Best residential proxies in 2026: QuanticData ranked #1, tested on 170 requests

QuanticData is the best residential proxy provider in 2026. On 13 September 2026 we sent 170 requests through its Residential Premium pool in ten countries, and 50 of 50 exits matched the requested country. Median time to first byte was 1.26 s, and the median fraud score was 2. For a buyer, that means verified in-country exits and packs from $1.00 per GB, with no subscription and no KYC.

The $1.00 rate is the Residential Basic line, falling to $0.80 per GB at 1,000 GB, as one-off packs with no minimum beyond $5. Residential Premium, the line we measured, adds pool filters and sticky sessions up to 24 hours. The 50 exits sat on 41 distinct ASNs, and 20 of 20 sticky sessions held one IP. Crypto is accepted without KYC, and a free 100 MB trial needs no card. QuantumProxies is the sister brand on the same pool and price list, so buying on either site gets you the exits measured below.

Key results

Measure	Result
Test date	13 September 2026, 17:17 to 17:24 UTC, Residential Premium line
Sample	170 requests in 10 countries, plus 80 IP reputation lookups
Exits in the requested country	50 of 50 rotating runs
Distinct networks (ASNs)	41 across the 50 exits
Median time to first byte	1.26 s on a 119,573-byte page (p90 2.52 s)
Sticky sessions holding one IP	20 of 20
Median fraud score (Scamalytics)	2 out of 100, across 80 addresses
Entry price	$1.00 per GB from a $5 pack, $0.80 per GB at 1,000 GB

#1 QuanticData: what you get, what it costs, how it measured

QuanticData residential proxies are IP addresses assigned by consumer ISPs to real households, over 90 million of them across a catalogue of 226 countries and territories (203 on the Basic line, 225 on Premium). You choose the behaviour per request: rotating gives every request a fresh exit, sticky holds one address for a login, a cart or any multi-step flow. Targeting is a parameter in the username, not an upsell: country, state, city and ISP or network by ASN on Basic; country plus region and city, or country plus ISP, on Premium. HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 run on the same credentials, with username:password or an IP allowlist, and concurrent sessions are unlimited.

Two lines, one dashboard

Residential Basic is the volume line. It is priced per gigabyte, as one-off packs that carry their bandwidth for the whole term - 30 days on the 5 GB pack, 90 days from 25 to 100 GB, 360 days on the 500 GB and 1 TB packs - with no monthly reset and no subscription at any size:

Basic pack	Price	Per GB	Validity
Free trial, 100 MB	$0	-	5 days, SMS verification, no card
5 GB	$5	$1.00	30 days
25 GB	$25	$1.00	90 days
50 GB	$50	$1.00	90 days
100 GB	$100	$1.00	90 days
500 GB	$450	$0.90	360 days
1,000 GB	$800	$0.80	360 days

Residential Premium is the line we measured in this article. It adds a separate location and ISP catalogue and pool filters (Max Pool Size, Speed, Speed + Quality, Quality) for the targets that punish anything less than a clean, fast exit: $4 for 1 GB, $17.50 for 5 GB ($3.50/GB), $30 for 10 GB ($3.00/GB), $70 for 25 GB ($2.80/GB), $250 for 100 GB ($2.50/GB) and $1,100 for 500 GB ($2.20/GB), valid 30 days for the 1 GB pack and 90 days for the rest. Sticky sessions run up to 1,440 minutes (24 hours) on Basic and Premium. Both lines live on the same account - start on Basic, move a job to Premium when its block rate says so, no migration.

How to buy

Create a free account, claim the 100 MB trial, and pick a pack on the plans page: app.quanticdata.io/plans?network=RESIDENTIAL. Pay from balance, card, PayPal or crypto; card orders under $30 are charged and activated instantly, and crypto payment needs no KYC. Credentials appear in the dashboard the moment the pack is active, and the generator writes the username for the country, state, city, ASN and session you want. The pricing page lists every pack, and the cheap residential proxies page covers the Basic line in detail. The same identical packs and prices are sold on QuantumProxies, whose residential proxy pricing index re-verifies them monthly.

What it is used for

Scraping at volume is where price per GB dominates: the HTML page we fetched in the test weighs 119,573 bytes, so a gigabyte of body traffic is about 8,400 such pages - roughly $0.00012 per page at $1.00/GB and under $0.0001 at $0.80. Use rotating exits per request; our endpoint gave 50 distinct exits in 50 runs across 41 networks, which is exactly what a scraper needs. SEO and SERP checks are low volume and geography-sensitive: our country match was 50 of 50, and if you run them at any real frequency the SERP API on the same network returns structured JSON at $0.0005 per search. E-commerce and price monitoring is where sticky sessions earn their keep, since a retailer that assigns a basket and a currency to a session shows different numbers if the IP moves mid-flow: ours held 20 of 20. The same residential pool powers the Web Scraper API (page to Markdown from $0.0002, billed only on success) and the MCP server, so an AI agent gets residential exits without a line of proxy configuration; every account also carries $2 of API credit a month.

Measured, not claimed: 170 requests, ten countries

Every number in this article about QuanticData was measured by us, on 2026-09-13 between 17:17 and 17:24 UTC, on the Residential Premium line, from a single machine in Europe with curl 8.7.1, one request at a time, a 25-second cap, redirects followed, timing every call with curl's own starttransfer, total and size counters. No speed or quality filter was applied to the pool. Ten countries: US, GB, DE, IN, IT, BR, FR, ES, CA, AU.

• Phase 1, rotating (50 runs). Five rotating exits per country. Each run read its exit IP through the proxy, looked that IP up off-proxy for country and ASN, then fetched the Wikipedia homepage through the proxy - 119,573 bytes of real HTML on every success. Latency figures come from the HTML fetch, not from the 22-byte JSON call.
• Phase 2, sticky (20 sessions, 60 requests). Two sticky sessions per country with a 10-minute TTL, three requests each about 20 seconds apart.
• Phase 3, rotation (10 requests). Ten sequential requests through the untargeted worldwide gateway, counting distinct exits and countries.
• Phase 4, reputation (80 lookups). Every distinct exit IP from the three phases, passed through our free IP checker, which reads the Scamalytics fraud score.

Across the 50 rotating runs: 50/50 matched the requested country, all 50 exits were distinct IPs, and they sat on 41 distinct ASNs. Median time to first byte on the HTML target was 1.26 s, median total 1.57 s, p90 TTFB 2.52 s.

Country	Geo match	Median TTFB	Distinct ASNs in 5 runs
France	5/5	0.63 s	3
Spain	5/5	0.83 s	4
Germany	5/5	0.86 s	5
United Kingdom	5/5	0.87 s	3
Italy	5/5	1.08 s	5
Canada	5/5	1.28 s	5
Brazil	5/5	1.45 s	5
India	5/5	1.61 s	3
United States	5/5	1.72 s	5
Australia	5/5	2.78 s	3

Sticky sessions: 20 of 20 held a single IP across all three requests, 60/60 returned 2xx, median TTFB 1.07 s, and all 20 exits matched the requested country when re-checked in phase 4. On the untargeted worldwide gateway, 10 requests produced 10 distinct IPs across 6 countries - per-request rotation working as advertised.

Reputation of the exits: all 80 distinct addresses through the Scamalytics fraud score (0 = clean, 100 = known bad) gave a median of 2, mean 3.39, p90 9, 75 of 80 between 0 and 10, worst single address 18, none above 25. Zero carried a VPN, Tor, public-proxy, web-proxy or search-engine-robot flag, and none was classified as a datacenter address. Per requested country the medians ran from 0 in France and India to 10 in the United States, where the large consumer cable and telco networks carry a higher ASN baseline. Anyone can reproduce any row: the checker is public at quantumproxies.io/ip-checker, one IP at a time, and the proxy tester writes out the curl, Python and Node commands with timings so the per-country protocol above is repeatable in about ten minutes.

The line measured here is Residential Premium on QuanticData residential proxies: put the country in the username, rotating or sticky, and run the same three phases on your own targets before you buy volume.

Published entry prices of other providers, for reference

Published entry prices of other residential providers, read from their own pricing pages on 2026-09-08, for reference only; "not published" means the page states no such figure, and none of these networks was tested.

Provider	Entry price per GB	Minimum spend	Pay as you go	KYC
QuanticData (same pool and prices on QuantumProxies)	$1.00 (Basic); $0.80 at 1,000 GB	$5 (5 GB); 100 MB free	Yes - one-off packs, no subscription	No - crypto accepted
Webshare	$3.50	$3.50/month plan (1 GB)	No - monthly plans	not published
Decodo	$4.00	not published	Yes	not published
SOAX	$5.00	none stated ($0/month Sandbox)	Yes	not published
Oxylabs	$6.00 (5 GB, $30/month)	$30/month	No - monthly plans	not published
IPRoyal	$7.35	1 GB	Yes	not published
Bright Data	$8.00	not published	Yes	not published

Why QuanticData ranks first

• Price from the first gigabyte. $1.00 per GB on a $5 pack and $0.80 per GB at 1,000 GB, as one-off packs valid up to 360 days. The other sub-dollar rates published in September 2026 are conditional on a four-figure monthly plan or on buying a terabyte or more.
• No minimum, no subscription. A gigabyte is a normal purchase, not a rounding error: $5 buys 5 GB, nothing renews, and unused bandwidth is not reset monthly.
• No KYC, crypto accepted, free trial. 100 MB free after SMS verification with no card; balance, card, PayPal or crypto at checkout, crypto with no identity check.
• Measured, with the rows attached. 50/50 country match, 41 ASNs, 1.26 s median TTFB, 20/20 sticky sessions, median fraud score 2. The protocol is reproducible with the free proxy tester.
• Proxies, APIs, MCP and support on one account. The same pool serves the raw proxy gateway, the Web Scraper API, the SERP API, Crawl and Map, 100+ ready-made collectors and an MCP server for AI agents; one key, $2 of API credit a month, and a founder who answers hello@quanticdata.io.