Top 10 Best Residential Proxy Providers: Tested & Ranked 2025

In today’s world of automation and multi-channel promotion, residential proxies are the main supporting tool. And no matter what anyone says or tries to pull the blanket over themselves, having a proxy greatly simplifies the work many times over.

The residential proxy market is huge, with new players emerging every week hoping to grab a piece of the pie, which raises a reasonable question – who should you choose? The more important question is not “who”, but “how”? How to understand that this gentleman with great marketing is not just a puffed up empty shell, but a really high-quality provider providing residential proxies? And how not to pass by an unsightly player with a terrific content, but absolutely no skill in promoting services?

Testing is what you need when choosing any tool! And what to test? There are many things to test, but in general we would stop at testing such things as – compliance with the stated (when you buy residential proxies, it should be them, but not server proxies under the guise of residential ones), connection speed and latency in different regions, compliance with the country placed in the proxy, high reputation, absence of DNS leaks.

Any of these “little things” can lead to blocked accounts, budget overruns or unsuccessful advertising campaigns. We decided to test 10 services that provide residential proxies and use the data obtained to determine the best among them.

Why it is important to test residential proxies

Using proxies “off the shelf” is unsafe. There are plenty of examples of unscrupulous providers, and even if a provider seems trustworthy, don’t rush to conclusions.

  • Datacenter IP addresses are swept into pools to residential proxies (in real anti-fraud systems such addresses are blocked, which is fraught for the task).
  • Incorrect GEOs appear in pools (geotargeting targets fail).
  • A large percentage of ip addresses from the pool may have a high anti-reliability rating and be detected in spam databases (sites will deny access or issue captcha).

There can be many reasons why a proxy might be considered invalid, here’s how we’re going to conduct our comparison:

To facilitate comparison, we have prepared a script for automated verification of ip address pools, which will check each IP address on several points:

  • Response time and time of downloading the first byte and delay in data processing (Check by local providers, e.g. for proxies from Germany it can be Hetzner or Leaseweb).
  • whether the IP appears in spam databases (Spamhaus)
  • whether there are DNS leaks (DNS Leak Test)
  • Network Classification (ipwho.is and ip-api.com)
  • Presence of flags indicating the affiliation to one or another type of proxy (IPinfo Privacy)
  • Presence of IP address complaints (AbuseIPDB)
  • Integral Risk (IPQualityScore).

After receiving data from each source, the script calculates the total score for each IP and assigns a value to each address – clean or suspicious. Well, we additionally look at the result and identify any non-obvious patterns and determine which provider’s pool had the most suspicious addresses and compare them together.

We will compare the following residential proxy providers:

  1. Floppydata
  2. IPRoyal
  3. Webshare
  4. Plain Proxies
  5. Decodo
  6. Brightdata
  7. Netnut
  8. Oxylabs
  9. Soax
  10. Nodemaven

We form a pool of 50 IPs from each provider (we take 3 regions: USA, Germany, Vietnam). We check the response speed (time to the first byte), connection stability and proxy performance on popular web resources: social networks (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn), mail services (Google/Gmail, Outlook), and Amazon.

Below, for clarity, the results are summarized in tables: the first by technical characteristics of providers (speed, convenience, KYC, anonymity indicators), the second by business parameters (prices, minimum purchases, payment type and target audience).

Technical comparison


Position

Provider

Final Verdict

Why take

Risks
🥇 1
Floppydata

Best overall pick
Very simple study, no KYC, clean ASNs, no DNS leaks, stable DE/USA/VN metrics Encountered a single IPQS=100 (more of a margin of error)
🥈 2
SOAX

Strong technically
Pools are clean (Spamhaus/DNS OK), good reputation, predictable speeds Heavy/overloaded cabinet → longer startup time
🥉 3
NodeMaven

Balanced “middle class”
User-friendly panel, no KYC, CLEAN on reputation, decent speed peaks Paid trial; latency is higher on some geos (DE/VN)
4
NetNut

Ok to start
Simple account, they give trial on request, no KYC
5
IPRoyal

Depends on geo/pool
DE/VN – generally clean; convenient payment USA-pool heterogeneous: share of transit networks, some IP IP IPQS 94-100
6
Webshare

Working, but careful
Large pool, basic tests ok
Duplicate IPs and some server IPs; cabinet is sometimes inconvenient for mass generation.
7
Plain Proxies

Doubtful for sensitive tasks
Quick trial via support USA: 3 takes and ~80-85% of IP IPQS=100 (recent_abuse/proxy) → not good for ads/cubs
🚫 8
Oxylabs

Doubtful, couldn’t test it because of KYC
Expensive; strict KYC/contract – not for a “quick start”
🚫 9
Bright Data

Avoid for auto-cases without KYC
Flexible Product Zoo Without KYC – degrades quality/geo, lots of blocks; expensive ($/GB)
🚫 10 Decodo Avoid Script does not raise (multiple attempts); captchas/additional verification prevent automation

Financial comparison

Provider Minimum rate Minimum purchase Pay for what you use Target audience
Floppydata $1/GB 2 GB SMM agencies, freelancers
IPRoyal $2.45/GB 1 GB Small/medium business
Webshare $3.50/GB 1 GB (monthly) ❌ (monthly plans only) Beginners, medium tasks
PlainProxies 2,30€/GB 5 GB ✅ (traffic does not burn) Agencies, parsers
Decodo (Smartproxy) $2.25/GB 1 GB Corporate sector
Bright Data $3.53/GB 1 GB Large companies
NetNut $1.59/GB 28 GB ❌ (prepaid in bundles) Corporations, AI companies
Oxylabs $3.49/GB 1 GB Enterprise clients
SOAX $3.60/GB 25 GB (or 1 GB in pay-go) Medium/Large Business
NodeMaven €3.40/GB 5 GB Agents, marketers

And of course we will evaluate how simple and convenient the personal account is, as well as the presence of mandatory KYC verification. Let’s go!

Overview of Providers and Results

1. Floppydata

💾 Pool size: 65M+ IPs
🌍 Locations: 195+ countries
⚙️ Success rate: 97%+
⏱️ Uptime: 99.99%
  • Pricing: $1/GB (Residential & Mobile), $0.60/GB (Datacenter), $5/IP (ISP)
  • Proxy types: Residential, Mobile, Datacenter, ISP
  • Targeting: Country, city-level targeting available
  • Rotation: Automatic & sticky sessions
  • Use cases: Social media, scraping, affiliate marketing, antidetect browsers
  • Trustpilot: 4.3★ rating
  • Extras: Chrome extension & API support

 

Floppydata dashboard

The first criterion that few people pay attention to is the convenience of the personal account. In the case of the Floppydata service, this is a confident, minimalist design, without shouting dashboards or an overloaded sidebar. It is as aesthetically pleasing and clear as possible.

If you need to generate proxies, you just click a button and generate them. If there were a criterion of time to understand how and what works here, Floppydata would have the first place. Also, the service has no mandatory KYC verification, which is important for multi-accounting tasks.

Now for the technical aspects: we generated pools of 50 ip addresses in GEO Germany, USA and Vietnam and ran these addresses through verification services – the results are below.

The most important thing is that speed runs were made through the same address located in Europe, so don’t be surprised by the inflated figures for the USA and Asia in all providers without exception.

Germany

In the tests, most IPs were actually from residential ASNs (Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Telefonica) , there were no DNS leaks, no Spamhaus listings were found. On typical German nodes we got RTT (path latency or round trip time) ~210-370 ms, TTFB (time from sending HTTP request to receiving the first byte) ~240-360 ms, throughput ~20-35 Mbps (peaks up to ~43 Mbps) – this is quite enough for advertising offices, mail and social networks. There was one address with IPQualityScore = 100 (critical) and it had a high latency, let’s mark it as an error.

Summary from the Floppydata DE Dashboard

USA

The vast majority of IPs are real residential and owned by major providers: (AT&T, Comcast, Charter/Spectrum, Cox, Verizon, T-Mobile). There are no hosting indications by ipwho/ipapi/ipinfo. Spamhaus doesn’t have any listings. According to Scamalytics – no red flags. Typical RTT ~400-600 ms, TTFB ~390-600 ms . Throughput is normal: DL ~5-30 Mbps (peaks up to ~50.5 Mbps).

Vietnam

By network type, most IPs came from real residential ASNs and large local providers (VNPT, Viettel, FPT, Mobifone, Saigon Tourist Cable). No DNS leaks were observed, no Spamhaus listings were detected. Antifraud services – ipwho, ipapi, ipinfo without flags.

In terms of speed and latency: RTT ~1,124-2,376 ms, TTFB ~1,545-2,796 ms, throughput ~0.7-15 Mbps; single peak ~15 Mbps.

Vietnam Floppydata

2. IPRoyal

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💾 IP Pool: 8M+ total
🌍 Locations: 195+ countries
⭐ Trustpilot: 4.6★ rating
⚙️ Types: Residential, Mobile, Datacenter, Sneaker
  • Pricing: From $7/GB (Residential), $1.80/IP (Datacenter), $1/IP (Sneaker), $7/day (Mobile)
  • Discounts: Lower prices for long-term or bulk purchases
  • Targeting: Country, city, and ASN
  • Rotation: Automatic or custom session duration
  • Features: User-friendly dashboard, data tracking, and proxy guides
  • Best For: Web scraping, SEO, e-commerce, social media, and multi-accounting
  • Extras: API access, Chrome/Firefox extensions for easy switching

Let’s follow the same scenario – the personal cabinet is generally simple, all the necessary tools are gathered in the left sidebar. The big disadvantage is the lack of a test period, i.e. there is no opportunity to test pools for free before buying a large volume of traffic. Since the price for buying traffic decreases proportionally to the volume (the more volume, the lower the price), you have to overpay for testing.

IPRoyal dashboard

There is no KYC at the basic level as in the previous service.

Moving on to the most interesting part – technical runs.

Germany

Quality/validity. Most IPs are really residential (Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone/Unitymedia, 1&1 Versatel, Telefónica O2, etc.). Spamhaus is clean, no DNS leaks were noticed.

Speed metrics: RTT ~210-420 ms (there are single outliers >1000 ms – it is better to exclude them). TTFB: ~230-360 ms (rarely above 450-700 ms on some nodes). Throughput ~20-40 Mbps, a few addresses with <5 Mbps.

USA

The quality and validity of the pool from the USA showed quite a mixed picture: the overall pool included 100% residential providers (Comcast, Charter/Spectrum, Verizon, T-Mobile),but alongside them there was a noticeable share of transit, so-called “semi-datacenter” proxies (Cogent/Sprint, AT&T backbone, Windstream, NTT, Atlas Networks, etc.), the system marked them and this is not a good signal. Everything was clean on Spamhaus, but a significant part of IPQS FraudScore 94-100 with proxy, vpn, recent_abuse tags (this is hello from transit networks) -it is better to exclude such IPs at once. DNS leaks are not visible.

Rate metrics: RTT: ~600-1100 ms, TTFB: approximately ~450-800 ms, Throughput: wide variation from ~0.3 to ~37 Mbps.

Vietnam

Some proxy issuance attempts ended with the error “Cannot resolve exit IP via proxy”, plus there were timeouts on the benchmark (HTTP 403/timeout) – this reduces the overall stability of the pool. I tried running the check several times, but the result was always the same part of the pool was simply stale.

Among those ip’s that did come up, all are mostly residential (VNPT, Viettel, FPT). No obvious spam listings (Spamhaus) were detected; most of the records are CLEAN by frod-evaluation, one address is marked as SUSPICIOUS (ip-api proxy flag). No obvious DNS leaks were noted in the logs .

Vietnam IPRoyal

In terms of speed: RTT ~ 1.16-3.47 s, TTFB ~ 963 ms-1.90 s, Throughput ~9.7 Mbps, peaks to ~29.8 Mbps, sags to ~0.1-0.7 Mbps on individual IPs.

3. Webshare

💾 IP Pool: 10M+ rotating 150k Datacenter · 15k Static
🌍 Locations: 195+ countries DC in 50+; Static US-only
⭐ Trustpilot: 4.4★ (~500 reviews)
⚙️ Types: Rotating & Static Residential, Datacenter (shared/dedicated)
  • Pricing: DC from $2.99/mo (shared) or $40/mo (dedicated); Static Residential from $24/mo; Rotating Residential from $15/GB (as low as $4.8/GB on Enterprise)
  • Protocols: HTTP, SOCKS5
  • Targeting: Country-wide; Static residential limited to US; Datacenter selectable in 50+ countries
  • Rotation & controls: Custom IP replacement options; high concurrency & priority network settings
  • Best for: Individuals & small businesses — scraping, SEO research, social media management, gaming
  • Extras: Full API access for integration and automated management

This provider, according to the developers, is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. However, small and medium-sized businesses will need to put in a bit of effort to figure out the provider’s dashboard. Overall, everything appears to be as clear as possible – the sidebar is straightforward, and purchasing traffic also does not present difficulties, but when we move on to the next step, namely forming the proxy pool, we couldn’t figure it out on our own.

In the two previous variants we generated proxy pools of 50 ip in a couple of seconds, but in the case of Webshare we had to work hard, because we could not find the buttons for generating 50-100-200 ip in the personal cabinet.

In fact, the deeper you dive into this provider’s dashboard, the more complicated it becomes. At times, we felt like just giving up and moving on to testing the next service, but we carried this test through to its logical conclusion.

Webshare dashboard

There is a free trial here, but only 10 proxies, which is not suitable for us, so we also buy 1 GB of traffic for the test. On the positive side, KYC verification is not required. That’s all the positive things for now. Let’s move on to the technical aspects.

USA

At this provider we first encountered the duplication of ip addresses, already on such a small volume, as 50 ip-addresses and even in such a widespread country as the United States. We received 2 ip addresses that had a duplicate, what will happen at the volume of 500-1000 addresses?

Webshare ip copy

Nevertheless, the vast majority of addresses belong to Internet providers (Comcast/Xfinity, Charter/Spectrum, Cox, Verizon/AT&T last-mile, etc.). A server ip address was also found in the pool, the competitors above did not have such an address before.

In this case, the ip is marked as server, which does not speak for the better about the quality of the pool (although it may be an error) Spamhaus – there are no listings; Abuse-Score is low; there are no separate IPQS tags in this upload. There are no DNS leaks.

RTT speed ~1025 – 2268 ms, TTFB ~1344 – 2574 ms, Throughput ~2.43 – 10.54 Mbps.

Germany

The German pool still has the same problem, there are copies among ip addresses, which is not good for tasks that require unique ip addresses. Repeated ip addresses are highlighted in green on the screen below.

Webshare DE copy

Regarding technical characteristics: the vast majority of ip addresses are located in real home ASNs (Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone/Unitymedia, Telefónica O2, etc). These are typical residential networks in Germany. Exceptions: 3 IP addresses are labeled as server addresses – the number of scrapes is starting to rise. No listings for Spamhaus. No DNS leaks have been recorded.

Speed: RTT ~ 495-4458 ms, TTFB ~ 705-5006 ms, Throughput ~9.7 Mbps, with peaks up to ~27.5 Mbps.

Vietnam

On Vietnam the situation with duplication of ip addresses has improved, but not much, just returned to the original total – 1 double per pool of 50 addresses. It can be considered as an error, but on three different GEOs the presence of duplicates is a very bad signal.

The vast majority of ip addresses belong to residential networks (VNPT, Viettel and FPT). No hosting ASNs were found. On Spamhaus: there are no listings. There are single records with ip complaints, 3 such ip addresses in total, but total Abuse_Score = 0 on all lines. There are no DNS leaks.

Speed: RTT ~1,416-1,856 ms, TTFB ~1,959-3,413 ms, throughput ~4.33-5.08.

Webshare parser screen

4. Plain Proxies

Promo code: GOLOGIN – 10% off!

💰 Price: From $0.55/GB
🌍 Locations: 195+ countries
⭐ Trustpilot: 4.4★ rating
💾 IP Pool: 60M clean IPs
  • Proxy types: Unlimited Residential, Datacenter, and ISP proxies
  • Protocols: HTTP, SOCKS5, UDP, and QUIC/HTTP3 supported
  • Targeting: Country, city, and ASN targeting
  • Best for: Web scraping, account management, and ad verification
  • Browser/API: n/a

This provider has an extremely simple dashboard is so simple, in fact, that for the first 10 minutes we couldn’t even find the free pool that support had provided. Free traffic is given when contacting support. This is a plus, and we put a minus for not quite clear personal cabinet, and we have seen a lot of strange decisions in our life.

Nevertheless, the trial issuance was quick, literally 10 minutes after requesting it, and we managed to find it on our own, albeit not immediately.

Plan Proxy dashboard

But while trying to find the given proxies, we paid attention to the prices and they were not the most democratic, one of the highest among competitors.

The results of the technical measurements are as follows:

USA

Almost all ip addresses were residential (Comcast, AT&T, Charter/Spectrum, etc). One address was marked as a server address. Well, and duplicate ip addresses on the declared million-strong pool of users – it’s just sad – 3 duplicate addresses. There are no listings for Spamhaus. IPINFO, Scamalytics do not work, which confirms that there are no signs of proxy, vpn or hosting on these providers.

There is a bottleneck, when checking through IPQualityScore (IPQS) ~80-85% of addresses are marked with IPQS_FraudScore = 100 with recent_abuse and proxy flags, which is actually quite critical and this pool is not recommended for sensitive sites. There are no DNS leaks.

Speed: RTT ~0.5-1.1 s, TTFB ~0.55-0.95 s, throughput ~2-9 Mbps, with isolated peaks up to ~17.35 Mbps.

Plain PRoxy - proxy generation

Germany

There were no duplicates here, which is a good sign, but compared to the U.S. sample, there are still concerns that duplicates could appear in a larger volume. All addresses belong to real home Internet providers, and no datacenter IPs were detected in the pool (Vodafone/Unitymedia, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica O2, Wilhelm.tel, etc.).

Reputation: almost all with CLEAN flag, clean on Spamhaus. No Proxy, VPN, Hosting flags. There are some addresses that got critical flags on AbuseIPDB – score 100 and about 6608 complaints – it is better not to work with such addresses and exclude them from the pool at once.

Plain Proxy clean

Speed: RTT ~190-320 ms, TTFB ~170-260 ms, Throughput ~8-22 Mbps, peaks up to ~31.9 Mbps.

Vietnam

Surprisingly, there is only one double here, but judging by the fact that competitors, such as Floppydata, do not have them at all, we should conclude that Plain Proxies is not a good provider, as it turns out that it is possible to issue ip addresses from Asia without double. Providers are all residential (Viettel, VNPT, FPT, MobiFone). There are no data centers, which is a good signal. Reputation: almost all of them gave the indicator – CLEAN, no Spamhaus listings.

Speed: RTT and TTFB high ~0.78-1.1 s / ~0.95-1.3 s. Download speeds vary widely: from ~0.3 to 23.8 Mbps.

5. Decodo

Promo code: 35OFFDEAL – 35% off any plan.

💰 Price: From $6/mo (Residential)$10/mo DC · $7.5/mo Dedicated DC
🌍 Locations: 195+ countriesUSA, UK, Canada, Germany, Japan, India
⭐ Trustpilot: 4.7★ ratingExcellent badge
💾 IP Pool: 125M+ total / 115M+ residential
  • Proxy types: Datacenter (rotating & dedicated), Residential, Mobile, and ISP proxies
  • Features: 4 web scraping APIs (including no-code), 24/7 live chat/email support, global coverage
  • Best for: Secure, efficient data scraping and anonymous browsing
  • Browser/API: Chrome extension and multiple API options (SERP, e-commerce, no-code scrapers)

It is claimed to be a very large provider (~125 mln IPs, 195+ countries). Nevertheless, 100 mb of test traffic is very little, especially in contrast to competitors who provide 5GB of test traffic. Of course, it is more than nothing, but it is also very little to understand who we are dealing with, at least to run through our basic script it is hardly enough and probably we will have to buy traffic.

KYC is absent for smaller accounts. However, on the main page there is a button for identity verification, which has not been seen before in previous competitors, and this is not a good sign. And as a negative moment – constant captcha dropout – switching between proxy types – captcha, refreshing the page – captcha, isn’t it a lot of captcha for a person logged in to his account?

Decodo dashboard

According to the technical characteristics, I could not check this provider, because none of the proxies were raised through the check script. There were about 10 attempts to raise them with a large pool and one by one – nothing. And when you install it in the antidetect browser, everything works.

So probably the problem is that for automated actions requires some additional verification or something else, our recommendation is to simply bypass this provider, there is no shortage in the market, and with such a dance with tambourines, there is a high probability that problems in the future will arise a huge number.

Decodo - proxies not working

6. Bright Data (formerly Luminati)

💰 Price: From $15/GB (PAYG) Prepaid: $12.5–$10.5/GB
🌍 Locations: 195+ countries
⭐ Trustpilot: 4.7★ rating
💾 IP Pool: 72M+ IP
  • Proxy types: Residential, ISP, Datacenter, and Mobile
  • Features: Multiple proxy types, scraping APIs, pre-collected datasets, 99.99% uptime
  • Best for: Enterprises and heavy users needing large pool size and technical APIs
  • Extras: Browser extension and API integration for custom automation
  • Policy: Strict usage policy; best for compliant, enterprise-grade projects

A well-known giant with ~150 million IPs. Offers any types of proxies and extensive APIs. However, these are all official statements, let’s check the giant in real conditions.

Bright Data - dashboard

On usability I can give a confident 3 out of 5, as the first touch looks simple enough and not overloaded, but when you start digging deeper, complications arise. Plus, I couldn’t figure out how to generate proxy pools for 50-100 and more addresses. The office takes some getting used to. So far we have not yet come across any offices of the level of simplicity and comprehensibility of Floppydata or at least IPRoyal.

The second serious pitfall is KYC verification – you can’t work with proxies without KYC verification, exactly the same problem the previous competitor had. The service restricts batch work with its proxies until you pass KYC verification. Let’s check several proxies manually to get at least a superficial picture of what KYC verification is for.

But for automation users, this provider is probably a no-go right away — mainly because of the notorious verification. It’s strange, of course, to operate in this market and implement verification.

The fact that when setting a specific country, in our case the USA, it did not guarantee that the proxy would be from the USA at all, we got Singapore. That’s very strange.

And as a logical result – it is impossible to work with these proxies without KYC verification, they are very laggy, do not let you access the requested resources, etc. Most likely, without KYC verification the worst addresses are used to force you to pass verification. This is definitely a provider that I recommend to pass by and not even look in its direction.

Bright Data failed to pass

Bright Data’ s prices are pretty high: the base price for residential is $5/GB. There are also 141GB plans ($3.50/GB) and higher.

7. NetNut

💰 Price: From $1/GB (Datacenter) Residential from $15/GB
🌍 Locations: 150+ countries State & city-level targeting
⭐ Trustpilot: 4.2★ rating
💾 IP Pool: 52M+ rotating
  • Proxy types: Static & Rotating Residential, Datacenter, and Mobile proxies
  • Features: Flexible pricing, custom plans, wide IP coverage, 99.9% uptime
  • Targeting: Country, state, and city-level available
  • Best for: Users needing global coverage and reliable residential proxies with flexible billing

The network is claimed to have ~85 million IP addresses. We will indirectly check this parameter later. As for the personal cabinet, everything here is much more interesting than in the three previous competitors. Everything looks as simple and clear as possible, there are no difficulties in figuring out where to click, where to get proxies from and where to pay.

They provide Trials, if you contact them through the support chat. I was a little confused by the fact that there is a clarifying question about which domain we plan to go to with their proxy, I hope it will not affect the quality. The process of getting a trial is very hectic, through personal approval by the manager, no automation, but at least there is a trial. There were no KYC verification requirements.

NetNut dashboard

There was a small nuance with a crooked layout in Russian, probably it is not in their priority, as it is unrealistic to work with such a layout in Russian. But in my personal cabinet, when I have already authorized, the layout is not crooked, but the translation is most likely machine translation.

NetNut - poor layout

As for technical parameters, I could not check this provider in full – the reason is quite simple, proxies were not up. First there was a problem in the password, then something was wrong in the login.

After three hours of communication with support, we decided to simply stop trying. As they say — if it’s dead, it’s dead — but credit where it’s due: the support (or rather, the manager issuing the test access) was engaged.

NetNut support

8. Oxylabs

💰 Price:From $4/GB Residential & DC proxies
🌍 Locations: 195+ countries
⭐ Trustpilot: 4.8★ rating
💾 IP Pool: 175M+ IPs
  • Proxy types: Residential, Datacenter, and Rotating proxies via backconnect gateway
  • Features: Dashboard with usage tracking, API access, live chat support, and documentation
  • Targeting: Country and city-level targeting available
  • Best for: Businesses seeking reliable, large-scale proxy infrastructure with detailed analytics

Another giant. One that requires KYC verification at the start, which is immediately repulsive. Yes, they have a pretty good personal account, without any clutter, but without KYC verification you won’t even be able to top up your balance, as the system simply won’t let you do it!

Oxylabs - dashboard

Actually, if there are any questions to you, it is not sure that the service will be very long to bite before providing your personal data. Come on, personal data disclosure, what about the endless leaks and breaches? Are you ready to have your personal data leaked by a service that provides residential proxies?

Nevertheless, judging by the pricing policy and aggressive marketing, the service is quite in demand, and most likely among large clients who work in white as much as possible, and moreover, clients who, on the contrary, want to work in white. Well, there are offers for every market, we will not deny it, but we will just pass by.

9. SOAX

🏠 Pool size: Average 155 M advertised IPs
🌍 Locations: 150+ countries
⚙️ Success rate: 99.73%
⏱️ Response time: 0.90s
  • Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 (with UDP/QUIC)
  • Targeting: Country, state, city, and ASN targeting
  • Rotation: Every request or custom session duration
  • Support: 24/7 via live chat
  • Extras: Reporting API and dedicated customer success manager
  • Pricing: Starts from $4 for 1 GB. 3-day trial available

A service that claims to cover 155+ million IPs in 195 countries. Let’s check this statement with the help of tests. To begin with, the personal account is overloaded, it is difficult to make sense of it, you have to study and delve into it thoughtfully.

Which is not always convenient. In general, when you have to think a lot in the personal account, it is not about simplicity, but rather about multifunctionality, but we just need proxies, so such clutter is unnecessary.

SOAX dashboard

Now the technical tests, what are the pools of this provider in the end (a very complicated setup, and the pools should be just perfect).

USA

Providers are all residential (Comcast/”Xfinity”, Charter/Spectrum, Verizon, AT&T, etc.). No data centers. Reputation: CLEAN rating everywhere on Spamhaus listings. No DNS leaks detected.

Speed: RTT ~0.53-1.31 s, TTFB ~0.49-1.54 s, throughput ~1.08 to 8.01 Mbps.

Germany

The situation is roughly the same all providers refer to home networks (Vodafone/Unitymedia, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica O2, NetCologne, etc.). There is one questionable address, we can consider it a margin of error. Reputation: almost everywhere CLEAN, except for one address written about above.

Speed: RTT ~210-460 ms (there are outliers up to 1.6 s), TTFB ~186-400+ ms. Throughput – 8-16 Mbps.

Vietnam

Vietnam turned out to be plus minus as well, all decent enough.

Providers are all residential (Viettel, VNPT, FPT, MobiFone). There are no data centers, which is a good signal. No DNS leaks detected.

Speed: RTT and TTFB are high ~0.88-1.1 s / ~0.90-1.3 s, which is expected before the European bench. Download speeds vary widely: from ~0.3 to 23.8 Mbps.

In general, SOAX cannot be blamed for the completeness of pools, no duplicated pools were detected, which is certainly a positive signal.

10. NodeMaven

💰 Price: From €30/9 GB Pay-as-you-go: €35/9 GB
🌍 Locations: 150+ countries 1,400+ cities worldwide
⭐ Trustpilot: 4.6★ rating 117 reviews
💾 IP Pool: 30M+ Residential +250K Mobile IPs
  • Proxy types: Residential, Static Residential, Rotating, and Mobile proxies
  • Features: Sticky sessions, IP rotation, traffic rollover, and precise geo-targeting
  • Protocols: HTTP and SOCKS5
  • Best for: Users needing flexible plans and reliable high-quality proxies with clean connections

This provider is a bit more modest in estimating its pool and claims only 30+ million residential proxies and 250k mobile proxies. The panel is relatively user-friendly, at least we spent only a couple of minutes to set up and launch it, while the same SOAX took more than 1.5 hours of time and several minutes of communication with support.

In general, when a provider cares about users, it minimizes their communication with support, as in this case. There are no KYC checks either, which speaks in favor of this provider.

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There is no trial as such, or rather it is, but you have to pay for it, less than for the full tariff but still, the fact of payment at the start is a bit embarrassing.

But in the process of comparison we came to the conclusion that it is better to have a trial for which you pay money than free access in which nothing can be properly configured. Now to the most interesting part – the tests.

USA

All providers are residential providers (Comcast/”Xfinity”, Charter/Spectrum, Verizon, AT&T, Cox, Frontier, Optimum, Google Fiber, T-Mobile, etc.). There were no data centers in the pool.

In terms of reputation, all received a score of CLEAN; one appearance of “SUSPICIOUS” (Google Fiber) indicating that the address belongs to a data center, but there were no other confirming indicators for this address, so we’ll take it as a margin of error. Otherwise, everything was as decent as possible

Speed: RTT ~0.6-1.02 s, TTFB ~0.7-0.98 s, throughput ~2-9 Mbps, with sporadic peaks up to ~17.35 Mbps.

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Germany

All providers are residential providers (Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone/Unitymedia/Kabel Deutschland/Vodafone West/Vodafone BW, Telefónica O2, EWE TEL, HTP, Purtel, SWU Telenet, Heli Net, Vitroconnect, Northern Access/Occino, TKS/Inexio, etc.). There were no data centers in the pool. Reputation is CLEAN everywhere; no Spamhaus listings and no signs of proxy, VPN, Tor, hosting.

Speed: RTT ~ 600-4150 ms, TTFB ~ 755-4006 ms, Throughput ~8.7 Mbps, with peaks up to ~17.5 Mbps.

Vietnam

All providers are residential providers (Viettel Group, FPT Telecom, VNPT, CMC Telecom). There were no data centers in the pool. The reputation is CLEAN everywhere; there are no signs of proxy, VPN, Tor, hosting. There are small Abuse-metrics (up to 18/3) on some addresses, without Spamhaus listings.

Speed: RTT ~ 700-4550 ms, TTFB ~ 655-5006 ms, Throughput ~7.7 Mbps, with peaks up to ~37.5 Mbps.

Recommendations and conclusions

Of all the providers tested, Floppydata is definitely in first place because of its excellent balance of price – quality – convenience. It has a low cost ($1/GB) with very good speed and “clean” IP, and complete pools (no duplicate ip – honest unique addresses).

A unique feature is the “Test Website With Proxy” button on the site, which shows with one click whether the resource you need will pass under the Floppydata proxy and immediately displays the Scamalytics Score. This allows you to quickly assess IP trust before buying.

Floppydata does a great job with social media and e-commerce, and no KYC verification, which is already a sign of bad taste these days. Overall, this provider has not been a hassle at all. The service can be used for any task.

If you need an alternative, IPRoyal is suitable for the corporate segment (large volumes, strict security); they have scalable networks and flexible APIs. IPRoyal is interesting due to the absence of traffic validity period and low entry threshold.

For parsing large content or verifying ads (without tight budgets) Plain Proxies and Soax are great – they have good speed and stability.

Regardless of your choice, it is highly recommended to test proxies in advance on targeted resources. Any site uses its own methods of protection, and the only true test is to try to perform the desired action with the proxy. If a captcha or a block falls out immediately, it is better to change the IP at once than to waste time.

When dealing with advertising or account creation, it is important that every aspect of testing is taken into account: country affiliation, IP “purity”, and absence of leaks. The systematic approach described above and confirmed by our tests will help you choose the optimal proxy provider and avoid typical pitfalls.

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