The short answer
- 1 Proxy-Seller Best IP-whitelisted all-rounder Visit site
- 2 Webshare.io Best IP-auth static ISP Visit site
- 3 NodeMaven Best unmetered low-latency ISP Visit site
17 best proxies for PlayStation, compared
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| 1 | 4.7/5 | $0.30 / GB | 96% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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IP whitelisting, 220+ locations, a 1 Gbps IPv4 channel and ~0.35s residential response give it the most PS5-ready set of facts. Good for this job
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| 2 | 4.3/5 | $0.02 / month | 100% | — | ||
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IP authorisation is listed alongside static residential ISP plans with up to unlimited bandwidth and 99.97% uptime, though a fair-use policy applies. Good for this job
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| 3 | 4.1/5 | $2.20 / GB | 88% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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ISP plans carry unlimited traffic, a 99.9% uptime guarantee and under 0.1s static ISP speed, but the record lists no IP whitelisting. Good for this job
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| 4 | 3.9/5 | $0.08 / GB | 100% | HTTP(S), SOCKS5 | ||
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Under 0.2s response and 99.99% uptime are strong latency facts, but no IP whitelisting is listed and residential is metered. Good for this job
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| 5 | 3.7/5 | $1 | 82% | — | ||
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Unlimited bandwidth and 1Gb/s ports on dedicated HTTP at $1.80, but the shared tier puts multiple users on one IP and IP whitelisting is not stated. Good for this job
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| 6 | 3.5/5 | $0.40 / GB | 100% | — | ||
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ISP proxies start at $1.5/IP across 195 locations, but the record lists no IP whitelisting or latency figure for PlayStation use. Good for this job
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| 7 | 3.4/5 | $0.35 / GB | 90% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, HTTP/2 | ||
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Dedicated mobile offers unlimited GB at $250/month and static ISP starts at $3.50/IP, but static ISP covers only 24 countries and IP whitelisting is not listed. Good for this job
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| 8 | 3.3/5 | $0.06 / GB | 100% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Unlimited residential has no IP or traffic cap across 200+ countries, but it bills at $69.68/day and the record lists no IP whitelisting or latency. Good for this job
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| 9 | 3.3/5 | $2 / GB | 88% | SOCKS4, SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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IP authentication, 11ms ping and 612 Mbps download are strong, but residential billing is per GB and mobile covers only Poland and Ukraine. Good for this job
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| 10 | 3.2/5 | $5 / proxy | 85% | — | ||
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Per-proxy monthly billing avoids per-GB metering across 150+ locations, but no IP whitelisting or latency figure is listed. Good for this job
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| 11 | 3.1/5 | $2 | 82% | HTTP/S | ||
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IP whitelisting and unmetered billing are listed, but static residential is marked permanently unavailable and country coverage has no count. Good for this job
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| 12 | 3.1/5 | $0.63 / GB | 86% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Static datacenter IPs start at $0.79/IP/month with 190+ locations and a sub-0.3s claim, but no IP whitelisting is listed. Good for this job
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| 13 | 3.0/5 | $0.50 / GB | 88% | HTTP(S) | ||
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Rotating ISP gives 6-hour sticky sessions across 100+ countries with sub-0.5s response, but no IP whitelisting is listed and billing is per GB. Good for this job
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| 14 | 3.0/5 | $2 / GB | 80% | HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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IP whitelist and sticky sessions up to 7 days are listed, but coverage is only 38+ countries and extra traffic costs $4-5/GB on lower plans. Good for this job
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| 15 | 2.8/5 | — | 81% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Static residential has unlimited bandwidth capped at 20 Mbps per IP across 190+ countries, but no IP whitelisting is listed and there is no refund. Good for this job
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| 16 | 2.5/5 | ₽490 / day | 83% | SOCKS5, HTTP | ||
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Main-IP authorisation and unlimited mobile traffic are listed, but 348ms average ping and 10 Mbps download speed are poor for PS5 play. Good for this job
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| 17 | 2.4/5 | $0.90 / GB | 86% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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195+ countries and 100M+ addresses are broad, but no IP whitelisting or dashboard is listed and the record says IP rotation is not supported. 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 PlayStation can and cannot do with a proxy
The proxy setting on both consoles is one pair of fields: an address and a port. That is the entire interface. There is no username box, no password box, no SOCKS5 option, no bypass list, no PAC file and no per-app rules. What you enter applies to one saved network connection, and the console is expected to send its HTTP and HTTPS traffic through it.
What that gives you is real but limited. Store pages, account logins, patch and game downloads and any in-game HTTP call will leave through the proxy address rather than your home connection. If you are trying to present a different address to Sony's web services, this does it.
What it does not give you is a changed network identity for gameplay. Match traffic — position updates, hit registration, party voice — runs over UDP, and an HTTP proxy carries TCP only. So the console-level proxy does not route your match packets, does not change your NAT type and does not hide your home IP from the other players in a peer-to-peer lobby. It also does not change who Sony thinks you are: the account country you picked at sign-up decides which store you see, not the address your packets arrive from.
One more thing worth knowing before you start: the proxy applies per saved network. Switch from your home Wi-Fi to a tethered phone and you are back on the direct route unless you configure that connection too.
Why authentication is the first problem
Nearly every paid proxy is sold with a username and password, and the console has nowhere to put them. People try typing user:pass@host into the address field. The console reads the whole string as a hostname, fails to resolve it, and reports a connection error that tells you nothing useful.
There are two honest ways around this.
IP authorisation, also called whitelisting. The provider adds your home IP address to an allow list, and the proxy then accepts you without credentials. This works well when your address is stable and badly when it is not. Most UK mobile connections, and a growing number of full-fibre altnets, sit behind carrier-grade NAT: hundreds of lines share one public IPv4 address that changes without warning. Whitelisting it either fails or authorises strangers alongside you.
A client on the router or on a small always-on device. The device holds the credentials and forwards the console's traffic. This is the only clean answer for a credentialed proxy, and it brings its own costs: one more thing to keep patched, and one more thing that can fail at 9pm on a Friday.
The third path is a free proxy, and it is the one to be most careful about. Open proxies work on a console precisely because they have no authentication — they are relays that will accept anyone. Your TLS stays encrypted if the proxy only tunnels it, but the operator still sees every hostname you connect to and can log, throttle or drop you whenever they like. The free proxy list is a reasonable place to test a configuration; it is not a place to run an account you care about.
Proxy, router or DNS
These three get used interchangeably in forum threads and they do different jobs.
- DNS changes which server a name resolves to. It does not change your IP address, does not encrypt anything and does nothing about a store region decided by your account country. If a service blocks you by address, DNS is irrelevant.
- Console proxy is per device, HTTP only, unauthenticated, TCP only. Good for pushing store and download traffic through a chosen address. Bad for anything involving a live match.
- Router-level covers every device on the network, holds credentials centrally and, if it is a tunnel rather than a proxy, carries UDP as well. That last part is what changes match latency and NAT type — and it also means every device in the house goes down together when the far end misbehaves.
A rough rule: if the problem is a store, a download or an address that has been rate-limited, the console setting is enough and it is reversible in thirty seconds. If the problem is how the game itself connects, you need the router, and you should expect to feel it. The provider reviews are the place to check whether a given service sells IP-authorised access at all, because that single feature decides whether the console can use it unaided.
How to set a proxy server on a PS5 or PS4
Test the proxy from a computer before you touch the console, so that a failure has an obvious cause.
curl -x http://198.51.100.23:3128 -I https://store.playstation.com
A working proxy returns a status line such as HTTP/1.1 200 or a redirect. A hang, a 407 or Connection refused tells you what the console will express much less clearly. Then confirm the exit address is what you expect:
curl -x http://198.51.100.23:3128 https://api.ipify.org
Compare the result with your normal address from what-is-my-ip. If the two match, the proxy is not doing anything and the console will not either. The proxy checker does the same job in a browser if you would rather not open a terminal.
PS5
- Go to
Settings > Network > Settings > Set Up Internet Connection. - Select your network, or
Use a LAN Cable, and enter the password if asked. - Choose
Advanced Settingsrather than accepting the defaults. - Set
Proxy ServertoUse, then type the address and the port. - Select
OK, thenTest Internet Connection.
PS4
- Go to
Settings > Network > Set Up Internet Connection. - Choose
Use Wi-FiorUse a LAN Cable, thenCustom. - Leave
IP Address SettingsonAutomaticandDHCP Host NameonDo Not Specify. - Leave
DNS SettingsandMTU SettingsonAutomatic. - Set
Proxy ServertoUse, enter the address and port, then test.
Type the address as a bare IPv4 address or hostname. No http://, no trailing slash, no port in the address field — the port has its own field. To undo it, go back to the same screen and set Proxy Server to Do Not Use. Nothing else in the connection is lost.
Latency, downloads and what you will notice
Added round trip is distance plus queueing. Light in fibre travels at roughly 200,000 km/s, so a 6,000 km one-way path is 12,000 km round trip and about 60 ms of pure travel time before a single router touches the packet. A proxy inserts another leg, and often another continent, into that path.
Where you feel it depends on the setup. With the console's own HTTP proxy, match traffic bypasses the proxy entirely, so the extra milliseconds land on the store, the login handshake and downloads rather than on the game. With a router-level tunnel that captures UDP as well, the extra round trip goes straight into the match, and 40 ms added to a 30 ms connection is the difference between a clean trade and a lost one.
Throughput matters more than most people expect. A 100 GB title at a steady 100 Mbit/s takes roughly two and a quarter hours. The same download through a proxy that caps you at 20 Mbit/s takes about eleven. Any plan with a monthly cap is disqualified immediately: one large game can be an entire month's allowance in a single evening.
Practically, expect slower store pages, longer patch downloads, the occasional failed login, and a connection test that reports lower speeds than your line can deliver. Your NAT type will usually stay the same, because NAT is a UDP port-mapping matter and the HTTP proxy never touches it. If the test does change, something else changed too.
Store region and what the terms say
The PlayStation Store you see follows the country on your account, and that country is fixed when the account is created. There is no menu option to change it, and a proxy does not change it either. What people usually want — a cheaper store, a game ahead of local release, a code bought abroad — runs into three separate walls: the account country, the issuing country of the payment method, and the region the code was sold for.
Cards are refused when the billing country does not match the account. PSN credit is region-locked, so a top-up card bought for one store will not redeem in another. Release dates and pricing genuinely do differ by region; that part is not a myth. The workaround is a second account registered in that country, and it comes with a second library, a second subscription if you want online play, and a payment method you may not be able to obtain.
On the terms: the PlayStation Network Terms of Service require accurate registration details, country included. Supplying a false one is a breach of contract. That is not the same as breaking the law — using a proxy is legal in most countries — but the distinction matters less than it sounds. Sony's remedy is account-level: suspension or termination. The downside is a library you have already paid for.
Being blunt about it: a proxy is the wrong tool for changing store region, because the store does not decide your region from your address. It is the right tool for reaching storefront and download infrastructure from an address that is not being throttled or blocked.
Mistakes that break online play
- Putting
http://or the port in the address field. The console will fail to resolve it and report a generic error. - Entering credentials. There is no field for them; the connection will fail at the proxy with a
407. - Using a list entry that has already died. Free proxies rot in hours. Check before you type it in, not after.
- Leaving the proxy on for a tournament or a LAN. One more hop is one more failure point on the evening you least want one.
- Assuming the proxy hides you. It changes the address websites see. It does not carry match UDP, so P2P lobbies still see your home connection.
- Changing MTU at the same time. Leave it on
Automatic. Lowering it to 1473 helps on some PPPoE lines and breaks things elsewhere; change one variable at a time. - Treating NAT Type 3 as a proxy problem. Restricted NAT is a UDP port-mapping issue. An HTTP proxy cannot fix it and will not make it worse, so stop adjusting the proxy and look at the router.
- Setting a proxy on a captive-portal network. Hotel and campus portals cannot load through a proxy you have not yet authenticated against, so you lock yourself out.
- Trusting the success message. A passed connection test proves the console reached PSN. It says nothing about whether the throughput is usable for a 60 GB patch.
What to look for
- IP whitelisting
- A PlayStation's network settings take a host and a port and nothing else, so a pool that cannot authenticate by address is unusable without a router in between.
- Latency
- Added round trip is felt directly in online play, more than anywhere else on this list.
- Throughput for downloads
- Game downloads are tens of gigabytes, which rules out metered plans immediately.
- Stability during a session
- A dropped address ends a match rather than retrying a request.
- Country coverage
- Store region, release timing and pricing are the usual reasons for this.
Every provider, in order
1. Proxy-Seller — Best IP-whitelisted all-rounder
4.7 / 5 for this job · from $0.30 / GB
It sits first because it is the one on this list that publishes both a full product line and IP whitelisting in the same record. A PlayStation's network settings ask for an address and a port and nothing else, so a pool that authenticates by address is the only kind you can point a console at directly, without a router in between doing the credential work.
The pricing is per unit rather than per month, which makes the arithmetic visible: $0.30/GB on residential, $0.49/IP on IPv4, $0.02/IP on IPv6, datacenter from $0.02/IP, ISP from $0.98/IP. For game downloads that run to tens of gigabytes the per-IP products are the ones to look at, since they are not metered the way the residential pool is. The provider declares a 1 Gbps IPv4 channel across 600+ networks, 99.7% uptime and a 99.5%+ connection success rate, with a residential response time of about 0.35s. Those are its own figures and no independent test is cited alongside them.
The awkward part is mobile. Six proxy types live under one account, but the mobile footprint reaches 20+ countries against 220+ residential locations, and mobile starts at $10/IP. If your reason for using a proxy is a mobile address that survives scrutiny, this is the thinnest part of the offering. If you just need a fixed address on a home connection for store region and downloads, the mobile gap does not matter.
Key features
- IP whitelisting alongside RESTful API and SDK access
- $0.30/GB residential, $0.49/IP IPv4, $0.02/IP IPv6
- 1 Gbps IPv4 channel across 600+ networks
- 99.7% uptime, 99.5%+ connection success, provider-declared
- Mobile coverage limited to 20+ countries
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 support
Best suited for: a console on a fixed connection where the proxy must authenticate by IP address and downloads need an unmetered per-IP plan
2. Webshare.io — Best IP-auth static ISP
4.3 / 5 for this job · from $0.02 / month
Second place goes to the static residential (ISP) product, for two reasons a console cares about. The address does not rotate, so a session does not end because the exit changed underneath it, and the provider lists IP authorisation as an alternative to username and password. That last point is what makes it usable on a PS5 at all.
Pricing is per proxy and falls with volume, from $0.0299 down to $0.0179 as the tiers grow, with a stated 30% saving for yearly billing on top. Static residential starts at $6.00/month, and bandwidth tiers run from 250GB to unlimited with thread limits of 500 to 3,000. The declared figures are 99.97% uptime and a 99.7% success rate. HTTP and SOCKS5 sit on the same credentials, and the rotating residential product targets down to city, ZIP code and ASN if store region rather than latency is the reason you are here. There is also a permanent free plan with 10 proxies and no card, which is the cheapest way to find out whether the setup works on your network before paying anything.
The catch is the word unlimited, which carries an asterisk pointing at a Fair Usage Policy — read that before you plan a download queue around it. The provider's pages give both 195 countries and 50+ locations, so the real footprint is hard to pin down. The static residential list names Comcast and AT&T and then stops at "& more", so you cannot confirm a specific carrier before buying. And the uptime and success figures are the provider's, with no independent verification next to them.
Key features
- IP authorisation offered as an alternative to username and password
- Static residential (ISP) from $6.00/month
- Permanent free plan: 10 proxies, no card required
- 99.97% uptime and 99.7% success rate, provider-declared
- Bandwidth tiers from 250GB to unlimited, subject to Fair Usage Policy
- HTTP and SOCKS5 endpoints on the same credentials
Best suited for: a stable, non-rotating address per console, bought per IP and authorised by address rather than by password
3. NodeMaven — Best unmetered low-latency ISP
4.1 / 5 for this job · from $2.20 / GB
The ISP plans are the reason it holds third. They carry unlimited traffic and a 99.9% uptime guarantee, which is the shape a console needs: no meter ticking while a patch downloads, and an exit that is contractually meant to stay up for the length of a match. The provider declares an average ISP speed under 0.3s and under 0.1s on static ISP, against under 0.2s generally. On a job where added round trip is felt directly, those are the numbers to weigh, with the usual caveat that they are the provider's own.
Renewals run at 30 or 90 days, sticky sessions are quoted at up to 24 hours with unlimited concurrent sessions, and UDP is marketed for the ISP product — worth knowing if anything on your side expects it. Traffic rollover applies to both pay-as-you-go and monthly plans, and there is up to 10% cashback on traffic on standard plans. Residential sits at $2.20/GB with 30M+ IPs across 195+ locations if you need a broader pool for store region work rather than a single fixed line.
The catches are real. There is no free trial: the $3.50, 750MB entry point is a paid demo, and a third-party write-up says the free-trial route is limited to registered companies that clear KYC. Refunds are pro-rated rather than full. Per-GB pricing gets expensive at volume, and the mobile pool figure differs between sources — 250K from the provider against 295K+ in third-party records, which is a small gap but a sign the numbers are not audited. The published feature list also does not spell out how the ISP endpoints authenticate, so confirm that address-based authorisation is available before committing to a console deployment.
Key features
- ISP plans with unlimited traffic and a 99.9% uptime guarantee
- Declared average speed under 0.3s on ISP, under 0.1s on static ISP
- Sticky sessions up to 24 hours, unlimited concurrent sessions
- ISP auto-renewals at 30 or 90 days
- No free trial; $3.50 for 750 MB is a paid demo
- Pro-rated refunds rather than full
Best suited for: unmetered ISP traffic where download size makes a per-gigabyte plan unworkable and a guarantee on uptime matters
4. Decodo (ex Smartproxy) — Strong latency, no IP auth
3.9 / 5 for this job · from $0.08 / GB
Latency is what earns this position. The provider declares response time under 0.2s generally and under 0.5s average on residential proxies, with 99.92% success on the residential pool and 99.99% uptime — figures that, if they hold, are among the tighter ones here. For online play, added round trip is the cost you actually feel, more than anywhere else on this list, so the claim is the right one to lead with.
The pool is 115M+ residential addresses across 195+ locations with targeting down to city, ZIP code and ASN, which covers the store-region and release-timing reasons people put a console behind a proxy in the first place. Sticky sessions hold an address for up to 30 minutes, HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 are both supported, and there is a 3-day, 100MB trial plus a Web Data API starter plan with $5 in credits and no card. Static residential / ISP proxies start at $0.27/IP, datacenter at $0.02/IP, mobile at $2.25/GB.
What you give up is address-based authentication: the angle here is latency, not IP auth, and the published setup is credential-based. Since a PS5 or PS4 proxy field takes a host and a port and no username, that means something in front of the console has to handle authentication. Two more things to read before paying: the 3-day trial and the 14-day money-back option are mutually exclusive, so trialling removes refund eligibility, and refunds are limited to a first purchase, capped at under 20% of a residential plan's traffic. The company also became Decodo in April 2025, and Smartproxy.org is named as an impersonator with no connection to it.
Key features
- Declared response time under 0.2s; under 0.5s average on residential
- 115M+ residential IPs across 195+ locations
- Static residential / ISP proxies from $0.27/IP
- Sticky sessions up to 30 minutes
- 3-day, 100MB trial; 14-day money-back for first purchases only
- Credential-based setup; no IP whitelisting listed
Best suited for: setups where the proxy sits behind a router or gateway and the priority is the lowest added round trip rather than address-based authentication
5. ChangeMyIP.com — Cheapest unmetered dedicated IP
3.7 / 5 for this job · from $1
This is here on price and nothing else. A shared proxy is $1.00, a dedicated HTTP proxy $1.80, SOCKS5 $2.20, and every plan carries unlimited bandwidth on 1Gb/s ports with no contract or long-term obligation. If all a console needs is one fixed address and no meter, that is the cheapest route onto one in this table, and the provider has been selling HTTP and SOCKS5 for more than twelve years by its own account.
The protocol spread is wider than the price suggests: HTTP, SOCKS5, ShadowSocks, Trojan, a DNS proxy and a Wireguard VPN, with instant activation stated and crypto payments taken through Zonda alongside cards and PayPal. Multiple IP subnets sit behind the network and dedicated connections are described as 1Gb/s-plus, which is the part that matters when a download is running through it.
The catches need saying plainly. A $10 minimum order applies even if you want one $1.00 shared proxy. Shared proxies put multiple users on the same IP and share bandwidth, and the provider itself says performance can suffer on busy servers — for a game session, a busy neighbour is a dropped match. Torrents and paypal.com are blocked at proxy level on every product. The 30-day money-back guarantee does not apply once the service has been used, and refunds are limited to bugs or slow performance. The "fully anonymous and undetectable" line is unverified marketing with no published independent test behind it, so treat it as a slogan rather than a specification.
Key features
- Shared proxies at $1.00; dedicated HTTP at $1.80
- Unlimited bandwidth on 1Gb/s ports
- $10 minimum order
- Torrents and paypal.com blocked at proxy level
- HTTP, SOCKS5, ShadowSocks, Trojan, DNS proxy and Wireguard
- No contract or long-term obligation
Best suited for: a single console needing one cheap fixed address with no traffic cap, where shared bandwidth and a blocked-service list are acceptable
6. Oxylabs.io — Best enterprise ISP pool
3.5 / 5 for this job · from $0.40 / GB
The ISP pool is the deepest thing about this record, and it is priced openly per IP across five tiers: ISP Proxies from $1.5/IP on Starter down to $1.1/IP at enterprise level, Dedicated ISP Proxies from $3/IP down to $2.2/IP, with the enterprise tier listing 2.27K+ ISP IPs. Very few providers put per-IP pricing for static addresses on a public page at every volume band, and for a fleet of consoles that is the number that decides the budget.
Behind it sit 177M+ IPs in total, 175M+ of them residential, across 195 locations, all reachable under a single subscription rather than one product at a time. Compliance is documented rather than implied: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 across datacenter proxies, residential proxies and the Web API, SOC 2 Type II on the Scrape endpoint and Web Unblocker, GDPR and EU AI Act alignment stated, and technology errors and omissions plus cyber insurance across all products. Support is 24/7 and the provider reports 15,000+ clients globally.
The catch is that this is an enterprise purchase wearing consumer prices. The cheapest paid plan is $30/month, enterprise starts at $2,500/month through sales, and residential on Starter is $6/GB — the most expensive per gigabyte in this list. The free entry is $5 in welcome credits, under a gigabyte of residential traffic at those rates. VAT may apply on Starter, Basic and Flexible, so the headline rate is not always the invoice, and Bitcoin is not accepted. Certification scope is per product rather than company-wide, so check that the specific endpoint you rely on is inside it. For one console, this is overkill; the arithmetic only works at volume.
Key features
- ISP Proxies from $1.5/IP on Starter to $1.1/IP at enterprise level
- Dedicated ISP Proxies from $3/IP down to $2.2/IP
- 177M+ IPs, 175M+ residential, 195 locations
- 2.27K+ ISP IPs at the enterprise tier
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 across three named products
- Enterprise plans from $2,500/month through sales
Best suited for: buying static ISP addresses in bulk with published per-IP pricing and procurement-grade compliance paperwork to match
7. ProxyEmpire — Best unlimited mobile data
3.4 / 5 for this job · from $0.35 / GB
ProxyEmpire sits seventh because it answers the volume problem rather than the latency one. Its dedicated mobile plans are sold with unlimited gigabytes — $20/day for USA 5G, $75/week, $250/month, and a multi-country unlimited plan at $125/month. On a console that is the right shape of product when the store pushes out an install of tens of gigabytes and then a patch on top of it, because nothing is counting against a meter while that happens. The record puts mobile coverage at 4M+ IPs across 170+ countries, with targeting down to country, city and carrier.
The awkward part is everything a PS5 needs settled before it can use the address at all. The record lists no IP whitelisting for ProxyEmpire, so confirm how a console authenticates before paying: PlayStation network settings take a host and a port, and if the plan only offers a login, you need a router doing the authenticating in between. There is also no published latency figure here — no ping, no response time — which is the one number that decides whether online play is playable through a proxy. Coverage is thinner than the headline suggests: dedicated mobile reaches 5+ countries and 50+ locations, and drops ZIP and ASN targeting.
Pricing carries a second catch. Unlimited bandwidth is sold per day or week with no rollover, and on the residential side that starts at $200/day. The GB-based plans do roll over, so unused gigabytes never expire — if you only need a store region rather than endless downloads, metered is the cheaper route and you keep what you do not use.
Key features
- 4M+ mobile IPs across 170+ countries, provider figures
- Dedicated mobile: unlimited GB at $20/day (USA 5G), $250/mo
- Multi-country dedicated mobile, unlimited, $125/mo
- Dedicated mobile coverage: 5+ countries, 50+ locations
- Mobile targeting: country, city, carrier
- 99.9% uptime; 24/7 chat support
Best suited for: unmetered mobile data, where download volume rather than match latency is the binding constraint
8. ProxySale.com — Best unlimited residential traffic
3.3 / 5 for this job · from $0.06 / GB
Proxy-Sale sits eighth, and it is the pick on this list when the download is the job rather than the match. Unlimited Residential Proxy carries no limit on IPs or traffic at $69.68/day, with random and sticky rotation, so an install plus a queue of patches can come down without anyone watching a counter. The underlying network is put at 86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries, with country, state and city targeting and HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 support.
Where it fits less well is live play. Rotation is the wrong model for a session — a dropped address ends a match rather than retrying a request — so you would be pinning to a sticky session and hoping it holds. The record gives no session length for the sticky option, only that both random and sticky rotation exist. It also lists no IP whitelisting, which matters because a console's network settings want an address it can recognise, not a login form.
The catches are price shape and evidence. Billing is per day, which is awkward if you want a week of occasional use rather than one long download day. Uptime of 99.9%, a 99.5% success rate and a sub-0.6-second response time are all provider-declared with no third-party audit behind them. The free trial covers the Web Scraper API only, not the proxy network, so the network itself cannot be checked before you pay. The service is also not available in mainland China, by the provider's own policy.
Key features
- 86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries, provider figures
- Unlimited Residential: no IP or traffic cap, $69.68/day
- Random and sticky rotation on the unlimited plan
- Country, state and city targeting; HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5
- Sub-0.6s response and 99.5% success rate, provider-declared
- Not available in mainland China
Best suited for: large downloads over unmetered residential traffic on a per-day budget
9. GonzoProxy — Best published ping and throughput
3.3 / 5 for this job · from $2 / GB
GonzoProxy sits ninth and earns its line on the thing almost every other record here is silent about: published latency and throughput. The provider's own figures are an 11 ms ping, 612 Mbps download, 104 Mbps upload and a 0.47-second response time. For a PS5 those are the numbers that matter, because added round trip is felt directly in online play in a way that pool size never is. It is also one of the few records listing address-based authentication alongside user-and-password, so a console can be recognised without a browser or a router in the way.
Read the figures as published, not as verified. They are the provider's own and are not independently checked on its site, and the same applies to the 96%+ general success rate and the per-country response times, which run from 0.54 seconds in Germany to 1.27 seconds in Australia. Treat the headline ping as a claim worth testing on a short plan before committing to months of play.
The catch on cost is the billing model. Residential is per gigabyte, from $6.5/GB at the smallest volume down to $2.5/GB at a terabyte, across two published ladders that quote different rates for the same volumes — check which one you land on. Fast throughput does not help when every gigabyte is billed, and a large install is a lot of gigabytes. Mobile is the other limit: it covers Poland and Ukraine only. Traffic never expires, but the demo is not free at $1.99 for 0.3 GB.
Key features
- Published ping 11 ms, 612 Mbps down, 104 Mbps up, provider figures
- 0.47s response time; 96%+ general success rate
- IP and user:pass authentication
- Residential $6.5/GB at 1 GB down to $2.5/GB at 1 TB
- Traffic never expires and rolls over to the next plan
- Mobile proxies: Poland and Ukraine only
Best suited for: players who judge a proxy on published ping and throughput before anything else
10. ASocks.com — Best flat per-proxy pricing
3.2 / 5 for this job · from $5 / proxy
ASocks sits tenth because of how it charges rather than what it publishes. Residential and corporate proxies are $5 per proxy per month, mobile $15, with volume discounts of 5% from 10 proxies, 10% from 50 and 15% from 100. Flat per-proxy pricing is a reasonable match for console use: the cost does not move whether the console pulls a few gigabytes of store pages or a full install, which is the opposite of a per-gigabyte plan on a machine that downloads in tens of gigabytes.
What the record does not give you is the two things a PlayStation setup usually needs settled first. There is no latency or throughput figure at all, and no mention of IP whitelisting or how a console would authenticate. The headline numbers it does publish — 99.7% connection success, 150+ locations, 7M+ IPs and 100,000+ clients — are all provider-reported and unaudited, so they tell you what the company says about itself rather than what a session will feel like. Support is 24/7 with a stated average response under ten minutes.
The catch is the mobile line. At $15 per month against $5 for residential, it is three times the price, and the record gives no location count for either product beyond the 150+ figure for the network as a whole. If you need a specific country's address for store region, ask before buying rather than assuming the coverage maps onto it.
Key features
- $5 per proxy/month residential and corporate; $15 mobile
- Volume discounts: 5% at 10 proxies, 10% at 50, 15% at 100
- 150+ locations and 7M+ IPs, provider figures
- 99.7% connection success, provider-reported and unaudited
- 24/7 support, average response under 10 minutes
- New features released weekly, per the provider
Best suited for: fixed per-proxy monthly budgeting where traffic volume, not latency, is the worry
11. Live Proxies — Best unmetered with IP whitelist
3.1 / 5 for this job · from $2
Live Proxies sits eleventh, and it is here for one reason: IP whitelisting is part of the product rather than something to ask about. A PS5's proxy settings take a host and a port, and a pool that authenticates by address is the only kind that works without a router sitting in the middle doing the login. Whitelisting comes with dashboard and API access, and the record also lists a dedicated account manager and 24/7 support from a team of seven spread across time zones.
The second half of the pitch is unmetered billing. Metered and unmetered options are both listed, with no concurrency limit, unlimited threads and unlimited requests, which suits a console pulling a large install. Sticky sessions run to 60 minutes on rotating residential and 30 on mobile; unused bandwidth rolls over to the standby plan. Private IP allocation is claimed, with addresses shared only with you.
The catch is that the paperwork does not agree with itself, and that matters more than usual at a 3.6 rating. The home page prices static residential at $65 per plan while the pricing page marks it permanently unavailable, and the $45, $65 and $55 starting prices do not reconcile with "B2C plans starting from $70" on the pricing page. The free trial goes to custom plan users after an agreement; B2C buyers are told to buy a small plan instead. SOCKS5 is B2B only. Geography is described as available countries or state-level options with no count, and state IPs are US only. The ping claim is "fast" with no number attached.
Key features
- IP whitelisting, dashboard and API access included
- Metered and unmetered billing options
- No concurrency limit; unlimited threads and requests
- 60-minute sticky sessions on residential, 30-minute on mobile
- Unused bandwidth rolls over to the standby plan
- 10M+ IP pool on the B2B enterprise tier
Best suited for: whitelisting a console's address against an unmetered plan without a router in between
12. Floppydata — Cheapest static datacenter IPs
3.1 / 5 for this job · from $0.63 / GB
Floppydata sits twelfth on price. Static datacenter IPs start at $0.79 per IP per month in bundles of 20, 50 or 100, and datacenter traffic runs to $0.72/GB at 96 GB and $0.63/GB at 120 GB. For a console the static end is the interesting one: an address that stays the same for the month is what you want for store region and pricing checks, and it will not rotate out from under a session. Rotating residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter all sit under one account, with country, city, ASN and IP-type targeting.
Say the awkward part plainly: datacenter ranges are the most heavily scrutinised class of address there is. Store region changes and price checks generally tolerate them; anything with aggressive fraud scoring may not, and a datacenter IP is the first thing such systems discount. The minimum bundle of 20 addresses is also far more than one console needs. The company dates from April 2024, so it is young, and there is no phone support — live chat, email and Telegram only. Uptime of 99.99%, sub-0.3-second responses and a 65M+ pool are all provider claims.
One gap to close before buying: the record lists no authentication method, so confirm whitelisting exists on the plan you choose. Without it a console cannot use the address directly. The 100 MB free trials for residential, datacenter and mobile are enough to prove an address connects and not much more.
Key features
- Static datacenter from $0.79/IP/month, bundles of 20, 50 or 100
- Datacenter traffic $0.72/GB at 96 GB, $0.63/GB at 120 GB
- 100 MB free trial for residential, datacenter and mobile
- Country, city, ASN and IP-type targeting
- Cards via Stripe plus 50+ cryptocurrencies
- Live chat, email and Telegram support; no phone line
Best suited for: a cheap, fixed datacenter address for store region and pricing checks
13. Novada — Best rotating ISP sessions
3.0 / 5 for this job · from $0.50 / GB
Thirteen of seventeen is not a knock on the pool; it is where a rotating ISP product lands when the job is a console. The argument for Novada here rests on one line in its record: rotating ISP sessions can be held for 360 minutes, six hours, across 100+ countries. A six-hour hold covers a full evening of play without the address changing underneath it, which is the failure that ends a match rather than retrying a request.
Rotating ISP addresses are hosted in datacentres but registered to consumer ISPs, so they present as ordinary broadband rather than as a server range. The published response time is sub-0.5s and the headline success rate is 99.99%, though the provider separately quotes 99% for rotating datacenter, so the larger figure should not be read as applying to every pool. Rotating ISP entry pricing is $0.65/GB, and 100+ countries are listed for that product — the part that matters if the reason for the proxy is store region rather than the game itself.
The catch is the meter. Rotating ISP is sold by the gigabyte, and a modern title is tens of gigabytes, so a download spree is charged in full. The record lists HTTP(S) as the supported protocol and says nothing about IP-whitelist authentication, so whether a PS5's bare host-and-port fields can be used without a router in front is not something the published material answers. Unlimited Proxies, IPv6 and Datasets carry no published price at all, and the free trial covers the Scraper API rather than the proxy pools.
Key features
- Rotating ISP sticky sessions held for 360 minutes
- Rotating ISP coverage across 100+ countries
- Rotating ISP pricing from $0.65/GB
- Sub-0.5s response time and 99.9% uptime published
- 100M+ residential IPs across 195+ countries
- HTTP(S) listed as the supported protocol
Best suited for: holding one ISP-registered address across a full evening of play without a mid-session change
14. AnyIP.io — Best long sticky sessions
3.0 / 5 for this job · from $2 / GB
Position fourteen, and the reason to look at it for a console is session length. AnyIP.io states sticky sessions of up to seven days, longer than any match, any download queue and most people's patience for reconfiguring a PS5. If the aim is one address that stays put across a fortnight of evenings, the published figure covers it with room to spare.
It is also one of the few records here that names IP whitelisting as an authentication method alongside username and password — the only kind of authentication a PlayStation can perform, since the console takes a host, a port and nothing else. Residential and mobile addresses sit on one plan at one price with only bandwidth metered, rotation and concurrent requests are unlimited, and Smart Sessions keep an address inside the same carrier and area. Country, ISP, region and GPS-coordinate filtering is published, and unused data rolls into the next billing cycle.
The catch is the meter. Extra traffic is $5/GB on Micro and $4/GB on Basic, and the advertised $2/GB is the Enterprise rate on a 500GB plan, so a 100GB download is not a rounding error on a small plan. Coverage is 38+ countries, which is short for store-region work outside the majors. Card purchases carry a 14-day money-back guarantee while crypto payments do not, and there is no free trial: the Micro plan at $25 for 5GB is the entry point.
Key features
- Sticky sessions of up to 7 days
- IP whitelist and username/password authentication
- Residential and mobile on one plan, bandwidth-only metering
- 38+ countries of coverage
- ~98.6% request success rate and ~0.6s average response time
- Unused data rolls over to the next billing cycle
Best suited for: holding a single whitelisted address for days at a time on a console that cannot log in
15. Nsocks — Static residential, no IP auth
2.8 / 5 for this job
Fifteenth, and this is the card where the angle line does the arguing. Nsocks sells static residential proxies per IP on a fixed monthly charge with unlimited bandwidth, which is the billing shape a console wants: downloads stop mattering because they are not metered. A static residential address also behaves like a home line, which is what a PlayStation connection is expected to look like.
The residential pool is quoted at 80M+ addresses, with the provider's own home page also quoting 90M+ across 190+ country and city-level regions, and a stated uptime of 99.95%. Country and city targeting is published, the protocols listed are HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, and the provider claims 3,500+ clients. Payment methods are unusually broad for the category, taking in crypto, Alipay, WeChat Pay and UPI.
The catches are substantial. The static residential plan is capped at 20 Mbps per IP despite the unlimited bandwidth, so a large download is unmetered but not quick, and no latency figure is published — the number that decides whether online play is bearable. There is no free trial, and the provider states it does not refund products sold, so pool quality cannot be checked before paying. The record carries no detail on authentication and no mention of IP whitelisting, which leaves the PS5's host-and-port field unaccounted for. Pool size appears two ways, and the company was founded on 26 August 2024, so there is little history to lean on.
Key features
- Static residential proxies sold per IP on a fixed monthly charge
- Unlimited bandwidth, capped at 20 Mbps per IP
- 80M+ residential IPs claimed, also quoted as 90M+
- 190+ country and city-level regions
- 99.95% stated uptime
- No free trial and no refunds on products sold
Best suited for: paying a flat monthly fee for a static residential address instead of metering game downloads
16. MobileProxy.Space — Best unlimited mobile rental
2.5 / 5 for this job · from ₽490 / day
Sixteenth, and this card fails the latency test before any other consideration. The published performance figures include an average ping of 348 ms and a response time of 3.24 seconds. On a console that is felt directly: 348 ms of added round trip makes online shooters unplayable and even menu navigation sluggish. Mobile addresses survive longer than most, but surviving and being usable are different things.
The rental model is why it is on the page at all. Mobile plans bill by the day with unlimited traffic rather than by the gigabyte, from 490₽ per day, with a one-day minimum so a single evening can be bought and dropped. Rotation runs on a timer or by hitting an API link, and authorization is listed as main IP or login and password, so the address-based route a PS5 needs is at least on the menu. The dashboard carries a proxy checker, port checks, a speed test and a browser proxy manager extension, and unused time is refundable in the provider's wording. Published speed is about 30 Mb/s on 4G, or up to about 4 Mb/s when the device is remote, against a declared download average of 10.00 Mbps.
The rest of the record is argumentative. Pool size is 2M+ in third-party data and 267,370,000 on the provider's own page; countries are 30+ against 53; operators 130+ against 223; servers 700+ against 1,356. Trial length is given as two hours in one record and three in another. Third-party write-ups call the prices high and report trouble with locations, laggy proxies and late-night maintenance. Unlimited traffic is worth having, but not at this ping.
Key features
- Mobile proxies from 490₽ per day with unlimited traffic
- One-day minimum rental period
- Main IP or username/password authorization
- Average ping of 348 ms published
- Rotation on a timer or through an API link
- Pool, country, operator and server counts disagree between provider and third-party records
Best suited for: buying a mobile address by the day for unlimited-traffic work where sub-second latency is not the point
17. FlyProxy — Broad coverage, weak PS5 controls
2.4 / 5 for this job · from $0.90 / GB
Last on the list, and the angle says why: coverage is broad, console controls are not. More than 195 countries and regions, with targeting down to state and city, is the widest geographic claim among these five, and the per-gigabyte price falls to $0.90 at the 10,240 GB tier. For a job that is largely about which region the store thinks you are in, that is a real argument.
The published numbers are reasonable rather than remarkable: 0.6s average response time on residential, a 99.95% success rate from the provider and 99.9% in a third-party listing, and unlimited concurrent sessions from both sources. Third-party country results run from 96.8% in Mexico at 1.00s to 98.7% in Germany at 0.52s, with the United States at 98.4% and 0.65s. Protocols are HTTP and SOCKS5 per the provider, HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 in the third-party listing.
What it does not carry is the console detail. There are no mobile proxies at all, and IP lifetime is put at around 24 hours, so the address under a session is not a long-term fixture. One listing records rotation as unsupported and a dashboard as absent, which conflicts with the rest of the record and is worth settling before purchase. There are no refunds once a product is sold, and the record says nothing about authentication method, so whether the pool can be used from a PS5's host-and-port fields alone is unconfirmed. The pool itself is 100M+ by the provider's count and 69M by a third party's.
Key features
- More than 195 countries and regions covered
- Country, state and city targeting
- $0.90/GB at the 10,240 GB tier
- 0.6s average response time published for residential
- IP lifetime of around 24 hours
- No mobile proxies in the line-up
Best suited for: reaching an unusual store region where breadth of coverage matters more than console-level controls
PlayStation proxies: questions we get
Can I use a SOCKS5 proxy on a PS5 or PS4?
No. The network settings accept an HTTP proxy — an address and a port — with no protocol selector anywhere in the menu. SOCKS5 has to be terminated somewhere else, usually a router running a redirector, with the console pointed at that device instead. If a provider only sells SOCKS5, the console cannot use it directly.
Why does my PS5 fail to connect after I set a proxy?
The three common causes are a dead or overloaded proxy, an address field containing http:// or a port, and a proxy that wants a username and password the console cannot send. Test the same host and port from a computer with curl before blaming the console. If curl returns 407, that is the authentication problem and retyping will not fix it.
Do I need a static IP address to use IP whitelisting?
You need an address that stays put long enough to be useful. A dynamic home IP is fine if the provider lets you update the allow list, or if you re-add it when it changes. Carrier-grade NAT breaks it completely, because the address the provider sees is shared with other customers and changes without notice.
Are free proxies for PS5 safe?
Treat any open proxy as a machine you do not control, run by somebody you cannot identify. Your TLS stays encrypted if the proxy merely tunnels it, but the operator still sees which hosts you connect to and can log, throttle or drop you at will. They also die within hours, so a list entry that works this morning is often gone tonight.
Can I change my PSN store country with a proxy?
Not on an existing account. The country is set at sign-up and there is no option to change it later. A proxy alters the address your traffic arrives from, not the store your account is attached to. A fresh account in the target country is the only route, and it needs a payment method issued there.
Does the PS5 proxy setting cover the PlayStation app on my phone or the web store?
No. The setting lives in the console's network configuration and applies to that console alone. The phone app and the browser storefront use whatever connection the phone or browser happens to be on. To get the same exit address everywhere, the proxy has to sit at the router or be configured on each device separately.
What port should I use for a PlayStation proxy?
Whatever port the proxy actually listens on — 3128, 8080 and 8888 are common for HTTP proxies, but the operator decides. Copy the number rather than guessing. A port that is open but is not an HTTP proxy will accept the TCP connection and then fail the request, which the console reports as a failed connection.
Will using a proxy get my PSN account banned?
Using a proxy is not, by itself, a listed violation. The risk sits in what it is used for: inaccurate registration details, payment fraud, or evading a regional restriction in breach of the terms. Sony's remedy in those cases is applied at account level, and the account holds the games you paid for.
Does a proxy hide my IP from other players in an online match?
Rarely. Match traffic runs over UDP and the console's HTTP proxy does not carry UDP, so peer-to-peer connections still leave over your normal route. Only a router-level tunnel that captures all traffic changes that. The proxy does change the address that websites and some PSN services see.
Do I need a proxy for PS Remote Play?
No, and it usually makes matters worse. Remote Play wants low latency and steady throughput in both directions, and an extra hop works against both. When Remote Play fails from outside the house the cause is normally NAT traversal or upstream bandwidth, not address reputation.
What is the difference between Use and Do Not Use under Proxy Server on PS4?
Do Not Use is the default and sends traffic straight out. Use reveals the address and port fields and routes that connection's HTTP and HTTPS traffic through whatever you enter. You can switch back at any time without losing the rest of your network settings.
Can I set a proxy on a PS5 without a router?
Yes. The console's own settings accept an address and a port, so no router is needed for that basic case. What you give up without one is authentication, since credentialed proxies cannot be used, plus UDP coverage and any shared configuration for other devices. A router or a small always-on box is what makes a paid proxy usable on a console.
Other jobs people buy proxies for
- Web scraping
- SEO and rank tracking
- Ad verification
- Price monitoring
- Multi-account management
- Antidetect browsers
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