Oxylabs
$2.50/GB
279,244
Shifter
vs
276,680
Oxylabs
Shifter's IPs came from up to 59% more separate networks, and more of them were online in 2 of 5 countries.
Benchmarks
How many IPs does each proxy network actually have live?
Every provider publishes a pool size. Almost none publish how many of those addresses are reachable in the country you need, at the moment you need them. So we measure it ourselves, the same way for every network, and publish the method alongside the results.
15
Networks tested
5
Countries each
70
Head-to-head results
$0.75
Shifter per GB
About these numbers. Every network here was tested in the same five countries only: the United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada and Germany. The figures are the distinct IPs each network had live and answering during the test window, not the size of its network. Residential IPs rotate all day, so every provider serves far more addresses across 24 hours than any single window can capture.
Decodo
$2.00/GB
279,244
Shifter
vs
281,121
Decodo
Similar size pool, wider spread: up to 66% more networks, and more IPs online in 1 of 5 countries.
SOAX
$3.00/GB
279,244
Shifter
vs
159,975
SOAX
More working IPs than SOAX everywhere we looked, peaking at 477% more (Germany).
IPRoyal
$1.75/GB
279,244
Shifter
vs
116,866
IPRoyal
Shifter had more IPs online in all 5 countries, up to 282% more (France).
Webshare
$1.40/GB
279,244
Shifter
vs
306,410
Webshare
Similar size pool, wider spread: up to 54% more networks, and more IPs online in 1 of 5 countries.
Massive
$4.90/GB
279,244
Shifter
vs
131,627
Massive
More working IPs than Massive everywhere we looked, peaking at 1400% more (France).
Infatica
$2.60/GB
279,244
Shifter
vs
260,977
Infatica
Shifter's IPs came from up to 236% more separate networks, and more of them were online in 4 of 5 countries.
Proxy-Seller
$2.20/GB
279,244
Shifter
vs
265,835
Proxy-Seller
Similar size pool, wider spread: up to 208% more networks, and more IPs online in 4 of 5 countries.
NodeMaven
$2.20/GB
279,244
Shifter
vs
108,664
NodeMaven
More working IPs than NodeMaven everywhere we looked, peaking at 305% more (France).
Evomi
$2.20/GB
279,244
Shifter
vs
82,824
Evomi
Shifter had more IPs online in all 5 countries, up to 440% more (United States).
DataImpulse
$1.00/GB
279,244
Shifter
vs
172,893
DataImpulse
Ahead in every country we tested, with the widest gap at 183% more IPs online (Germany).
ProxyEmpire
$0.75/GB
279,244
Shifter
vs
145,177
ProxyEmpire
More working IPs than ProxyEmpire everywhere we looked, peaking at 1321% more (France).
Proxy Cheap
$4.99/GB
279,244
Shifter
vs
20,450
Proxy Cheap
Shifter had more IPs online in all 5 countries, up to 3478% more (Germany).
Byteful
$1.75/GB
279,244
Shifter
vs
213,947
Byteful
Ahead in every country we tested, with the widest gap at 66% more IPs online (France).
How to read these numbers
Each benchmark counts the IPs a network had live and reachable during the test window, not the size of its network. Residential IPs rotate constantly as real devices come online and drop off, so every provider here serves far more addresses across a day than any single test can see. What limits a crawl is how many respond at the same moment, and that is what we measure. Every provider gets identical request counts, concurrency and targets, tested one at a time from the same machine.
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