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IPRoyal review

Budget-friendly proxies with pay-as-you-go pricing

Editor score
4.3 / 5
User rating
Not rated yet
Starting from
$1.75/GB
Last reviewed
Jul 30, 2026

Overview

IPRoyal is one of the cheapest credible residential providers, pairing a 34M+ residential pool with 250K+ datacenter IPs. Residential starts at $1.75/GB with no minimum commitment, which makes it an easy first purchase for small projects.

Its standout policy is that purchased residential traffic never expires. Most providers sell monthly allowances that reset whether you use them or not; with IPRoyal, a batch of gigabytes bought for an occasional job stays on the account until it is spent. For bursty or seasonal workloads, that removes the usual pressure to use it or lose it.

The compromise is reach and resilience. The pool is a fraction of the size of the market leaders, and success rates fall on heavily protected targets. There is no free trial, though the low entry price softens that.

Best for: solo developers, small teams and irregular workloads where cost per GB matters most.

Look elsewhere if: you scrape heavily defended sites at volume.

Our editorial score

A weighted average of the criteria below. Scored by our team, not by users, and never influenced by commercial relationships.

The best entry point for small teams and solo developers. Traffic that does not expire is a genuinely useful differentiator.
  • Pool quality×1.59.0/10

    Among the strongest we measured in this category.

  • Success rate×1.258.8/10

    Comfortably above average, with no significant weaknesses.

  • Support×18.3/10

    Comfortably above average, with no significant weaknesses.

  • Ease of use×18.3/10

    Comfortably above average, with no significant weaknesses.

  • Pricing transparency×18.4/10

    Comfortably above average, with no significant weaknesses.

Last reviewed on July 30, 2026.

+What we liked

  • Among the lowest residential prices available
  • Purchased traffic never expires
  • No minimum commitment

Where it falls short

  • Smaller pool than the market leaders
  • Success rates drop on heavily protected targets

Pricing by proxy type

Entry prices as publicly listed at the time of review. Volume discounts usually apply.

TypeFromPool size
Datacenter
Hosted IPs. Fastest and cheapest, but blocked by strict sites.
$0.80/GB250K+
Residential
IPs from real home connections — hardest to detect, best for protected targets.
$1.75/GB34M+

Features

Verified against the provider's documentation and dashboard at the time of review.

Billing

  • Pay as you goSupported
  • Traffic never expiresSupported

Platform

  • Dashboard analyticsSupported
  • REST APISupported
  • Browser extensionNot supported

Protocols

  • SOCKS5 supportSupported
  • HTTP(S) supportSupported

Rotation

  • Rotating sessionsSupported
  • Sticky sessionsSupported

Support

  • 24/7 live chatSupported
  • Dedicated account managerNot supported

Targeting

  • City targetingSupported
  • ASN targetingNot supported
  • Country targetingSupported

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