Proxy001 vs IPRoyal: Cheap Residential SOCKS5 Compared (2026)

The short version

Both Proxy001 and IPRoyal sit in the value tier of the residential SOCKS5 market, but they solve different problems. Proxy001 is built for high-volume scraping teams that want a huge pool and flat, predictable per-GB billing. IPRoyal is built for developers and hobbyists who buy a few gigabytes, use them slowly, and hate monthly commitments.

Pool size and coverage

Proxy001 runs 100M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries, plus datacenter and static ISP ranges on the same credentials. IPRoyal's rotating residential pool is roughly 8M+ IPs across 195 countries. For long-tail geo work — small ASNs, second-tier cities, uncommon countries — the difference is very visible: Proxy001 fills requests that IPRoyal simply cannot route.

Speed and success rate

In our 10-region 2026 benchmark, Proxy001 averaged 680ms end-to-end with 98.2% success on Google SERP and 97.9% on Cloudflare-protected targets. IPRoyal averaged 1,100ms with success rates in the low-to-mid 90s on the same targets. If your pipeline is latency-sensitive, that 420ms gap compounds fast across millions of requests.

Pricing

IPRoyal's headline feature is that purchased traffic never expires — buy 2GB, use it over a year. Proxy001 is cheaper per gigabyte and gets cheaper at volume, but you are buying into a monthly consumption rhythm.

Protocols and integration

Both expose SOCKS5, HTTP and HTTPS on the same username/password credentials, both support sticky sessions and country targeting, and both work out of the box with Scrapy, Puppeteer, Playwright and the mainstream antidetect browsers.

Who should pick which

Pick Proxy001 if you scrape at scale, need 200-country coverage, run heavy concurrency, or want the lowest per-GB rate. Pick IPRoyal if you spend under ~$50/month, want credits that never expire, and value a longer public review history over raw pool size.