The short answer
- 1 MobileProxy.Space Dedicated mobile IPs by the day Visit site
- 2 ProxyEmpire Carrier-targeted mobile at scale Visit site
- 3 Novada Widest carrier coverage Visit site
13 best mobile proxy providers, compared
| # | Provider | Fit | From | Readers | Protocols | Links |
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| 1 | 4.8/5 | ₽490 / day | 83% | SOCKS5, HTTP | ||
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Mobile plans bill per day with unlimited traffic, IP rotation on a timer or API link, and 30+ countries and 130+ operators in third-party records. Good for this job
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| 2 | 4.5/5 | $0.35 / GB | 90% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, HTTP/2 | ||
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Rotating mobile is listed at 4M+ IPs across 170+ countries with country, city and carrier targeting; dedicated USA 5G is $20/day unlimited. Good for this job
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| 3 | 4.4/5 | $0.50 / GB | 88% | HTTP(S) | ||
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Mobile inventory of 2M+ IPs with 120+ carriers, priced from $1.5/GB on the provider's figures. Good for this job
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| 4 | 4.3/5 | $0.08 / GB | 100% | HTTP(S), SOCKS5 | ||
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Mobile proxies from $2.25/GB with 195+ locations and rotating or sticky sessions of up to 30 minutes. Good for this job
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| 5 | 4.2/5 | $5 / proxy | 85% | — | ||
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Mobile proxies are $15 per proxy/month against $5 residential, with 150+ locations and volume discounts from 10 proxies. Good for this job
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| 6 | 4.1/5 | $0.63 / GB | 86% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Mobile sits in the rotating pool at $2.36/GB for 96GB and $2.07/GB for 120GB, with a 100MB mobile trial and 190+ locations. Good for this job
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| 7 | 4.0/5 | $2 / GB | 80% | HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Mobile and residential share one bandwidth plan, with unlimited rotation, change-IP-by-link and Smart Sessions that stay on one carrier. Good for this job
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| 8 | 3.9/5 | $2.20 / GB | 88% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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250K real-device 5G/LTE mobile IPs, 195+ locations, sticky sessions up to 24 hours and sub-0.6s mobile speed, all provider-declared. Good for this job
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| 9 | 3.8/5 | $0.40 / GB | 100% | — | ||
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Mobile proxies are metered by GB from $7.5 on Starter down to $3.5 at enterprise, but no mobile pool size or carrier list is published. Good for this job
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| 10 | 3.4/5 | $0.30 / GB | 96% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Mobile reaches only 20+ countries but names Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange and supports 5G/4G/LTE; mobile starts at $10/IP. Good for this job
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| 11 | 3.2/5 | $2 | 82% | HTTP/S | ||
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Rotating mobile carries 30-minute sticky sessions and unlimited threads, with a 4GB mobile plan at $70; no country count is published. Good for this job
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| 12 | 2.5/5 | $2 / GB | 88% | SOCKS4, SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Mobile is sold only for Poland and Ukraine, but at $7 for 3 days, $15 for 7 days or $45 for 30 days with unlimited traffic. Good for this job
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| 13 | 2.2/5 | $1 | 82% | — | ||
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Mobile appears as a product family, but no mobile pricing, country count or pool size is published anywhere in the record. 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.
How a mobile proxy works
A mobile proxy is not a server in a data centre pretending to be a phone. It is a real SIM in a real modem — a rack of them, or a bank of handsets — with a gateway in front of it. You connect to the gateway. The gateway forwards your traffic over the carrier's data connection. The request leaves the operator's network through the operator's own internet gateway. What the target site logs is an address belonging to that mobile network.
Three consequences explain most of the behaviour that confuses first-time buyers.
- The address is not yours. The carrier assigns it when the data session comes up and reclaims it when the session goes down. You rent a port, not an IP.
- The address is shared. Hundreds of real handsets sit behind the same public address because of carrier-grade NAT. That is the whole point, not a shortcoming.
- Rotating means reconnecting. A new address needs a new data session, which is why rotation takes seconds rather than being instantaneous.
Configuration is ordinary proxy configuration. The gateway speaks HTTP CONNECT or SOCKS5, normally with a username and password, and often with the session or rotation instruction encoded inside that username. In a shell it is one line:
curl -x http://USER:PASS@HOST:PORT https://api.ipify.org
In a browser it is the same host and port in the connection settings. In Selenium or Playwright it goes on the browser launch arguments, not on individual requests. Nothing in your client needs to know that a handset is involved at the other end.
Why carrier NAT makes these hard to block
A platform that wants to keep automated traffic out has four options: block the address, block the network it belongs to, rate-limit, or challenge. Blocking a datacentre address costs nothing — nobody's grandmother is on it. Blocking a mobile address means blocking everyone behind it, and behind a carrier-grade NAT that is a street, a town, sometimes considerably more. Blocking the network as a whole means shutting out the operator itself, which in a single-operator country means most of a nation's phone traffic. Few commercial sites will accept that cost to deter one scraper.
The second reason is churn. Mobile addresses come and go within a session window, so reputation systems have little time to build a history against one. An address used for something ugly this morning may be reassigned by the afternoon, and the next person inherits a clean slate.
The awkward part: a mobile address buys you the benefit of the doubt on address reputation and nothing else. If your browser fingerprint, cookie set, login pattern or request rate looks automated, a mobile IP only means the block is aimed at you personally rather than at your subnet. Large sites increasingly weigh TLS and browser fingerprinting, behavioural signals and account history above address type. Mobile is a strong card, not a whole hand.
4G, 5G and what the generation changes
Most mobile pools are LTE. 4G gives you tens of megabits down, workable latency and the same shared-address structure as everything else on a mobile network. That is enough for scraping, account work and app testing.
5G changes three things and leaves the rest alone. Throughput goes up, latency comes down, and a single port handles heavier jobs — video, large uploads, media-heavy app testing. What it does not change: your address is still carrier-assigned and still shared with other subscribers, and the network it belongs to is still what the target sees. A 5G port from an operator is not harder to block than that operator's 4G port. Anyone selling 5G as a stealth upgrade is selling you bandwidth.
Whether you can buy 5G at all depends on where the operator has deployed it and whether the host's modems support it. It is not available in every country on every carrier, and 5G coverage claims on a sales page often mean one city on one network.
One detail worth checking regardless of generation: IPv6. Some mobile networks hand the handset a real, routable IPv6 address alongside the NATed IPv4 one. If the gateway does not force IPv6 off, or your client prefers it, requests can leave over a stable per-device IPv6 address that undoes the entire point of rotating. Test with a dual-stack endpoint and confirm which family is answering.
Read the carrier list, not the country count. A pool described as covering a country may have one operator there, and that operator's addresses may geolocate to a central gateway city rather than where you expect. Carrier lists on mobile pages are always shorter than the residential country lists next to them.
Renting by the day against paying per gigabyte
Mobile is sold two ways, and the difference in cost for the same job is large.
- Per port per day, week or month. A flat fee for a port you control. Traffic is usually generous but capped by a fair-use allowance, concurrency is limited to a handful of sessions, and rotation happens when you ask for it.
- Per gigabyte. Metered. You pay for what passes through. Ports are shared with other customers and rotation is often automatic every few minutes or on each new session — convenient, but you cannot decide when it happens.
The arithmetic is simple once you know two numbers: gigabytes per job and hours per job. Estimate the traffic by running the same crawl once through a cheap metered connection and counting bytes. Block images, fonts, CSS and video unless the job needs rendering, and the figure drops by an order of magnitude. Then compare. A job that shifts several gigabytes in a few hours is almost always cheaper on a day rental. A job that sends ten thousand small API calls and receives JSON is almost always cheaper per gigabyte.
The two common traps are buying a day rental for a twenty-minute task and paying per gigabyte for something that streams media for six hours. Watch two terms in either model: the fair-use cap on a "flat" port, which is real and enforced by throttling or suspension, and the minimum commitment. Some gateways bill monthly with a floor, so a two-day job can cost a month.
How to rotate a mobile address
Ask how rotation is triggered before you buy, because the mechanism decides whether your code can drive it. There are four patterns.
- By API call. You hit a rotation URL and the gateway drops and re-establishes the session.
curl "https://HOST/rotate?key=YOURKEY", then check the new address. Scriptable and predictable. - By timer. The gateway rotates every N minutes on its own. Fine for background crawling, useless when you need a fresh address on demand.
- By reconnect. You reset the data session from the provider's panel or toggle the port offline and on. The address changes because the session was torn down. Nothing your cloud client does can force it by itself.
- By session identifier. You embed an identifier in the username — commonly something like
USER-session-abc123:PASS— and every request carrying it leaves by the same address until you change it. This is a sticky session, and it is the one to want for anything involving a login.
Confirm the result rather than trusting it. Clear cookies, then check the exit address:
curl -x http://USER:PASS@HOST:PORT https://api.ipify.org
Then check the address family, network and geolocation with what is my IP or the proxy checker. An address that changed but still belongs to the same carrier is normal. An address that changed to a datacentre range means the port is not what it claimed to be.
One practical note: reconnecting too fast often hands back the same address. Carriers hold a released address for a short window before returning it to the pool, so give it several seconds, and expect the occasional repeat even then. Build the retry into the script rather than assuming one call always means a new IP.
What a mobile proxy costs
Mobile is the most expensive proxy type per unit of traffic, and the reason is structural rather than greedy. Each port needs a SIM, a data plan, a modem and physical space, and the operator charges for that data the way it charges a phone. On top of that you are paying for the address itself, which is the scarce part of the product.
Prices are quoted per port per day or per gigabyte, and both figures sit well above the residential equivalents; per-gigabyte mobile commonly runs several times a residential rate. The table above carries current entry prices — use it rather than any rule of thumb.
What to weigh when comparing:
- Sharing level. A port shared with many customers is cheaper and, up to a point, harder to single out. But if the sharing is heavy enough that the address is already rate-limited by the sites you need, you have saved money on something you cannot use.
- Traffic allowance. Compare the fair-use cap against your measured gigabytes. A port described as unlimited with a soft cap is not unlimited.
- Concurrency. Cheap ports often cap simultaneous sessions below your scraper's thread count. Ask before you build around it.
- Minimum spend. Monthly floors turn a short job into an expensive one.
The awkward part about pricing is that quality is invisible in the number. Two ports at the same price can differ enormously in how well their addresses are maintained, and the only cheap test is to buy the smallest unit, run your real job against it and watch how the target responds. Short trials exist for exactly this. Use one before committing to a month.
Budget on the free option being wrong, too. Free lists are genuinely useful for checking configuration and testing a script against a working proxy, but mobile ports are not given away: the SIM and the data are paid for by somebody. Anything advertised as free mobile is a trial, a datacentre address in disguise, or an open gateway somebody else is paying for. The free proxy list is the right tool for plumbing tests, not for account work.
Mistakes that waste a mobile port
Most of the money lost on mobile proxies is lost to a handful of avoidable habits.
- Downloading images, CSS, fonts and video. On a metered plan this is most of your bill and none of your data. Block it at the client unless the job needs rendering.
- Not rotating at all. Hundreds of requests from one address in a short window is the pattern that gets a mobile address rate-limited, and it wastes the main advantage you paid for.
- Rotating on every single request. It looks less human, not more, breaks sessions mid-flow, and each reconnect costs a few seconds of dead time. Rotate per session or per account, not per HTTP call.
- Leaving the geography inconsistent. An address that geolocates to one country while the browser reports another timezone, language and locale is a bigger flag than the address ever was. Match the profile to the exit.
- Assuming the address is exclusive. It is not, and treating it as clean is how people get challenged on the first request.
- Running datacentre concurrency. A phone connection has a real bandwidth ceiling and the gateway has a session limit. Fifty parallel connections produce timeouts, retries and eventually a suspension for abuse.
- Letting IPv6 or WebRTC leak. Either can hand the target a stable identifier that makes the rotating IPv4 pointless. Test once with a leak checker and disable what you do not need.
- Carrying cookies across a rotation. If the point was to look like a new visitor, the old session cookie says otherwise.
- Paying for a day and using 300 MB. Measure first, then pick the billing model.
The habit that prevents most of these is a two-minute check before the real job: confirm the exit address, its family, its network and its geolocation, and confirm that rotation actually changes it. Reading reviews before buying helps as well — the provider reviews cover how support handles a dead port, which is the thing most likely to ruin a run.
What to look for
- Carriers and countries
- A mobile pool is only useful where its carriers are, and carrier lists are much shorter than residential country lists.
- Billing by time or by traffic
- Mobile is sold both ways, and for a short data-heavy job renting a port by the day is far cheaper than paying per gigabyte.
- How the address is rotated
- Rotation by link, by timer or by reconnect — the mechanism decides whether your tooling can control it.
- How shared the address is
- Carrier NAT is the whole value: an address used by thousands of real phones is expensive for a platform to block.
- What a mobile address costs
- Mobile is the most expensive type per unit of traffic, so it belongs on the targets that need it.
Every provider, in order
1. MobileProxy.Space — Dedicated mobile IPs by the day
4.8 / 5 for this job · from ₽490 / day
MobileProxy.Space takes the top row because it sells mobile the way a short campaign wants it: a port rented by the day at a fixed price with no traffic meter, rather than a gigabyte counter that starts running the moment work begins. The minimum rental is one day, from ₽490, and mobile plans bill by rental period with unlimited traffic. For a job measured in hours — a drop, a ticket window, a registration burst — that shape usually undercuts per-gigabyte mobile at any rate.
Rotation is on a timer or by hitting an API link, and the provider states an IP change time of 2–7 seconds, which matters if your tooling needs a fresh address between attempts rather than on a schedule. Each mobile proxy is listed at up to 250 simultaneous connections, so a browser farm can share one port. The provider says dead proxies are replaced automatically, and refunds are offered for unused time in the provider's wording. Dedicated datacenter and residential lines sit under the same account, HTTP and SOCKS5 are supported, and there is an API plus an MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor, Python, Node.js, PHP and cURL.
The catch is that the numbers disagree with each other. The provider's own figures put the pool at 267,370,000 addresses, 53 countries, 223 cellular operators and 1,356 servers; third-party records say 2M+, 30+ countries, 130+ operators and 700+ servers. Trial length is 2 hours in one record and 3 in the provider's. Third-party write-ups call the prices relatively high, and there are reports of wrong geographical locations, laggy proxies and late-night maintenance windows. Take the day rate as the reason to be here, and confirm your country on the trial before committing.
Key features
- Mobile from ₽490/day, minimum rental period 1 day
- Unlimited traffic on mobile plans, billed by rental period
- Rotation on a timer or by API link; 2–7 second IP change (provider)
- Up to 250 simultaneous connections per mobile proxy (provider)
- HTTP and SOCKS5; API and MCP server
- Provider and third-party figures disagree on pool size, countries and operators
Best suited for: short campaigns where a mobile port is rented by the day and traffic is unmetered
2. ProxyEmpire — Carrier-targeted mobile at scale
4.5 / 5 for this job · from $0.35 / GB
ProxyEmpire earns second place on carrier targeting rather than on price. Mobile targeting runs to country, city and carrier across a rotating mobile pool the provider puts at 4M+ addresses in 170+ countries, with IP session control by time, by session or by requesting a new address — so the same account can hold one carrier address through a checkout flow and rotate hard for a listing crawl.
Billing is per gigabyte with rollover, so unused GB does not expire, which softens the fact that mobile is the expensive type. Rotating mobile starts at $4.50/GB pay-as-you-go and falls through the tiers to $2.00/GB on the 1,000 GB plan, with custom volume from $1.25/GB; EMPIRE50 takes 50% off rotating mobile but not flat-rate plans. Flat-rate is where dedicated mobile sits: USA 5G at $20/day, $75/week or $250/mo with unlimited traffic, and a multi-country dedicated line at $125/mo. HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 and HTTP/2 are supported, there are no contracts or monthly minimums, and static ISP, datacenter and residential lines sit in the same account if the job turns out to need a mix.
The awkward part is the dedicated side. Coverage there is 5+ countries and 50+ locations, and the record describes the targeting as narrowing to country, city and carrier. Coverage across the range is described as uneven. If the job is carrier-specific in a country outside those few, the rotating pool is what you are buying, and you pay by the gigabyte for it.
Key features
- Rotating mobile: 4M+ IPs, 170+ countries (provider)
- Mobile targeting by country, city and carrier
- Rotating mobile from $4.50/GB with rollover on unused GB
- Dedicated mobile: 5+ countries, 50+ locations
- USA 5G dedicated from $20/day with unlimited traffic
- HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 and HTTP/2
Best suited for: carrier-targeted mobile collection at volume where rollover bandwidth matters
3. Novada — Widest carrier coverage
4.4 / 5 for this job · from $0.50 / GB
Novada sits third because it publishes a carrier count where most of this list publishes only locations. Its mobile inventory is given separately at 2M+ 3G/4G/5G addresses across 120+ carriers, priced from $1.5/GB. If the job is checking how a page behaves on a particular operator's network, or keeping addresses inside one carrier's NAT range, that carrier figure is what decides whether the target is reachable at all.
The rest of the account is broad: 100M+ residential addresses across 195+ countries with city-level targeting, rotating datacenter, static ISP and rotating ISP lines, and scraping APIs drawing on a single credit balance. Session control is stated as 1–120 minute windows, HTTP(S) is supported, mobile is sold per gigabyte, and new accounts get $10 in credit without a card. Compliance is published as GDPR and CCPA alongside a consent-based sourcing claim, and support runs 24/7 with dedicated account managers.
The catches are worth reading before committing. Unlimited Proxies, IPv6 Proxies and Datasets have no published price and go through an account manager. The headline 99.99% success rate is given as 99% for rotating datacenter, so the top-line number does not clearly cover every pool. The free trial covers the Scraper API only, and a $10 credit is not the same thing. The record gives no mobile rotation mechanism beyond session windows and no carrier list, so a specific operator still needs confirming. Carrier breadth is the argument; the paperwork around it is thinner.
Key features
- Mobile: 2M+ 3G/4G/5G IPs across 120+ carriers (provider)
- Mobile proxies from $1.5/GB
- Residential: 100M+ IPs, 195+ countries with city-level targeting
- Session control stated at 1–120 minutes
- HTTP(S) support; $10 credit without a card
- GDPR and CCPA compliance published
Best suited for: jobs that need a named mobile carrier rather than just a country
4. Decodo (ex Smartproxy) — Mobile across 195+ locations
4.3 / 5 for this job · from $0.08 / GB
Smartproxy — Decodo since April 2025 — is here for reach rather than mobile depth. Mobile proxies start at $2.25/GB, but the figure the card rests on is 195+ locations and the targeting that comes with it: continent, country, state, city, ZIP code and ASN. If the mobile job is a city-level ad check or a localised price comparison, naming a ZIP is worth more than a bigger pool.
Sessions rotate per request or stick for up to 30 minutes, which suits a login-and-checkout flow as well as a crawl. HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 are both supported, so older SOCKS5-only clients connect unchanged. The wider pool is 125M+ addresses with 115M+ residential, and the provider quotes 99.92% success and sub-0.5s average response time on residential rather than mobile. Entry is cheap: a 3-day, 100 MB trial plus a Web Data API starter with $5 in credits. SDKs, MCP, CLI, n8n, LangChain and LlamaIndex integrations cover most tooling, and card, PayPal, Alipay, Google Pay, Apple Pay and crypto are all accepted.
The catch is what the record does not say. It gives no mobile pool size and no carrier count, so mobile coverage is being inferred from a locations figure that is mostly residential. The 3-day trial and the 14-day money-back option are mutually exclusive, refunds are first-purchase only and capped at under 20% of a residential plan's traffic, and pay-as-you-go at $4/GB is wallet-only and cannot be combined with a subscription. Note the impersonator: smartproxy.org has no connection to the company, and decodo.com is the official site.
Key features
- Mobile proxies from $2.25/GB
- 195+ locations; targeting to city, ZIP code and ASN
- Sticky sessions up to 30 minutes, or rotate per request
- HTTP(S) and SOCKS5
- 3-day, 100 MB trial; Web Data API starter with $5 credit
- Renamed from Smartproxy to Decodo in April 2025
Best suited for: city- and ZIP-level mobile work where location precision beats pool size
5. ASocks.com — Per-proxy mobile billing
4.2 / 5 for this job · from $5 / proxy
ASocks.com takes fifth because it prices mobile per proxy rather than per gigabyte. A mobile proxy is $15 per month, with residential and corporate lines at $5, and volume discounts are published at 10 proxies (5%), 50 (10%) and 100 (15%). If you know how many ports a job needs and traffic is either unpredictable or heavy, a flat monthly rate per port is easier to budget than a meter, and it removes the incentive to ration requests.
The provider claims 150+ locations and 7M+ IP addresses across its three product lines, a 99.7% connection success rate, 100,000+ clients, and 24/7 support with an average first response under 10 minutes. The infrastructure is described as the provider's own, linked to cleaner addresses and fewer bans, with new features said to ship weekly and the pool growing daily in geography and address count. On the record here, mobile is a single line item at a fixed price, which is the point: what you buy is a port, not a traffic allowance.
Two warnings. Every headline figure — 99.7%, 150+ locations, 7M+ addresses, 100,000+ clients — is provider-reported and unaudited, so treat them as claims. And the record states no rotation mechanism for mobile, no carrier count and no indicator of whether mobile traffic is unlimited; the $15 is a per-proxy monthly price and nothing more specific. For a job that needs a known number of stable mobile ports, that is enough. For a job that needs carrier-specific rotation on demand, ask first.
Key features
- Mobile at $15 per proxy/month
- Residential and corporate at $5 per proxy/month
- Volume discounts: 5% from 10 proxies, 10% from 50, 15% from 100
- 150+ locations, 7M+ IPs, 99.7% connection success (provider-reported)
- Provider-owned infrastructure; 24/7 support with stated response under 10 minutes
- 100,000+ clients claimed (provider-reported, unaudited)
Best suited for: buyers who want a fixed number of mobile ports at a flat monthly price per proxy
6. Floppydata — Bulk mobile with free trial
4.1 / 5 for this job · from $0.63 / GB
Floppydata is sixth, and the reason it is on the list at all is the trial. There is a 100 MB free trial for each of residential, datacenter and mobile, so mobile can be checked for connectivity in the country you need before money moves. That is a lower bar to entry than most of this table, and it comes with rotating traffic from $1.00/GB shared across residential, mobile and datacenter.
Mobile is sold by volume with open bulk tiers: 96 GB at $226.56 ($2.36/GB), 120 GB at $247.80 ($2.07/GB), custom above that. There is no per-day port rental here, so this suits a large collection job better than a two-hour data-heavy burst. The provider publishes 190+ locations, country, city, ASN and IP-type targeting, SOC 2, CCPA and GDPR compliance, a 95% clean IP rate and an API at api.floppydata.net authenticated with an X-Api-Key header. Payment is cards via Stripe plus 50+ cryptocurrencies including USDT, BTC, ETH, LTC and SOL, and support runs over live chat, email and Telegram.
The catch is maturity and the small print. The company dates from April 2024, there is no phone support, and documentation is thin for advanced setups such as custom rotation logic. The 100 MB per-type trial is a connectivity check, not a load test — it will not show how the pool holds up under sustained scraping. Uptime of 99.99% and sub-0.3-second response times are provider claims, and the record gives locations rather than a mobile carrier count. Use it for bulk mobile where the price per gigabyte decides and some unknowns are acceptable.
Key features
- Rotating traffic from $1.00/GB across residential, mobile and datacenter
- Mobile 120 GB at $247.80 ($2.07/GB)
- 100 MB free trial for each of residential, datacenter and mobile
- 190+ locations; country, city, ASN and IP-type targeting
- SOC 2, CCPA and GDPR; 95% clean IP rate (provider)
- API at api.floppydata.net with X-Api-Key authentication
Best suited for: bulk mobile collection where the free connectivity trial and per-gigabyte tiers decide it
7. AnyIP.io — Mobile with link-based IP changes
4.0 / 5 for this job · from $2 / GB
AnyIP.io sits seventh because it treats mobile as one half of a single plan rather than a separate product: residential and mobile proxies come at one price with only bandwidth metered, so a job that needs a handful of carrier addresses does not need a second contract. For mobile work the mechanism matters more than the pool size, and here change-IP-by-link is included rather than sold as an add-on, so your tooling can request a new address over HTTP without a reconnect routine. Smart Sessions keep the address inside the same carrier and area, which is what you want when a target checks that the ASN and the location agree.
Rotation is unlimited, concurrency is unlimited, and sticky sessions run up to 7 days, so the same account covers a checkout flow that needs a stable address for a week and a run that wants a new one per request. Filtering reaches country, ISP, region and precise GPS coordinates. IP collision prevention lowers the chance of landing on an address another customer is using at the same moment, which only matters when a target rate-limits per IP, but then it matters a lot.
The catch is the price ladder. The advertised $2/GB is the Enterprise rate on a 500GB plan at $1000 per month; extra traffic is $5/GB on Micro and $4/GB on Basic, which is expensive for mobile once you are moving volume. 38+ countries is a short list against residential-first providers, so check your carrier countries before committing. There is no free trial — Micro at $25 for 5GB is the trial — and the 14-day money-back guarantee covers card purchases only, not crypto.
Key features
- Mobile and residential proxies on one plan, bandwidth the only metered item
- Change IP by link included as standard
- Smart Sessions keep the address within one carrier and area
- Sticky sessions up to 7 days; unlimited rotation and concurrency
- 38+ countries; extra traffic $5/GB on Micro, $4/GB on Basic
- 14-day money-back guarantee applies to card payments only
Best suited for: work where the script itself rotates the address by link, in a carrier country on the 38+ list, without paying separate residential and mobile bills
8. NodeMaven — Long sticky mobile sessions
3.9 / 5 for this job · from $2.20 / GB
NodeMaven sits eighth because its mobile argument is session length rather than breadth: sticky sessions run up to 24 hours with unlimited concurrent sessions, which suits the jobs where a mobile address has to survive a multi-step flow — account warm-up, a checkout, a form that checks the same IP across several requests. Rotation exists, but the 24-hour hold is the thing you are paying for.
The mobile pool is 250K real-device 5G/LTE addresses per the provider, against 30M+ residential, with 195+ locations and geo-targeting to 190+ countries down to ZIP level. Declared average speed for mobile is under 0.6s. The same account carries residential and ISP products, so mobile can be reserved for the few targets that actually need a carrier address while residential absorbs the bulk. Traffic rollover applies, targeting reaches country, city and ISP, and the quality guarantee pays $1 in bonus traffic for each confirmed blacklisted proxy. Entry is a $3.50, 750 MB demo, and the lowest monthly plan is 2 GB at $8.5.
The awkward parts: per-gigabyte billing gets expensive fast at mobile traffic levels, which is the wrong shape for a data-heavy job — if you need hundreds of gigabytes, renting a port by time elsewhere will undercut this. Smaller locations are reported to be uneven in depth, so a narrow city target may disappoint. Mobile pool figures differ between sources: 250K from the provider against 295K+ in third-party records. There is no free trial, and a third-party write-up says the free-trial route is limited to registered companies that pass KYC. Refunds are pro-rated.
Key features
- Sticky mobile sessions up to 24 hours, unlimited concurrent sessions
- 250K real-device 5G/LTE mobile IPs alongside 30M+ residential
- Geo-targeting to 190+ countries, down to ZIP level
- Declared mobile average speed under 0.6s
- Lowest monthly plan 2 GB at $8.5; 750 MB demo $3.50
- Pro-rated refunds rather than full
Best suited for: flows that need one mobile address held for most of a day, with the mobile pool used sparingly alongside a larger residential allowance
9. Oxylabs.io — Enterprise mobile by the gigabyte
3.8 / 5 for this job · from $0.40 / GB
Oxylabs sits ninth because it is the one here where mobile is priced on a published ladder rather than a quote: $7.5/GB at Starter, $6.67/GB at Basic, $5/GB at Flexible and $3.5/GB at Enterprise, with the traffic allowance rising at each step. That makes a budget possible before you talk to anyone, which is the whole reason to read the card. Enterprise starts at $2,500/month and carries 714+ GB of mobile traffic.
For mobile specifically the trade is blunt. The rate per gigabyte is high at entry, and the Starter plan at $30/month buys up to 4 GB of mobile traffic — enough to check whether a target behaves differently over a carrier address, not enough to run a campaign on. What surrounds it is the enterprise apparatus: 177M+ IPs claimed in total, 195 locations, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 covering three named products and SOC 2 Type II covering two named endpoints, Technology E&O and cyber insurance, GDPR and EU AI Act alignment. Compliance-heavy procurement gets a paper trail here that most mobile sellers cannot produce. One subscription carries the whole catalogue, and there is $5 in welcome credits.
The weakness is proportionality. Mobile is the most expensive type per unit of traffic and Oxylabs prices it that way, so it belongs on the targets that need a carrier address and nowhere else. Certification scope is per product, not company-wide, so do not read the badge as covering the mobile pool. VAT may apply on Starter, Basic and Flexible, so the headline rate is not always the invoice, and Bitcoin is not accepted.
Key features
- Mobile rates published per tier: $7.5/GB Starter, $6.67/GB Basic, $5/GB Flexible, $3.5/GB Enterprise
- Enterprise from $2,500/month with 714+ GB of mobile traffic
- 195 locations; 177M+ IPs claimed across the catalogue
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II, each scoped to named products
- Technology E&O and cyber insurance, GDPR and EU AI Act alignment
- $5 welcome credits; no free monthly tier
Best suited for: procurement-reviewed buying where mobile volumes are known in advance and the budget has to be modelled from published per-gigabyte rates
10. Proxy-Seller — Named-carrier mobile, thin footprint
3.4 / 5 for this job · from $0.30 / GB
Proxy-Seller sits tenth because it names its carriers: Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange across 5G/4G/LTE. That is useful when a target's behaviour depends on which network the address belongs to, and it is more than most lists give you, which usually stop at a country and leave the carrier to chance. Mobile coverage reaches 20+ countries, and mobile pricing starts at $10/IP — a per-address model rather than a per-gigabyte one, which changes the arithmetic entirely for a job that is long on time and short on traffic.
The rest of the catalogue is why it holds a place at all: 47M+ rotating residential IPs across 220+ locations, six proxy types under one account with no monthly lock-ins stated, $0.30/GB residential entry pricing, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certification, DPA/SCC readiness and an EWDCI trust seal. 24/7 human support is advertised with a 30-second median reply. If mobile is one slice of a wider job, keeping it on the same account and the same invoice as residential is worth something operationally.
The catch is the footprint. 20+ countries for mobile against 220+ residential locations is a much thinner map, so if your target sits outside the carriers it names, the mobile pool may simply not reach it. Uptime, success-rate and response-time figures are the provider's own, with no independent test cited, so treat the 99.7% and 99.5%+ as claims to check against your own target rather than assurances. The mobile line is a useful add-on, not a mobile-first product.
Key features
- Mobile carriers named: Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange
- 5G/4G/LTE across 20+ countries
- Mobile from $10/IP; residential from $0.30/GB
- 47M+ rotating residential IPs across 220+ locations
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certified; DPA/SCC ready
- Performance figures are provider-declared, no independent test cited
Best suited for: jobs where the carrier identity matters and mobile is bought per address alongside a larger residential order on one account
11. Live Proxies — Rotating mobile, unlimited threads
3.2 / 5 for this job · from $2
Live Proxies sits eleventh because its mobile offer is built around throughput rather than pool depth: no concurrency limit, unlimited threads and unlimited requests, with 30-minute sticky sessions on rotating mobile and 60-minute sessions on rotating residential. The provider describes private IP allocation — addresses it says are unique and shared only with you — which is the opposite of the carrier-NAT argument that makes mobile valuable elsewhere. A dedicated address is cleaner to work with; it is also easier for a platform to single out. Know which of those you are buying.
Billing can be metered or unmetered. Rotating mobile starts at $55.00/plan, and a 30-day mobile plan with 50 IPs and 4 GB is $70.00; unused bandwidth rolls over to the standby plan. Dashboard access, API access and IP whitelisting are included, and a dedicated account manager comes with the account. Activation is quoted at about 10 minutes, with network activation possibly taking up to 20.
The problems are legibility and consistency. Home page prices of $45.00, $65.00 and $55.00 do not reconcile with a pricing page stating B2C plans start from $70, and static residential is listed at $65.00/plan while that same page marks it permanently unavailable. SOCKS5 is B2B only, so B2C stacks needing it are out of scope. The free trial goes to custom-plan users after an agreement, with B2C buyers told to buy a small plan instead. Geography is described as available countries or state-level options with no count, and state IPs are US only. The 3.6 rating reflects that muddle rather than the network.
Key features
- Rotating mobile from $55.00/plan; 50-IP, 4 GB mobile plan $70.00 for 30 days
- Unlimited threads, no concurrency limit, unlimited requests
- 30-minute sticky sessions on rotating mobile, 60 minutes on residential
- Private IP allocation — addresses shared only with the buyer
- Unused bandwidth rolls over to the standby plan
- SOCKS5 on the B2B tier only
Best suited for: high-thread mobile work on a small number of dedicated addresses where price and trial terms can be confirmed with sales before purchase
12. GonzoProxy — Cheapest two-country mobile rental
2.5 / 5 for this job · from $2 / GB
GonzoProxy sits twelfth because its mobile is the cheapest route onto a carrier address on this list and also the narrowest: mobile proxies cover Poland and Ukraine only. Rented by time rather than traffic — $7 for 3 days, $15 for 7 days, $45 for 30 days, all with unlimited traffic — that structure suits a short, data-heavy job where per-gigabyte billing would punish you. A single-country plan is $135 for Ukraine and the same for Poland.
For a job targeting those two markets it is hard to beat on cost. Elsewhere it is simply the wrong tool, and the residential strength does not fix that: the 20M+ IP pool and 190-country coverage are residential, not mobile, and the two are not interchangeable when a platform is checking for a carrier ASN. Outside mobile the record is reasonable — targeting to country, city, state, continent, ZIP and ASN, sticky sessions up to 72 hours, unlimited concurrent connections, traffic that never expires, no KYC with access quoted at about 30 seconds, ready configs for the main antidetect browsers, and a REST API.
The catches accumulate. The demo is not free at $1.99 for 0.3 GB, with a separate Trial row at $4.50 for 1 GB. Two published residential plan ladders quote different per-GB rates for the same volumes, which makes the sticker price hard to pin down. The dashboard lacks detailed per-request logs, there is no browser extension and no desktop app, and the published speed and success-rate figures are the provider's own without independent verification on its site.
Key features
- Mobile proxies in Poland and Ukraine only
- Mobile rented by time: $7 for 3 days, $15 for 7 days, $45 for 30 days, unlimited traffic
- Single-country mobile plans at $135 each
- Residential pool of 20M+ IPs across 190 countries, targeting to ZIP and ASN
- Sticky sessions up to 72 hours; unlimited concurrent connections
- No KYC, with access quoted at about 30 seconds
Best suited for: short unlimited-traffic mobile campaigns aimed at Poland or Ukraine, where paying by the day beats paying by the gigabyte
13. ChangeMyIP.com — Mobile listed, specs unpublished
2.2 / 5 for this job · from $1
Thirteenth of seventeen, and the reason is simple: mobile is on the product list at ChangeMyIP.com but almost nothing about it is published. Residential, mobile, datacenter, reseller and affiliate are named as the product families; the price table underneath covers HTTP, SOCKS5, ShadowSocks, Trojan, DNS proxy and Wireguard VPN, and no mobile row appears in it. There is no carrier list, no country count, no pool size and no rotation mechanism for the mobile side in anything the provider puts out. For a job where the carrier and the rotation control are the two things that decide whether a proxy is usable at all, that leaves you buying a name and asking support for the rest.
What is documented is the shape of the business around it. Shared tiers start at $1.00 and dedicated HTTP at $1.80, with SOCKS5 and ShadowSocks at $2.20, Trojan at $3.00, DNS proxy at $2.00 and Wireguard at $4.00. Bandwidth is unlimited on the plans it sells and ports are quoted at 1Gb/s, with dedicated connections described as 1Gb/s-plus. The provider has been selling HTTP and SOCKS5 for more than twelve years, activation is described as instant, there is no contract, and crypto sits alongside cards and PayPal. A $10 minimum order applies, so a single $1.00 shared proxy is not a $1.00 purchase.
The catch is the one that matters most here. Mobile is the most expensive proxy type per unit of traffic precisely because carrier NAT puts many real handsets behind one address, and nothing in this record tells you how many users sit behind a ChangeMyIP mobile address, which carriers it holds, or whether rotation happens by link, by timer or by reconnect. Without that, a tool expecting a link-based rotation endpoint may find nothing to call. The 30-day guarantee also stops applying once the service has been used, with refunds limited to bugs or slow performance, and torrents and paypal.com are blocked at proxy level on every product. Ask what the mobile pool actually is before paying for it.
Key features
- Mobile named as a product family; no mobile pricing row published
- Shared tiers from $1.00; dedicated HTTP $1.80, SOCKS5 $2.20, Trojan $3.00
- $10 minimum order, no contract
- Unlimited bandwidth, 1Gb/s ports stated
- No carrier list, pool size or rotation mechanism published for mobile
- Torrents and paypal.com blocked at proxy level on every product
Best suited for: buyers who want mobile, shared and dedicated HTTP priced by one vendor and will confirm carriers and rotation with support before paying
Mobile proxies proxies: questions we get
Is using a mobile proxy legal?
In most countries, routing your traffic through a proxy is entirely lawful; the proxy is an arrangement, not a permission. What is regulated is what you do through it — fraud, credential stuffing, circumventing access controls and copyright infringement remain illegal whatever address you use. Breaching a site's terms of service is a separate matter: usually a civil and contractual issue rather than a criminal one, but it can still close accounts and, in some jurisdictions, lead to claims.
Will a mobile proxy stop my Instagram account getting banned?
It removes one reason for a ban, which is address reputation, and it fixes nothing else. Instagram weighs device identifiers, login patterns, the rate at which an account acts and what it posts, and a mobile IP attached to an identical pattern of behaviour still gets flagged. A mobile port is worth having for account work, but treat it as one layer rather than a shield.
How many Instagram accounts can one mobile port handle?
Treat one port as one account if the accounts matter to you. Sharing a port means sharing an exit address, which links the accounts together in exactly the way platforms look for, even with different session identifiers. If you must share, keep it to accounts run on genuinely separate device profiles and never let two of them act at the same moment.
Why does my mobile proxy geolocate to a different city or country?
Mobile address geolocation is coarse. Carriers register ranges nationally and route traffic through central gateways, so the database city is often nowhere near a physical handset; roaming makes it worse. Match your browser timezone to the country rather than the street, and do not assume the displayed city means the port is mislabelled.
Do mobile proxies work for apps and scrapers, or only browsers?
Anything that can send traffic through an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy will work: scrapers, CLI tools, headless browsers, mobile app traffic routed through a device-level proxy. The common gap is UDP, which many gateways do not carry, so check first if you need it for voice, game or DNS-over-UDP traffic.
How do I check that a proxy is really mobile and not a datacentre address?
Look up the exit address in a network database and read the owning organisation. Mobile operators appear under their own names; a hosting company means it is not a mobile port whatever the sales page says. Reverse DNS is a useful second signal, since mobile ranges frequently carry carrier hostnames.
What is a sticky session and how long does it hold?
A sticky session pins your traffic to one exit address for a period by carrying an identifier in the proxy username, so a login survives several requests. The length is set by the provider and is usually measured in minutes, sometimes capped per day. Ask for the duration before you design a flow that depends on it.
Can I get an exclusive mobile IP?
Rarely, and less often than the wording suggests. Because of carrier-grade NAT, the public address is shared by the operator's own subscribers no matter what you are sold. Some providers sell a dedicated port, meaning only your traffic passes through it, but the address on the far side is still shared with real phones. Dedicated port is not the same as dedicated address.
How much data will my job use?
Measure it rather than guessing. Run the job once through a cheap metered connection and count the bytes, then strip assets you do not need — a rendered page with images and scripts can be ten or twenty times the size of the same page with only HTML fetched. The stripped figure is the one to compare against a fair-use cap.
Do mobile proxies work with Selenium, Playwright and antidetect browsers?
Yes. In Chromium-based automation the proxy goes on the launch arguments with the credentials passed separately, since the browser will not prompt for proxy authentication in headless mode; a local relay or an extension handles it. Antidetect browsers usually have a proxy field per profile, and each profile should get its own sticky session identifier rather than sharing the port's default.
Why did my port stop working in the middle of a job?
The usual causes are the fair-use traffic cap, the concurrency limit, a carrier-side data session drop or an abuse suspension after a burst of requests. Check the dashboard, test the port directly with a single request, and try a rotation. If it answers again after a reconnect it was a session drop; if it stays dead, the problem is the port rather than your code.
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