Best mobile proxies in 2026, compared by criteria

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 199-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.

On 13 September 2026 the largest providers either published no mobile price at all (Oxylabs, Bright Data, Decodo) or started where we start and stopped there: SOAX at $5.00/GB, IPRoyal at $6.80/GB on a 2 GB pack. QuanticData publishes the whole ladder, from $5 for 1 GB down to $2.30/GB at 500 GB, with minimum, term and KYC policy next to the price.

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.

Mobile proxy prices: QuanticData and the major 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.

What the table of 13 September 2026 says when you read it as a buyer: three of the largest providers published no mobile price, which meant a sales call before you knew it; SOAX starts at the same $5.00/GB as our first gigabyte and IPRoyal at $6.80/GB. Only one row states all five things a buyer needs, price, minimum, term, pay-as-you-go and KYC, and goes down to $2.30/GB: ours.

Per GB or per port: the arithmetic

A dedicated mobile port sold at $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.

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.

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. Sticky against dedicated, priced with the break-even in GB a day: best static mobile proxies.

On QuanticData the choice lives in the username, not in the plan: USER-country-us-type-mobile rotates; USER-country-us-type-mobile-sid-a1b2c3-ttl-30m holds one exit for 30 minutes; USER-country-us-isp-t_mobile_usa-type-mobile 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.
• Phones. Which network and which app when the proxy goes on the handset: best proxies for Android and best proxies for iPhone.
• Countries. Carriers by name and measured rows for the US, the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain; carriers by name and dated catalog figures for Türkiye, with a mobile comparison and a static mobile comparison of its own; every other market on its own mobile proxy country page.

How we tested and ranked mobile proxies

Three sources, each dated, so every number on this page can be checked.

• Our own network, measured. On 13 September 2026 we ran 98 requests through the mobile gateway from one machine in Europe: five rotating exits in each of eight countries, 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. Result: 40 of 40 rotating exits in the requested country, on 23 distinct carrier ASNs. Raw rows in mobile proxies, tested, the summary in what we measured.
• The other providers, from their own pages. Entry price per gigabyte, minimum and terms were read from each provider’s public mobile pricing page on 13 September 2026 and read again on 30 October 2026. Names appear in text only: no affiliate links, no sponsored rows, nobody paid to be in the table.
• The ranking. The six criteria above, with the measured rows and the published prices as the evidence. A figure changes on this page only after a new dated read, and the Updated date at the top says when.

When mobile proxies win, and when another network is the better buy

Pay for a mobile proxy when the target looks at the device behind the address, not only at the country: apps and accounts that expect a phone on a carrier network, app QA as a user in another market, anything that treats a carrier address shared with real phones differently from a home line. On our network that address comes new on every request or sticky for up to 24 hours, with the carrier selectable in 140 countries.

• The site checks origin, not device. Scraping, price and ad checks, geo tests, most account work at volume: best rotating residential proxies, from $1.00/GB.
• One address for weeks. A dedicated static IP registered to an internet provider: best static residential (ISP) proxies, from $2.50/IP with unlimited bandwidth.
• A port of your own. Sticky sessions against dedicated ports, with the break-even in GB a day: best static mobile proxies.
• The proxy goes on a phone. Which network and which app for each handset: best proxies for Android and best proxies for iPhone.