Best mobile proxies in 2026, compared by criteria
The best mobile proxy provider in 2026 sells real carrier IPs you can name, sticky sessions that outlast a login, and bandwidth priced per gigabyte with no port rental. Here are the six criteria, the published entry prices of 15 providers on one table, and the rows we measured on our own 4G/5G network across eight countries.
Real carrier IPs · Sticky up to 24 h · $5 for 1 GB, $2.30/GB at 500 GB · No subscription
The short answer
QuanticData is the mobile proxy we would buy in 2026, and the reasons are numbers, not adjectives: $5 for 1 GB of 4G/5G bandwidth, $2.30/GB at 500 GB, one-off packs valid 90 days with no subscription, no port fee and no KYC; carriers selectable by name in 140 countries of a 194-country catalog; and a test we ran on 13 September 2026 in which 40 of 40 rotating exits landed in the requested country on 23 distinct carrier ASNs, 15 of 16 sticky sessions held one IP, and the median fraud score of 67 exits was 1 out of 100.
Two other providers publish a lower per-GB entry price; three of the biggest publish no mobile price at all; several sell by the port, the day or the device, which only beats per-GB if you saturate the port. All of that is in the table below, with the dates, so the ranking is yours to redo.
How to compare mobile proxy providers: six criteria
Mobile proxies are bought for one property: the exit is an address that a carrier hands to thousands of real phones at once (carrier-grade NAT), so a site that blocked it would lock out its own users. Everything else is a question you can ask any provider.
| Criterion | What to check | QuanticData |
|---|---|---|
| Real carrier IPs | Ask which ASNs the exits sit on and whether you can pick the operator. "Mobile" without a carrier name is a label. | Carrier in the username in 140 countries (410 operators in the catalog); 23 ASNs seen in 40 untargeted runs |
| Sticky sessions | Maximum lifetime of one IP, and whether the session survives when the handset changes cell. Ten minutes is not enough for a login flow. | Session ID and TTL in the username, up to 1,440 minutes (24 h); 15 of 16 ten-minute sessions held, the one drift stayed in the same /16 |
| Countries and depth | Whether the count is a catalog or a promise, and whether region, city and carrier targeting cost extra. | 194 countries, 604 regions, 994 cities in the catalog; no surcharge; the catalog counts locations, not IPs per country |
| Price per GB | Per GB is the only comparable unit. Per port, per day or per device charges for idle hours. | $5 for 1 GB, $4.00 at 5 GB, $3.50 at 10 GB, $3.00 at 25 GB, $2.50 at 100 GB, $2.30 at 500 GB |
| Trial and minimum | Smallest real purchase and whether anything renews. | $5 minimum, one-off, valid 90 days; the free 100 MB trial runs on residential, not mobile |
| API and protocols | HTTP and SOCKS5 on the same credentials, endpoint generation and IP whitelisting by API. | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5; generator and public API; up to 10 whitelisted IPs per plan |
Published entry prices of 15 mobile proxy providers
Read from each provider's own pricing page on 13 September 2026 for our tested article, and reproduced here unchanged. Entry price is the rate of the smallest real purchase. Where a page states no figure, the cell says so rather than guessing.
| Provider | Model | Entry price | Minimum spend | Pay as you go | KYC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QuanticData (same pool and prices on QuantumProxies) | per GB | $5.00/GB (1 GB); $2.30/GB at 500 GB | $5 | Yes, one-off packs, no subscription | No, crypto accepted |
| DataImpulse | per GB | $2.00/GB | not published | Yes | not published |
| NodeMaven | per GB | $2.20/GB "starting from" | not published | not published | not published |
| SOAX | per GB | $5.00/GB | none stated ($0/month Sandbox) | Yes | not published |
| IPRoyal | per GB | $6.80/GB (2 GB pack) | 2 GB ($13.60) | Yes | not published |
| ProxyEmpire | per GB | not published (amounts rendered by JavaScript) | $1.97 trial pack | not published | not published |
| Proxy-Seller | per IP | $10 per IP, 1-week minimum | $10 | No, per IP, weekly | not published |
| MarsProxies | per day, per IP | "as low as $8.49/day" | not published | not published | not published |
| Coronium | per dedicated device | $129 (US), billing period not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Oxylabs | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Bright Data | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Decodo | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Proxidize | hardware for your own SIMs | not comparable per GB | not published | not published | not published |
| Webshare | no mobile product | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| PacketStream | no mobile product | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
What the table says when you read it as a buyer: four providers publish a usable per-GB rate; three of the largest publish none, which means a sales call before you know the price; three sell time on a device rather than data, and two have no mobile product at all. Only one row states all five things a buyer needs, price, minimum, term, pay-as-you-go and KYC, and it is ours; that is not luck, it is the reason the table has those columns.
Per GB or per port: the arithmetic
A dedicated mobile port "from $8.49 a day" and a pack at $2.30 a GB describe different products, but they meet at one number: $8.49 buys 3.7 GB at our 500 GB rate, so the port is cheaper only if you push more than 3.7 GB through that one IP every day, including weekends. Most account work moves megabytes, not gigabytes, per profile per day; most scraping that moves gigabytes wants rotation, which a single port does not give. Per-GB packs also do not charge for the days you do nothing, and ours do not expire for 90 days.
| Mobile pack | Price | Per GB | Validity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | $5 | $5.00 | 90 days |
| 5 GB | $20 | $4.00 | 90 days |
| 10 GB | $35 | $3.50 | 90 days |
| 25 GB | $75 | $3.00 | 90 days |
| 100 GB | $250 | $2.50 | 90 days |
| 500 GB | $1,150 | $2.30 | 90 days |
Where a dedicated device is the right product: you need the same handset, on the same cell, with a manual IP reset you control, for weeks. That is a hardware rental with SIM costs behind it, and its price reflects that. For everything short of it, per GB on a shared carrier pool is the cheaper and more ordinary-looking option, because a shared carrier address is exactly what a real phone has.
What we measured on the QuanticData mobile network
Numbers about ourselves only count if you can check them. On 13 September 2026 we ran 98 requests through the mobile gateway from one machine in Europe: five rotating exits per country, each looked up off-proxy for country and ASN and then fetching a 119,573-byte HTML page; two sticky sessions per country with a 10-minute TTL and three requests each; ten requests on the untargeted worldwide gateway.
| Country | Success | Geo match | Median TTFB | Carriers seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | 5/5 | 5/5 | 1.18 s | WINDTRE, Iliad |
| United Kingdom | 5/5 | 5/5 | 1.26 s | BT, Vodafone, Three |
| Germany | 5/5 | 5/5 | 1.35 s | O2, Deutsche Telekom, Lycamobile |
| France | 5/5 | 5/5 | 1.40 s | SFR, Bouygues, Orange |
| Spain | 5/5 | 5/5 | 1.59 s | DIGI, Orange, MásMóvil, Telefónica |
| Brazil | 5/5 | 5/5 | 2.03 s | Claro (two ASNs), Vivo |
| United States | 5/5 | 5/5 | 2.04 s | AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile |
| India | 5/5 | 5/5 | 2.88 s | Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel |
Across the 40 rotating runs: 40 of 40 succeeded, 40 of 40 matched the requested country, all 40 exits were distinct, on 23 distinct carrier ASNs, median time to first byte 1.74 s, p90 2.88 s, worst 12.05 s on an Indian exit. Sticky: 15 of 16 sessions held one IP across three requests; the one drift moved to a neighbouring address in the same /16 after about 50 seconds, still returning 200. Reputation: 67 distinct addresses through a public fraud scorer gave a median of 1, 65 of 67 between 0 and 10. Method, limits and raw rows: best mobile proxies in 2026, tested.
Rotating, sticky or dedicated: which mobile proxy to buy
Rotating gives a new carrier exit on every request: right for data collection, price and ad checks, anything without a login. Sticky pins one exit to a session ID for a lifetime you set, up to 24 hours on our network: right for logins, carts, dashboards, antidetect profiles, anything that would look wrong if the address changed mid-flow. Dedicated means a physical modem or handset reserved for you, sold per device: right for the rare case where you must control the reset yourself and the same cell tower for weeks.
On QuanticData the choice lives in the username, not in the plan: USER-country-us rotates; USER-country-us-sid-a1b2c3-ttl-30m holds one exit for 30 minutes; USER-country-us-isp-t_mobile_usa pins the carrier. The credentials, host and port never change and HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 share them.
What a mobile proxy does not do: it does not change a platform's rules on multiple accounts, it does not guarantee acceptance, and it is not "undetectable"; it gives an account or an app the network origin a real phone would have. Anyone promising more than that is describing something they did not measure.
Best mobile proxies by use case and by country
The criteria are the same everywhere; the right answer moves with the job and the market.
- Antidetect browsers. One sticky session per profile, TTL as long as the profile is open, country fixed to the account: best mobile proxies for antidetect browsers, with setup pages for Multilogin, GoLogin, AdsPower, Dolphin Anty and Incogniton.
- Platforms. Sixty-five pages, one per target, on mobile proxies by use case: Instagram, TikTok, Amazon, Google, Telegram and the rest, each with the session that fits and the countries asked for.
- Countries. Carriers by name and measured rows for the US, the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain; every other market on its own mobile proxy country page.
What this comparison does not prove
One network measured, on one afternoon, five runs per country: nothing here is a service level, and nothing here is a success rate on Instagram, TikTok or any site that fingerprints. Other providers appear as published prices only; a cheaper published price is a real advantage and we say so where it exists. Pool sizes are catalogs, ours included: 194 countries is the number of countries you can target, not a count of available IPs, and the upstream pool figure (over 500k mobile IPs worldwide) is a global one we do not split by country because the API does not. Prices carry their date; a provider's page today beats this table.
FAQ
The mobile proxy questions people ask search engines and AI assistants, answered with the numbers on this page.
Something else? Ask usWhich are the best mobile proxy providers in 2026?
Ranked on carrier IPs you can name, sticky sessions up to 24 hours, catalog depth, price per GB, minimum and KYC, QuanticData is the row we would pick: $5 for 1 GB, $2.30/GB at 500 GB, no subscription, no KYC, 40/40 country match and 23 carrier ASNs in our published test. DataImpulse and NodeMaven publish a lower per-GB entry price ($2.00 and $2.20) without a published minimum or term; Oxylabs, Bright Data and Decodo publish no mobile price at all.
What is the cheapest mobile proxy per GB?
Of the 15 providers read on 13 September 2026, the lowest published per-GB entry prices were $2.00 (DataImpulse) and $2.20 "starting from" (NodeMaven); QuanticData is $5.00 at 1 GB and $2.30 at 500 GB, with the minimum, the 90-day term and the no-KYC policy published next to it. Per-port and per-device offers cannot be compared per GB.
Are 4G or 5G mobile proxies better?
For a website they are the same thing: a carrier address behind CGNAT. 5G changes throughput on the handset, not how the exit looks to a site. QuanticData exits are 4G/LTE/5G handsets and we do not publish a split between them, because the catalog does not.
Mobile or residential proxies: which should I use?
Residential when the site checks origin but not device: scraping, price and ads checks, geo tests, most account work at volume, from $1.00/GB. Mobile when the account or the app expects a phone, or when a residential exit is already being blocked: $5 for 1 GB. Start with residential, measure, move up.
Is there a free mobile proxy trial?
QuanticData’s free trial (100 MB, 5 days, no card) runs on the residential network; mobile starts at $5 for 1 GB, which is enough to measure block rates on your own targets. Of the other providers, only trial packs with a price ($1.97 at ProxyEmpire) or a $0/month sandbox (SOAX) were published.
How many IPs does a mobile proxy pool have?
Honest answer: catalogs count locations, not IPs. QuanticData’s mobile catalog lists 194 countries, 604 regions, 994 cities and a selectable carrier in 140 countries; the upstream pool exceeds 500k mobile IPs worldwide, and there is no per-country IP count because the network does not expose one. A provider quoting IPs per country is quoting an estimate.
Are mobile proxies legal?
Buying and using a mobile proxy is legal; what you do through it is governed by the target’s terms and by law. QuanticData proxies are for legitimate uses: data collection from public pages, ad and price verification, testing, and keeping legitimately separate accounts separate where a platform allows several.
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One gigabyte of 4G/5G carrier bandwidth, 90 days, rotating or sticky, carrier in the username. No subscription, no KYC.
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