The short answer
- 1 NodeMaven Unlimited ISP, 24h sticky Visit site
- 2 Webshare.io Cheapest unlimited bandwidth Visit site
- 3 Proxy-Seller Cheapest per-GB, 220+ locations Visit site
17 best proxies for streaming, compared
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| 1 | 4.8/5 | $2.20 / GB | 88% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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ISP plans list unlimited traffic, a 99.9% uptime guarantee and sticky sessions up to 24 hours, with 195+ locations. Good for this job
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| 2 | 4.6/5 | $0.02 / month | 100% | — | ||
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Static Residential is $6.00/month with up to unlimited bandwidth across 195 countries and 99.97% uptime; a fair-use policy applies. Good for this job
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| 3 | 4.5/5 | $0.30 / GB | 96% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Residential is $0.30/GB across 220+ locations, with a 1 Gbps IPv4 channel and ISP speed up to 1 Gbps. Good for this job
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| 4 | 4.2/5 | $0.06 / GB | 100% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Unlimited Residential has no IP or traffic cap at $69.68/day and covers 200+ countries, but is billed per day. Good for this job
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| 5 | 4.1/5 | $0.50 / GB | 88% | HTTP(S) | ||
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Residential starts at $1.3/GB across 195+ countries with sub-0.5s response and 6-hour sticky ISP sessions. Good for this job
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| 6 | 4.0/5 | $0.08 / GB | 100% | HTTP(S), SOCKS5 | ||
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Residential pool of 115M+ across 195+ locations, 99.99% uptime and average response under 0.5s, but per-GB billing. Good for this job
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| 7 | 3.9/5 | $5 / proxy | 85% | — | ||
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Residential costs $5 per proxy/month rather than per GB, with 150+ locations, though the pool is 7M+ IPs. Good for this job
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| 8 | 3.8/5 | $0.35 / GB | 90% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, HTTP/2 | ||
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Dedicated USA 5G mobile is unlimited at $20/day; unlimited residential starts at $200/day, with 30M+ IPs across 170+ countries. Good for this job
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| 9 | 3.7/5 | $0.63 / GB | 86% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Rotating residential, mobile and datacenter traffic starts at $1.00/GB across 195 countries, with a 95% clean IP claim. Good for this job
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| 10 | 3.6/5 | ₽490 / day | 83% | SOCKS5, HTTP | ||
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Mobile plans bill by rental period with unlimited traffic from 490₽/day, but download speed is listed at 10.00 Mbps. Good for this job
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| 11 | 3.5/5 | $0.90 / GB | 86% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Residential reaches $0.90/GB at the 10,240 GB tier, across 195+ countries, with unlimited concurrent sessions. Good for this job
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| 12 | 3.4/5 | $0.40 / GB | 100% | — | ||
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175M+ residential IPs across 195 locations and ISO/SOC scope, but residential starts at $6/GB on Starter. Good for this job
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| 13 | 3.3/5 | $2 / GB | 80% | HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Sticky sessions run up to 7 days on a 100M+ residential and mobile pool, but coverage is only 38+ countries. Good for this job
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| 14 | 3.2/5 | $2 / GB | 88% | SOCKS4, SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Residential lists 612 Mbps download and sticky IPs up to 72 hours across 190 countries; the 1 GB plan is $6.5/GB. Good for this job
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| 15 | 3.1/5 | — | 81% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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80M+ residential IPs across 190+ country and city regions with 99.95% uptime, but no free trial and no refunds. Good for this job
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| 16 | 2.9/5 | $2 | 82% | HTTP/S | ||
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Unmetered billing and unlimited threads are offered, with 60-minute sticky residential sessions, but country coverage is unspecified. Good for this job
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| 17 | 2.2/5 | $1 | 82% | — | ||
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Unlimited bandwidth and 1Gb/s ports are listed, but shared proxies put multiple users on one IP and performance can suffer on busy servers. 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.
Why streaming catalogues are regional
A streaming service does not have one catalogue. It has a separate licensing deal for each market it operates in, and a film available in one country is often owned by a different broadcaster in the next. The service therefore has to decide which catalogue to serve you, and it decides mainly from your IP address.
The lookup happens before playback. The app resolves the service's hostname, connects, and the service reads the source address of that connection and matches it against a geolocation database. Account country, billing address, device language and payment method are all checked too, but the address is the part that moves. That is why a proxy changes the catalogue and a VPN does the same thing by a different route.
Two consequences follow. An address that is merely near the right country is not enough: geolocation databases are wrong often enough that a correctly placed address sometimes resolves to the wrong country, which is why you check the exit before you open the app rather than after. And the address has to stay put for the whole session. If it changes halfway through a film, the service sees a session that jumped continents and will usually force re-authentication or fail the stream outright.
Live sport adds a second layer. Rights for a Saturday match are sold per territory and often sublicensed to a single broadcaster, so the same fixture may be free-to-air in one country and behind a subscription in another. The address rules are identical; the timing is just less forgiving.
Proxy or VPN for video
A VPN tunnels everything on the device. A proxy takes the traffic of one app, or one browser profile, and sends it through an address you chose. For video, that difference matters more than the encryption does.
On the VPN side: it is a single switch, it works on devices that have no proxy settings at all, and it handles DNS so you are less likely to leak. The cost is that a VPN exit is a shared address used by a lot of people at once, and commercial VPN ranges are among the most heavily profiled addresses on the internet. A VPN that works fine for browsing can be refused by a player on the first request.
On the proxy side: you get to pick the address, keep it for the length of the film, and use a different one per browser profile. You also get to see the exit address directly, which makes it checkable with what is my IP. The costs are real. Most proxies are HTTP or SOCKS5 with no tunnel encryption, which is fine because the video itself is HTTPS and encrypted end to end, but it means the proxy operator can see which hosts you connect to. A proxy also does not touch DNS unless you configure it to, and on a proxy chain the player has to cope with higher latency on every segment request.
The honest summary: a VPN is easier and more likely to be blocked; a proxy is more controllable and more work. If the goal is a single film on a laptop, a proxy is proportionate. If the goal is a smart TV in the front room, a VPN or a router-level tunnel is usually the only thing that will actually work.
Which address type survives a streaming service
Services do not check a blocklist of individual addresses so much as the network the address belongs to. Every IP sits inside an Autonomous System, and each AS has an owner. Address space registered to a hosting company is identifiable as such from the AS alone, before anyone looks at behaviour. That is why datacenter ranges fail so consistently: the service is not detecting the proxy, it is detecting the hosting provider.
The types, in the order they tend to last:
- Mobile. Carrier-grade NAT puts thousands of ordinary subscribers behind one address, so a service cannot block that address without cutting off paying customers. Mobile addresses are also reassigned constantly, which makes historical reputation less useful. The trade-offs are price and variable speed.
- Residential. A real address on a consumer ISP line. Good for a static session; the risk is that the address is shared with other people doing the same thing, and its reputation decays if too many of them abuse it.
- ISP or static residential. Residential space registered to a business, stable for long sessions. Fewer of them exist and they are priced accordingly.
- Datacenter. Cheap and fast, and the first thing a player's risk engine looks at. Some services accept them for some regions; assume not.
For a film, the choice between rotating and sticky matters more than the choice of country. Choose sticky and set the session length longer than the film. A rotating pool that changes address every few minutes will interrupt playback, re-trigger the region check, and sometimes invalidate the licence for the title you were watching.
Bandwidth, and why metered plans hurt here
Video is the most data-hungry thing most people do on a connection, and that is the whole argument against per-gigabyte pricing. A standard-definition hour is a fraction of a gigabyte; a high-definition hour is commonly in the region of two to three gigabytes; a 4K hour is often five to eight. A two-hour film can therefore be anything from well under a gigabyte to more than fifteen, depending on the resolution, the codec and how much the encoder has to spend on a scene with heavy motion.
Now apply a metered proxy plan. At a few pence or cents per gigabyte, a single evening can cost more than a month of a flat-rate subscription. At the higher end of per-gigabyte pricing, one 4K film can cost as much as a month of the streaming service itself. There is no way to make that sensible: unlike scraping, where you can cap requests, you cannot watch less of the film.
Two further traps sit inside metered plans. A plan that throttles or cuts off after a cap will not stop the stream cleanly, it will stall it, which looks exactly like a bad proxy. And metered plans tend to be billed on total bytes through the tunnel, so a proxy that resets connections mid-stream bills you twice for the same footage: once for the part you watched and once for the retry. Unlimited, or a large fixed allowance you will never approach, is the only sensible shape for this job.
How to set a proxy for a player or a browser
Check the exit before you launch anything. Load the proxy checker through the proxy and confirm the country and that the connection is alive; doing this after the player has already cached a failed region is wasted effort.
Firefox
Settings, search for proxy, then Manual proxy configuration. Enter the host and port for HTTP or SOCKS5. If you use SOCKS5, tick Proxy DNS when using SOCKS v5, otherwise Firefox resolves the service's hostname locally and the region check may see your real location even though the traffic goes elsewhere.
Chrome and other Chromium browsers
Chromium takes the operating system proxy by default. To give one browser window its own exit, launch it with a flag:
google-chrome --proxy-server="socks5://host:port" --host-resolver-rules="MAP * ~NOTFOUND, EXCLUDE localhost"
Chromium will not accept credentials in that string; if the proxy needs a username and password it will prompt, and it will not use the flag's credentials automatically across profiles. A separate browser profile pointing at the system proxy, or an extension that handles authentication, is usually cleaner.
Windows and macOS
Windows: Settings, Network and Internet, Proxy, then Manual proxy setup. From a command line, netsh winhttp set proxy host:port sets it for services that use WinHTTP rather than the user-level setting. macOS: System Settings, Network, select the connection, Details, Proxies.
Players, TVs and set-top boxes
Most smart TV apps, games consoles and streaming sticks have no proxy field at all. Your options are a router-level rule that sends only the device's traffic through the proxy, or a travel router acting as a client so the TV joins that network instead. Kodi reads proxy settings from advancedsettings.xml; VLC exposes an HTTP proxy field in its preferences under input and codecs; ffmpeg takes -http_proxy http://host:port before the input URL.
Testing from a terminal
curl -x socks5h://user:pass@host:port https://ifconfig.me uses the h variant so the hostname is resolved by the proxy, not locally. If you see your own address, the proxy is not being used or DNS is leaking.
What the terms of service say
Setting a proxy is legal in most jurisdictions. Breaching a streaming service's terms is a different thing: it is a contract question, not a criminal one, and the practical consequence is that the service may close your account or cancel a subscription, not that anyone is prosecuted.
The terms themselves are rarely ambiguous. Most services state that you must not circumvent geographic restrictions, and many state that you must not access the service from outside the territory where you hold the subscription. Some explicitly permit the opposite: EU rules on portability mean a subscriber travelling within the EU can reach their home catalogue, and services operating there generally honour that. So the same act can be permitted in one country and a breach of contract in another, and either way it can breach the terms.
Two things are worth keeping separate. Using a proxy to reach a catalogue is a terms question. Using someone else's account, a stolen card, or a forged billing country to obtain a subscription is fraud, and that is not a grey area. The awkward part, stated plainly: even in the first case, if the service detects it, it is entitled to end your account, and it does not have to refund the remainder of the year.
Mistakes that cause buffering
Most buffering blamed on a proxy is not the proxy being slow. It is one of these:
- DNS resolving locally. The service's hostname resolves to a content delivery edge near your real location, so the proxy carries the bytes across an ocean. Playback starts, then stalls. Fix: send DNS through the proxy.
- Rotating mid-session. The address changes, the player re-authenticates, and the title restarts. Use sticky sessions longer than the film.
- A distant exit. Round-trip time is paid on every segment request, and players buffer aggressively when segments arrive late. Pick an exit close to the catalogue's country, not close to you.
- Connection limits. A player opens several parallel requests for one stream. A plan capped at a handful of concurrent connections will queue them, and queuing looks like a slow network.
- QUIC and UDP. Many players try HTTP/3 over UDP first. SOCKS5 carries UDP only if the proxy supports the associate command; where it does not, the player falls back to TCP after a delay, or hangs. If a stream stalls at start and recovers later, this is a likely cause.
- A saturated uplink. If the proxy is reached over your home upload, or the proxy itself is on a congested shared line, no amount of retrying helps. Test the same exit at a quiet hour to see whether the problem is the proxy or your connection.
- Throttled metered plans. Once a per-gigabyte plan hits its cap, throughput drops and every stream buffers. The proxy is fine; the plan is not.
If you are starting from a free list rather than a paid plan, expect to spend most of your time on the first and third of these. The free proxy list is checked continuously, which tells you an address is alive, not that it will hold a two-hour session. Useful for testing configuration; rarely useful for a film. If you are weighing paid options, the provider reviews set out what each one is actually shaped for, and the table above carries the entry prices and protocols so you can rule most of them out on cost per gigabyte alone.
What to look for
- Throughput
- Everything else is irrelevant if the stream buffers; this is the one page where raw bandwidth leads.
- Unlimited or metered
- Hours of video on a per-gigabyte plan is the most expensive way to buy this.
- Country coverage
- Catalogues are regional, and the address decides which one you get.
- Residential against datacenter
- Datacenter ranges are the ones streaming services detect most reliably.
- Stability over a long session
- A film is a two-hour connection, which is a different test from a two-second request.
Every provider, in order
1. NodeMaven — Unlimited ISP, 24h sticky
4.8 / 5 for this job · from $2.20 / GB
NodeMaven sits first because its ISP product matches the shape of a streaming session better than anything else in its own range: ISP plans carry unlimited traffic and a 99.9% uptime guarantee, and sticky sessions are quoted at up to 24 hours. A film is one connection held open for two hours, so a session window measured in hours rather than minutes is the difference between watching something and reloading when the exit address changes and the catalogue resets.
Throughput figures are declared rather than independently measured: under 0.3s on ISP, under 0.1s on static ISP, under 0.2s across the residential pool. Targeting reaches 190+ countries down to ZIP level by the provider's claim, across 195+ locations, and UDP is marketed for ISP proxies specifically. ISP proxies sit on ISP-assigned addresses rather than datacenter ranges, which is the practical argument for paying ISP rates here instead of per-gigabyte residential.
The awkward part is price and proof. Residential is metered from $2.20/GB, an expensive way to move hours of video, so the ISP plan is the one that matters and it is billed on 30 or 90-day terms. There is no free trial: $3.50 buys a 750 MB demo, and a third-party write-up says the free-trial route is limited to registered companies that pass KYC. Refunds are pro-rated, smaller locations are reported to be uneven in depth, and the mobile pool is quoted at 250K by the provider against 295K+ in third-party records.
Key features
- ISP plans: unlimited traffic, 99.9% uptime guarantee
- Sticky sessions up to 24 hours
- Declared response time under 0.3s on ISP, under 0.1s on static ISP
- 190+ countries for geo-targeting, ZIP level claimed
- Residential metered from $2.20/GB; ISP billed on 30 or 90 days
- No free trial; $3.50 for a 750 MB paid demo
Best suited for: long viewing sessions in one country, where an unmetered ISP connection with a 24-hour sticky window beats a large metered rotating pool
2. Webshare.io — Cheapest unlimited bandwidth
4.6 / 5 for this job · from $0.02 / month
Webshare is second because it is the provider here that sells unlimited bandwidth on a static residential address as a flat monthly fee rather than a traffic meter: Static Residential at $6.00/month with up to unlimited bandwidth. For a job measured in hours of video rather than thousands of short requests, that pricing model is the whole argument.
The network is put at 80M+ IPs across 195 countries, with an aggregate network of 100+ Gbps, bandwidth tiers from 250GB to unlimited and thread limits from 500 to 3,000. Rotating residential targets country, state, city, ZIP and ASN. There is a permanent free plan with 10 proxies and no card required, which is a genuine way to see whether a particular catalogue answers before paying for anything.
Two catches. The word unlimited carries an asterisk pointing at a Fair Usage Policy, so read that policy before assuming a month of viewing costs $6. And the footprint is harder to pin down than the headline: the provider's own pages give both 195 countries and 50+ locations. The static residential list names Comcast and AT&T and then says "& more", so a specific carrier cannot be checked before buying. Datacenter proxies are the pool streaming platforms spot most reliably; the static residential pool is the relevant one for this job.
Key features
- Static Residential at $6.00/month, up to unlimited bandwidth
- Datacenter proxy servers from $2.99/month, 400K+ IPs
- Aggregate network 100+ Gbps; bandwidth tiers 250GB to unlimited
- Rotating residential targets country, state, city, ZIP and ASN
- Permanent free plan: 10 proxies, no credit card
- Unlimited bandwidth subject to a Fair Usage Policy
Best suited for: a flat monthly spend on a small number of static residential addresses, where per-gigabyte billing would make hours of video expensive
3. Proxy-Seller — Cheapest per-GB, 220+ locations
4.5 / 5 for this job · from $0.30 / GB
Proxy-Seller takes third on price per gigabyte: residential from $0.30/GB, the lowest published per-GB rate in this table, across 47M+ rotating IPs and 220+ locations. On a page where bandwidth is the first consideration, that is why it ranks above providers with larger pools and higher rates.
For moving video, two specifications stand out. The provider declares a 1 Gbps IPv4 channel across 600+ networks, ISP proxies quoted up to 1 Gbps, and a residential response time of around 0.35s. The 220+ locations are what decide which regional catalogue answers, and HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, a RESTful API and IP whitelisting are all listed, so most clients connect without an adapter. Connection success rate is declared at 99.5%+ and uptime at 99.7%. Uptime, success rate and response time are all the provider's own figures, with no independent test cited alongside them.
The catch is the mobile side: coverage reaches only 20+ countries against 220+ residential locations, so if the target serves mobile addresses this is a thin list. Residential is also metered at $0.30/GB, and cheap per gigabyte is still per gigabyte — several hours a day will show on the meter in a way an unlimited ISP plan does not.
Key features
- Residential from $0.30/GB; 47M+ rotating IPs
- 220+ residential locations
- 1 Gbps IPv4 channel across 600+ networks; ISP up to 1 Gbps
- Declared residential response time around 0.35s
- Mobile coverage limited to 20+ countries
- HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 with RESTful API and IP whitelisting
Best suited for: reaching a specific regional catalogue at the lowest cost per gigabyte, where a metered connection is acceptable
4. ProxySale.com — Unlimited residential daily
4.2 / 5 for this job · from $0.06 / GB
Proxy-Sale.com is fourth, and it earns the place on one product: Unlimited Residential Proxy at $69.68/day, with no cap on IPs or traffic and both random and sticky rotation. Where the requirement is to move a lot of video without watching a meter, a day of unmetered traffic undercuts per-gigabyte billing surprisingly quickly.
The underlying pool is put at 86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries, with country, state and city targeting and sticky rotation so an address can be held across a session. Declared residential response time is under 0.6s against a 99.5% success rate and 99.9% uptime. Per-GB residential runs from $0.5/GB and static residential at $5/IP for anyone who wants a fixed address rather than a rolling one.
The catch is the billing unit. A day is an awkward increment for a session that runs past midnight, and the daily fee only makes sense if the day is genuinely saturated. The free trial covers the Web Scraper API, not the proxy network, so streaming behaviour cannot be checked before paying for a day. The service is not available in mainland China by the provider's own policy, and the uptime and success figures are provider-declared with no third-party audit shown.
Key features
- Unlimited Residential at $69.68/day, no cap on IPs or traffic
- 86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries
- Country, state and city targeting on residential proxies
- Random and sticky rotation on the unlimited plan
- Declared response time under 0.6s, success rate 99.5%
- Free trial covers the Web Scraper API only; not sold in mainland China
Best suited for: a heavy single day of viewing or capturing where unmetered traffic is worth a daily fee
5. Novada — Low-cost long-session residential
4.1 / 5 for this job · from $0.50 / GB
Novada lands fifth on long sessions at low cost. Rotating ISP proxies start at $0.65/GB and carry 360-minute sticky sessions — six hours, comfortably past the length of any single film — while residential starts at $1.3/GB with sessions of 1 to 120 minutes. Rotating datacenter at $0.50/GB is the cheapest entry point, but datacenter ranges are the ones streaming platforms detect most reliably, so it is the least suitable pool here despite the price.
Coverage is the strong suit: 100M+ residential IPs across 195+ countries with city-level precision, and published country IP counts for the US, UK, Brazil, Canada and France. Declared response time is sub-0.5s with 99.9% uptime and unlimited sessions. Mobile inventory is presented separately, at 2M+ IPs and 120+ carriers, which matters when a target treats mobile addresses more kindly than fixed ones.
Two things to weigh. Protocol support is listed as HTTP(S) only, so clients that insist on SOCKS5 are out. And the headline 99.99% success rate does not clearly apply to every pool: the same provider quotes 99% for rotating datacenter. Unlimited Proxies, IPv6 Proxies and Datasets have no published price and go through an account manager, and the free trial is limited to the Scraper API — the general offer is a $10 credit, which is not the same thing.
Key features
- Rotating ISP from $0.65/GB with 6-hour (360-minute) sticky sessions
- Residential from $1.3/GB; sessions of 1-120 minutes
- 100M+ residential IPs across 195+ countries, city-level targeting
- Mobile: 2M+ IPs and 120+ carriers
- Declared sub-0.5s response time and 99.9% uptime
- HTTP(S) only; SOCKS5 not listed
Best suited for: long single sessions on a budget, where a six-hour sticky ISP window covers a whole film or match
6. Decodo (ex Smartproxy) — Fast 195-location residential
4.0 / 5 for this job · from $0.08 / GB
Smartproxy, which became Decodo in April 2025, sits sixth because it is fast and precisely targetable rather than unlimited. Residential proxies average under 0.5s response time on the provider's figures, with a 99.92% success rate and 99.99% uptime across 115M+ residential IPs in 195+ locations. Targeting runs to continent, country, state, city, ZIP code and ASN — the finest granularity in this table, and the thing that decides which regional catalogue answers.
The constraint for this job is session length. Sticky IPs are held for up to 30 minutes, so a two-hour film will change address unless the client re-establishes cleanly. That is a different proposition from a 24-hour sticky window, and it is why this ranks below providers selling unlimited bandwidth. Residential is metered from $2/GB, at $2.75/GB on the 100 GB plan and from $2.50/GB at 250 GB enterprise scale. The Video Downloader at $0.08/GB is a separate product, not a proxy plan.
Read the refund rules before buying. The 3-day, 100 MB trial and the 14-day money-back option are mutually exclusive, so using the trial removes refund eligibility; refunds are limited to a first purchase and capped at under 20% of a residential plan's traffic. Pay-as-you-go at $4/GB is wallet-only, sold a gigabyte at a time, and cannot be combined with a subscription.
Key features
- Residential pool of 115M+ IPs across 195+ locations
- Sticky IPs held for up to 30 minutes
- Declared average response time under 0.5s; success rate 99.92%
- Targeting to city, ZIP code and ASN level
- Residential from $2/GB; Video Downloader from $0.08/GB
- 3-day trial and 14-day money-back are mutually exclusive
Best suited for: pinpoint city or ZIP-level catalogue access where fast responses matter more than holding one address for a whole film
7. ASocks.com — Flat per-proxy billing
3.9 / 5 for this job · from $5 / proxy
ASocks sits seventh because flat per-proxy billing solves the cost problem streaming has: a two-hour film on a per-gigabyte plan is the most expensive way to watch anything. Residential and corporate proxies are $5 per proxy per month, mobile is $15, and the meter does not run while the stream does. For a session that holds a connection open for hours, that shape of bill is easier to live with than a tariff that counts every gigabyte.
The record claims 150+ locations and 7M+ IP addresses, which is the part that decides which catalogue you see. The provider also claims a 99.7% connection success rate and its own infrastructure, and links clean addresses to fewer bans — worth something here, because a proxy that gets flagged mid-film is worse than one that never connected at all. Support is 24/7 with a stated average response under 10 minutes, which matters more at ten in the evening than in a sales demo. Volume discounts begin at 10 proxies with 5%, 50 with 10% and 100 with 15%.
The catch is the numbers themselves. The 99.7% success rate, 150+ locations, 7M+ addresses and 100,000+ clients are all provider-reported and unaudited, and there is no published throughput figure anywhere in the record. Nothing here tells you what sustained bitrate a proxy holds across two hours, and that is the only measurement a streaming user actually cares about. Mobile also costs three times residential, so a carrier address is $15 rather than $5.
Key features
- Residential and corporate proxies at $5 per proxy/month
- Mobile proxies at $15 per proxy/month
- 150+ locations and 7M+ IP addresses, provider-reported
- 99.7% connection success rate, provider-reported
- 24/7 support with a stated average response under 10 minutes
- Volume discounts: 5% at 10 proxies, 10% at 50, 15% at 100
Best suited for: long viewing sessions where a flat monthly proxy bill beats metered bandwidth
8. ProxyEmpire — Unlimited 5G mobile daily
3.8 / 5 for this job · from $0.35 / GB
ProxyEmpire is eighth, and its angle maps more directly onto streaming than anything else in this group: unlimited bandwidth on dedicated mobile. A USA 5G line is $20/day, $75/week or $250/month with unlimited GB, and a multi-country mobile plan is $125/month, also unlimited. For video that removes the arithmetic entirely — a three-hour session costs the same as a ten-minute one.
Residential is the wider pool: 30M+ addresses across 170+ countries on the provider's figures, with targeting down to country, region, city, ISP, ASN, OS/TCP and ZIP, unlimited sessions and concurrent connections for approved use cases, and rollover on the GB plans so unused data never expires. Protocols are HTTP, HTTPS, Socks5 and HTTP/2. There is also an unlimited residential line priced by speed, from $200/day at 100 Mbit through to $800/day at 1000 Mbit, with weekly and monthly rates that come in below the daily equivalent.
The awkward parts are coverage and price shape. Dedicated mobile reaches only 5+ countries and 50+ locations and drops city-level targeting to country, city and carrier — so if the catalogue you want is not in one of those five, the unlimited mobile angle does not help you. Unlimited bandwidth is sold per day or week with no rollover, so the entry cost on the residential side is $200/day rather than a monthly subscription. The $1.97 trial excludes static ISP and datacenter. The site also quotes its own Trustpilot score as both 4.6 and 4.5, which is a small thing, but small things are worth noticing.
Key features
- Unlimited GB on dedicated mobile: $20/day, $75/week, $250/month for USA 5G
- Multi-country unlimited mobile at $125/month
- 30M+ residential IPs across 170+ countries, provider-reported
- Residential targeting by country, region, city, ISP, ASN, OS/TCP and ZIP
- Rollover bandwidth on GB-based plans; unused GB never expire
- Unlimited residential priced by speed, from $200/day at 100 Mbit
Best suited for: watching without a gigabyte meter where a US or one of five dedicated-mobile countries covers the catalogue
9. Floppydata — Bulk residential from $1/GB
3.7 / 5 for this job · from $0.63 / GB
Floppydata is ninth, and the reason it is not higher on a streaming page is the billing model. Rotating traffic starts at $1.00/GB across residential, mobile and datacenter, with 20% off at 96 GB and 30% off at 120 GB published as open tiers. Those are good numbers for collection work. For video they are the wrong shape: a few hours of HD is tens of gigabytes, and at $2.07/GB on the 120 GB residential tier that adds up quickly.
What is useful here is the breadth. Residential, static residential, static datacenter, mobile and ISP proxies sit under one account across 190+ locations on the provider's figure, and 195 countries in third-party records, with country, city, ASN and IP-type targeting. Static datacenter IPs run from $0.79 per IP per month in bundles of 20, 50 or 100, which is a cheap flat address if what you need is one that stays put. There is a 100 MB free trial for each of residential, datacenter and mobile, SOC 2, CCPA and GDPR are stated, and payment runs through cards plus 50+ cryptocurrencies.
The catches are straightforward. The trial is a connectivity check rather than a load test, so it will not tell you whether a two-hour stream holds. Datacenter ranges are the ones streaming services detect most reliably, so the $0.63/GB datacenter tier is the cheapest thing on offer and the most likely to be refused. Documentation is thin for custom rotation logic, there is no phone support, the 95% clean-IP rate and sub-0.3-second response figures are the provider's own, and the company dates from April 2024, so there is no long track record behind any of it.
Key features
- Rotating traffic from $1.00/GB across residential, mobile and datacenter
- 20% off at 96 GB and 30% off at 120 GB, published as open tiers
- Residential at $2.07/GB on the 120 GB tier
- Static datacenter IPs from $0.79/IP/month in bundles of 20, 50 or 100
- 190+ locations (provider), 195 countries (third-party)
- 100 MB free trial for each of residential, datacenter and mobile
Best suited for: metered work where a large traffic block is bought up front and video is not the main event
10. MobileProxy.Space — Unlimited mobile rental traffic
3.6 / 5 for this job · from ₽490 / day
MobileProxy.Space lands tenth because it sells the right shape at the wrong end of the price range. Mobile plans bill by rental period with unlimited traffic, from 490₽ per day, with a one-day minimum, so a single evening's viewing commits you to nothing and counts no gigabytes. Static datacenter proxies are also unlimited-traffic, rented by day, week, month, quarter or year.
The operational side is better built than the price suggests: IP rotation on a timer or by hitting an API link, dead proxies replaced automatically in the provider's wording, refunds for unused time, and a dashboard carrying a proxy checker, port checks, a speed test and a browser proxy manager extension. There is an API and an MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor and the usual language bindings. Up to 250 simultaneous connections are allowed per mobile proxy, on HTTP and SOCKS5.
The catch is throughput, and on a streaming page that is the whole argument. The declared performance figures put download at 10.00 Mbps with ping at 348 ms and response time at 3.24 seconds, and the provider itself says speed drops to about 4 Mb/s when the device is remote; the third-party stated range is 3–30 Mb/s. That carries one HD stream at the lower end and not much beyond it. Third-party write-ups call the prices relatively high and report problems with geographical locations and some laggy proxies, and the numbers disagree between sources: 30+ countries against 53, 2M+ IPs against 267,370,000, a two-hour trial against three. The unlimited traffic is real; the bitrate behind it is the question.
Key features
- Mobile plans rented by period with unlimited traffic, from 490₽ per day
- Minimum rental period of one day
- Up to 250 simultaneous connections per mobile proxy
- Declared download speed 10.00 Mbps; about 4 Mb/s when the device is remote
- IP rotation on a timer or via an API link
- Refunds for unused time, in the provider's wording
Best suited for: short unlimited-traffic rentals where one stream at a time is enough
11. FlyProxy — Cheap 10TB residential tier
3.5 / 5 for this job · from $0.90 / GB
FlyProxy is eleventh, and the angle is a rate that only exists at volume: $0.90 per GB on the 10,240 GB residential tier, against $2.50 at 20 GB and $2.40 at 50 GB. On a streaming page that is a warning as much as a recommendation. The cheap rate is real, but it is priced for a collection operation that will genuinely push ten terabytes, not for someone watching a catalogue. If you will not use the volume, you are buying a commitment to get a number.
What the record does support: over 100 million residential addresses claimed by the provider and 69 million in a third-party listing, more than 195 countries and regions with country, state and city targeting, unlimited concurrent sessions stated by both sources, and HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5. Third-party country tests put success between 96.8% in Mexico and 98.7% in Germany, with response times from 0.52s to 1.00s. Support is 24/7 over Telegram, email and the site, rated 4.7 by users and by experts in third-party reviews.
The catch is that this is not a streaming-shaped product. There are no mobile proxies in the line-up, and mobile addresses are the ones that survive longest against platform checks. There are no refunds once products are sold, stated by the provider itself. IP lifetime is around 24 hours on third-party data, so a long session may find its address changed underneath it. Pool size, protocol list and dashboard availability disagree between the provider's own pages and the third-party listing, and one listing says there is no free trial while the provider advertises 500 MB through sales.
Key features
- Residential at $0.90/GB on the 10,240 GB tier
- $2.50/GB at 20 GB and $2.40/GB at 50 GB
- Over 100M residential IPs (provider); 69M (third-party listing)
- 195+ countries and regions with state and city targeting
- Third-party country success rates of 96.8% to 98.7%, response 0.52s to 1.00s
- No mobile proxies; no refunds once products are sold
Best suited for: high-volume residential buying where the ten-terabyte tier will actually be used up
12. Oxylabs.io — Enterprise 195-location pool
3.4 / 5 for this job · from $0.40 / GB
Oxylabs is twelfth, and on location coverage nothing else in this group comes close: 195 locations, with 177M+ IPs in total and 175M+ of them residential, all on the provider's figures. Catalogues are regional and the address decides which one you get, so a 195-location pool is the practical answer to the title being on the wrong country's service. One subscription carries the whole catalogue, and unit rates are published for every product and every tier, so the cost of a specific country can be worked out before anyone speaks to sales.
The compliance side is unusually specific, which matters if the account is a business one: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 covers three named products, SOC 2 Type II covers two named endpoints, GDPR and EU AI Act alignment are stated, and technology E&O and cyber insurance apply across all products. Support is 24/7 with an account manager on larger accounts. Datacenter proxies are $0.60/GB on Starter down to $0.40/GB at enterprise, dedicated datacenter from $2/IP, ISP proxies from $1.50/IP, and residential from $6/GB falling to $2.50/GB at enterprise level.
The awkward part is that streaming is not what this pricing is built for. Residential is metered, and $6/GB at Starter is an expensive way to watch a film — the entry point is $30/month for up to 5 GB. The only free entry is $5 in welcome credits, which is under a gigabyte of residential traffic at Starter rates. Enterprise starts at $2,500/month through sales, VAT may apply on Starter, Basic and Flexible, and Bitcoin is not accepted. Certification scope runs per product rather than company-wide, which is worth reading before quoting it in a procurement document.
Key features
- 175M+ residential IPs across 195 locations, provider-reported
- Residential at $6/GB on Starter, $2.50/GB at enterprise
- Datacenter from $0.60/GB; ISP proxies from $1.50/IP
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II, scoped per product
- 24/7 support with an account manager for larger accounts
- Enterprise plans from $2,500/month; $5 in welcome credits
Best suited for: business accounts that need a specific regional catalogue and can justify metered residential rates
13. AnyIP.io — Seven-day sticky sessions
3.3 / 5 for this job · from $2 / GB
AnyIP.io earns its place here on session length rather than speed. Streaming breaks in a specific way: the connection has to hold the same address for the whole of a film, and a provider that rotates mid-session produces an error page rather than a buffer. Sticky sessions of up to seven days are the longest in this group, and Smart Sessions keep the address inside the same carrier and area, so a session that does renew does not jump to a different region and a different catalogue.
The plan structure suits multi-screen households. Residential and mobile addresses sit on one bill, with unlimited IP rotation, unlimited concurrent requests and no per-thread charge, and only bandwidth is metered. Filtering runs down to country, ISP, region and GPS coordinates, which is how you land inside a specific catalogue rather than just a specific country. Unused data rolls over to the next billing cycle.
The catch is the meter. Video is the hungriest thing you can put through a proxy, and the headline $2/GB is the Enterprise rate on a 500GB plan at $1000 a month. On Micro, extra traffic is $5/GB; on Basic, $4/GB. 38+ countries is also a short list if your catalogue is not among them, and there is no free trial — the Micro plan at $25 with 5GB included is the only way to look at the network before committing to anything larger.
Key features
- Sticky sessions up to 7 days
- Unlimited IP rotation and unlimited concurrent requests
- Residential and mobile proxies on one plan, bandwidth metered only
- Filtering by country, ISP, region and GPS coordinates
- 38+ countries
- Extra traffic $5/GB on Micro, $4/GB on Basic
Best suited for: long single sittings where the address must not change mid-stream and the budget is understood to be per gigabyte
14. GonzoProxy — High-speed 612 Mbps residential
3.2 / 5 for this job · from $2 / GB
For raw throughput this is the number the rest of the table gets measured against. The provider publishes 612 Mbps download and 104 Mbps upload through its residential network, with a ping of 11 ms and a response time of 0.47s. Whatever a stream needs, that is a large multiple of it. The interesting question is whether the figure holds at the hours you actually watch, and the provider's own per-country success rates are the honest place to look: 99.3% in Germany, 99.1% in the UK, 98.6% in the United States, falling to 96.8% in Indonesia and 96.9% in Australia, with average response times stretching past a second in the further-flung markets.
Coverage is the other reason it sits this high. 190+ countries and a 20M+ pool, with targeting down to city, state, ZIP code and ASN, is what actually decides which catalogue you get. Sticky IPs can be claimed for up to 72 hours, comfortably past any single sitting, and concurrent connections are unlimited on every plan. Traffic never expires and rolls over to the next plan, which matters when a month of viewing eats gigabytes faster than a scraping job ever would.
The awkward parts: the mobile network covers Poland and Ukraine only, so this is a residential play for streaming. The published speed and success figures are the provider's own and are not independently verified on its site. Two plan ladders quote different per-GB rates for the same volumes, so check which one you are buying from. And the demo is not free — $1.99 for 0.3 GB, with a separate trial at $4.50 for 1 GB.
Key features
- 612 Mbps download and 104 Mbps upload, provider-declared
- 190+ countries with city, state, ZIP code and ASN targeting
- Sticky IPs up to 72 hours
- Unlimited concurrent connections on every plan
- Traffic never expires and rolls over
- Mobile proxies in Poland and Ukraine only
Best suited for: high-bitrate viewing in markets where the provider's own success rates hold up, paid by the gigabyte
15. Nsocks — Large pool, no trial
3.1 / 5 for this job
Nsocks is here on pool size and reach rather than on anything you can check before paying. The provider claims 80M+ real-user residential addresses across 195 countries and 190+ country and city-level regions, with country, city, ISP and ASN targeting. For streaming, the city-level filtering is the part that earns the placement: catalogues are regional, and an address in the right country but the wrong end of it can still hand you the wrong library.
The rest is ordinary. Rotating, static, datacenter, ISP and unlimited proxies are sold as separate products on separate billing, protocols are HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, there are listed integrations with the common anti-detect browsers plus Playwright, Selenium and an API, and support runs by live chat and email around the clock. Datacenter ranges are the ones streaming platforms detect most reliably, so the residential product is the one that matters for this job, and the provider puts uptime at 99.95%.
The catch is that you cannot see any of it first. There is no free trial, and the provider states it does not support refunds on products sold, so the first payment is the test. Third-party records date the company to 26 August 2024, a short operating history for a network you are trusting with long sessions. And the provider's own home page quotes two different pool sizes, 80M+ and 90M+, which tells you how carefully the numbers are kept.
Key features
- 80M+ residential IPs claimed; the home page also states 90M+
- 195 countries, 190+ country and city-level regions
- Country, city, ISP and ASN targeting
- No free trial; provider states no refunds on products sold
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5
- Founded 26 August 2024 per third-party records
Best suited for: buyers who already know the region they need and can absorb the cost of a first paid test
16. Live Proxies — Unmetered private IPs
2.9 / 5 for this job · from $2
Unmetered billing is the reason this one is on a streaming list at all. Video is the worst possible fit for a per-gigabyte plan, and Live Proxies sells both metered and unmetered options with no concurrency limit, unlimited threads and unlimited requests, so a long viewing session is not being counted against a quota. Addresses are allocated privately — the provider says they are unique and shared only with you — which is the right shape for an address that has to look like a household rather than a rotating pool.
Unused bandwidth rolls over to the standby plan, there is dashboard and API access, IP whitelisting, support through Discord and a help centre, and activation the provider puts at around ten minutes, with the network sometimes taking up to twenty. Rotating residential sessions stick for 60 minutes, rotating mobile for 30.
That session length is the problem. A film, a match or a full evening will outlast a 60-minute sticky window, and when the address changes mid-stream the player tends to fail rather than re-buffer. Static residential would be the obvious answer, and the pricing page marks it permanently unavailable. Add pricing that does not reconcile — starting prices of $45, $65 and $55 on the home page against B2C plans from $70 on the pricing page — a free trial reserved for custom plan users, SOCKS5 on the B2B tier only, and geography given as available countries or state options with US-only states and no count, and it is best treated as a provider for short sessions rather than long ones.
Key features
- Metered and unmetered billing options
- No concurrency limit, unlimited threads and unlimited requests
- Private IP allocation, unique and shared only with you
- 60-minute sticky sessions on rotating residential, 30 minutes on mobile
- Static residential listed as permanently unavailable
- Unused bandwidth rolls over to the standby plan
Best suited for: unmetered viewing where sessions can be kept short and the address does not need to stay static
17. ChangeMyIP.com — Unlimited shared bandwidth
2.2 / 5 for this job · from $1
An unlimited-bandwidth shared proxy at a dollar a unit is the cheapest way onto this list, and for streaming it is the one to think hardest about. Bandwidth is unmetered on the plans it sells, the ports are 1Gb/s with 1Gb/s-plus on dedicated connections, activation is instant and there is no contract. The protocol range is wider than most: HTTP, SOCKS5, ShadowSocks, Trojan, a DNS proxy and Wireguard, which covers clients that speak nothing else.
What it does not do is solve the two things that actually stop a stream. Shared proxies put multiple users on the same IP address and split the bandwidth, and the provider says so plainly — performance can suffer on busy servers. A single address several strangers are also using is exactly the pattern streaming platforms look for. There is a residential and mobile product family, but the public unit pricing is on the HTTP and SOCKS entries, so the residential side is not something you can cost from the page.
The practical frictions matter too: a $10 minimum order even if you want one $1.00 shared proxy, torrents and paypal.com blocked at proxy level on every product, and a 30-day guarantee that does not apply once the service has been used, with refunds limited to bugs or slow performance. The fully anonymous and undetectable line is marketing with no published independent test behind it. For a one-off regional check it will do; for an evening's viewing it is a gamble.
Key features
- Unlimited bandwidth on the plans it sells
- 1Gb/s ports; 1Gb/s-plus dedicated connections
- HTTP, SOCKS5, ShadowSocks, Trojan, DNS proxy and Wireguard
- Shared proxies split bandwidth across multiple users on the same IP
- $10 minimum order; torrents and paypal.com blocked at proxy level
- 30-day guarantee does not apply once the service has been used
Best suited for: cheap short-term regional checks where unmetered bandwidth matters more than a clean, exclusive address
Streaming proxies: questions we get
Can I use a free proxy to watch Netflix?
You can try, and occasionally one works for a few minutes. Free lists are dominated by datacenter addresses that streaming services identify from the network they belong to, and by the time an address appears on a public list it has usually been used by thousands of people. Expect region errors or a proxy-detection message rather than playback.
Does a proxy slow down streaming?
It adds a hop, so latency rises, but latency is not the main factor in video quality. Throughput and packet loss are. A fast proxy on a nearby exit can carry 4K without trouble; a slow one on a distant exit will buffer regardless of how much bandwidth the plan advertises.
Why does the video play but show my own country's catalogue?
That is almost always DNS. The traffic goes through the proxy but the hostname was resolved locally, so the service sees a request from a local content delivery node and serves the local catalogue. Configure DNS to travel with the proxy, or use the SOCKS5h form in terminal tools.
Do smart TVs support proxy settings?
Generally no. Most television apps, consoles and streaming sticks have no proxy field, and they ignore system proxy settings entirely. The workable approaches are a router rule that routes only that device's traffic, or a travel router acting as a proxy client so the TV connects through it.
What is the difference between SOCKS5 and SOCKS5h?
Both carry the same traffic. The h variant means the proxy resolves the destination hostname rather than your machine doing it locally. For streaming that difference decides which country the service thinks the request came from, so SOCKS5h is the one you want.
What happens if a streaming service detects a proxy?
Usually a region error, a message asking you to disable the proxy, or a forced re-login. Repeated detection can lead to the session being blocked for a period. In the worst case the service treats it as a breach of its terms and closes the account, which is why the terms matter more than the technical workaround.
How much data does a two-hour film use?
It depends heavily on resolution and codec. Standard definition is a fraction of a gigabyte; high definition for two hours is commonly in the region of four to six gigabytes; 4K can be well over ten. On a per-gigabyte plan, one film can cost more than a month of the streaming subscription.
Can one proxy be used on two devices at the same time?
Sometimes, but check the concurrent connection limit rather than the device count. A player opens several parallel requests for a single stream, so two devices can exhaust a small allowance quickly. Two streams through one address can also look suspicious to the service.
Why does the stream stop after about an hour?
The most common causes are a session limit set shorter than the film and a rotating pool that reassigned your address. Other candidates are an idle timeout on the proxy and a player switching to HTTP/3 over UDP. Sticky sessions longer than the runtime are the fix for the first two.
Does a proxy stop my ISP seeing what I stream?
Your ISP sees encrypted traffic to the proxy rather than to the streaming service, so it cannot read the content. It can still see volume and timing. The proxy operator, meanwhile, can see which hostnames you connect to, which is a different trade-off from a VPN.
Which is better for live sport, a proxy or a VPN?
Live sport punishes latency and instability more than on-demand does, because there is no buffer of future content to fall back on. A stable sticky address on a nearby exit generally performs better than a shared VPN exit, but only if the proxy holds throughput for the full duration of the match.
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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