How Much Do Mobile Proxies Cost in 2026?

TL;DR: Mobile proxies in 2026 cost $2–$8 per GB metered, $59–$130 per month per dedicated proxy, or about $10 per day.

• Cheapest verified per-GB floor: Proxidize and DataImpulse at $2/GB (June 2026).
• Flat plans beat metered above roughly 30–50GB per proxy per month.
• Carrier data costs and CGNAT scarcity keep mobile above residential rates.

Mobile proxies cost $2–$8 per GB at entry. Dedicated proxies run $59–$130 per month, or about $10.11 per day. Every rate below was rechecked against each vendor's own pricing page in June 2026. The spread exists because vendors sell the same product three completely different ways — a "$2/GB" headline and a "$10/day" headline aren't remotely the same unit. Stack a few of those side by side and you can't tell what you'd actually pay until you know your own usage.

So this isn't a ranking. If you want my ordered buyer's pick at roughly 100GB, that's a separate piece: Best Mobile Proxy Providers in 2026. This page does the boring, load-bearing work nobody else seems to finish: lay out the three pricing models, put real verified rates in one table, explain why mobile costs what it does, then show the break-even math that tells you which model is cheaper for your workload. Where a figure is a directional estimate rather than a published rate, I say so.

What Are the Three Mobile Proxy Pricing Models?

Mobile proxies are sold three ways: per-GB metered ($2–$8), per-proxy flat ($59–$130/month), and per-day unlimited (about $10/day).

Mobile proxy vendors package the same product into three billing models. Get the model right and the per-unit number almost sorts itself out.

1. Per-GB (metered). You pay for bandwidth — every gigabyte that flows through the proxy. This is the dominant model and the only one most vendors offer. It's the right fit when your usage is variable or unpredictable. It's also the model that punishes you hardest if you accidentally render full pages instead of blocking images.
2. Per-proxy / dedicated (flat monthly). You rent a specific mobile endpoint — a SIM on real carrier hardware — for a flat monthly fee. The data allowance is usually generous but rarely truly infinite. You're buying a stable identity, not raw bytes. This wins when one consistent mobile exit matters more than rotation: account work, sustained agent sessions, anything that needs the same IP behavior across many requests.
3. Per-day unlimited (flat daily). A short-term dedicated proxy billed by the day, marketed as unlimited bandwidth. It's the model that makes sense for short, bandwidth-intensive bursts where you'll move a lot of data through a single endpoint for a few days and then stop.

Most vendors only sell model 1. The handful that offer a dedicated option — Proxidize on per-proxy, IPRoyal on both per-proxy and per-day — are the ones worth a second look if your usage profile fits a flat rate.

In short: metered per-GB is the default model and fits variable or unpredictable usage — it's the only option most vendors sell. Flat per-proxy plans suit stable-identity work above roughly 30GB per month, where one consistent mobile exit matters more than rotation. Per-day unlimited fits short, bandwidth-heavy bursts through a single endpoint.

What Do Mobile Proxies Cost Per GB in June 2026?

Per-GB mobile proxy rates run from $2 (Proxidize, DataImpulse) to $7.50–$8 entry at Oxylabs and Infatica — verified June–July 2026.

Per-GB pricing below is sorted by entry rate, ascending. This is not a leaderboard — order here means nothing about quality. For the ranked pick, see the companion buyer's guide.

A few things to read carefully before you anchor on any of these:

• Decodo's headline rates are on a 50%-off promo. The $3.75/GB entry and $2.75/GB at 100GB are promotional; list rates are roughly double ($7.50 down to $5.50/GB, PAYG $8.00). If you're budgeting past the promo window, assume the higher numbers. Older third-party roundups still quote a "$2.25/GB start" for Decodo — that figure doesn't appear anywhere in the live pricing collection, so I'm not using it.
• SOAX charges one rate across residential and mobile, tiered by country and by plan. Tier-1 (US/UK) runs $5.00/GB at entry down to $0.85/GB at Enterprise; Tier-3 markets start near $2.00/GB. Its blended marketing line is "as low as $2.20/GB," and everything is +VAT. The older "$3.60/GB" figure floating around (including in my own earlier write-ups) doesn't match the current geo-tiered structure, so treat it as stale.
• NetNut is no longer listed. On July 2, 2026, the FBI seized NetNut-associated domains as part of a coordinated disruption with Google and Lumen, and parent company Alarum temporarily paused NetNut network traffic (KrebsOnSecurity, Alarum statement). No charges have been filed, but a rate you can't currently rely on isn't a rate — its June 2026 mobile pricing ($7.60/GB entry, $3.82/GB on 1TB annual) is omitted from the table until service availability stabilizes.
• Bright Data is out of mobile entirely. The market's biggest brand sunset its mobile proxy product for new customers around April 2026 — the mobile product and pricing URLs now redirect to generic proxy pages, and mobile is gone from its docs and network-status page (Illusory, Proxyway). Legacy customers may keep access, but any "Bright Data mobile $/GB" quoted in 2026 roundups is stale.

In short: the verified per-GB floor is $2, held by Proxidize and DataImpulse. The mid-market sits near $3.75–$5, carrying promo and geo-tier caveats at Decodo and SOAX. Premium global vendors Oxylabs and Infatica open at $7.50–$8 before volume discounts. NetNut was delisted in July 2026 after FBI domain seizures paused its service.

What Do Dedicated Mobile Proxies Cost?

Dedicated mobile proxies run $59/month at Proxidize and $117–$130/month — or $10.11/day — at IPRoyal, verified June 2026.

Dedicated pricing is the artifact most comparison pages skip, and only two vendors in this set publish it:

Proxidize's per-proxy plan is the cleaner of the two because its allowance is explicit: 50GB/month is prioritized, after which traffic can be deprioritized under load but the connection stays live. Its mobile network covers the US, UK, Germany, and Canada on real carrier IPs (no MVNOs or resellers). Above 1TB or 100 proxies, custom pricing starts at $0.50/GB (verified June 2026).

IPRoyal's terms improve with commitment — $130/month on a 30-day term falls to $117/month on a 90-day term — and the per-day option exists for burst work. The "unlimited" claim deserves scrutiny: a vendor snippet hints at a ~30GB/day per-proxy ceiling, which would conflict with the marketing, so verify before relying on true-unlimited throughput.

In short: flat mobile pricing means Proxidize at $59/month with an explicit 50GB prioritized allowance, or IPRoyal from $10.11/day to $117–$130/month depending on term length. Read the fair-use fine print on anything marketed as unlimited — a hinted ~30GB/day ceiling changes the math on heavy burst work considerably.

Why Are Mobile Proxies More Expensive Than Residential?

Mobile proxies cost more because providers pay real carrier data per GB, and CGNAT-shared carrier IPs are scarce, trusted, and hard to block.

Mobile's premium looks like markup if you've only ever bought datacenter or residential proxies. It isn't — the cost structure underneath mobile is genuinely different, and five drivers stack on top of each other.

IPv4 scarcity and CGNAT. IPv4 exhaustion forces carriers to run Carrier-Grade NAT, sharing one public IPv4 across hundreds to thousands of subscribers. The publicly routable carrier IPs a provider can actually expose are inherently scarce. That same sharing is exactly what makes mobile IPs the hardest to block — an anti-bot system can't ban one without collateral-damaging real paying subscribers — which makes mobile the highest-trust IP class of the three proxy types. Scarcity and trust, both priced in.

Real carrier SIM and device hardware. Each mobile endpoint is backed by a physical SIM on a real carrier plus a dedicated modem, router, or phone in a managed device farm. Capacity is built from hardware you can touch, not spun up in software like datacenter proxies or sourced from peer SDKs like residential pools.

Metered carrier data cost. Every gigabyte routed consumes real cellular data the provider pays a carrier for, and carrier plans come with their own caps and throttling. Bandwidth is a recurring metered cost, not effectively-free datacenter transit — which is precisely why mobile is sold per-GB and why even "unlimited" dedicated plans are fair-use capped.

Rotation infrastructure and fleet upkeep. Cycling each endpoint through fresh carrier IPs needs provider-built rotation systems layered on top of the device fleet, and the fleet itself needs continuous maintenance: SIMs expire, modems fail, carriers change policies.

Inelastic supply. Datacenter IPs provision instantly; residential pools scale across large peer-to-peer networks. Mobile capacity is capped by physical hardware and by uneven 4G/5G availability and carrier restrictions across regions. Supply can't scale freely with demand, so the per-GB premium persists.

In short: mobile proxies carry recurring carrier-data costs on every gigabyte, run on physical SIM and modem fleets that need constant upkeep, and expose scarce, CGNAT-shared, high-trust IPs whose supply can't scale with demand. Those five structural drivers — none of which residential or datacenter vendors carry — are why the premium persists.

Mobile vs Residential vs Datacenter: Which Costs More?

Mobile is the most expensive proxy type — $2–$8/GB verified — versus roughly $1.75–$8.50/GB residential and $0.40–$2/GB datacenter.

Mobile, residential, and datacenter pricing bands compare like this (mobile verified June 2026; the other two are directional, tier-dependent ranges — never a single precise "average"):

Like-for-like at the same vendor and tier, mobile is consistently the most expensive of the three — commonly a couple to several times the per-GB cost of residential, and far more than datacenter. I'm deliberately not pinning that to a single multiplier: the ratio swings with vendor, region, and volume, and anyone quoting one exact number is rounding hard.

The number that actually decides this isn't the headline $/GB — it's cost-per-successful-request. A cheap datacenter IP that gets blocked 90% of the time on a hard target costs more in practice than mobile that sails through. And paying mobile rates for an unprotected site is pure waste.

When mobile earns the premium: the hardest anti-bot targets (sneaker and ticket drops, large-scale social automation on Instagram/TikTok/X, Google scraping at scale, aggressive fingerprinting), native mobile-app or cellular-only traffic, and account-trust-sensitive work.

When it's overkill: residential is usually enough for general scraping, geo-unblocking, e-commerce and price monitoring, and SERP work — real-user trust at roughly half to a third of mobile's cost. Datacenter handles high-volume scraping of weakly-defended sites, QA, and uptime monitoring for pennies.

In short: mobile is the most expensive tier at $2–$8/GB verified, residential runs roughly $1.75–$8.50/GB, and datacenter $0.40–$2/GB. Mobile earns its premium only on hard, aggressively defended targets. Judge every tier by cost-per-successful-request rather than the sticker $/GB — a cheap IP that gets blocked is the most expensive kind.

When Does a Flat-Rate Plan Beat Per-GB Pricing?

A flat-rate plan beats metered per-GB pricing once your volume crosses one simple threshold: the flat price divided by your per-GB rate.

Break-even between flat and metered comes down to one formula most pricing pages never finish:

Crossover GB = (flat period price) ÷ (your per-GB rate). Above that volume, the flat rate wins. Below it, metered wins. Then sanity-check against any fair-use cap.

Worked from verified June 2026 numbers, all against a $2/GB baseline:

• IPRoyal $10.11/day vs $2/GB → ~5GB/day. Push more than about 5GB/day through one IPRoyal dedicated proxy and the flat daily rate beats buying that data at $2/GB. Below ~5GB/day, per-GB is cheaper. (Caveat: the vendor snippet hinting at a ~30GB/day per-proxy cap would conflict with the "unlimited" claim — verify before relying on true-unlimited above ~30GB/day.)
• IPRoyal $117/month (90-day term) vs $2/GB → ~58.5GB/proxy/month. Above roughly 58–59GB/month per proxy, the $117 flat beats $2/GB. At the 30-day rate ($130/mo) the crossover shifts to ~65GB/month.
• Proxidize $59/month per-proxy vs $2/GB → ~29.5GB/proxy/month as the raw arithmetic crossover. But the per-proxy plan only prioritizes 50GB/month before possible deprioritization, so the practical sweet spot is ~30–50GB/proxy/month — where you pay $59 flat instead of $60–$100 of metered data and get a stable single mobile identity. Below ~30GB/proxy/month, per-GB is cheaper, and the per-proxy plan's real value is identity stability, not just bytes.

If you want a fuller cost model before you even get to break-even, the rule of thumb for a per-GB job is requests/day × average response size × 30 × 1.3 (retries) × your $/GB rate. That gives you a monthly bandwidth bill you can then test against the flat-rate crossover above.

In short: flat plans win above the crossover — roughly 5GB/day for IPRoyal's daily rate, about 58GB/month for its 90-day monthly rate, and around 30GB/month for Proxidize's per-proxy plan, with a practical sweet spot of 30–50GB given the 50GB prioritization. Below those volumes, stay metered and shop on the per-GB rate.

How Much Bandwidth Does Each Use Case Need?

Use cases range from 1–20GB/month for app testing up to 1–5TB for LLM training pipelines; resource-blocking is the biggest cost lever.

Bandwidth need is the other half of the bill — the per-GB rate only matters multiplied by the gigabytes your workload actually moves. The figures below are directional planning estimates, not vendor-published numbers. The page-weight rates underneath them come from HTTP Archive's public page-weight dataset; the app data-consumption rates are commonly published carrier and app estimates. Both are shown so you can re-run the math for your own job.

Two takeaways from that table. First, for scraping, resource-blocking is worth more than any vendor discount — it's a 6–20x swing in bandwidth, far larger than the gap between a $2 and $3.75 per-GB rate. Second, the higher your volume, the more the per-GB rate is the only number that matters. For the AI-scale end of this table specifically, I've gone deeper in Best Mobile Proxies for AI Data Collection & Automation in 2026.

In short: app testing needs about 1–20GB a month, account management 5–50GB, scraping roughly 2–40GB per million pages, ad verification 10–60GB, and LLM pipelines anywhere from 50GB to 5TB. Blocking images, CSS, and fonts cuts scraping bandwidth 6–20x — a bigger saving than any vendor discount on the rate itself.

Which Pricing Model Should You Choose?

The right mobile proxy pricing model follows your volume per endpoint: metered below ~30GB/month, per-proxy flat above it, per-day for bursts.

• There is no universal cheapest mobile proxy — only the cheapest one for your volume and your pricing model.
• Variable or unpredictable usage: stay metered — the verified floor at ~100GB is Proxidize and DataImpulse near $2/GB, about $200/month (June 2026).
• Above ~30–50GB per endpoint, or needing one stable mobile identity: a flat per-proxy plan wins — Proxidize at $59/month or IPRoyal at $117/month.
• Short, heavy bursts: IPRoyal's $10.11/day pays off above roughly 5GB/day through a single proxy.
• Networks focused on fewer markets can undercut global pools: Proxidize hits a $2/GB floor on real carrier IPs across the US, UK, Germany, and Canada while global-coverage vendors open at $5–$8/GB — a workload confined to those four markets often pays a premium for international capacity it never touches.
• Estimate your bill before committing: requests/day × average response size × 30 × 1.3 (retries) × your $/GB rate, then test it against the flat-rate crossover.

In short: whatever model you land on, do the arithmetic against your own bandwidth before you commit — the headline rate is the start of the calculation, not the end of it. Metered suits uncertainty, flat plans reward stable volume through one endpoint, and the crossover formula settles every borderline case with a single division.