IPRoyal Review
Dependable, with traffic that never expires, but roughly half the pool of the leaders.
The short version
- IPRoyal returned 116,866 live IPs across five countries, a little over a third of the largest network we measured.
- Results were consistent country to country rather than collapsing in one market.
- Median responses of 514 ms to 520 ms put it comfortably in the faster half of the field.
- Pricing starts at $7.00 per GB for 1 GB. The $1.75 rate everyone quotes needs 10 TB.
- Traffic never expiring is a genuine differentiator for irregular workloads.
At a glance
What we measured
Live IPs each network had answering during the same test window, five countries, identical request volumes and concurrency for both sides.
| Country | IPRoyal | Shifter | Networks |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 70,304 | 136,667 | 914 |
| United Kingdom | 16,579 | 53,506 | 104 |
| France | 8,801 | 33,581 | 50 |
| Canada | 12,620 | 33,485 | 160 |
| Germany | 8,562 | 22,005 | 122 |
A smaller pool, competently run
IPRoyal served 116,866 live addresses across the five countries, from 1,350 distinct networks. That is roughly a third of the deepest network we measured, and about 40% of our own five-country total.
Nothing about the run was fragile. Medians sat around 515 ms and the results held country to country rather than collapsing in one market the way some rivals did.
So the honest framing is not that IPRoyal is unreliable, it is that you are buying a competent mid-sized network rather than a deep one, and the price ladder does not reflect that until you reach multi-terabyte volume.
The pricing curve, and what actually helps
The entry rate is $7.00 per GB, among the highest in the market, and 10 GB brings it to $5.25. Bulk pricing above that is not published, and the widely quoted $1.75 applies from 10 TB a month.
The genuinely useful feature is that traffic never expires. For teams whose scraping is seasonal or bursty, unused gigabytes carrying forward is worth more than a slightly lower headline rate, because the alternative is paying monthly for capacity you do not use.
For continuous work the maths is less kind. Our own published rate is $1.00 per GB at 100 GB and $0.75 at volume, without a sales conversation, which is a disclosed commercial interest.
Pricing
| Plan | Traffic | Per GB | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry | 1 GB | $7.00 | $7 |
| Small | 10 GB | $5.25 | $52.50 |
| Volume | 1 TB+ | on request | on request |
| Best rate | 10 TB | $1.75 | $17,500 |
Pros and cons
- Consistent across every country tested, with no market collapsing the way some rivals did
- Fast in the context of the field, medians around 515 ms
- Traffic never expires, unusual and genuinely useful for bursty work
- Unlimited concurrency with standard HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 integration
- Pool measured roughly a third of the largest network in our test
- $7.00 per GB entry rate, among the steepest in the market
- No published pricing between 10 GB and multi-terabyte volume
- No trial, so evaluation means paying first
Who IPRoyal is for
- Your usage is irregular and you want credits that do not expire each month.
- You value consistency and speed over maximum pool depth.
- You buy in the multi-terabyte range where the rate becomes competitive.
- You need depth: the pool measured roughly a third of the largest.
- You are starting small, where $7.00 per GB is the entry rate.
- You want to trial before paying, which is not offered.
How we scored it
| Criterion | Weight | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live pool measured | 25% | 3.4 | 116,866 IPs live across five countries, against the tested field. |
| Network spread measured | 20% | 4.2 | 1,350 distinct networks across five countries. |
| Price per GB measured | 25% | 7.6 | $1.75 per GB, which requires 10 TB a month. A 10 GB buyer pays $5.25 and the entry tier is $7.00. |
| Response time measured | 10% | 9.5 | 523 ms median across the countries tested. |
| Country coverage | 10% | 10 | 195+ countries advertised, scaled against full global coverage. |
| Features | 5% | 8 | Unlimited concurrency, sticky sessions, city targeting and non-expiring traffic. No HTTP3 and less granular carrier targeting than the leaders. |
| Transparency | 5% | 6.5 | Entry pricing is public and self-serve, but the middle of the ladder is not published and there is no trial, so buyers cannot evaluate before paying. |