Best Residential Proxy deals

{"intro":"Residential proxies are judged on pool quality and sourcing integrity, not raw IP counts. Use these criteria to separate genuinely peer-sourced networks from rebranded datacenter pools with inflated claims.","criteria":[{"title":"Verified pool freshness over raw size","body":"Daily active peer count matters far more than the advertised pool size. A network claiming 100 million IPs but with low daily liveness delivers worse real-world success rates than a smaller, actively rotating pool. Request audited daily-active figures before signing a contract."},{"title":"Ethical sourcing and consent documentation","body":"Demand documented opt-in for every peer device, ideally a published SDK consent flow and a third-party compliance audit. Pools built on malware-bundled or covertly installed SDKs carry regulatory and reputational risk that transfers to you as the buyer."},{"title":"City and ASN-level targeting depth","body":"Country-level targeting is the minimum. Ad verification, SERP scraping, and localised price intelligence all require sub-country precision at the city or ASN level. Confirm the provider actually delivers targeting granularity rather than simply advertising it."},{"title":"Sticky versus rotating session control","body":"Sticky sessions hold one IP for 1–30 minutes for login flows and multi-step checkouts. Rotating sessions swap each request for stateless high-volume crawling. The ability to configure both modes per workflow — ideally via API — drives effective cost more than headline GB pricing."},{"title":"Benchmarked success rate on your specific target","body":"Published headline success rates are measured on easy targets. Insist on a free trial or pay-as-you-go credit and test against your exact destination sites before committing to a volume plan. Success rate variation across providers on the same hard target often exceeds 40 percentage points."}],"pricingReality":"Residential bandwidth is the most expensive proxy category. Pay-as-you-go starts at roughly £3–£6 per GB at small volume, drops to £1.50–£3 per GB on mid-tier monthly commitments, and reaches £1 per GB or below only on annual six-figure contracts. A team scraping 500 GB monthly should budget £1,000–£2,500.","commonPitfalls":["Buying on price per GB without testing success rate on actual target sites — the cheapest pool that cannot unblock your target costs more in the end.","Treating a large advertised pool as a quality signal when daily liveness and ethical sourcing are the real differentiators.","Using rotating sessions for workflows that require login persistence, then attributing bans to the proxy rather than the architecture.","Ignoring sourcing transparency — legal exposure from non-consenting peer devices transfers to the buyer once the data feeds a commercial product."]}