IPRoyal

IPRoyal, in 30 seconds

IPRoyal is a Lithuania-based proxy provider that has built its reputation on bargain pricing rather than pool depth. The "Royal Residential" pool sits at roughly 32M+ IPs across 195+ countries — a third the size of Decodo, a fifth of SOAX or Bright Data — but the pay-as-you-go rate of $1.75/GB is the lowest published number among the credible providers. No monthly minimum, no subscription gate, no per-IP charge. For developers who need a small amount of residential bandwidth on an irregular schedule, IPRoyal is the default budget pick.

• 32M+residential IPs
• 195+countries
• $1.75/GBPAYG rate
• Nomonthly minimum

How IPRoyal's Royal Residential network works

IPRoyal sources residential IPs through the Pawns SDK (a sister company that pays users to share their unused bandwidth). The opt-in flow is documented and consent is recorded per-device, but the network is materially smaller and noisier than the tier-one providers. Pool freshness lags Decodo and SOAX — older blog reports note that on niche country-carrier combinations, the same IPs cycle back faster than they should.

Sticky sessions hold for up to 10 minutes by default, with a configurable maximum of 30 minutes on certain account types. That is the shortest sticky window in the category — enough for most ad-hoc scraping but not long enough for account-bound flows that need a stable IP across an extended login session. Country, state and city targeting are all available; ASN-level targeting is supported on the larger ranges but inconsistent on smaller ones.

IPRoyal pricing, decoded

IPRoyal's pricing is the cleanest pitch in the category: one PAYG rate that drops with volume tiers. No tier gating on features, no per-port charges, no hidden minimums. Datacenter and mobile proxies are sold separately on their own meters.

Volume tier	Per-GB rate	Effective monthly cost
Pay-as-you-go (1 GB+)	$1.75	$1.75 minimum
10 GB+	$1.57	$15.70
50 GB+	$1.39	$69.50
100 GB+	$1.20	$120.00
1000 GB+	$0.80 (negotiated)	$800.00+

That puts IPRoyal at roughly half the per-GB cost of Decodo's subscription tier and a third of Bright Data's residential rate. The catch is that the pricing math only wins if the success rate holds up. On unguarded targets (basic ecommerce, public records, RSS-style content) IPRoyal performs fine. On Cloudflare-protected and DataDome-protected targets, the smaller pool means more failed requests, more retries and more billed bandwidth on each retry — which can erase the price advantage entirely.

IPRoyal vs Decodo vs ProxyEmpire vs Rayobyte

Dimension	IPRoyal	Decodo	ProxyEmpire	Rayobyte
Residential pool	32M+ IPs	125M+ IPs	9M+ IPs	30M+ IPs
Per-GB rate (entry)	$1.75	$4 at $200/mo	$3.50	$2.75
Sticky session max	30 min	30 min	30 min	30 min
Compliance	None published	ISO 27001	None published	None published
Best for	Bargain hunters, irregular usage	SMB production	Niche geo targeting	US-focused crawls

IPRoyal wins on price. Decodo wins on everything else that matters at production scale — pool size, success rate on hard targets, dashboard quality, compliance posture. The break-even point is roughly 50 GB/month: under that, IPRoyal is cheaper even with retry overhead; over that, Decodo's success rate saves more bandwidth than the price gap costs.

Decision matrix: when IPRoyal is the right call

Situation	IPRoyal fit
Solo dev under 10 GB/month, irregular usage	Strong fit — PAYG pricing is unbeatable
Crawling unguarded ecommerce or public-records sites	Strong fit — small pool is fine here
Cloudflare or DataDome-protected targets	Weak fit — retry overhead erases price advantage
Production pipeline above 50 GB/month	Weak fit — Decodo or SOAX are better value
Public-sector or regulated buyer	Skip — no published compliance certifications
Mobile proxies or 4G targeting	Mixed — small mobile pool, niche use only