Residential Proxy Providers

There are well over a hundred residential proxy providers in 2026, but only a couple of dozen own real pools — the rest resell. This page explains how to tell them apart before you sign anything.

Tier-one networks source and operate their own peers, publish compliance documentation and expose granular targeting. Resellers buy wholesale bandwidth and repackage it, which is fine for small budgets but means you inherit someone else's pool health without any control over it.

Score every shortlisted vendor on six axes: verified pool size, success rate on your actual targets, median latency, geo and ASN granularity, billing model (GB, IP or request) and support responsiveness. Always run the same 1,000-request test script through each trial before comparing prices.

Re-run this evaluation whenever your block rate climbs above 5%, your bandwidth bill doubles, or a target platform changes its anti-bot vendor — pool quality is not static, and last year's winner is often this year's mid-table finisher.