Best Rotating Proxies: 7 Providers Compared on Sticky Sessions, IP Drops and Price

Oxylabs and Decodo sell the best rotating proxies for most buyers, because their docs give you the most control over rotation. Both offer a new IP per request, sticky sessions of up to 24 hours, a fail-closed setting that returns an error instead of a new IP, and rotating datacenter and ISP traffic. Decodo is the better value, at $4 per GB pay-as-you-go as of October 2026. Evomi lets you choose between three session types. In Proxyway's 2026 tests, SOAX kept sticky IPs longest, and Byteful answered fastest on the global pool. Webshare rotates datacenter IPs for the least money, and DataImpulse sets sticky sessions by port.

A rotating proxy is an ordinary forward proxy with a pool behind it. Your software connects to one gateway hostname and port, often called a backconnect gateway, and the provider decides which exit IP carries each request. Our guide to proxy server architecture covers the basics. Per-request rotation hands you a new IP every time. A sticky session keeps one IP until its timer runs out, you stop sending requests, or the home device behind it goes offline. Those last two cases are where providers differ most, and where most buying guides say nothing.

This guide compares rotation controls, not just pool sizes: how long a session can last, how you set it, what happens when its IP disappears, and which other IP types rotate. Nobody paid for a placement here, and we earn nothing from any link. We wrote it for collecting public data, price and search monitoring, ad checks and QA testing, not for running accounts against a platform's rules.

Author: Christopher Vance Web Infrastructure Specialist

I spent years on the other side of the fence before joining TrustMyIP, building the systems websites use to detect, flag and block users by their IP address. Seen from there, the settings worth comparing are how long an IP is held, what ends a session early and what happens when the home connection drops. A login or checkout whose IP changes halfway through is exactly the kind of anomaly session checks are built to notice.

I did not buy these plans or run a benchmark of my own. All provider test results in this guide are Proxyway's, a publisher that documents its method and discloses affiliate links. Session limits and prices come from the vendors' own pages, read on October 6 and 7, 2026. The only published session test I found stopped at 30 minutes, so every limit beyond that is a documented setting, not a measured one. Run the five steps near the end of this guide on a trial before you scale.

How Did We Compare These Rotating Proxy Providers?

We compared each rotating proxy service on the settings that decide how its pool behaves in a real job, using published sources only. The candidate list came from the rotating proxy rankings that appeared in US search results on October 6, 2026, plus every provider in Proxyway's 2026 residential tests. These were the criteria:

• → Sticky session limits: the default length, the longest session you can set, and the idle time that ends a session early.
• → Session-drop behavior: whether the provider quietly swaps the IP when the device behind it goes offline, and whether you can make the request fail instead.
• → How rotation is set: username parameters, ports or a dashboard timer, and what happens if you change location inside a session.
• → Rotation beyond residential: whether the same account can rotate datacenter or ISP (static residential) IPs.
• → Published test data: distinct IPs, infrastructure success and response time from Proxyway's 2026 tests, each with its test month.
• → Price and fine print: entry price and the rate near 50 and 100 GB, traffic expiry, refunds, KYC (identity checks) and blocked sites.

We read every session limit, price and policy below on October 6 and 7, 2026, in the vendors' own docs, pricing pages and help centers. Prices are in US dollars, with VAT noted where the vendor's page mentions it. Pool sizes are vendor claims. When two pages from the same vendor disagree, we give both and, where we can tell, say which one looks older.

The test data in this guide comes from two Proxyway sources. One is its annual proxy market report, released May 28, 2026, from data gathered mostly in March and April 2026. The other is its individual provider reviews, each of which states when the test ran. For residential pools, Proxyway pushed 3.6 million requests per provider through the global pool over 21 days, all aimed at a small page on a CDN. It counted the distinct exit IPs, whether each connection succeeded and how long it took. Success on that page is infrastructure success: it shows the network delivers, not that a protected site will accept you.

Proxyway also measured how long sticky sessions held, by opening 330 US sessions per provider and sending a request every 20 seconds until 30 minutes passed or the IP changed. Proxyway's pages carry affiliate links, as it discloses, and it ranks Decodo first on its rotating proxy page. AIMultiple, another publisher that benchmarks rotating proxies, names Bright Data, Oxylabs, Decodo, Webshare, Byteful, DataImpulse and NodeMaven as subscribers to its benchmarking as of October 2026. We use Proxyway's figures as evidence and AIMultiple's not at all, and neither publisher's order decides ours.

Ranking rule: a provider needed a rotating residential pool with at least 99% infrastructure success on the global pool in Proxyway's 2026 tests, and seven qualified. We then checked their docs for two session controls. The first holds one IP for 24 hours or more. The second is a fail-closed option that returns an error instead of a new IP.

A control counts only if a published test does not contradict it. Byteful's long sessions do not count for that reason. Its docs say it holds an IP as long as possible by default, but most of its sessions ended around 10 minutes in Proxyway's sticky-session test, which Proxyway suspects is by design. Providers with more of the two rank higher. Ties go to the provider that rotates more other IP types (datacenter, ISP) with plans on its pricing page. If still tied, the pool with more distinct IPs in Proxyway's residential test ranks higher. This ranks rotation controls, not pool quality.

Seven providers cleared the rule. The table below sets their session limits and fallback behavior side by side.

Best Rotating Proxies Compared: Session Controls at a Glance

The order below follows our ranking rule, but each provider is strongest at something different. The best rotating proxy service for you depends on your job, so start from the Best For column. Oxylabs and Decodo share the fullest set of controls; Oxylabs reached more distinct IPs in Proxyway's test, and Decodo costs less. Session limits come from each vendor's docs, and prices are the cheapest listed way into each residential pool, both as of October 2026.

Protocols and targeting rarely decide between these seven. All of them accept HTTP and SOCKS5 connections and offer city targeting. Webshare, though, pairs a country with only one of state, city or ZIP code, and DataImpulse bills city-filtered traffic at double its standard rate. Concurrency differs more: Oxylabs, Evomi, SOAX and Byteful advertise unlimited concurrent sessions, while DataImpulse caps each plan at 2,000 threads. Decodo and Webshare do not state a residential limit on their product pages.

Proxyway's residential test adds an outside measure. The distinct-IP count shows how many different addresses it saw across 3.6 million requests; it says nothing about how long a sticky session lasts, which is why it only breaks ties in our ranking.

All figures are Proxyway's global residential results from its April 2026 tests. Evomi's row is its Premium pool; its cheaper Core pool was tested separately in July 2026. Before choosing a provider, decide which kind of rotation your job needs.

Per-Request or Sticky: Which Rotation Does Your Job Need?

Use per-request rotation when every request stands alone, and a sticky session when several requests must come from the same address. Most providers default to a new IP per request; you control proxy rotation by adding a session ID to your proxy username or password, or by connecting to a sticky port. Match the setting to the job:

• → Collecting many public pages, one request each: per-request rotation. Speed and pool breadth matter more than session controls, which is where Byteful and Oxylabs stand out.
• → Paginated results or search-then-detail flows: a sticky session at least as long as the flow, with requests spaced closer together than the provider's idle timeout.
• → QA testing of a login, cart or form on a site you are allowed to test: a fail-closed sticky session, so a lost IP stops the run instead of continuing from a new address.
• → Price or search checks in one city: a sticky session with city targeting, set before the first request, because several providers reset or reject a session when its location changes.
• → High volume on sites that accept hosting IPs: rotating datacenter proxies, at a fraction of the residential price.

Static vs rotating proxies: if a site ties your work to one address for days, rotation is the wrong tool. A static ISP or dedicated IP keeps the same address for the whole rental, while even a 24-hour sticky session depends on one home device staying online. Our residential proxy guide explains when to choose fixed or rotating residential IPs; the rest of this guide assumes you need rotation.

What a backconnect proxy is: one gateway hostname and port that forwards each request to an exit IP from the provider's pool. A 2019 IEEE Security and Privacy study of five residential proxy services, built on data from 2017, described the same three modes buyers still choose between. A sticky gateway "always tries to use the same RESIP" (residential IP proxy) until that host goes offline. A non-sticky gateway changes the exit after every request. A half-sticky service lets the client switch between the two "by adjusting parameters (e.g., a session ID)". The authors called the gateway setup behind these modes a back-connect proxy mode.

The 7 Best Rotating Proxy Providers, Reviewed

Ranked by our rule, the best rotating proxies are Oxylabs, Decodo, Evomi, SOAX, Webshare, DataImpulse and Byteful. Every session limit, price and policy in these reviews is as of October 2026, and every test figure is Proxyway's.

1. Oxylabs: Full Controls and the Most Distinct IPs

Oxylabs rotates its residential IPs on every request by default and advertises a 175M+ pool in 195 locations. A sticky session starts when you add sessid to your username; it lasts 10 minutes by default and up to 24 hours with sesstime, and it ends after 60 seconds without requests. If the device behind it drops, sessid "will automatically rotate to a new IP"; switch to sessid_oneip and the request "fails with an HTTP 502 Bad Gateway error" instead. Sticky entry ports from 10001 to 49999 skip the username parameters but hold an IP for 10 minutes at most and do not take city or state targeting.

Pricing as of October 2026: Starter 5 GB for $30 ($6/GB), Basic 20 GB for $100 ($5/GB), Advanced 125 GB for $500 ($4/GB) and Corporate 1 TB for $2,500 ($2.50/GB), billed monthly with VAT where it applies. Datacenter traffic starts at 20 GB for $11.80 ($0.59/GB), and shared ISP IPs at 10 for $16 ($1.60 each). Oxylabs offers free test credits instead of refunds.

Verdict: the pick when one provider has to cover per-request rotation, day-long sessions, hard failures for strict flows and cheap datacenter rotation. Skip it if you want pay-as-you-go traffic or a refund window, or if your jobs touch the sites it restricts.

2. Decodo: Best Value Across All Three IP Types

Decodo, called Smartproxy until April 2025, rotates residential IPs on every connection through port 7000 and advertises 115M+ IPs in 195+ locations. Add a session name and sessionduration to your username and the IP holds for 1 to 1,440 minutes, 10 by default. The session ends early if the IP stops responding or you send nothing for 60 seconds, after which "a new sticky IP address is assigned".

Add session_iplock and the proxy instead returns "502 status code and will not grant you a new IP during desired session duration". Targeting runs from continent down to ZIP code (US only) and ASN (the network an IP belongs to).

Pricing as of October 2026 (plus VAT): pay-as-you-go $4/GB; monthly plans of 3 GB for $11.25 ($3.75/GB), 25 GB for $81.25 ($3.25/GB), 50 GB for $150 ($3/GB) and 100 GB for $275 ($2.75/GB). Rotating datacenter traffic costs 10 GB for $6 ($0.60/GB), falling to $0.45/GB at 1,000 GB, under an "Up to 74% off" banner with no end date.

Verdict: the best value for most buyers, with the same two session controls as Oxylabs, pay-as-you-go entry and rotation across residential, datacenter and ISP IPs. Skip it if you need an ASN and a city in the same request, or targets on its blocked list.

3. Evomi: Best Choice of Session Types

Evomi gives each request a new IP by default and offers three kinds of sticky session, set in the password field. A standard session lasts 30 minutes by default and up to 1,440 minutes, but it "May change IP address in favor of stability". A hardsession "Keeps the same IP for as long as possible". A lockedsession "Never switches to a replacement IP if that peer disconnects", so the request fails instead. If you change the targeting while keeping the same session, Evomi keeps the same IP. It claims 54M+ IPs in 150+ countries and sells two residential pools: Premium and the cheaper Core.

Pricing as of October 2026: Premium residential costs $3.98/GB pay-as-you-go, 8 GB for $30 a month or 50 GB for $170 a month ($3.40/GB). Core residential costs $0.99/GB pay-as-you-go from 15 GB, or 100 GB for $49 a month ($0.49/GB). Rotating datacenter traffic costs $0.45/GB pay-as-you-go, or 200 GB for $80 and 1,000 GB for $300 a month. Proxyway's 2026 table lists Evomi sessions at up to 120 minutes; its docs and product page now say 24 hours.

Verdict: choose Evomi when you want to decide how each session behaves, or when you need the lowest per-GB residential price of the seven at 100 GB. Skip it if you need rotating ISP traffic, or if your quality checks depend on sampling exit IPs through checker sites.

4. SOAX: Most Stable Sticky IPs in Proxyway's Test

SOAX documents two connection formats. In its help center, a sticky session uses sessionid and sessionlength, from 10 seconds to 60 minutes, with a default of 360 seconds (another article says 5 minutes). Its developer docs, which carry no date, set no session cap. Without a session parameter "every request gets a new node"; with one, the session keeps its node while you stay active, and timed rotation runs from "10 seconds to 1 week". We count this format toward the 24-hour control in our ranking rule; Proxyway's SOAX review also gives its rotation as "Up to 1 week".

Both formats end a session after 60 seconds without requests. By default a dead node is replaced; bind-node locks the session to its first node and returns "503 BOUND_NODE_FAILED" if that node fails. Sending a different location under the same session ID is rejected with a 409 error.

Pricing as of October 2026 (US traffic, plus VAT): the Sandbox has no fee and bills US traffic at $5/GB through prepaid credits; Builder costs $200 a month at $3/GB, Team $500 at $2.20/GB, Scale $1,500 at $1.50/GB, and Enterprise starts at $3,000 with US rates from $0.85/GB. A plan fee buys prepaid credits, and SOAX says one credit is "about $1 of usage".

Verdict: the pick for sticky sessions that need to survive, backed by the only published test we found of how long they last. Skip it if you also want datacenter or ISP rotation, or a refund window.

5. Webshare: Cheapest Datacenter Rotation

Webshare, owned by Oxylabs since 2022 and best known for cheap datacenter lists, offers two kinds of rotation. Its Rotating Proxy Endpoint "automatically rotates the proxies in your list for each request in random order", and Webshare says it "is available with all Webshare proxy plans", which include datacenter and static residential lists. Its rotating residential plan gives a new IP per request, or holds one IP with a numeric session ID for a time you set on a dashboard timer, "anywhere from 1 minute to 24 hours". Webshare advertises 80M+ residential IPs across 195 countries.

Pricing as of October 2026: residential plans cost 1 GB for $3.50, 50 GB for $122.50 ($2.45/GB) and 100 GB for $225 ($2.25/GB) a month. Datacenter lists cost $2.99 a month for 100 proxies, with 250 GB of bandwidth and 500 threads (concurrent connections), and static residential lists from $0.30 per proxy a month (20 for $6).

Verdict: the cheapest way to rotate datacenter or ISP IPs from a list you control, with residential rotation on the side. Skip it for logins or other flows where you need to know what happens when a sticky IP drops.

6. DataImpulse: Best for Port-Based Sticky Sessions

DataImpulse rotates on every request through ports 823 (HTTP/HTTPS) and 824 (SOCKS5), and makes sticky sessions port-based: any port from 10000 to 20000 holds its own IP. The interval runs from 1 to 120 minutes, 30 by default, and a sessttl parameter sets it; a sessid value pins a specific IP for about 30 minutes. If that IP goes offline, "the system will automatically replace it with another active IP address". It claims 90M+ residential IPs in 195+ countries and allows 2,000 threads per plan.

Pricing as of October 2026: residential traffic is $1/GB pay-as-you-go, with an Intro 5 GB for $5 for new users, Basic 50 GB for $50 and Advanced 1 TB for $800 ($0.80/GB). Rotating datacenter traffic costs 10 GB for $5, 100 GB for $50 or 1 TB for $450. Unused traffic rolls over.

Verdict: the simplest sticky sessions on a budget, and cheap rotation across residential and datacenter IPs. Skip it for anything that needs sessions longer than two hours or a hard failure when the IP changes.

7. Byteful: Fastest Per-Request Rotation

Byteful, known as Ping Proxies until an April 2026 rebrand, rotates residential IPs per request and makes a session sticky when you add an ID and an optional TTL to the username. Its docs say the TTL runs from 1 minute to 24 hours and "By default we try to hold the IP for as long as possible (7 days)". They also warn that "The IP address might change if the residential device goes offline before the TTL expires." It advertises 35 million+ residential IPs and unlimited concurrent sessions.

Pricing as of October 2026: 10 GB for $32.50 ($3.25/GB), 25 GB for $75 ($3/GB) and 100 GB for $275 ($2.75/GB). Its pricing FAQ says there is no free trial, while its residential page offers a 1 GB trial.

Verdict: the pick when every request should get a fresh IP and response time matters more than session control. Skip it for anything that needs one IP to hold for longer than about ten minutes, unless the timing check on your trial shows its TTL setting holding longer.

Providers We Did Not Rank, and Why

We also looked at these providers, and some have strong session controls. Each one missed our bar, could not be checked or is marketed for uses this guide excludes. Success rates below are from Proxyway's April 2026 residential tests:

How long a session lasts in practice depends on more than the documented maximum.

How Long Do Sticky Sessions Really Last?

A sticky session lasts until its timer runs out, you send nothing for longer than the idle timeout, or the device behind the IP goes offline, whichever comes first. A sticky residential proxy is not a fixed IP, and the maximum in a provider's docs only caps the timer. Oxylabs, Decodo and SOAX all end a session after 60 seconds without requests, and Bright Data releases the IP after 5 minutes idle. A 24-hour session only lasts 24 hours if your job keeps talking to it.

The device is the part nobody controls. A residential exit is someone's home connection: it can go to sleep, lose Wi-Fi or get a new address from its ISP. In its 2017 data, the 2019 IEEE study found "a significant portion (90%) of the RESIP IPs exhibit a short relaying time (870 seconds)". Decodo's docs warn that "the longer the session you have, the more chances there are that the IP will rotate before your specified time".

Proxyway's 2026 research is the only published test we found of how long sessions actually held. It found "Most residential proxy networks had surprisingly long-lasting IPs, with SOAX leading the pack". It also found that "The vast majority of Byteful's sessions ended at around 10 minutes", although Byteful's docs say it tries to hold an IP as long as possible. Proxyway suspects "this timed termination is a design choice". The test stopped at 30 minutes, so it cannot confirm any 24-hour maximum; it can only show sessions that ended sooner.

Load balancers use the same idea, called session persistence, to keep a visitor on one backend server. The website you visit may do the same in reverse. OWASP's session management guidance says a change of client IP "in the middle of an established session" is "a very good indicator of session manipulation and hijacking attempts". Location changes matter too:

• → Evomi keeps the same IP if you change targeting inside a session.
• → SOAX rejects the request with "409 SESSION_PARAMS_MISMATCH".
• → Bright Data says "session context will be lost" if consecutive requests carry a different country, city or other parameter.
• → Massive starts a new session, "breaking session continuity".

What Happens When a Sticky IP Goes Offline?

By default, almost every provider quietly gives you a new IP, so your job keeps running from a different address. Most also document a fail-closed mode that returns an error instead, which is the safer choice when a changed IP would spoil the result. As of October 2026, their docs say:

Choose the silent replacement when finishing the job matters more than which IP finished it, as with most data collection. Choose fail-closed when the same address has to carry every step, such as a test login or a multi-page form on a site you are allowed to test. Your code then sees the error and can restart the whole flow on a new session.

Which Providers Rotate Datacenter and ISP IPs?

Counting plans on their pricing pages, five of the seven ranked providers rotate datacenter IPs (Oxylabs, Decodo, Evomi, Webshare, DataImpulse), and three rotate ISP IPs (Oxylabs, Decodo, Webshare).

Rotating datacenter proxies are the cheap end of rotation: per-GB rates on small plans run from about $0.30 to $0.63 as of October 2026, against roughly $1 to $6 for residential. They suit sites that accept hosting IPs, and Rayobyte's own docs note that datacenter exits "are also the easiest for a target to identify as automated traffic". Providers sell datacenter rotation in three ways: per GB from a shared pool, per proxy from your own list behind a rotating endpoint, or per thread with unmetered traffic.

Proxyway sent 70,000 requests over 7 days through each US datacenter gateway, so distinct-IP counts here are far below the residential ones. The percentages are infrastructure success rates. Webshare's figure covered a list of 50,000 US IPs run through its rotating gateway.

ISP rotation is rarer. As of October 2026, Decodo sells ISP traffic per GB from $1.30 with a rotating port. Rayobyte sells rotating ISP traffic from $3.75/GB pay-as-you-go (falling to $2.50) with country targeting only, and Bright Data's pay-as-you-go ISP traffic costs $8/GB with no commitment. Oxylabs and Webshare rotate requests across ISP IPs you rent per IP. SOAX's pricing page no longer lists ISP proxies, and Evomi, IPRoyal and Byteful sell theirs as static IPs only. If one ISP address has to last for weeks, see where to rent static ISP IPs.

Mobile pools rotate as well, but carrier targeting and per-device plans make them a separate purchase, covered by the mobile proxy rankings linked in the summary below.

What Do Rotating Proxies Cost?

Rotating residential proxies cost from $0.99 to $6 per GB on the smallest purchases of the seven providers here as of October 2026. At around 100 GB they cost $0.49 to $4 per GB, leaving out SOAX, whose cost at that volume depends on whether you top up Builder or move to Team. For comparison, Proxyway's 2026 research gathered prices mostly in March and April 2026. Its medians were a $4 residential entry price and per-GB rates of $3.75 at 5 GB, $3 at 50 GB and $2.25 at 500 GB.

Reading SOAX's credits: a paid plan's fee buys prepaid credits, and usage is charged at the plan's rate for the country tier of each exit IP; US exits are billed at the top tier rate. On Builder, as of October 2026, 50 GB of US traffic uses about $150 of credits at $3/GB, so the month costs the $200 fee plus VAT, or about $4 per GB if you use only 50 GB. Its pricing table lists 200 to 3,000 included credits across the four paid plans, matching their fees, so Builder's credits cover about 67 GB of US traffic. Confirm this at checkout.

Count what you are billed for. SOAX counts "partial responses, retries, and interrupted connections", Decodo's docs count target error pages and TLS handshake bytes as traffic, and short sticky sessions on a long job mean more retries. A pool that fails often costs more per useful page than its per-GB rate suggests.

Which Are the Cheapest Rotating Proxies?

For cheap rotating residential proxies, Evomi's Core pool is the lowest-priced of the seven: 100 GB for $49 a month ($0.49/GB) or $0.99/GB pay-as-you-go as of October 2026. Core is not the Evomi pool Proxyway tested in April 2026; in its separate July 2026 test, Core scored 99.91% infrastructure success globally but reached only 75,253 distinct US IPs in 1.2 million requests. DataImpulse is next at $1/GB, and its traffic never expires.

For cheap rotating proxies on sites that accept hosting IPs, Webshare's 100-proxy list at $2.99 a month is the cheapest monthly plan here as of October 2026. It includes 250 GB of bandwidth, so check that this covers your job. Per GB, Rayobyte's pay-as-you-go rate starts at $0.30 and falls to $0.23 from 351 GB. Evomi charges $0.45 pay-as-you-go or $0.30 on its 1,000 GB plan, DataImpulse $0.45 on its 1 TB plan and Decodo $0.45 at 1,000 GB. Whatever the price, check that the rotation does what the plan promises before you scale.

How Can You Check a Provider's Rotation Yourself?

Log the exit IPs from a short run on a trial or the smallest plan. Then check four things: how many are unique, how long a sticky session holds, which networks the IPs belong to, and whether they land where you targeted. Use only the IP-echo address each provider documents for this, because some restrict third-party checkers. Oxylabs blocks IP-checking websites on its residential network, and Evomi's terms ban requests made mainly to collect the IPs you are assigned.

Do this within a day of buying, while a refund is still possible where one exists, and save the logs as evidence.

What Mistakes Do Buyers Make With Rotating Proxies?

Most come down to treating a rotation setting as a guarantee. All seven below come from the vendors' docs or the published sources cited above, as of October 2026:

1. Reading the maximum session as a promise. Oxylabs says its session time "does not guarantee that all of your requests finish before the session ends", so time a session on your trial before you build a flow around it.
2. Buying traffic that expires before you use it. Oxylabs plan traffic expires after one calendar month and SOAX credits after 60 days. Decodo plan traffic carries over only if you upgrade, while DataImpulse and Byteful residential traffic never expires.
3. Letting a login or checkout test change IP silently. Most providers swap a dropped IP by default; use the fail-closed option where one exists.
4. Changing location inside a session. Depending on the provider, the same session ID keeps the old IP, gets rejected or starts a new session.
5. Treating proxy rotation as permission to go faster. Cloudflare's rate limiting guidance shows site owners how to "group together requests from different IP addresses but belonging to the same session", so a new IP does not reset a limit counted by session. Our guide to rate limits and IP blocks explains what sites check. Keep a polite request rate and respect robots.txt.
6. Reading pool claims as reachable IPs. The median advertised residential pool in Proxyway's research was 54 million IPs. A test can see at most one new IP per request, and in 3.6 million requests the most distinct IPs any provider reached was 3,241,404. Count the unique IPs your own job gets instead.
7. Paying residential prices where datacenter rotation would do. If your targets accept hosting IPs, rotating datacenter traffic costs a fraction of the residential rate.

The Short Version

The best rotating proxies we could document for most buyers are Oxylabs and Decodo, the only two that pair both session controls with rotating datacenter and ISP traffic. Oxylabs reached more distinct IPs in Proxyway's 2026 residential test, while Decodo costs less, from $4 per GB pay-as-you-go as of October 2026. Choose Evomi to decide how each session behaves, or SOAX for sticky IPs that held longest in Proxyway's sticky-session test. Webshare is the cheapest way to rotate datacenter IPs, DataImpulse keeps sticky sessions simple, and Byteful suits per-request jobs where speed counts more than sessions.

Choose differently if your job is mostly about getting through protected targets: our proxy picks for web scraping rank residential pools on published test results instead of rotation settings. If you need carrier IPs, our mobile proxy rankings cover rotating mobile pools and dedicated devices.

Limits and prices change, so treat these, read on October 6 and 7, 2026, as a starting point and check them on the day you buy. Then, where the provider's terms allow, log a hundred exit IPs on your trial, count the unique ones with the IP Sorter and check one with the proxy checker below.