The median residential PAYG rate is $4.20/GB (-7% YoY). We track 30 providers monthly so you can benchmark any quote against the market in seconds.
Proxy pricing is opaque by design. Most providers hide volume rates behind sales calls, and published PAYG rates change without notice. That makes it hard for procurement teams to know whether a quote is competitive or inflated.
We built this index to fix that. Every month we collect the public pay-as-you-go rate for residential bandwidth from 30 providers, convert to USD, and compute the median. The result is a single number you can use to benchmark any offer.
“If you are paying more than $4.20/GB for residential proxies in 2026, you are either getting premium SLA value -- or overpaying.”
Source: KnoxProxy Proxy Price Index, July snapshots 2024-2026. PAYG rate, USD.
SDK-based peer networks and ISP-direct deals have expanded the available residential pool faster than demand, pushing per-GB unit costs down across the board.
Over a dozen new providers entered the residential market in the last two years, undercutting incumbents and compressing margins toward infrastructure cost.
AI training and inference workloads favor high-volume, low-cost bandwidth. Providers are restructuring tiers to capture this segment, dragging headline PAYG rates down.
We re-scrape public pricing pages on the first business day of each month. The snapshot date at the top of the page confirms the last collection run. Historical data points are never retroactively changed.
Pay-as-you-go is the only rate every provider publishes without requiring a sales call. It is the one universally comparable number. Enterprise tiers vary wildly by negotiation, making them impossible to benchmark consistently.
Any provider that sells access to a pool of residential IP addresses (real ISP-assigned IPs on consumer devices) on a per-GB basis. We exclude VPNs, datacenter-only providers, and providers that do not publish a public PAYG price.
Yes. We track our own PAYG rate alongside all other providers using the same methodology. Our row is highlighted for transparency, not excluded for appearance. If our price rises, the index shows it.
On the first business day of each month we visit the public pricing page of each tracked provider, record the lowest published residential PAYG rate (no volume commitment), and convert to USD using the ECB reference rate for that day. The median is the 50th-percentile value of all 30 rates. We do not include promotional or time-limited introductory pricing.
KnoxProxy Research. “Residential Proxy Price Index, July 2026.” Published July 2, 2026. knoxproxy.com/research/proxy-price-index. Accessed [date].
KnoxProxy residential proxies start at $2.10/GB -- 50% below the market median, with a 99.5% success rate. No volume commitments, no sales calls.