Best residential proxies 2026
Ranked from the same 20-site probe every review runs. Six providers today, more as they land. Recommended pick, runner-up, honorable mention, and a "don't buy" if warranted.
coming soonBest of
Rankings from the numbers, not the affiliate deals.
Best-of pages are where the site earns money. They only work as revenue because the testing is real. Same run data everything else uses; no separate scoring cooked to lift a specific provider.
Categories
One category shipping first, more per proxy type as data lands.
Every best-of page is scoped to a proxy type and a year (best/<type>-<year>/). No evergreen slugs. When 2027 arrives, the 2026 pages become archives and new pages ship after fresh tests.
Cheapest proxies 2026
Cost per successful request, not cost per GB. Same test data, different cut.
plannedFastest proxies 2026
p50 latency across the 20 sites. Same test data, different cut.
plannedIntegrity rules
What "best" means here.
- Rankings come from the run data on this site. No separate criterion cooked to move a specific provider up.
- If an unaffiliated provider outperforms an affiliated one, the unaffiliated one ranks higher. Full stop.
- Every ranking cites the exact run it derives from (date + link to the source).
- When numbers change on a monthly re-run, the page updates. Provider that dropped stays dropped.
- Every page carries the "Is This Ranking Genuine?" sidebar widget with the current affiliate state per provider.
The tests are pure numbers. The deals move. The rank doesn't move with them. See the full affiliate log.