What Are the Best Residential Proxies? Finding Your Fit Among 9 Providers

Your proxy dashboard says the IP is in Chicago, yet the site you're checking shows prices for a different region, or flags the visit as suspicious. The problem usually isn't the proxy network itself. It's that the targeting you bought wasn't precise enough for the job, or that the extra precision you needed came with an extra fee you skipped.

Residential proxies are only as useful as your control over where they appear to be. This guide compares nine providers on exactly that: which targeting options each one offers, which are free and which cost extra, with plain explanations of terms like ASN and OS/TCP along the way. The table gives you the overview; the snapshots explain what each option means in practice.

Provider	Location filters at no charge	Filters billed extra	Entry price
ProxyEmpire	Every level, including OS/TCP and postcode	None	$3.50 a gigabyte
Proxy-Seller	Pricing of filters not stated (down to ISP)	Unknown	$1.45 a gigabyte at volume
NodeMaven	Pricing of filters not stated (down to ISP)	Unknown	$2.20 a gigabyte monthly
Oxylabs	Geo filters (levels unspecified)	None	$6 a gigabyte
DataImpulse	Country only	Everything below country	$1 a gigabyte (50 GB)
IPRoyal	Down to city	Unknown	$7 a gigabyte
Webshare	Pricing of filters not stated (down to postcode)	Unknown	$3.50 for one gigabyte
Decodo	Continent down to postcode and ASN	None	$3.75 a gigabyte
Bright Data	Country down to postcode and ASN	None	$4 a gigabyte with code

Provider Snapshots for Location-Driven Work

ProxyEmpire (best for free granular targeting)

Fact	Detail
Residential filters	Seven levels, from country to OS/TCP
Mobile filters	Carrier, city and country
Surcharge for filters	None
Reach	Over 170 countries, per the company

ProxyEmpire offers the longest list of free targeting options here, and one of them appears in no other provider's listing here: OS/TCP targeting. Every device sends small technical signals about its operating system when it connects, and some websites compare those signals with the browser a visitor claims to use. OS/TCP targeting lets you choose IPs whose connection profile fits the device you're presenting, which matters when consistency counts.

The rest of the list covers the usual layers, all included in the base price. Country and region set the broad area. City narrows it further. ZIP targets a postcode. ISP picks a particular internet provider, and ASN (Autonomous System Number) picks the specific network that provider runs. On mobile IPs, you can also choose the carrier.

Without a commitment, rotating residential is $3.50 a gigabyte; the 1,000 GB monthly tier brings that to $1.50. Leftover bandwidth stays in the account indefinitely, and the same account offers mobile, ISP and datacenter proxies.

In practice, that means a local SEO team can check rankings by postcode, an ad verifier can view a campaign through one carrier's network, and a pricing analyst can compare cities, all from the same account and without separate fees for each level of precision. Sessions can be held for a set time, kept for a session or rotated on every request.

All sales are final, so test your targeting with the $1.97 trial, which includes 100 MB of residential and 50 MB of mobile traffic. Live chat and email support run around the clock if a location doesn't behave as expected.

Proxy-Seller (best for ISP-level targeting at volume prices)

Fact	Detail
Residential filters	Down to ISP
Reach	Over 220 locations
Volume rate	$1.45 a gigabyte
Use-by window	One month

Beyond country, state and city, Proxy-Seller adds ISP selection, which is useful when a website treats visitors differently depending on their internet provider. Its residential pool spans more than 220 locations, so coverage is broad even outside major markets.

Volume residential costs $1.45 a gigabyte and up, and parallel sessions are uncapped for large jobs. You can hold one IP for a task or have it change on a schedule or with each request.

Residential purchases lapse after a month. Its mobile proxies, priced at $10 each and up, let you pick the carrier.

For businesses, Proxy-Seller provides invoices with VAT, DPA and SCC documents on request and ISO certification badges. HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 are supported, and free tools such as an IP trace and proxy checker let you confirm where an IP appears to be before running a full job.

NodeMaven (best for clean IPs with city targeting)

Fact	Detail
Residential filters	Country, city and ISP
Screening	Each IP checked before assignment
Monthly rate	$2.20 a gigabyte and up
Leftover traffic	Carried forward

NodeMaven offers country, city and ISP targeting, without ZIP or ASN, which is enough for most city-level tasks. What it adds instead is quality control: every IP is checked against fraud scores and blacklists before you receive it.

That makes it a good fit when the IP's reputation matters more than its exact postcode, such as managing social media or marketplace accounts, where a flagged address can trigger security checks.

A single balance covers residential and mobile and carries forward when unused, and an IP can be held for a full day. Trying it costs $3.50 for 750 MB.

The smallest monthly plan is 2 GB for $8.50, and monthly customers can get up to a tenth of spend back on traffic used. ISP proxies, with unlimited traffic and SOCKS5 support, start from $2.33 per IP for 30 days if you need a fixed address in a chosen city.

Oxylabs (best for free targeting inside a bundled subscription)

Fact	Detail
Filters	Geo filters at no charge
Entry plan	Starter, $30 monthly
Residential rate	Six dollars falling to $2.50
New-user credit	Five dollars

Location filters on Oxylabs carry no surcharge on residential or mobile, and one subscription covers its proxies, scraping APIs and agent browser. That suits teams that sometimes prefer an API to handle location-sensitive pages.

Each residential plan comes with uncapped parallel sessions, three proxy logins and ten whitelisted addresses, while mobile reaches more than 140 countries.

Its pages don't list the specific targeting levels in the details reviewed here, so check the documentation if you need ZIP or ASN.

New users get five dollars of credit for any product, and mobile addresses come from real handsets that can stay fixed for a day. There's no pay-as-you-go tier on the pricing pages, so expect a monthly subscription from the start.

DataImpulse (best when country targeting is enough)

Fact	Detail
Included filter	Country
Billed filters	Everything narrower
Basic plan	50 GB for $50
Leftover traffic	Kept indefinitely

DataImpulse prices precision separately. Picking a country costs nothing; anything narrower adds to the bill.

If your project only needs country-level results, its prices are very low: $50 for 50 GB and $800 for 1 TB, with traffic that never expires and no subscription to manage.

For city or postcode work, factor the add-on cost into your comparison before choosing it.

The company says its 90M+ residential IPs are first party, and it publishes network analytics showing IP counts per country, which helps you check coverage in the markets you care about. A 7-day refund policy and 24/7 human support add some reassurance.

IPRoyal (best for city targeting with long sessions)

Fact	Detail
Included filters	Down to city
Longest sticky IP	One week
Leftover traffic	Kept indefinitely
Smallest purchase	One gigabyte at $7

IPRoyal's filters run from country through state to city without a surcharge, enough for most regional work. Postcode and ASN options don't appear in its listing.

Its standout feature is session length: an IP can stay with you for up to 7 days, and your residential traffic never expires. For research that checks the same location repeatedly, a stable IP keeps results consistent.

The entry price is high for small purchases, at $7 per GB on a 1 GB subscription.

Larger orders get much cheaper, reaching $1.75 per GB from 10 TB. Timed rotation at one, ten or thirty minutes is also available, and team features such as workspace roles and 2FA make the account easy to share.

Webshare (best for flexible plans with ZIP and ASN)

Fact	Detail
Filters listed	Down to postcode and ASN
Smallest purchase	One gigabyte at $3.50
Rate at 250 GB	$1.40 a gigabyte
No-cost tier	Ten datacenter proxies

Webshare's rotating residential plans list filters reaching postcode and ASN, and each plan can be configured for the precise bandwidth and set of locations a project requires.

A single gigabyte is $3.50, and buying 250 GB brings each one down to $1.40. The no-cost tier of ten proxies is datacenter rather than residential, though it does let you get familiar with the dashboard.

There are no mobile proxies, so carrier targeting isn't available.

For a fixed address rather than a rotating one, Webshare offers static residential blocks of 20 IPs, sourced from ISPs including Comcast and AT&T, for $6 monthly. A rotating endpoint, full API and 24/7 support round out the service.

Decodo (best for free ZIP targeting with a free trial)

Fact	Detail
Included filters	Continent down to postcode and ASN
Reach	115M+ IPs on every plan
Trial	Three days, 100 MB, no charge
Smallest plan	3 GB for $11.25

Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) charges nothing extra for any of its location filters, which start as broad as a continent and go as narrow as a postcode or ASN. Continent selection is handy for wide regional checks.

Whichever plan you buy, you draw on the complete pool of more than 115 million residential IPs, and a free 3-day trial lets you test targeting accuracy before paying anything.

Unless you cancel, the trial rolls into a paid plan, and the FAQ puts the sticky session limit at half an hour.

Mobile proxies reach more than 160 locations at $2.25 a gigabyte and up. Browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox make it easy to switch locations while checking pages by hand.

Bright Data (best for free targeting at enterprise scale)

Fact	Detail
Included filters	Country down to postcode and ASN
Reach	Over 400 million IPs a month
Flexible rate	$4 a gigabyte with code
Identity check	Needed before residential use

Bright Data's location filters, from country to postcode and ASN, are included in the price, and its proxy services page mentions carrier selection as well. The company lists ISO 27001 and SOC 2 for organizations with formal vendor reviews.

With 400M+ monthly residential IPs across 195 countries, it has the widest reach in this comparison, which helps when you need IPs in less common locations.

Residential use requires a KYC check, and unused monthly commitments don't roll over.

The RESIGB50 code brings flexible residential traffic to four dollars a gigabyte, and live IP counts per country on its proxy services page show how deep the pool is in each market. A free trial with no credit card lets you test targeting first.

Picking Your Provider

Choose ProxyEmpire if you want every targeting level included, from ZIP and ASN to OS/TCP and mobile carrier, with traffic that never expires.

Choose Decodo if you'd like free ZIP and ASN targeting with a free trial.

Choose Bright Data if you need the widest location reach.

Choose IPRoyal if city-level targeting and long sessions cover your needs.

Choose DataImpulse if country targeting is enough and price matters most.