Best Residential Proxy Providers 2026: Expert Picks

By Elena Park 2026-01-25 11 min read Reviews

Residential proxies route through real ISP-assigned IPs. Here are the providers with the cleanest pools and best success rates in 2026.

What we tested

IP pool size, country coverage, success rate against Cloudflare/Akamai/DataDome, average latency, content fidelity, and price per clean response. 1.2M requests over 30 days.

Top residential providers

**Bright Data** — 150M+ IPs, 195 countries, ethically sourced. The benchmark.

**Oxylabs** — 100M+ IPs, premium SERP and E-commerce APIs.

**Decodo** — 65M+ IPs at $2/GB — unbeatable price-to-performance.

**SOAX** — 8.5M IPs but the deepest mobile pool in the industry.

**NetNut** — ISP-peered network gives the fastest residential latency.

**IPRoyal** — 32M+ IPs at $1.75/GB, ethical sourcing.

How to pick

Need compliance and the biggest pool → Bright Data. Need the best APIs → Oxylabs. Need to keep your CFO happy → Decodo. Need carrier-grade mobile → SOAX. Need the cheapest ethical option → IPRoyal.

Read more on ToptierProxy Blog or see our Best Proxies 2026 guide.