Best proxies for the US in 2026, compared by criteria

The short answer for the US

For the US the split is clear. Residential Basic at $1.00/GB with state and city targeting covers scraping, SERP and price checks, ad verification and most account work at volume; our test from US exits on 8 September 2026 returned 5 of 5 requests in the country with a 1.72 s median time to first byte across five distinct ISP ASNs. Mobile at $5 for 1 GB is the network for accounts and apps that expect a phone: the catalog lets you name T-Mobile, AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless, UScellular or C Spire in the username, and the mobile test on 13 September saw AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile exits with 5 of 5 country matches.

The US is also the one market where an AI assistant already recommends us by name: in a probe from six countries on 14 September 2026, the question "US mobile proxies on T-Mobile or Verizon" cited this site from every country. The carrier-by-name page is why.

The United States by proxy type: what each network gives you

The rule that saves money in the US as anywhere: start with the cheapest network the target accepts, measure a block, then move up. The proxy tester builds the curl, Python and Node commands for that check.

American mobile carriers you can name, and what the catalog lists

On 20 September 2026 the mobile targeting catalog listed 194 countries and territories, 604 regions and 994 cities, with a selectable carrier in 140 countries (410 operators in total). For the US it lists 5 operators, 37 regions and 100 cities. The upstream pool exceeds 500k mobile IPs worldwide; the catalog counts locations, not IPs per country, and we do not publish a per-country IP figure.

Example of a place-level username, taken from the catalog: USER-country-us-region-new_york-city-new_york_city lands in New York City, New York. The US mobile page lists every region and city with the operators associated with it.

What we measured from American exits

Numbers about our own network only count if they can be checked, so both rows below come from tests with the raw rows published: 170 residential requests across ten countries on 8 September 2026 and 98 mobile requests across eight countries on 13 September 2026, five rotating exits per country, each looked up off-proxy for country and ASN and then fetching a 119,573-byte HTML page.

What it does not prove: five runs per country from one machine on one afternoon is a small sample, and nothing here is a success rate on a site that fingerprints or challenges. Method and limits: residential, tested and mobile, tested.

What the US proxy market looks like from the search results

The results for "best proxies for the US" are a provider location page, a Reddit thread asking who actually has the best US residential proxies, and a mix of listicles and two free-proxy lists; nothing in the top ten is a page about US mobile proxies, which is the gap this page and the US mobile country page fill. Two things to read past: "best US proxy shipping" is package forwarding, not networking, and the free lists are shared, short-lived addresses of unknown ownership that are wrong for anything with a login.

What the Reddit thread is really asking is for a number: success rate and country match on a named target. Ours are above, per network, with the raw rows in the tested articles; a provider that publishes none is asking you to trust an adjective.

Published prices of other providers

Other providers publish one price list for every country, so their entry prices live on the global comparisons rather than here: residential, 14 providers read on 8 September 2026 and mobile, 15 providers read on 13 September 2026. Ours for the US are the same as everywhere else:

Getting a US exit in one line

Host and port are shown in the dashboard after purchase; USER and PASS stand for the credentials. The username does the routing on both networks.

# residential, rotating, the US
      curl -x "$PROXY_HOST" -U "USER-country-us:PASS" https://ipinfo.io/json
      
      # residential, sticky for 30 minutes, New York City
      curl -x "$PROXY_HOST" -U "USER-country-us-region-new_york-city-new_york_city-sid-a1b2c3-ttl-30m:PASS" https://ipinfo.io/json
      
      # mobile, one carrier, sticky for 12 hours (one session ID per account)
      curl -x "$PROXY_HOST" -U "USER-country-us-isp-t_mobile_usa-sid-acct01-ttl-720m:PASS" https://ipinfo.io/json

HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 share the credentials. Prefer an API to a proxy for the data side? The SERP API and the Web Scraper API take the country as a parameter and return JSON, billed per successful result.