The IPRoyal alternative when the first gigabyte is the expensive one

IPRoyal's range is residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile proxies, plus a web unblocker and a video scraper API. That is a broader catalogue than ours by a distance, and it is the first thing to be honest about.

The residential network is 64M+ residential addresses in 195+ countries. It is one of the larger pools on the market, and the company has been selling against it since long before we existed.

Documentation is public documentation at docs.iproyal.com, and payment covers Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Discover, Amex, Alipay and crypto. Both of those are better than a lot of shops twice their size.

Where the two of us actually compete is residential bandwidth and mobile. Everything else in their catalogue is a product we do not sell, and we do not pretend to a comparison we cannot make.

This is the section that sends people looking for an alternative. IPRoyal's residential entry is $7.35/GB for one gigabyte on pay-as-you-go. The ladder improves as you buy more: $6.25/GB at two gigabytes, $5.51/GB at ten, and $1.84/GB from 10 TB. There is also a subscription that takes a slice off: 5% off on a subscription: $7.00/GB for one gigabyte, down to $1.75/GB at 10 TB.

Our pricing does not have a ladder. Essential is $1.50/GB and Premium is $3.00/GB, and both are drawn from a wallet that starts at $0.50. There is no plan to size and no tier to climb.

Put plainly: their first gigabyte costs several times what ours does, and the gap narrows only if you are buying terabytes. If you are, their volume rate is a real number and worth a quote. If you are not, you are paying the premium tier of a volume ladder for the privilege of testing.

One thing in their favour: a zero monthly minimum and no long-term contract. That is a fairer model than a forced subscription, and we would rather sell like that too, which is why we sell a wallet.

See pricing for our full sheet, and residential proxies for how metering works.

IPRoyal states sticky sessions held for as long as the customer needs, up to 7 days. It also offers unlimited concurrent sessions, with no thread limit.

Our rule is up to 24 hours (120 minutes on Essential), stated the same way on every surface rather than one figure for the whole catalogue.

If your workload needs a session that lasts several days on one address, IPRoyal is the better product for that job and there is no spin that changes it. Long-lived sessions are not what our pools are built around.

If your sessions are minutes to hours, the difference disappears and the price gap does not.

Their network is 64M+ residential addresses in 195+ countries, with city-level targeting across the residential network across it.

Ours covers 150 countries. Country, US state and ASN go in the username on every pool; city is a Premium and Mobile feature. The difference is packaging: city targeting is part of their residential offer and part of our Premium tier, which costs $3.00/GB.

If city-level accuracy is central to your work, compare the Premium rate against their residential rate rather than against Essential. That is the honest comparison, and it is still cheaper on our side at the entry end.

IPRoyal sells ISP proxies from $1.80 per proxy, and datacenter proxies from $1.39 per proxy.

We sell static ISP as single IPs from $1.25 per IP a month (minimum 50 IPs), or a whole /24 for $255 a month, released in restock windows, with each whole /24 going to one customer. If you want a handful of static addresses, their per-proxy model is the right shape and ours is not.

Datacenter we simply do not sell. If your work runs on datacenter addresses, this comparison ends there and their catalogue is the reason.

The honest framing is that IPRoyal is a supermarket. We are a shop with three things on the shelf. On the three, we compete hard; on the rest, they win by being there.

Their mobile line starts at mobile proxies from $10.11 per day.

Ours is $3.00/GB across 150 countries, with US state and city targeting. The models are different shapes: a daily rate suits a heavy, continuous mobile job, and a per-gigabyte rate suits a light one.

For a short test, a day rate is usually the cheaper way to buy mobile anywhere. For a month of steady work, a metered pool almost always wins, and that is the case we would argue.

See mobile proxies for the pool itself.

Two policy differences are worth a paragraph each.

The first is identity. IPRoyal publishes a published KYC policy that applies to customers, and it applies to customers rather than only to resellers. For a company buying on a card that is normal; for an individual researcher it is friction, and it is a reason some people start looking elsewhere.

The business itself is a headquarters in Ajman, United Arab Emirates. That is not a problem in itself, and it is the reason its KYC policy carries weight: a provider with a registered address has something to lose. Our trust page lists what we can prove about ResiFactory, and we are a US LLC.

Our trust page lists what we can prove about the business. We are a US LLC, and the account is the account: no separate corporate entity to trace through a reseller.

IPRoyal is a bigger company with a bigger catalogue, and on single static IPs, datacenter addresses, week-long sticky sessions and unblocking tools it sells things we do not. If your job needs any of those, buy there and this page has done its job by telling you so.

On residential bandwidth the comparison is arithmetic. Their first gigabyte is $7.35/GB for one gigabyte on pay-as-you-go and ours is $1.50/GB. Their volume ladder only beats us above a threshold most buyers never reach, and their subscription is a recurring charge we do not ask for.

If you want a supermarket, IPRoyal is a good one. If you want to buy a few gigabytes, test a target and move on without a KYC check or a ladder, that is what we are for.

IPRoyal has a long public record, including press coverage and a Trustpilot profile. We link none of their scores onto this page and quote no figure from them, because a copied number is a claim we cannot keep current.

What we can keep current is our own pricing, which is read live, and the trust page, which lists what we can prove.