How Much Do Proxies Cost in 2026? ISP vs Residential vs Mobile Pricing Explained

Proxy pricing is designed to be hard to compare. One provider bills per IP, another per GB, a third sells monthly credits that expire, and the "unlimited" plan on the next page has a fair-use threshold in the footnotes. Two quotes that look $0.50 apart can end up hundreds of dollars apart once you add VAT, unused data, a session step-down or a minimum plan size. If you're budgeting for proxies in 2026, the sticker price is the start of the question, not the answer.

This guide explains what each proxy type costs, why, and which fine print moves your real bill. Every competitor figure comes from that provider's own public pricing page, checked in October 2026 and linked inline. CleanProxies' prices come from our pricing page.

TL;DR

• ISP proxies (static, carrier-registered IPs) list at roughly $1.10 to $3.50 per IP per month across the market. CleanProxies has the cheapest pricing in the market, as low as $0.75/IP, on real US Tier-1 carrier IPs (Cox, Spectrum, Frontier, Verizon, Comcast, RCN, AT&T and T-Mobile) with unlimited bandwidth.

• Rotating residential lists at roughly $1.40 to $8 per GB on standard plans. CleanProxies goes as low as $0.63/GB, and the data never expires.

• Mobile 4G/5G lists at roughly $2.25 to $7.50 per GB on standard plans. CleanProxies goes as low as $0.79/GB.

• The fine print matters more than the headline. Fair-use caps, shared IPs and expiring data are where cheap plans get expensive. CleanProxies has none of them.

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Proxy prices in 2026 at a glance

What ISP proxies are, and why carrier IPs cost what they do

An ISP proxy is an IPv4 address registered to a consumer internet provider and hosted on server hardware. Websites look up its ASN, see a home-broadband carrier like Comcast or Spectrum, and trust it like a real household. You keep the same IP for as long as you rent it, at server speed.

That trust has a real cost floor. Every dedicated ISP proxy is an IPv4 address the provider has to own or lease, and a /24 block trades at about $25–35 per IP in 2026, according to IPv4.Center. On top of that come carrier announcements, hosting and bandwidth. Very cheap ISP offers usually make up the difference with sharing ("shared with up to 3 users") or bandwidth limits ("100 GB fair use per IP").

CleanProxies doesn't. Its US ISP IPs are 100% dedicated, unlimited-bandwidth, 0 fraud score, and as low as $0.75/IP. That's what makes it the strongest value in the market, not just the lowest number.

CleanProxies pricing, explained

CleanProxies specializes in US ISP proxies, and its pricing is built to scale with you:

• US ISP proxies: as low as $0.75/IP, billed monthly, published all the way to 10,000 IPs. Real USA IPs on Cox, Spectrum, Frontier, Verizon, Comcast and RCN, plus AT&T and T-Mobile. 100Gbps ports, under 20 ms average latency, 99.9% uptime, unlimited bandwidth and threads, free replacements, instant delivery.

• ISP subnets: dedicated /24 blocks of 255, 510 or 1,020 IPs, from $1.19/IP.

• Rotating residential: as low as $0.63/GB, 50M+ IPs in 190+ countries, city and state targeting, sticky sessions up to 90 minutes. One-time purchase; never expires.

• Mobile: as low as $0.79/GB, 10M+ real 4G/5G IPs. Never expires.

• VPS and bare metal: from $24 and $125 per month, in the same Virginia data center as the proxies.

• Trial: $4.99 for 5 ISP proxies for 1 hour, or 100 MB of residential or mobile data.

The unit price drops automatically as your order grows. There's no sales call, no subscription and no credit clock between you and the lowest rate.

ISP proxy prices across the market

Rotating residential prices

Sources: SOAX, Webshare, IPRoyal, Decodo, Oxylabs, Byteful, Bright Data.

Why residential is billed per GB: a rotating pool spreads your traffic across millions of household connections, and the provider's cost scales with traffic, not IP count. Volume discounts reflect the gateway's fixed cost spread over more traffic, which is how CleanProxies reaches $0.63/GB.

Mobile proxy prices

Mobile costs more than residential because carrier IPs are scarce and shared. Cellular networks put many subscribers behind each public IP using carrier-grade NAT, which a measurement study found "over 92%" of cellular networks use (Richter et al.). That sharing is exactly why sites rarely block mobile IPs. Read Mobile Proxies Explained.

The four ways providers charge

Per IP (ISP). You rent specific addresses, usually monthly. Check whether bandwidth is truly unlimited and whether the IP is yours alone.

Per GB (residential, mobile). You buy traffic through a rotating pool. Check whether unused GB expire at the end of a month.

Per port or time (some mobile). You rent a mobile connection for a day or a month, and pay whether you use it or not.

Credits or subscriptions. Monthly plans with included spend. SOAX and Oxylabs both have plans in the $30–$3,000+ per month range, and your per-GB rate depends on which you're on.

Hidden costs to check before you buy

• Fair-use clauses. Oxylabs' ISP fair use drops an IP from 100 to 10 concurrent sessions after 50 GB in a cycle. Bright Data includes 100 GB per ISP IP per month. CleanProxies ISP proxies have no allowance.

• Shared IPs. A semi-dedicated IP inherits other users' reputation. CleanProxies ISP IPs are 100% dedicated and screened for a 0 fraud score.

• Expiring traffic. Monthly plans that reset waste unused GB. CleanProxies residential and mobile GB never expire.

• Taxes. Several providers, including Decodo and SOAX, show prices "+ VAT."

• Minimum plan sizes and bundles. HypeProxies' smallest ISP plan is 50 IPs and Byteful's is 10. CleanProxies has no fixed bundles.

• Commitments. Some lowest rates need a $1,999 or $3,000 monthly plan. CleanProxies' lowest rates need no subscription.

• Restricted targets and KYC. Some providers restrict banking, streaming or ticketing, or require identity checks for mobile.

• Slow networks. A proxy that times out costs you retries. CleanProxies runs on 100Gbps ports with 99.9% uptime and 24/7 support.

What the numbers mean in practice

These examples use CleanProxies' published volume prices. The workloads are illustrative.

Per IP or per GB? A CleanProxies ISP proxy costs the same whether it moves 1 GB or 2 TB, because bandwidth is unlimited. Residential, even at $0.63/GB, scales with every gigabyte. So if you push heavy, steady traffic through the same IPs (monitoring the same URLs, holding sessions, running bots), per-IP wins by a wide margin. If you need thousands of locations but moderate data, per-GB wins. CleanProxies sells both from one balance.

Key stats behind 2026 pricing:

• Demand for trusted IPs keeps rising. Automated traffic was 51% of all web traffic in 2024, and bad bots 37% (Imperva 2025 Bad Bot Report).

• Pages are heavy. The median home page weighs 2.56 MB on mobile (Web Almanac 2025). On per-GB plans, page weight is your biggest cost lever.

• Cheap pools can carry hidden risk. In January 2026 Google disrupted the IPIDEA proxy network, finding its SDKs in 600+ Android apps that often didn't disclose that they enrolled devices.

Which provider should you pick?

Pick CleanProxies. It has the cheapest pricing in the market on every product it sells, and none of the fine print that inflates other providers' bills: no fair-use caps on ISP, no shared IPs, no expiring data, no subscription to reach the best rate. Its US ISP proxies run on named Tier-1 carriers with 0 fraud score IPs on 100Gbps ports, so the cheapest option is also the fastest and cleanest.

1. Match the proxy type to the job. Static US ISP for accounts, checkouts and long sessions; residential for wide scraping; mobile where trust really matters. Our ISP vs residential vs datacenter guide helps.

2. Buy the next tier up if you're close. CleanProxies' unit price drops with volume, so a slightly bigger order can cost less in total, and residential and mobile GB never expire.

What to test before you commit

1. Compare cost per successful request, not price per unit.

2. Check the IPs with our free proxy checker: carrier, location and response time.

3. Read the bandwidth, sharing and expiry terms for every plan you're comparing.

4. Add VAT and minimums to every quote.

5. Start with the $4.99 trial. The CleanProxies trial gives you 5 US ISP proxies for 1 hour, or 100 MB of residential or mobile data.

CleanProxies pricing

All prices are on the pricing page. Need more than 10,000 IPs or GB? Contact sales. For provider-by-provider detail, see the best ISP proxy providers, best mobile proxies and best residential proxies for web scraping.

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