The proxy market in 2026 looks very different than it did even three years ago. Smartproxy rebranded to Decodo. GeoSurf lost a patent fight with Bright Data and shut down for good. New entrants like Webshare have carved out serious market share by undercutting incumbents on price, while the enterprise giants (Bright Data, Oxylabs) keep pulling away on pool size and tooling.
For anyone shopping for proxies right now — whether for web scraping, ad verification, multi-account management, AI training data, or anything in between — most of the “best of” lists you’ll find online are recycled from 2022 with the years swapped. This one isn’t.
Below are the ten providers worth knowing about in 2026, what each is genuinely good at, and where each falls short. I run IPBurger and I’ve put it at the top, but the case is built on what the product actually does well rather than on pretending the others aren’t strong in their own lanes.
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| 供應商 | Best for | Networks | Strength |
|---|---|---|---|
| IPBurger | Multi-account & stealth operations | 住宅、ISP、數據中心、移動 | Account-grade IP isolation, sticky sessions, support |
| 明亮的數據 | Enterprise-scale scraping | All types | Largest pool, advanced tooling, premium pricing |
| 氧實驗室 | High-success-rate scraping at scale | All types | Pool quality, dedicated account managers |
| Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) | Mid-market all-rounder | All types | Strong value, good docs, easy to use |
| 網路共用 | Budget developers, prototyping | 住宅、互聯網服務提供者、數據中心 | Free tier, transparent pricing, dev-friendly API |
| NetNut | Stable, ISP-sourced residential | 住宅、互聯網服務提供者、數據中心 | Direct-ISP routing, low session drops |
| 索克斯 | Granular geo-targeting | Residential, Mobile, ISP | City + ASN targeting on every plan |
| 雷奧位元組 | Ethical sourcing & US-based ops | All types | Self-owned ASNs, US infrastructure |
| 智慧財產權 | Pay-as-you-go small jobs | All types | Non-expiring traffic, low entry price |
| 代理便宜 | Affordable mixed-type use | All types | Per-IP control, custom configurations |
Pricing across the industry currently spans roughly $1.40–$15 per GB for residential, depending on tier, commitment, and provider. I’ve kept specific numbers out of the table because they move fast — check each provider’s pricing page before buying.
What “best” actually means
A proxy service isn’t a monolith. The right one depends entirely on what you’re using it for. A few lenses that matter more than overall ranking:
- Pool size and freshness. Bigger isn’t automatically better, but tiny pools mean IP reuse and fast blocks. Anything under ~5M residential IPs is probably a problem at scale.
- IP sourcing transparency. This is the most important shift in the 2026 market. Providers that can explain — clearly — where their residential IPs come from (opt-in apps, ISP partnerships, or some mix) are increasingly the only ones safe to use. Regulators have started looking, and “we don’t really talk about that” is now a red flag.
- Geo-targeting granularity. Country-level is the floor. City, ASN, and ZIP-level matter if you’re doing ad verification or localized SERP work.
- Session control. Per-request rotation for high-volume scraping; sticky sessions (10–30 min same IP) for account management and pagination. You’ll need both for different jobs.
- Account isolation. Often overlooked. If you’re running multiple e-commerce, social, or marketplace accounts, you don’t just need different IPs — you need IPs that don’t share subnets, fingerprints, or rotation patterns. Few providers do this well.
- Support that picks up. Especially when a scrape breaks at 2am on a Sunday.
With that framing, here are the ten in detail.
1. IPBurger — Best for multi-account and stealth operations
IPBurger has been in the proxy business since 2007, which makes it one of the longest-running operators on this list. Its core strength isn’t trying to out-scale Bright Data on pool size — that’s not a winnable race for anyone outside the top two — it’s running infrastructure built specifically for operators who need their accounts to look like separate, real users over time.
That includes residential and ISP proxies designed around sticky sessions, country and city-level targeting, fresh static IPs for long-lived accounts (the kind you’d attach to a TikTok Shop, an Amazon seller account, or a payment processor), and dedicated support that responds to humans rather than scripts.
Where it wins: stealth account hosting (Amazon, eBay, Etsy, PayPal), multi-store e-commerce, dropshipping at scale, account-driven workflows where a ban costs you a business.
Where it doesn’t: raw pool size for enterprise web scraping (Bright Data and Oxylabs are bigger), or rock-bottom budget pricing (Webshare wins on per-GB cost).
Networks: residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile. Trial: paid.
2. Bright Data — Best for enterprise-scale scraping
Bright Data (formerly Luminati) is the largest operator in the market, with a residential pool well over 100 million IPs and the most sophisticated tooling available — scraping browsers, dataset marketplaces, web unlocker APIs, ASN and ZIP-level targeting, the whole stack. They also won the patent fight against GeoSurf and effectively absorbed that user base.
Where it wins: scale, technical depth, enterprise support, mission-critical reliability.
Where it doesn’t: price (well above industry average), onboarding (KYC and use-case verification can slow you down), and small-operator friendliness (you’re not their target customer).
Networks: residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile. Trial: limited, business-focused.
3. Oxylabs — Best for high-success-rate scraping at scale
Oxylabs is Bright Data’s main competitor at the enterprise tier, with a similar pool size and a similar premium price. The differentiator is consistently strong success rates on heavily defended targets (Google, major retailers, social platforms), GDPR-compliant sourcing, and account managers who actually know your account.
Where it wins: stable, predictable performance for serious data collection operations; enterprise customer experience.
Where it doesn’t: price, and overkill if you’re running anything smaller than a real data team.
Networks: residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile. Trial: 7-day free for businesses.
4. Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) — Best mid-market all-rounder
Smartproxy rebranded to Decodo in 2025 as it expanded into a broader web-data platform. The product itself remains what made Smartproxy popular: solid residential pool (~115M+), 99.99% uptime claims, clear pricing, good documentation, and a generally smooth experience.
Where it wins: balanced performance and price; reliable for a wide range of use cases without enterprise contracts.
Where it doesn’t: the rebrand confused a lot of returning customers, and the company hasn’t fully clarified its identity yet — is it a proxy provider or a full data-as-a-service platform? Worth watching.
Networks: residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile. Trial: pay-as-you-go starting low.
5. Webshare — Best for budget developers
Webshare wasn’t on most lists in 2022. By 2026 it’s hard to ignore. Founded in 2018 in California, it’s built a real following among developers and small SaaS operators by undercutting nearly everyone on per-GB residential pricing and offering a free tier with 10 datacenter proxies, no credit card required.
Where it wins: transparent pricing, developer-first API and docs, low barrier to entry, surprisingly large rotating residential pool.
Where it doesn’t: support is email-only on lower tiers; some users have reported their “static residential” IPs behave like datacenter IPs on stricter targets, so test before committing.
Networks: residential, ISP, datacenter. Trial: free forever on the smallest tier.
6. NetNut — Best for ISP-routed stability
NetNut’s distinctive technical bet is sourcing residential IPs directly through ISP partnerships rather than through peer-to-peer bandwidth-sharing apps. That means fewer routing hops, lower latency, and cleaner IP histories — at a higher price.
Where it wins: long-running scraping jobs that can’t tolerate session drops; tasks where IP reputation matters.
Where it doesn’t: small-volume users (better value above $500/month), and use cases that need a wider geographic distribution than the ISP partnerships cover.
Networks: residential, ISP, datacenter. Trial: 7-day free for companies.
7. SOAX — Best for granular geo-targeting
SOAX is the provider to pick when location precision matters more than raw scale. Every plan includes city and ASN-level targeting; few competitors at this price point do. The actual residential pool is more modest than marketing claims suggest, but performance is genuinely fast in the US and UK.
Where it wins: ad verification, hyperlocal SERP tracking, region-specific market research.
Where it doesn’t: raw scale jobs (the effective pool is smaller than advertised numbers imply).
Networks: residential, mobile, ISP. Trial: trial available.
8. Rayobyte — Best for ethical sourcing and US ops
Rayobyte (formerly Blazing SEO) made an interesting pivot a few years back, going hard on transparency and ethical sourcing in a market that mostly didn’t talk about it. They own their datacenter ASNs, are US-based, and document their residential sourcing in detail.
Where it wins: US-focused projects, customers who care about compliance and sourcing transparency, datacenter at scale.
Where it doesn’t: residential pool is smaller than the top tier (~40M+ vs Bright Data’s 100M+).
Networks: residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile. Trial: 1GB free residential trial available.
9. IPRoyal — Best for pay-as-you-go small jobs
IPRoyal launched in 2020 and built a following with aggressive pricing and a pay-per-GB model where unused traffic doesn’t expire. Originally heavy on the sneaker-bot community, it’s now diversified across general use cases.
Where it wins: small project budgets, sneaker copping, anyone who needs proxies for an occasional rather than continuous workload.
Where it doesn’t: large-scale scraping on heavily defended sites (pool is smaller than enterprise tier).
Networks: residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile. Trial: pay-as-you-go, no minimum.
10. Proxy-Cheap — Best for affordable mixed-type use
Proxy-Cheap rounds out the list as a credible budget option that’s been around since 2018 — long enough to count for something in this market. Network of around 7M+ residential IPs, full SOCKS5 support, and a credential system that lets you pick IP type, location, and quantity granularly.
Where it wins: small to mid-sized projects mixing different proxy types; users who want control over the proxy configuration without enterprise pricing.
Where it doesn’t: the largest, most defended targets, where pool size starts to matter more.
Networks: residential, ISP, datacenter (IPv4 and IPv6), mobile. Trial: available.
Two providers worth knowing about, but not on the list
GeoSurf. Shut down December 2023 after losing its patent dispute with Bright Data. Don’t sign up. Existing customers were migrated to Bright Data.
Storm Proxies and PacketStream. Both still operating, both still cheap, both still hard to recommend for anything beyond very small projects. Storm Proxies is fine if you’re a bootstrap operator who needs unlimited bandwidth at $50/month and can live with US/EU-only and a small pool. PacketStream’s $1/GB pricing remains attractive on paper, but real performance has stagnated. If budget is the constraint, Webshare is generally a better landing spot now.
How to actually pick one
Don’t pick based on a list (including this one). The right move:
- Define the job. Multi-account stealth, high-volume scraping, ad verification, SERP tracking, AI data collection — each implies a different shortlist.
- Shortlist 2–3 providers whose strengths match. For multi-account stealth, IPBurger and Bright Data. For budget scraping, Webshare and Decodo. For enterprise data, Bright Data and Oxylabs.
- Test on your actual target sites, not on httpbin.org. Run real requests, measure success rates, check for soft blocks (partial content, missing pagination).
- Factor in support response time. When something breaks, you’ll find out fast which provider’s “24/7 support” means a human and which means an autoresponder.
- Look at sourcing transparency. This matters more every year. If a provider can’t or won’t explain where its residential IPs come from, that’s information.
The IPBurger pitch, made honestly
If you’re doing the kind of work where a single banned account costs you a business — running multiple Amazon seller accounts, managing TikTok Shop stores across regions, operating an e-commerce portfolio, hosting agency clients on separate stealth profiles — pool size is not your bottleneck. IP isolation, session control, geographic precision, and support that picks up are.
That’s the lane IPBurger has built for since 2007, and it’s the lane I’d put us up against anyone in.
For everything else on this list, the other providers ranked above are great choices, and I’d rather you pick the right tool for the job than the wrong tool with our name on it.
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