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Emerging from the COVID-19 times of 2020, IPRoyal kicked off as a humble IPv4 and IPv6 address leasing business before blossoming into a full-blown proxy powerhouse. The company caters to virtually everyone: from solo devs and data teams to bustling startups and enterprises.
Alongside the usual residential, mobile, datacenter, and ISP proxies, IPRoyal also offers specialized enterprise proxy solutions, an AI-powered Web Unblocker, and a video scraper API for YouTube content. Its network spans 195 countries for residential proxies and over 60 datacenter locations, with support for 650+ tools and scraper integrations.
IPRoyal: Plans and Pricing
When it comes to picking your proxy flavor, IPRoyal’s menu is thoroughly stocked.
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If you’re leaning toward residential proxies, you can grab them on a recurring subscription or via a pay-as-you-go basis. Entry pricing now starts at $7.00 per GB for subscriptions ($7.35/GB for pay-as-you-go) at 1 GB of traffic. As your data appetite grows, rates drop to $1.75 per GB for subscriptions ($1.84/GB for pay-as-you-go) at the 10,000 GB bulk tier.
Arguably the biggest perk here is that your purchased bandwidth never expires, since any unused data sits in your account indefinitely until you consume it.
Over at the ISP proxy side (which are static residential IPs with unlimited bandwidth), pricing is tiered by plan duration rather than data caps. A 24-hour test drive starts at $1.80 per proxy, while longer commitments bring the monthly rate down to $2.70 for 30 days, $2.55 for 60 days, and $2.40 per month on a 90-day plan.
A dedicated proxy will cost you $1.57 per proxy for 30 days, $1.48 for 60 days, and $1.39 on a 90-day plan. These plans include access to 60+ location options, state- and city-level targeting, API support, and unlimited sessions.
For mobile proxies (covering 5G/4G/3G/LTE networks), IPRoyal splits the lineup into two models. You can opt for dedicated subscriptions with unlimited bandwidth starting at $10.11/day for 24 hours that scale down to $117/month on a 90-day plan. Alternatively, a rotating pay-as-you-go option runs from $6.80 per GB down to $5.20 per GB for 100 GB (with non-expiring traffic).
In any case, you get access to over 4.5 million mobile IPs with flexible auto-rotation or instant IP switching on demand.
When it comes to heavy-duty data operations, IPRoyal’s enterprise proxies deliver custom scaling. Bulk pricing clocks at $1.75/GB for 10,000 GB+ residential bandwidth, $1.39/proxy for 250+ ISP addresses, $2.40/proxy for 250+ datacenter addresses, $117/month for unlimited mobile proxies, and includes exclusive trials for eligible businesses.
The latest addition to IPRoyal’s roster, the Web Unblocker handles CAPTCHA solving, smart IP selection across 195 countries, auto-retries, and dynamic browser fingerprinting for your data collection efforts. Rates start at $1.00 per 1,000 requests and scale down to $0.70 per 1,000 requests for higher volumes, with custom plans available for enterprise-scale projects.
Although IPRoyal doesn’t offer a free trial, it does give access to its trial proxies (for companies only, though) so you can test its features before deciding.
IPRoyal: Features
Accessing IPRoyal’s features starts with creating an account. You can sign up with your email address or use an existing Google or LinkedIn account. You’ll be redirected to your dashboard after registration, where you can access these features:
Residential IPs
Residential proxies are sourced from real devices across the globe. Every internet-connected device has a unique IP address, and people agree to contribute their IP addresses to IPRoyal’s network for a benefit, e.g., a VPN subscription. As an IPRoyal user, you can then use one of these IP addresses to surf the web and bypass geographical restrictions.
The company now offers access to over 64 million residential IPs across 195+ countries and regions, doubling its previous 32 million pool. Among the countries with the largest available residential IPs are the U.S. with 3.4+ million IPs, followed by the U.K. and Germany, which have upward of 1.4 million IPs.
Suppose you run a flight deals website that frequently scrapes prices from airlines’ websites. Many airlines don’t like external data scraping, so they use geographical and IP restrictions to block it. For example, website admins identify IP addresses used by scraping bots and block them from further access. In that case, IPRoyal’s residential proxies let you circumvent this block.
You can choose from an endless list of proxies to scrape data from external websites. If one gets blocked, select another and continue your scraping activity. Residential proxies also hide your online identity and prevent third-party tracking. As far as a website is concerned, your device is browsing from whichever IP proxy you use and not the actual location. You could be in the U.S. and surf the web with a German IP address.
During our test, IPRoyal’s residential proxies provided a reliable and fast internet connection, boasting a 99.4% success rate and a snappy 0.5s average response time. We noticed no slowdown compared to browsing without a proxy IP address. The dashboard provided detailed insights on our proxy usage, including bandwidth and speed.
ISP proxies
IPRoyal’s static residential network has grown to include over 500,000 ethically sourced unique IPs across 31+ countries. You get 100% dedicated IPs with unlimited bandwidth, zero thread limits, full protocol support spanning HTTP(S), SOCKS5, plus both UDP and TCP connections, and reliable server health that guarantees up to a 99.99% success rate and 99.9% uptime.
After funding your account, you can select the exact number of proxies you need for the offered duration – 1, 30, 60, and 90 days – in your user dashboard on the IPRoyal website. Besides selecting the duration, number of proxies, and their location, you have the option to list extra requirements for an additional fee.
Once set up, you’ll be able to see your ISP proxies’ orders and their status in your online dashboard, filter them for easier navigation, or search through them based on the notes you left. Clicking the Details button for a specific confirmed order will take you to the configuration page for those particular proxies. Managing endpoints is easy, as you can filter orders and attach search notes, as well as rotate static IPs through your account’s pool via API or dashboard toggles.
Upon testing, there were some problems with erroneous rerouting of certain proxies to the wrong locations (like choosing a Portugal IP address and getting a UK one). Thankfully, the IPRoyal staff was helpful and quick to act, so we got the correct location not long after contacting them. That said, some users have reported not getting proper assistance with similar issues.
Mobile Proxies
Compared to last time we checked in with IPRoyal, its mobile network has almost doubled, expanding from 2.5 million to over 4.5 million real 3G/4G/5G/LTE mobile IPs. You can drill down to target specific countries, states, cities, and major cellular carriers (like T-Mobile and Verizon in the United States, or Orange and Vodafone in Europe).
Rotation control remained rather flexible, since you can set your IP to auto-rotate every 3 to 6 minutes or configure custom intervals from 1 second up to 24 hours. Another option is to trigger an instant IP swap whenever you want via the dashboard or API.
The mobile proxies were notably fast during our test, with up to 100 Mbps download speeds.
Mobile proxies are particularly useful for social media management and research. Most social networks like Facebook and Instagram have strict limitations on the number of accounts users can create on a single device. You can bypass these limitations with IPRoyal’s massive pool of mobile proxies. Your device’s real location stays hidden, and the social media platform assumes it’s another device because of its proxy IP address. Hence, it doesn’t flag your accounts.
You can manage as many social media accounts as possible with mobile proxies. You can also create many social accounts for research purposes, e.g., an academic study, without being flagged.
Datacenter Proxies
IPRoyal runs a network of IPv4 and IPv6 proxy servers that provide unlimited bandwidth for end users. Sourced directly from commercial cloud servers rather than consumer ISPs, these addresses trade away a bit of natural stealth in exchange for maximum raw performance. If a target site eventually flags an IP during a particularly aggressive scrape, you can simply spin up a fresh replacement and keep your pipeline moving.
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Datacenter coverage covers over 60 locations worldwide, complete with state and city-level targeting. The underlying hardware delivers roughly 2 Gbps throughput with 10 ms latency and a 99.9% uptime guarantee, easily handling high-concurrency workloads.
You can connect to IPRoyal’s proxy servers via the HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS5 protocols. During our test, they offered first-rate speed and performance with no downtime. IPRoyal places no bandwidth or session limits on proxy IPs, making them ideal for bandwidth-intensive use cases like data scraping, online streaming, content downloads, and app testing.
Browser extension
IPRoyal offers a browser extension (IPRoyal Proxy Manager) that makes deploying and managing proxies easier. Instead of frequently logging into your dashboard to choose new proxies, you can use the extension to switch with a click. The proxy add-on is available on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera.
These browser extensions offer all-in-one proxy management. You can create distinct profiles for different proxies and switch between them with a single click. Each profile can have a single proxy or use different proxy IPs for specific traffic types (HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP). You can assign a backup proxy to ensure your internet access remains secure if your current proxy fails, and build custom IP bypass lists to exclude specific URLs from proxy routing.
Furthermore, you can log directly into your IPRoyal account inside the extension to buy bandwidth, generate residential profiles, adjust city/state targeting, toggle high-end pools, or set session rotation rules without visiting the main website.
The browser extension doesn’t only work with IPRoyal’s proxy IPs. You can use it to manage IP addresses from other proxy providers your organization uses.
Enterprise Proxies
Intended to take over the heavy lifting, IPRoyal’s enterprise proxies are specifically designed for high-volume corporate workloads. You get custom access to dedicated IPs, city/state-level targeting, and ethically sourced, fully compliant proxy pools across residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile networks.
Thanks to flexible scaling, you can add as many IP addresses as needed out of the 68+ million proxy pool. Enterprise proxies pair custom infrastructure scaling with dedicated account managers, 24/7 network surveillance, and fastlane support so your automated pipelines never hit an (un)expected wall.
Web Unblocker
You can think of the AI-powered Web Unblocker as an automated master key for instances where anti-bot algorithms and CAPTCHAs lock out your scraping scripts. Instead of spending hours tinkering with request headers or troubleshooting IP bans, this tool manages all anti-scraping roadblocks in the background.
Under the hood, the Web Unblocker utilizes AI-driven smart IP selection across 195 countries, real-time CAPTCHA solving, dynamic browser fingerprinting, and automatic retries to mimic organic human browsing behavior. Perhaps best of all, dropping it into your tech stack requires zero code changes: you simply swap out your current proxy endpoint.
Video Scraper API
A dedicated extraction engine built specifically to turn YouTube content into structured, AI-ready datasets, Video Scraper API integrates into your existing codebase with a few lines of code. As a result, you can search and select video IDs, and perform single or bulk video downloads directly to your cloud storage.
Designed with scalable infrastructure and compliance-first practices, the API delivers recorded video content rather than live streams. At the moment, it’s available via an early access request, where data teams can join the waitlist to test it for their workflows.
IPRoyal: Ease of Use
One of IPRoyal’s strengths is its high level of user-friendliness. Users get an intuitive dashboard to manage their proxies and other complementary tools. All features are neatly arranged in the left-hand menu, whereas on the right, you can gain access to the main menu. The interface is visually pleasing and easy to navigate, and you can select between light theme, dark theme, or the automatic theme that matches your browser settings.
IPRoyal’s browser extensions also contribute to its ease of use. It lets you manage proxies regardless of the web page you’re currently on. The updated extension also provides a direct login inside the popup to your account, where you can generate proxy profiles, adjust location targeting, purchase bandwidth on the fly, and more.
IPRoyal: Customer Support
IPRoyal makes getting assistance easy with 24/7 customer support available around the clock. Rather than leaving you waiting up to 24 hours for an email, you can get near-instant help via live chat directly on the website and dashboard, email support, or the official Discord community server. Enterprise clients even get bumped to VIP status with dedicated account managers and fastlane support.
The only real omission is no telephone support option, though given how fast live chat and Discord respond, you won’t miss phone hold music.
If you prefer troubleshooting on your own, you have IPRoyal’s self-service library at your disposal. The official Docs hub and Help Center cover everything from quick-start integration tutorials to detailed API specifications and code examples.
On top of that, IPRoyal provides several free built-in utilities, like browser extensions, a standalone proxy tester, an online proxy checker, IP lookup tools, and a WebRTC leak test.
IPRoyal: The Competition
IPRoyal has numerous competitors, and we’d like to highlight Webshare, Oxylabs, and Bright Data.
Webshare offers a network of roughly 80 million+ IP addresses across residential and datacenter proxy tiers, putting its total count slightly ahead of IPRoyal’s 64 million+ residential pool. Just like its competitor, Webshare provides an intuitive user dashboard and straightforward proxy management, with a dedicated browser extension to boot, though it differentiates itself with a free-forever 10-proxy plan.
Oxylabs has a massive network of 175 million proxy IPs, triple that of IPRoyal. This broader network provides users with more redundancy and reliability. Oxylabs remains a powerhouse for large-scale enterprise data collection, though IPRoyal delivers a significantly more budget-friendly entry point with no monthly commitments or minimum spend requirements.
Bright Data rounds out the competition with 72 million+ residential IPs (and an overall global pool reaching up to 400 million monthly IPs), together with extensive unblocking toolkits and enterprise compliance certifications. However, while Bright Data caters primarily to large corporate budgets with higher minimum commitments, IPRoyal offers a simpler self-service alternative that gives individual developers and growing teams access to enterprise-grade features without the steep pricing curve.
IPRoyal: Final verdict
IPRoyal has built a reputation as a go-to proxy provider for everyone from weekend solo developers to data-hungry corporations, and it’s easy to see why. Between a sizable proxy network, transparent pricing, reliable uptime, and 24/7 customer support that admirably does its job, it punches well above its weight class.
In older reviews, the main knocks against IPRoyal were its smaller IP pool and a lack of built-in web scraping APIs. But those criticisms are officially out of date, as the network has scaled dramatically. On top of that, the addition of the AI-powered Web Unblocker and dedicated tools like the Video Scraper API completely bridges the gap for automated, hassle-free data collection.
Add in perks like bandwidth that never expires on pay-as-you-go plans, expanded payment options, and dedicated Enterprise Proxies, and IPRoyal is no longer a budget-friendly option for small outfits, but a serious full-spectrum proxy ecosystem for operations of any size.
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