use cases are more everyday than the spy-movie reputation suggests:

Competitor & SEO research — pulling rankings, prices, and SERP data at scale. If that's your goal, it pairs directly with our walkthrough on how to do SEO competitor analysis, and an HTML tags stripper is handy for turning saved pages into clean text you can diff.
E-commerce price & market monitoring — tracking how products move across regions. Sellers will find our guide to estimating Amazon sales and the ecommerce SEO guide useful companions.
Ad verification — confirming your campaigns actually display correctly in target countries.
Multi-account & social management — keeping separate accounts cleanly separated, which slots neatly beside the right publishing setup from our best social media marketing tools roundup.
Geo-restricted access — the foundation we covered in secure access to geo-restricted content via residential routing.

Whichever job you run, sanity-check the exit node's resolution with a DNS lookup before blaming the target site for inconsistent results — geo-targeted sessions resolving through the wrong region are a common and easily missed cause of bad data.

A note on staying on the right side of the line

Proxies are legal and legitimate, but how you use them matters. Stick to publicly available data, respect each site's terms of service and robots.txt, avoid scraping personal or copyrighted data you don't have rights to, and stay mindful of regulations like GDPR. If you publish as well as collect, a robots.txt generator shows the file from the other side and sets your own crawl rules clearly. Choosing a provider with transparent, consent-based IP sourcing isn't just ethical — as 2026 showed, it protects you legally and operationally too. If compliance is front of mind, our pieces on building stronger cyber hygiene with online tools and broader enterprise data solutions are worth a look.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best residential proxy provider in 2026?

FFor raw scale and tooling, Bright Data and Oxylabs lead. For the best balance of price and performance, Decodo is our most-recommended all-rounder. Live Proxies is a strong option for private residential access with flexible session control and detailed targeting. Budget users do well with IPRoyal or Webshare, and Rayobyte is the pick if documented consent-based sourcing is your priority.

Is Smartproxy the same as Decodo?

Yes. Smartproxy rebranded to Decodo, with the transition completing on 22 April 2025. Accounts, credentials, endpoints and subscription terms carried over, and legacy Smartproxy endpoints continued to work, so any guide treating them as two providers is simply outdated.

What happened to NetNut?

US law enforcement seized NetNut's domains in early July 2026, alongside sister brands, following an investigation linking the network to the Popa botnet and alleging that roughly two million consumer devices were enrolled as proxy nodes without proper consent. Treat it as unavailable and migrate any dependent pipelines.

Are residential proxies legal?

Yes, using residential proxies is legal in most jurisdictions. What can cross a line is how you use them — scraping private data, ignoring terms of service, or breaching data-protection laws — and, as recent enforcement showed, buying from a network whose IPs were obtained without consent creates its own exposure. Stick to public data and reputable, consent-based providers.

How much do residential proxies cost?

Most charge per gigabyte. Entry rates on the providers here span roughly $3.50 to $8 per GB for the smallest plans, falling toward $0.50 to $2.50 per GB at high volume, and SOAX prices by country tier rather than a flat rate. Your real bill depends far more on how much data your tasks consume than on which vendor you pick.

Is there a free residential proxy?

Free public proxy lists exist but are slow, unreliable, and genuinely risky for security. Webshare's free tier of 10 proxies, SOAX's free Sandbox account and Decodo's three-day trial are safer ways to test a legitimate network before paying, while Live Proxies provides free trial access primarily for enterprise and high-volume users.

Conclusion

The right residential proxy provider depends on your scale, your budget and, more than ever, your tolerance for supplier risk. Enterprises lean on Bright Data and Oxylabs; most growing teams get the best value from Decodo; Live Proxies is a strong fit for users who prioritize private allocation and stable long-running workflows; budget users are well served by IPRoyal and Webshare; GoProxies suits mixed workloads; and SOAX and Rayobyte shine for geo-precision and documented ethical sourcing.