Our day-to-day workhorse for residential scraping at scale.
- Pool
- Residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile
- Best for
- Hard targets that block datacenter IPs — review scraping, search, e-commerce.
Independent · first-hand · reader-supported
The proxy verdict
The proxy verdict
you can actually trust.
We don't rewrite spec sheets. We scrape at scale every day — residential pools, anti-block stacks, deep pagination — and review proxy providers from the inside. Honest scores, real trade-offs, no fluff.
1 provider tested first-hand · 5 reviewed total
Our top pick overall
Decodo
formerly Smartproxy
The provider we actually reach for when a target fights back. Datacenter proxies collapsed to roughly a fifth success on hard review pages; moving those jobs to Decodo residential is what made them viable. Our default recommendation for serious scraping.
Every provider, ranked by our score
Sorted by overall rating. Tap any card for the full first-hand review.
The enterprise heavyweight — biggest pool, deepest tooling, premium price.
- Pool
- Residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile + scraping APIs
- Best for
- Enterprise teams needing the largest pool, compliance paperwork, and managed scraping tools.
Premium enterprise rival to Bright Data, strong on scraper APIs.
- Pool
- Residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile + scraper APIs
- Best for
- Enterprise scraping with a polished API layer and dedicated account support.
Cheapest serious entry point — strong datacenter value, free tier.
- Pool
- Datacenter, residential, static residential
- Best for
- Budget datacenter proxies and easy targets where residential is overkill.
Flexible mid-market residential with pay-as-you-go that doesn't expire.
- Pool
- Residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile
- Best for
- Small-to-mid teams wanting residential without a big monthly commit.
Why ProxyPeers
We are the customer we write for
Most proxy "reviews" are affiliate pages written by people who never opened a terminal. Ours come from running real jobs against real anti-bot defenses.
When datacenter proxies dropped to roughly a fifth success rate on hard review pages, we didn't read about it — we watched it happen and moved the workload to residential. We run Camoufox under xvfb, handle consent walls, replay tokens for deep pagination, and rotate IPs per outlet across a residential pool. That's the lens behind every score on this site.