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Apr 24, 2026The cheapest static residential proxies in 2026 sit between $1.35 and $4 per IP per day-equivalent, with the floor held by Rayobyte's annual-commit monthly plans and the ceiling held by enterprise providers like Bright Data and NetNut. But raw $/IP is a misleading metric on its own — some of the cheapest providers cap bandwidth at 2-10 GB per IP per month, lease from overlapping /24 subnets, or sell rotating residential IPs dressed up as "static." This guide sorts the market by public list price, explains how to read pricing model differences, flags the red flags that make cheap ISP proxies false economy, and shows where SpyderProxy's $3.90/day unlimited-traffic model fits.
All prices below are from publicly visible provider pricing pages as of April 2026, sorted from cheapest headline entry point to most expensive.
A static residential proxy — also called an ISP proxy — is a datacenter-hosted IP address that is registered as a residential ISP IP in geolocation and ASN databases. The IP stays assigned to you for days, weeks, or months at a time and runs on datacenter infrastructure for speed. The combination — residential trust score plus static assignment plus datacenter speed — is why ISP proxies dominate multi-account management, ad verification, ticketing, sneaker copping, and long-running dashboards. For the full technical explainer see our static residential proxies buyer's guide.
ISP proxy pricing is measured three different ways and providers switch between them to make comparisons harder. The three models:
A fair comparison requires normalizing to your actual usage. If you plan to burn 10 GB per IP per month, a $1.99/IP bandwidth-capped plan is cheapest. If you plan to burn 100 GB per IP per month on streaming or image-heavy scraping, the same plan throttles or surcharges and the unlimited-traffic options (SpyderProxy, some enterprise plans) become cheaper in practice.
The table below sorts providers from lowest entry price to highest, noting the pricing model and any bandwidth caps.
| Rank | Provider | Entry Price | Traffic Model | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rayobyte | ~$1.35/IP/month (annual) | Bandwidth tiers per plan | USA-heavy, legacy Blazing SEO brand |
| 2 | Proxy-Cheap | ~$1.60/IP/month | Per-IP monthly, traffic caps apply | Small subnet diversity |
| 3 | Decodo (ex-Smartproxy) | ~$1.60/IP/month | Per-IP monthly, varying caps | 30+ countries, mature dashboard |
| 4 | IPRoyal | ~$1.80/IP/month | Unlimited on select plans | 10+ countries, decent subnet mix |
| 5 | WebShare | ~$1.99/IP/month | Per-IP, tiered bandwidth | 20+ countries, strong brand |
| 6 | SpyderProxy | $3.90/day per IP | Unlimited traffic | 31+ countries, daily billing, SOCKS5 included |
| 7 | NetNut | ~$99/month entry | Bandwidth packages | Direct ISP peering, enterprise focus |
| 8 | Oxylabs | Custom enterprise | Per-IP + bandwidth | 20+ countries, enterprise-only sales |
| 9 | Bright Data | From ~$12.50/GB enterprise | Bandwidth-based | Largest pool, highest trust, highest cost |
Rayobyte at ~$1.35/IP/month with annual commit is the cheapest public list price. It is a fit for USA-only workloads with predictable low-to-moderate bandwidth per IP. Proxy-Cheap and Decodo are close seconds at ~$1.60 with broader country coverage. SpyderProxy at $3.90/day is not the cheapest by headline, but becomes cheaper than capped monthly plans once you exceed ~15-20 GB/IP/month of real usage — which most serious workloads do.
Cheap ISP proxies fail in predictable ways. Watch for these red flags before you buy.
If a provider sells you 10 ISP IPs and they all fall inside the same /24 (e.g., 203.0.113.0/24), many platforms treat them as the same account from a fraud-detection standpoint. Amazon, Instagram, Ticketmaster, and Shopify all rate-limit or flag by /24 subnet. Before buying, ask the provider how many /24 subnets their pool spans in your target country, and verify by sampling IPs yourself.
Some cheap providers sell "static residential" that is actually sticky rotating residential — the IP stays the same for 10-30 minutes and then rotates. Real ISP proxies keep the same IP for days or months. Test by running curl https://api.ipify.org every 5 minutes for 24 hours; if the IP changes, it is not really static.
Cheap "ISP" proxies sometimes announce from secondary datacenter ASNs (DigitalOcean AS14061, OVH AS16276, Linode AS63949) rather than residential ISP ASNs. These are trivially blocked by any serious anti-bot system because MaxMind lists them as datacenter or hosting. Run whois on a sample IP and confirm the ASN and org name read as residential — Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, NTT, Orange, etc.
A "static" IP that is shared with other customers of the same provider is worthless for multi-account work. If customer B on the same IP gets flagged on Amazon, your IP reputation is destroyed. Confirm the IP is dedicated to your account only, not pooled or shared.
Headline "$1.99/IP/month" often hides a 5 GB/month soft cap. Overage pricing can be $5+/GB, making the effective cost higher than premium providers. Read the ToS and overage policy before committing.
ISP IPs get blacklisted. A quality provider replaces flagged IPs for free; cheap providers make you buy a new IP every time an IP gets burned. Factor replacement cost into your total cost of ownership.
Several workloads lose money when you try to save on ISP proxies:
A failed sneaker cop costs you the sneaker profit (often $200-$500 per pair). If a cheap ISP proxy gets you banned at checkout because it shared a /24 with a botter who just got flagged, the $2 savings per IP cost you hundreds in missed profit. Sneaker cook groups universally run premium residential or high-quality ISP proxies. The cost per miss dominates the cost per IP.
Ticketmaster, AXS, and SeatGeek pre-sales are winner-take-all. An IP that fails queue-auth on the wrong event doesn't give you another try — the event is sold out. Paying $4/day for a quality ISP vs $2/day for a cheap one is trivial insurance against queue-drop on a $2,000 Taylor Swift night.
Instagram and TikTok account bans cascade across your fleet when fraud signals leak between accounts. If 10 cheap ISP proxies all fall in the same /24 and one account gets flagged, Instagram's heuristics link the other nine. The cost of replacing 10 aged accounts ($100-$1000 each depending on warmup and follower count) dwarfs the $2/IP/month savings.
Streaming, image-heavy dashboards, and Shopify CDN-heavy scraping burn 5-20 GB per IP per day. A $1.99/IP/month plan with a 10 GB cap runs out on day 3. A $3.90/day SpyderProxy IP with unlimited traffic runs forever at the same workload.
Because providers use three different pricing models, the fair comparison is to normalize each offer to the same usage profile. Below, the same providers priced at 30 GB per IP per month (a reasonable average for serious workloads like multi-account Amazon seller, continuous ad verification, or Shopify-heavy monitoring).
| Provider | Base Price | Overage or Cap | Cost at 30 GB/IP/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rayobyte (annual commit) | $1.35/IP/mo | Bandwidth-tier upgrades required | ~$3-6/IP/mo depending on tier |
| Proxy-Cheap | $1.60/IP/mo | ~5 GB cap + $3/GB overage | $1.60 + (25 × $3) = $76.60/IP/mo |
| Decodo | $1.60/IP/mo entry | Varies by plan; enterprise tiers extend caps | $3-20/IP/mo typical |
| IPRoyal (unlimited-bandwidth plan) | $1.80/IP/mo | Unlimited on select plans | $1.80/IP/mo |
| WebShare | $1.99/IP/mo | ~10 GB cap + $2/GB overage | $1.99 + (20 × $2) = $41.99/IP/mo |
| SpyderProxy (daily) | $3.90/day | Unlimited | 30 × $3.90 = $117/IP/mo |
| NetNut (mid-tier) | ~$99/mo entry | Bandwidth-based; check per-GB | Varies; scales with GB |
At 30 GB/IP/mo, IPRoyal's unlimited plan at $1.80 and Rayobyte's annual tiers are the cheapest. SpyderProxy at $117/IP/mo-equivalent is significantly more expensive on continuous monthly usage, but the daily billing model is designed for workloads that do not run 30 days a month — sneaker drops (3-5 days/month), ticketing events (1-2 days/month), short-run multi-account projects (variable). If you only need an ISP IP for 10 days in a given month, SpyderProxy bills you $39; a monthly plan at $20/month with overages still charges for unused days.
For steady continuous monthly use at moderate bandwidth, IPRoyal's unlimited tier and Rayobyte's annual commit are the cheapest credible options. For burst workloads with bandwidth-heavy traffic, SpyderProxy's daily unlimited wins. For light usage (<10 GB/IP/mo), capped monthly plans at $1.60-$1.99 are cheapest.
SpyderProxy's Static Residential (ISP) at $3.90/day per IP is not the cheapest by headline. It is positioned as the best value for real-world usage:
At $3.90/day, one IP is $117/month. Compare to a $1.99/IP/month plan with a 10 GB cap: if your workload needs 50 GB/IP/month, overage at $5/GB adds 40 × $5 = $200 in fees on top of the $1.99 base — total $201.99/IP/month, 73% more expensive than SpyderProxy while using the cheaper-looking provider. For light-usage workloads (under 10 GB/IP/month), a $1.99 plan wins; for anything bandwidth-heavy, SpyderProxy's $3.90/day unlimited is the better buy.
For rotating residential instead, see Budget Residential at $1.75/GB or Premium Residential at $2.75/GB. For pure datacenter see Static Datacenter at $1.50/proxy/month.
One dimension the headline price hides is country coverage. The cheapest plans from Rayobyte and some budget tiers are heavily USA-weighted — sometimes 90%+ of the inventory is USA IPs. If your workload needs ISP proxies in Germany, Japan, or Brazil, the cheapest plan in the USA column is irrelevant to you.
If you need coverage outside the USA and Western Europe, the cheapest headline numbers are misleading — the plan has to actually include your country. Always confirm country inventory against the provider's current dashboard before buying.
Subnet diversity — the spread of IPs across different /24 blocks — is the single most important quality signal for ISP proxies. A plan that advertises "100 USA ISP IPs" but ships them all from 203.0.113.0/24 is essentially one IP for anti-fraud purposes. Here is how to check before committing:
ipcalc or a manual /24 grouping: take each IP, zero the last octet, collect unique /24s.whois on each sample IP. ASNs should be consistent with residential ISPs (Comcast AS7922, AT&T AS7018, Spectrum AS20115, Verizon AS701, Deutsche Telekom AS3320, NTT AS4713). Mixed ASNs that include datacenter networks (DigitalOcean AS14061, OVH AS16276, Hetzner AS24940) are a red flag.A provider that will not give you a sample to check should not get your business. This is the single most common source of "cheap ISP proxies that turned out to be garbage" complaints in scraping communities.
For the full static residential explainer, see our static residential proxies 2026 buyer's guide. For the WebShare and Decodo comparisons, see SpyderProxy vs WebShare and SpyderProxy vs Decodo. See also best proxies for web scraping and what is a proxy server.
Rayobyte's annual-commit monthly plans are the cheapest by public list price at around $1.35/IP/month (USA-heavy). Proxy-Cheap and Decodo follow at ~$1.60/IP/month. IPRoyal is ~$1.80/IP/month. WebShare is ~$1.99. SpyderProxy is $3.90/day with unlimited traffic, which becomes the cheapest option once monthly bandwidth exceeds ~20 GB/IP.
SpyderProxy's $3.90/day includes unlimited traffic with no caps and is billed daily for burst workloads. $1.99/IP/month providers typically cap bandwidth at 5-10 GB/IP/month, with overage fees of $3-5/GB on top. For any workload exceeding ~15 GB/IP/month, the monthly plan becomes more expensive due to overage.
Often no. Cheap ISP proxies frequently sell IPs from overlapping /24 subnets, which Amazon's fraud detection treats as the same source. Confirm with the provider that each IP is in a different /24 and that the ASN announces from a real residential ISP. A single bad IP can link multiple accounts and trigger suspension.
$1.50-$2.00/IP/month for a bandwidth-capped plan is the market floor. $3-4/IP/day for unlimited-traffic plans. Anything significantly cheaper should be verified for real ASN coverage, subnet diversity, and whether the IP is actually static or rotating-sticky.
Very rarely. ISP proxy inventory has real underlying cost from the upstream ISP partnership, so permanent free tiers are almost nonexistent. Most providers offer money-back guarantees (3-day, 7-day) or low-minimum first top-ups that let you test with real traffic before committing.
SpyderProxy's $3.90/day is the public list price. For large enterprise commitments (100+ IPs over multiple months), contact support directly for volume pricing. The standard price is already designed to be competitive at any scale including unlimited traffic.
Cheap ISP proxies are static — one IP stays assigned to you for days or months. Rotating residential rotates through a pool of IPs per request or per sticky session. ISP proxies are priced per-IP; rotating residential is priced per-GB. For multi-account and long-session work, ISP wins. For high-volume short-burst scraping, rotating residential is cheaper.
The cheapest static residential proxies by headline price in 2026 are Rayobyte at ~$1.35/IP/month and Proxy-Cheap at ~$1.60. Both work for light-usage USA workloads with capped bandwidth. The cheapest by real-world total cost of ownership — once you factor in unlimited traffic, residential ASN coverage, subnet diversity, SOCKS5, and daily billing flexibility — is SpyderProxy at $3.90/day. For sneaker drops, ticketing, multi-account farms, and bandwidth-heavy workloads, paying the premium for quality ISP infrastructure is the cheaper option in every scenario except genuinely light usage.
Start with SpyderProxy Static Residential at $3.90/day per IP, unlimited traffic, 31+ countries — daily billing, no commit, SOCKS5 included.