The short answer
- 1 Webshare.io Free trial and cheap IPs Visit site
- 2 Proxy-Seller 600+ networks at $0.02/IP Visit site
- 3 Decodo (ex Smartproxy) Fastest declared datacenter speed Visit site
11 best datacenter proxy providers, compared
| # | Provider | Fit | From | Readers | Protocols | Links |
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| 1 | 4.9/5 | $0.02 / month | 100% | — | ||
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Datacenter Proxy Servers list 400K+ IPs, 99.97% uptime, $0.0299/proxy falling to $0.0179, 10 free proxies and private or dedicated tiers. Good for this job
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| 2 | 4.7/5 | $0.30 / GB | 96% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Datacenter pricing starts at $0.02/IP, with a 1 Gbps IPv4 channel across 600+ networks and HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 support. Good for this job
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| 3 | 4.6/5 | $0.08 / GB | 100% | HTTP(S), SOCKS5 | ||
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Datacenter IPs start at $0.02/IP, with 99.99% uptime, a declared sub-0.2s response and HTTP(S)/SOCKS5 support. Good for this job
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| 4 | 4.5/5 | $0.50 / GB | 88% | HTTP(S) | ||
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Rotating datacenter starts at $0.50/GB across 190+ countries and dedicated datacenter at $0.72/IP, with gigabit speed claimed. Good for this job
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| 5 | 4.3/5 | $0.35 / GB | 90% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, HTTP/2 | ||
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Rotating datacenter lists 197,000+ IPs in 62 countries and falls from $0.625/GB to $0.35/GB at 5,000 GB. Good for this job
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| 6 | 4.2/5 | $0.63 / GB | 86% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Static datacenter is $0.79/IP/month, rotating datacenter $0.63/GB at 120 GB, and each type has a 100 MB free trial. Good for this job
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| 7 | 4.0/5 | $0.40 / GB | 100% | — | ||
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Dedicated datacenter runs $2/IP on Starter down to $1.20/IP, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 explicitly covers Datacenter Proxies. Good for this job
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| 8 | 3.7/5 | $1 | 82% | — | ||
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Shared proxy tiers are $1.00 and dedicated HTTP $1.80, with 1Gb/s ports and multiple subnets; shared IPs and bandwidth are stated risks. Good for this job
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| 9 | 2.9/5 | $0.06 / GB | 100% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Static Data Center Proxy is priced at $3/IP, with no rotating datacenter option or datacenter pool size published. Good for this job
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| 10 | 2.7/5 | — | 81% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Static data center proxies use per-IP monthly billing with unlimited bandwidth, but no datacenter price or pool size is published. Good for this job
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| 11 | 2.2/5 | ₽490 / day | 83% | SOCKS5, HTTP | ||
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Dedicated datacenter proxies are listed, but static server pricing is bare figures from 10 to 1,390 with no currency or per-IP count. Good for this job
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Ordered by how well each provider fits this job, from the figures the providers publish, our review scores and reader votes — see our methodology.
What a datacenter proxy is
A datacenter proxy is a forwarding server sitting in a hosting facility that lends you its IP address. The address is registered to a hosting or cloud company rather than to a consumer ISP or a mobile carrier. Traffic leaves your machine, arrives at that server, goes out from the server's address, and comes back the same way. The site you are hitting sees the hosting provider, not you.
You can confirm the classification in about ten seconds. Look the address up in any whois or IP-intelligence service: the network name will be a hosting brand, reverse DNS usually resolves to a machine name like srv412.example-host.net, and the ASN will be one allocated for server infrastructure. None of that is hidden by the proxy. It is the defining property of the product, and every anti-bot vendor reads it.
Three protocols cover almost everything. HTTP and HTTPS proxies handle web traffic and support CONNECT for TLS, which is what a scraper needs. SOCKS5 is protocol-agnostic, carries non-HTTP traffic, and with --socks5-hostname resolves DNS on the proxy side rather than locally — worth knowing, because a local DNS lookup is a leak. Most providers hand you HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS5 on the same address; some restrict SOCKS5 to higher tiers or charge for it separately.
The trade the whole market is built on: a datacenter address is fast, cheap and obvious. Residential addresses are slow, expensive and look like somebody's home connection. Mobile addresses are slower and dearer again, and survive longest against bot management because carrier-grade NAT means hundreds of real people already share each address. Datacenter sits at the opposite end — you are buying speed and price per request, and accepting that the address is easy to classify.
What they are genuinely good at
Speed is the main reason to pick them. The server sits on a hosting network with a short path to the nearest internet exchange, there is no last mile, no home router and no congested upload. Round-trip times are typically a small fraction of what a residential peer gives you, and the variance is far lower. For a job that makes millions of requests, that difference in latency per request compounds into hours.
Concurrency is the second reason. A hosting link will hold hundreds of parallel connections without falling over, where a residential peer is one device on a domestic line. Throughput per address is usually capped by the provider's port speed rather than by the network.
Where that pays off:
- Price and catalogue monitoring on retail sites without serious bot management.
- Collecting public data — company registries, planning portals, job boards, government datasets — where nothing is trying to stop you and you only need to be polite.
- Checking your own deployments from outside: geo-testing redirects, CDN behaviour, A/B experiments and localisation.
- Ad verification and brand monitoring, confirming which creative serves in which country.
- QA and load testing your own infrastructure from multiple source addresses so rate limits behave as they would in production.
- Ordinary egress: a stable exit address for internal tooling, scheduled jobs and API clients that need a fixed IP.
If the target is an ordinary site with no bot management, a datacenter address from a clean subnet does the job at a fraction of the cost of residential bandwidth. The moment the target has a dedicated anti-automation vendor in front of it, that calculation changes.
Where they get blocked and why
Blocking happens in layers, and the proxy is only the first. The ASN check is the cheapest and most common: if the request arrives from a network registered to a hosting company, a rule fires. Beyond that, IP reputation feeds carry history — an address that hammered someone last week is on a list this week, regardless of who holds it now.
Then there is the client itself. TLS fingerprints, HTTP/2 settings, header order and casing, the presence of a plausible Accept-Language, whether JavaScript runs, whether the canvas and WebGL values look like a real machine. A perfectly clean residential address running a headless browser with default flags still gets challenged. A datacenter address with a well-configured client can sometimes pass on sites with light protection.
Behaviour is the third layer. Rotating to a fresh address on every request is itself a signal: no real user arrives from a new city on each page view. Sessions that change country mid-checkout, request rates no human sustains, and missing cookies from earlier in the funnel all count against you.
The honest list of places where datacenter addresses are a waste of money: ticketing and limited-release retail, social platforms, banks and financial accounts, streaming services, airlines and travel inventory, classifieds with active fraud teams. These run aggressive bot management and will classify a hosting ASN before they look at anything else. Buying a large cheap pool for those targets produces a 403 rate near 100 per cent and a support ticket.
Dedicated against shared addresses
A shared address is one IP resold to several customers at once. It is cheaper per seat and it arrives with other people's behaviour attached. If another customer runs a scraper into a target at 50 requests a second, that target blocks the address, and your perfectly reasonable four requests an hour go with it. You inherit bans you did not earn and cannot appeal.
A dedicated address is exclusive to your account. You still get it blocked eventually, but you get it blocked on your own terms, at a rate you control, and you know exactly which job did it. You can also build a reputation deliberately: keep one address for a single site, keep the request rate human, keep the cookies consistent.
Some providers sell a middle tier — an address shared between a small fixed number of customers, sometimes called semi-dedicated. It is usually good value, but you need the number in writing.
Before buying, ask four questions:
- How many other customers use this exact address right now?
- Is it exclusive to my account for the billing period, or rotate-on-demand?
- What is the replacement policy when an address is blocked on my target, and does it cost anything?
- Are the addresses contiguous, or spread across separate subnets?
The economics are less obvious than the sticker price. A cheap shared pool that returns a third of your requests as blocks costs more per successful page than a dedicated address that returns all of them. Work out cost per usable response, not cost per IP.
How to set one up and test it
Two ways to authenticate. Whitelist your own egress IP in the provider's dashboard, which is simplest and breaks whenever your own address changes. Or use credentials in the URL, which work anywhere but travel in the request unless the proxy connection itself is wrapped in TLS — so never reuse a password you care about.
Test the basics from a terminal before writing any code:
- Exit address:
curl -x http://user:pass@gate.example.com:8080 https://httpbin.org/ip. If the address returned is not the proxy's, something is wrong with the setup, not the proxy. - Header leakage: request
https://httpbin.org/headersthe same way and read the response. Look forX-Forwarded-For,ViaandForwarded. A transparent proxy adds them; an elite one does not. - Timing:
curl -x http://user:pass@gate.example.com:8080 -o /dev/null -s -w '%{time_connect} %{time_starttransfer} %{time_total}\n' https://example.com. Connect time is the proxy hop; start-transfer is the target responding. If connect is under a few hundred milliseconds the hop is fine, and any remaining slowness is the target throttling you. - Concurrency: fire twenty parallel requests at the same address and count failures. A pool that collapses at ten simultaneous connections is not a scraping pool.
- Stickiness: make two requests in a row and check whether the exit address is identical. If you paid for a dedicated address it should be; if it changes, you are on a rotating gateway.
In Python, the same test inside your client: requests.get(url, proxies={'http': 'http://user:pass@198.51.100.10:8080', 'https': 'http://user:pass@198.51.100.10:8080'}, timeout=15). Set http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables for tools you cannot configure directly, and remember that a badly set environment variable is one of the commonest reasons a request appears to bypass the proxy.
Then test against the actual target, not a test endpoint. Log the status codes: 200, 403, 429 and a 200 serving a captcha page are four different outcomes and only the first is success. Check the exit address with what is my IP and run addresses through the proxy checker to confirm they are alive before you put them in a rotation. If you are testing against free addresses first, take them from the verified free proxy list rather than a random pastebin.
What datacenter addresses cost
Datacenter is the cheapest tier in the market and the pricing is structured in three ways. Per address per month is the classic model: you rent N IPs, usually with a bandwidth allowance, and you keep them. Per port or per channel is common for high-volume work — you buy a number of concurrent connections rather than a number of addresses. Per gigabyte appears on gateways that sit in front of a large rotating pool, where you never see an individual IP.
What moves the price: dedicated against shared (the largest single factor), how many addresses you take at once, the country, the bandwidth allowance, and the contract length. Annual commitments are materially cheaper per address than month-to-month, which matters if you are only testing an idea.
Read the entry prices in the table above with three adjustments. First, divide by usable addresses — a bundle of 100 where 20 are already on public blocklists is a bundle of 80. Second, add any setup fee, minimum term and bandwidth overage, which are where cheap headline rates recover their margin. Third, allow for burn rate: if a dedicated address survives two weeks against your target, your real monthly cost is two addresses per month, not one.
The comparison that matters is against residential, which is billed per gigabyte of traffic. A single gigabyte of residential bandwidth often costs more than a month of a datacenter address, and a page of HTML is a few hundred kilobytes at most — so the same money buys far more requests through datacenter. That is exactly why the cheap tier is the wrong tool for hard targets: the price reflects how easily the addresses are classified.
Mistakes that waste a cheap pool
Most of the money lost on datacenter proxies is lost after purchase. The recurring ones:
- Rotating across the whole pool into one target. Every address gets a little of your traffic and a little of the ban, and the entire pool is compromised within days. Use a small working set per target instead.
- Ignoring subnet spread. Fifty addresses from a single /24 block are, to a blocklist, roughly one address. If the provider's whole allocation sits in two subnets, take fewer addresses from more places.
- No session state. Losing cookies, cart contents or CSRF tokens because the exit address changed mid-flow. Pin one address for the length of a session.
- Running at maximum concurrency because the link allows it. Your port speed is not the target's tolerance. Start at one or two concurrent requests per address and raise it until the 429s appear, then back off.
- Ignoring
Retry-Afterand backoff. A 429 is an instruction; hammering through it converts a soft limit into a hard block. - Using the pool on login pages and account flows. Those endpoints are the most instrumented on any site. They burn addresses faster than anything else and they link accounts to each other by IP history.
- Blaming the proxy for a fingerprint problem. If every address returns a challenge on the first request, the client is the problem. Fix the browser or HTTP stack before buying more IPs.
- Scaling before testing. Ten addresses tested for a day tells you the burn rate. A thousand bought on the same day tells you nothing until the invoice arrives.
Buy the tier that matches the target, keep a small dedicated working set for anything that matters, and judge the pool on successful responses rather than on the number of addresses in the dashboard. The provider reviews cover how each one structures replacement and exclusivity, which is where a cheap pool quietly becomes an expensive one.
What to look for
- Price per address or per gigabyte
- Datacenter is the cheap tier, and the gap between providers here is larger than anywhere else in the table.
- Throughput and latency
- These sit in datacentres on fast links, and speed is the main reason to choose them over residential.
- Subnet spread
- Addresses from one block get blocked as one block, so diversity matters more than count.
- Dedicated or shared
- A shared address arrives with other people's behaviour attached; a dedicated one is yours to burn.
- Locations available
- Datacenter footprints follow hosting regions rather than population, so coverage is uneven in a different way.
Free HTTP proxies, live right now
These are from our own list, checked around the clock. They are free, which also means they are shared, short-lived and wrong for anything that holds a login — but they are the cheapest way to see whether a proxy fixes your problem at all before you pay for one.
| Ip Address:Port | Type | Country | Anonymity | Speed | Uptime | Response | Updated |
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| HTTP |
Venezuela
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Transparent | 0.09% |
24%
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3106.38 ms | 1m ago | |
| HTTP |
Philippines
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Transparent | 0.09% |
21%
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3108.83 ms | 1m ago | |
| HTTP |
Indonesia
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Transparent | 0.07% |
20%
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4330.7 ms | 1m ago | |
| HTTP |
Mexico
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Transparent | 0.09% |
29%
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3585.63 ms | 1m ago | |
| HTTP |
Peru
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Transparent | 0.07% |
20%
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3905.23 ms | 1m ago | |
| HTTP |
Syria
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Transparent | 0.07% |
19%
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4304.32 ms | 1m ago | |
| HTTP |
Indonesia
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Transparent | 0.07% |
19%
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4610.34 ms | 1m ago | |
| HTTP |
Dominican Republic
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Transparent | 0.07% |
23%
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4377.34 ms | 1m ago | |
| HTTP |
Indonesia
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Anonymous | 0.07% |
25%
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4354.62 ms | 1m ago | |
| HTTP |
Indonesia
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Transparent | 0.09% |
15%
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3117.24 ms | 1m ago |
Every provider, in order
1. Webshare.io — Free trial and cheap IPs
4.9 / 5 for this job · from $0.02 / month
Webshare takes the top slot on price and on being able to check the product before paying anything. The free plan is 10 proxies with no credit card required, which for datacenter work is not a marketing gesture — it is enough to point a scraper at a target, see whether the addresses are already burned, and decide. Paid per-IP pricing starts at $0.0299 per proxy at 100 proxies and falls to $0.017 at the 100,000 tier, with a stated 30% saving for yearly billing on top of that.
The datacenter product is listed at 400K+ IPs, HTTP and SOCKS5 on the same credentials, IP authorisation as an alternative to username and password, and an aggregate network the provider puts at 100+ Gbps. Two purchase shapes matter here. A shared pool means the address arrives with other customers' behaviour attached; private and dedicated tiers are priced separately at $0.741/IP for 25 private IPs and $1.33/IP for 20 dedicated. If the target blocks on behaviour rather than on the block itself, the dedicated tier is the one to price, not the headline rate.
The catch is footprint. The provider's own material says both 195 countries and 50+ countries, so you cannot tell from the page how datacenter addresses are spread across subnets — and for this job, block diversity is the thing that keeps you alive. The 99.7% success rate and 99.97% uptime are the provider's numbers with nothing independent beside them, and 'unlimited' bandwidth carries an asterisk pointing at a Fair Usage Policy. Read that policy before you buy on the word.
Key features
- Free plan: 10 proxies, no credit card required
- Datacenter pool 400K+ IPs, HTTP and SOCKS5 on the same credentials
- $0.0299 per proxy at 100 IPs, $0.017 at the 100,000 tier
- Private tier $0.741/IP for 25 IPs; dedicated $1.33/IP for 20 IPs
- Yearly billing saves 30%, per the provider
- Aggregate network 100+ Gbps
Best suited for: best suited for teams that want to try a datacenter pool free and then buy by the IP at volume
2. Proxy-Seller — 600+ networks at $0.02/IP
4.7 / 5 for this job · from $0.30 / GB
Proxy-Seller sits second on the strength of one specification: 600+ networks behind the IPv4 channel, at 1 Gbps, with datacenter from $0.02 per IP. For this job that is the argument. Addresses from one block get blocked as one block, so a provider quoting a large count from a narrow set of subnets is worth less than one quoting fewer addresses spread wider. The per-IP entry price is among the lowest in the table and it is published rather than quoted.
The same $0.02/IP starting figure covers IPv6, which is where a lot of high-volume datacenter work ends up — large v6 pools are cheap to hand out and often scored less harshly by targets than v4. HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 are all supported, with a RESTful API, IP whitelisting and SDK access, and no monthly lock-ins are stated. Compliance paperwork is unusually complete for this tier: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certification, GDPR, CCPA and ePrivacy compliance, DPA/SCC readiness. Support is advertised as 24/7 human with a 30-second median reply.
What the record does not give is a datacenter location count separate from the 220+ residential locations, so you are buying network breadth without a published datacenter map. The 99.7% uptime and 99.5%+ connection success figures are the provider's own, with no independent test alongside them. Mobile coverage reaching 20+ countries is thin next to the rest — irrelevant to a pure datacenter job, but it matters if you plan to fall back to mobile when a datacenter block burns.
Key features
- Datacenter from $0.02/IP; IPv4 from $0.49/IP
- 1 Gbps IPv4 channel across 600+ networks
- IPv6 from $0.02/IP
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 with RESTful API and IP whitelisting
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certified
- No monthly lock-ins stated
Best suited for: best suited for buyers who care more about subnet spread than about raw IP count
3. Decodo (ex Smartproxy) — Fastest declared datacenter speed
4.6 / 5 for this job · from $0.08 / GB
Smartproxy, now Decodo, is third and holds the fastest declared line in the table: response times under 0.2 seconds and 99.99% uptime, with datacenter proxies from $0.02/IP. Take the speed figure for what it is — a provider number with no independent test cited — but if latency is the reason you are choosing datacenter over residential in the first place, this is the claim to check with your own traffic first.
The rest of the platform is built for throughput work: HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, rotating and sticky sessions with an IP held for up to 30 minutes, and targeting down to city, ZIP code and ASN. Sticky sessions matter more than they sound here — a login sequence that changes address mid-flow fails, and a 30-minute hold lets a form fill or a checkout finish on one IP. SDKs, a CLI and integrations with n8n, LangChain and LlamaIndex are listed if you would rather not write rotation logic yourself. A 3-day, 100 MB trial is available at entry.
Two warnings. The company renamed to Decodo in April 2025 and its own material flags smartproxy.org as an impersonator with no connection to it, so buy from Decodo.com. And the trial and the 14-day money-back option are mutually exclusive: using the trial removes refund eligibility, refunds are first-purchase only, and they are capped at under 20% of a residential plan's traffic. High-Speed Proxies carry no published price at all, so that tier means asking.
Key features
- Datacenter proxies from $0.02/IP
- Declared response time under 0.2s and 99.99% uptime
- HTTP(S) and SOCKS5; sticky sessions held up to 30 minutes
- Targeting to city, ZIP code and ASN level
- 3-day, 100 MB trial; trial use removes refund eligibility
- Now Decodo; smartproxy.org flagged by the provider as an impersonator
Best suited for: best suited for latency-sensitive datacenter work that needs sticky sessions and fine-grained targeting
4. Novada — Datacenter by GB or IP
4.5 / 5 for this job · from $0.50 / GB
Novada takes fourth because it sells datacenter two ways, and the choice between them is the whole decision. Rotating datacenter starts from $0.50/GB; dedicated datacenter starts from $0.72/IP. Per-gigabyte billing suits a job where the volume is unknown and you would rather not commit to a fixed count of addresses. Per-IP billing suits anything with a login, where the address has to survive between requests. Both sit in the same account as the ISP and residential ranges, so a fallback exists when a datacenter block starts returning challenges.
The rotating datacenter pool is quoted at 190+ countries, which is wide for a datacenter tier — this class usually follows hosting regions rather than population, so coverage tends to be lumpy. Note which success figure applies: the provider advertises 99.99% overall but 99% for rotating datacenter, so the headline does not carry across to the pool you would actually be buying. Protocol support is HTTP(S); SOCKS5 is not listed, which rules Novada out for older clients that speak nothing else. A $10 credit is offered with no card required.
The catch is quoting. Unlimited Proxies, IPv6 Proxies and Datasets have no published price and go through an account manager, and the free trial is limited to the Scraper API — the $10 credit is not the same thing. For a datacenter buyer comparing per-IP rates, one of the four relevant products cannot be costed from the page at all.
Key features
- Rotating datacenter from $0.50/GB; dedicated datacenter from $0.72/IP
- Rotating datacenter pool quoted at 190+ countries
- 99% success rate stated for rotating datacenter against 99.99% overall
- HTTP(S) support; SOCKS5 not listed
- $10 credit with no card required; free trial limited to Scraper API
- Unlimited Proxies, IPv6 Proxies and Datasets priced only via account manager
Best suited for: best suited for buyers who want to choose between per-gigabyte and per-IP datacenter billing inside one account
5. ProxyEmpire — Cheap 5 TB datacenter traffic
4.3 / 5 for this job · from $0.35 / GB
ProxyEmpire sits fifth on the strength of one tier: 5,000 GB of rotating datacenter traffic at $1,750 per month, which works out at $0.35/GB. Nothing else in this table goes that low at that volume. The ladder below it runs $0.625/GB at 40 GB, $0.55 at 100 GB, $0.475 at 200 GB, $0.45 at 500 GB and $0.40 at 1,000 GB, and unused gigabytes roll over on GB-based plans rather than expiring at the end of the month. All plans are prepaid, with no contracts or monthly minimums stated.
The datacenter pool is listed at 197,000+ IPs across 62 countries, with HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 and HTTP/2 supported and a choice of time-based, session-based or new-IP-on-request rotation. Rollover is the underrated part of a datacenter buy: on a job with spiky volume, a month where you use 300 GB of a 500 GB plan does not cost you the difference.
Two catches. Coverage is uneven across products — 62 datacenter countries and 24 static ISP countries against 170+ for residential and mobile — so expect the datacenter footprint to thin out in smaller markets. And the offers do not reach this tier: the $1.97 trial excludes datacenter, and the EMPIRE50 discount covers rotating residential and mobile only. The 99.9% uptime figure is the provider's own, with no independent test cited.
Key features
- Rotating datacenter 5,000 GB at $1,750/month, $0.35/GB
- Datacenter tiers from $0.625/GB at 40 GB
- 197,000+ rotating datacenter IPs across 62 countries
- Rollover bandwidth on GB-based plans; prepaid, no contracts
- HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 and HTTP/2 with three rotation modes
- Trial and EMPIRE50 discount both exclude datacenter
Best suited for: best suited for sustained high-volume datacenter traffic where the per-gigabyte rate is the deciding number
6. Floppydata — Free datacenter trial, low bundles
4.2 / 5 for this job · from $0.63 / GB
Floppydata comes last, and age is as much the reason as anything: third-party records put the domain registration at April 2024, which is short for a proxy business and short for the track record you want under production traffic. What it does offer is the cheapest way to look before buying — a 100 MB free trial for datacenter specifically, not just a general credit — and small static datacenter bundles from $0.79 per IP per month in blocks of 20, 50 or 100.
Both datacenter billing shapes are present. Rotating traffic starts at $1.00/GB across residential, mobile and datacenter, with published volume steps: 96 GB of datacenter at $69.12 ($0.72/GB) and 120 GB at $75.60 ($0.63/GB). Static datacenter is per IP per month. The account is set up for scripts, with an API at api.floppydata.net authenticated by an X-Api-Key header, and targeting covers country, city, ASN and IP type. SOCKS5, HTTP and HTTPS are supported; cards run through Stripe and 50+ cryptocurrencies are accepted. SOC 2, CCPA and GDPR compliance are stated.
The catches are real. There is no phone support, documentation is thin on advanced setups such as custom rotation logic, and the 100 MB trial is a connectivity check rather than a load test. The 99.99% uptime, sub-0.3-second response and 95% clean-IP figures are provider claims with nothing independent behind them. For a first datacenter project on a small budget it is a low-risk place to start; for anything you cannot afford to re-architect later, the immaturity is the part to weigh.
Key features
- Static datacenter from $0.79/IP/month in bundles of 20, 50 or 100
- Rotating datacenter 120 GB at $75.60, $0.63/GB
- 100 MB free trial for datacenter, residential and mobile separately
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5; API at api.floppydata.net with X-Api-Key
- Cards via Stripe plus 50+ cryptocurrencies
- Domain registered April 2024, per third-party records
Best suited for: best suited for small first datacenter projects that want a free trial and low entry bundles
7. Oxylabs.io — Certified dedicated datacenter
4.0 / 5 for this job · from $0.40 / GB
Oxylabs sits seventh because the datacenter line is priced for buyers who need paperwork as much as addresses. The catalogue splits the tier three ways: Datacenter Proxies per IP from $1/IP, Dedicated Datacenter Proxies from $2/IP, and Datacenter Proxies per GB from $0.6/GB, falling to $0.55/GB on Basic, $0.45/GB on Flexible and $0.40/GB at enterprise level. Per-IP rates step down too — Datacenter Proxies per IP reach $0.9/IP on Basic and $0.8/IP on Flexible. Paying per gigabyte suits bursty jobs; paying per address suits anything that needs the same IP to survive a whole session.
The dedicated-versus-shared decision is where the money goes. A dedicated address is yours to burn, and nothing another customer does lands on it. The trade is that at $2/IP on Starter you are buying fewer addresses than the same budget gets you in shared per-IP stock, so subnet spread has to be planned rather than assumed. The provider declares 195 locations across its products, but the record gives no separate datacenter pool count: 177M+ is the total across the catalogue, 175M+ of it residential.
The catch is scope. ISO/IEC 27001:2022 names three products — Datacenter Proxies, Residential Proxies and Web API — and SOC 2 Type II names two endpoints, the Scrape endpoint and Web Unblocker, so certification is per product rather than company-wide. VAT may apply on Starter, Basic and Flexible, which moves the invoice off the headline rate. The cheapest paid plan is $30/month and enterprise starts at $2,500/month through sales, with only $5 in welcome credits to try anything first.
Key features
- Datacenter Proxies per IP from $1/IP, down to $0.9/IP on Basic and $0.8/IP on Flexible
- Dedicated Datacenter Proxies from $2/IP
- Datacenter Proxies per GB from $0.6/GB, down to $0.40/GB at enterprise tier
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 covers Datacenter Proxies, Residential Proxies and Web API
- SOC 2 Type II covers the Scrape endpoint and Web Unblocker
- VAT may apply on Starter, Basic and Flexible plans
Best suited for: compliance-led buyers who need a certified datacenter line and will pay per address rather than chase the lowest per-gigabyte rate
8. ChangeMyIP.com — Cheapest shared datacenter IPs
3.7 / 5 for this job · from $1
ChangeMyIP sits eighth because nothing else in this part of the table gets you a datacenter address for a dollar. Shared HTTP and shared SOCKS5 are both listed at $1.00, on 1Gb/s ports with unlimited bandwidth and no contract. The provider states the network spans multiple IP subnets, which matters more than raw count: addresses from one block tend to get blocked as one block, so a spread of subnets is what keeps a job running after a first refusal.
Shared is shared, though, and the provider says so plainly — multiple users sit on the same IP and bandwidth is shared, with performance that can suffer on busy servers. If that is a problem, dedicated HTTP is $1.80 and dedicated SOCKS5 $2.20. The protocol list is unusually wide for the price: ShadowSocks at $2.20, Trojan at $3.00, DNS proxy at $2.00 and Wireguard VPN at $4.00, which helps when a client only speaks one of them. Activation is instant, per the provider, and there is no long-term obligation. The company says it has sold HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies for more than twelve years.
Three things to plan around. A $10 minimum order applies even if you want a single $1.00 shared proxy. Torrents and paypal.com are blocked at proxy level on every product. And the 30-day money-back guarantee does not survive use — refunds are limited to bugs or slow performance — so the cheap entry price is not a free trial. The “fully anonymous and undetectable” wording on the site is marketing with no published independent test behind it.
Key features
- Shared HTTP proxy at $1.00; shared SOCKS5 at $1.00
- Dedicated HTTP $1.80, SOCKS5 $2.20, ShadowSocks $2.20, Trojan $3.00, DNS proxy $2.00, Wireguard VPN $4.00
- Unlimited bandwidth on 1Gb/s ports with multiple IP subnets
- $10 minimum order
- Torrents and paypal.com blocked at proxy level on every product
- 30-day money-back guarantee, void once the service has been used
Best suited for: cheap shared datacenter testing where a dollar an address and a wide protocol list matter more than clean neighbours
9. ProxySale.com — Static datacenter at $3/IP
2.9 / 5 for this job · from $0.06 / GB
Proxy-Sale sits ninth on a single number: static datacenter at $3/IP. That is the plainest per-address datacenter price in this part of the table, and for a job needing a handful of stable addresses rather than a rotating pool, it is most of the argument.
The rest of the record is residential, and the card should say so. The provider claims 86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries, with country, state and city targeting and HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 support. Declared figures are 99.9% uptime, a 99.5% average success rate on residential and a response time under 0.6s — all provider-stated, with no third-party audit shown. Static residential is $5/IP. Unlimited Residential carries no cap on IPs or traffic and bills at $69.68/Day, which is awkward for anything running longer than a day. The Web Scraper API bills only for successfully delivered results, from $0.39/1K results.
The catch on the datacenter line specifically is how little the record holds: one price of $3/IP, with no location list, no pool count and no statement of how many subnets the addresses are drawn from. You are buying on price and on the provider's wider record, not on published datacenter detail. The service is not available in mainland China by the provider's own policy, and the free trial covers the Web Scraper API only, not the proxy network.
Key features
- Static Data Center Proxy at $3/IP
- Static Residential Proxy at $5/IP
- Residential from $0.5/GB with country, state and city targeting
- Provider-declared 99.9% uptime, 99.5% success rate and response time under 0.6s
- Unlimited Residential Proxy at $69.68/Day
- Not available in mainland China, by the provider's own policy
Best suited for: small sets of static datacenter addresses at a flat $3/IP alongside a larger residential buy
10. Nsocks — Datacenter price on request
2.7 / 5 for this job
Nsocks sits tenth because it sells datacenter proxies as a separate product with separate billing and then does not publish what they cost. Price on request is no advantage on a page whose whole purpose is comparing unit rates, so it lands below the providers that print a number. What the record does show is the shape of the offer: static datacenter proxies as their own line alongside residential, ISP and unlimited products, over SOCKS5, HTTP and HTTPS.
The supporting detail is decent. The provider declares 190+ country and city-level regions, 99.95% uptime and 3,500+ clients. Integrations are listed for most major anti-detect browsers plus Playwright, Selenium and an API, and the dashboard carries traffic statistics. Payment covers crypto, Alipay, WeChat Pay and UPI as well as the usual card rails, and the interface runs in nine languages with 24/7 chat and email support.
The catches matter before you ask for a quote. There is no free trial, so pool quality cannot be checked before paying, and the provider states it does not support refunds on products sold. Third-party records put the founding date at 26 August 2024, which is a short operating history for something handling account work. The provider's own home page quotes two different pool sizes, 80M+ and 90M+ residential IPs — that inconsistency is on the residential side, but it is the sort of thing to raise when you ask for datacenter numbers, locations and subnet spread in writing.
Key features
- Datacenter proxies sold as a separate product with separate billing
- No datacenter price published in the record — quote required
- Static Data Center Proxies listed alongside residential, ISP and unlimited lines
- SOCKS5, HTTP and HTTPS
- 190+ country and city-level regions, provider-declared
- 99.95% uptime and 3,500+ clients, provider-declared
Best suited for: buyers already on Nsocks residential or ISP lines who want static datacenter addresses on the same account and billing
11. MobileProxy.Space — Dedicated datacenter add-on
2.2 / 5 for this job · from ₽490 / day
MobileProxy.Space sits eleventh because datacenter here is an add-on rather than the main business. The company sells mobile proxies by the day and lists dedicated datacenter as server (static) proxies under the same account, which is convenient if you already run mobile addresses and want a few fixed ones for tasks that do not need a handset.
Billing is by period with unlimited traffic, not per gigabyte: one day, seven days, 30 days, three months and a year are listed, with the 30-day plan at 120 and the one-year at 1,390. The record gives those figures without a currency, which is worth pinning down before ordering. Minimum rental is one day, so a short commitment is possible. Protocols are HTTP and SOCKS5, and the declared speed for server proxies is 100 Mb/s. The dashboard carries a proxy checker, port checks, a speed test and a browser extension, and there is an API plus an MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor, Python, Node.js, PHP and cURL. Refunds for unused time are offered in the provider's wording.
The catch is that the record is thin and inconsistent on this side. There is no location list and no pool count for server proxies, and the counts that do exist disagree between third-party records and the provider's own numbers — pool size ranging from 2M+ to 267,370,000 IPs, servers from 700+ to 1,356. Trial length is given as 2 hours in one record and 3 hours by the provider. Third parties flag the prices as relatively high, which is fair warning for the account as a whole.
Key features
- Dedicated datacenter sold as server (static) proxies, billed per period with unlimited traffic
- Server proxy plans from one day up to one year; 30 days listed at 120, one year at 1,390
- Declared server proxy speed of 100 Mb/s
- HTTP and SOCKS5
- Minimum rental period of one day
- Refunds for unused time, in the provider's wording
Best suited for: accounts already renting mobile addresses that need a few fixed datacenter IPs on the same invoice
Datacenter proxies proxies: questions we get
Are datacenter proxies legal to use?
In most countries, routing your own traffic through a proxy is legal. The separate question is the target's terms of service: automated collection is often prohibited by contract even where it is lawful, and the remedy is usually a block rather than a court. Breaching terms and breaking the law are different things, and it helps to know which one you are doing. Anything behind a login, personal data, or a payment system is where legal risk becomes real.
Will datacenter proxies work on Amazon or Google?
Partly, and it depends on the endpoint rather than the domain. A Google results page without JavaScript will often serve a datacenter address; a search that needs cookies, JavaScript and a realistic browser profile is much harder. Amazon runs heavy bot management across most of the catalogue. Expect high block rates and treat any datacenter pool as a volume experiment with a fallback tier, not a guaranteed route.
What is an ISP proxy, and how does it differ?
An ISP proxy is registered to a consumer internet provider but hosted in a datacenter, so the whois record looks residential while the speed and stability look like hosting. It sits between the two tiers and usually costs less than true residential. It is a reasonable middle ground for targets that block hosting ASNs but do not do deep client fingerprinting.
How many proxies do I need for a scraping job?
Work backwards from the target's tolerance, not from your desired speed. Measure how many requests one address can make before it is throttled or blocked, then divide your required request rate by that number and add headroom for burn. Most jobs need far fewer addresses than the first instinct suggests and a better request pattern instead.
Why does the proxy still show my real IP?
The usual causes are a DNS lookup that went out locally, a client that ignored the proxy setting for one library or subprocess, IPv6 traffic bypassing an IPv4-only proxy, or a browser leaking through WebRTC. A transparent proxy can also add your address in an X-Forwarded-For header. Check the exit address and the request headers before assuming the provider is at fault.
Can one datacenter address serve several accounts?
It can technically, and it is a bad idea. Platforms link accounts by IP history, cookies and timing, so a shared exit address turns one enforcement action into several. If accounts matter, give each one a dedicated address and keep its sessions separate. The saving per address is small compared with losing the accounts.
What is the difference between a proxy and a VPN?
A VPN usually redirects all traffic from the whole device through one exit. A proxy is configured per application or per request, so you can run several different exits at once and choose which one each job uses. For automated collection that selectivity is the point; for ordinary privacy browsing the VPN is simpler.
Do datacenter proxies handle HTTPS properly?
Yes, through the CONNECT method, which opens a tunnel and leaves the TLS session between your client and the target intact. Certificate errors appear when something is intercepting the connection, usually a misconfigured proxy or a client that has been pointed at an HTTP port for an HTTPS URL. A correctly configured HTTPS proxy never asks you to trust its certificate.
How fast do datacenter addresses get blocked?
There is no general answer, because it depends entirely on the target's defences and your request pattern. Against unprotected sites, an address can last indefinitely. Against aggressive bot management, a fresh hosting IP can be classified on the first request. That spread is why testing a small set for a day before committing to a large order is worth the time.
Are free datacenter proxies safe to use?
Treat them as test fixtures, not infrastructure. Free lists are scraped, shared between thousands of people and frequently dead, and an operator you have not chosen can log or modify anything sent through the connection. Never send credentials, tokens or customer data through one. Use them to test your client configuration, then move to a paid address for anything real.
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