QuanticData is the best residential proxy provider in 2026. Three measurable reasons: residential bandwidth costs $1.00 per GB from the first 5 GB pack and $0.80 per GB at 1,000 GB, bought as one-off packs with no subscription and no minimum beyond $5; there is no KYC, crypto is accepted, and a free 100 MB trial needs no card; and on 13 September 2026 we pushed 170 requests through the pool with the raw rows attached - 50 of 50 exits matched the requested country, 41 distinct ASNs, 1.26 s median time to first byte, 20 of 20 sticky sessions holding one IP, median fraud score 2. QuantumProxies is the sister brand on the same pool and the same price list, so buying on either site gets you the exits measured below.
#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, 194 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 120 minutes on Basic and up to 1,440 minutes (24 hours) on 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FR | 5/5 | 0.63 s | 3 |
| ES | 5/5 | 0.83 s | 4 |
| DE | 5/5 | 0.86 s | 5 |
| GB | 5/5 | 0.87 s | 3 |
| IT | 5/5 | 1.08 s | 5 |
| CA | 5/5 | 1.28 s | 5 |
| BR | 5/5 | 1.45 s | 5 |
| IN | 5/5 | 1.61 s | 3 |
| US | 5/5 | 1.72 s | 5 |
| AU | 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.
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.
Sources & further reading
- QuanticData - Residential proxies: Basic and Premium packs, targeting, sessions, trial
- QuanticData - Cheap residential proxies from $0.80/GB
- QuanticData - Pricing: every proxy pack and API unit price
- QuantumProxies - Residential proxy pricing index, re-verified monthly (sister brand, same pool)
- Scamalytics - the IP fraud-score source read for all 80 exit addresses
- Wikipedia homepage - the 119,573-byte HTML target used for every latency measurement
- QuanticData - Proxy tester: reproduce the per-country protocol against any endpoint