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Datacenter proxies compared: per-GB and per-IP pricing, shared vs dedicated IPs, speed, and the targets where server IPs succeed before ASN blocks hit.

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Datacenter proxies are server IPs: the fastest and cheapest proxy class, and the first one that bot defenses flag, because commercial ASN ranges are indexed on sight. They win on unprotected APIs, open data, staging environments and bulk public pages, where paying for residential traffic buys nothing.

These comparisons cover both billing models, per GB for bursty scraping and per IP with unlimited bandwidth for steady throughput, across Evomi, DataImpulse, Proxy-Seller, Floppydata, IPRoyal, Bright Data and Oxylabs. Prices are verified against each provider's pricing page, with the fair-use limits and country coverage that decide the real cost.

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Best Datacenter Proxies 2026: From $0.30/GB or $0.02/IP

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Datacenter proxies are server IPs: the fastest and cheapest proxy class, and the easiest for a target to detect, because bot filters index commercial ASN ranges on sight. Buy them for work that does not check ASN class, APIs, open data, staging, anything unprotected, and the November 2026 floor is $0.45/GB (Evomi), $0.50/GB (DataImpulse), $0.49/IP (Proxy-Seller IPv4) or $0.02/IP (Proxy-Seller IPv6).

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Datacenter pricing splits into two models (verified November 2026). Per GB, for bursty scraping: Evomi at $0.45/GB pay-as-you-go ($0.30/GB at 1 TB, unlimited concurrency) and DataImpulse at $0.50/GB flat ($0.45 at 1 TB, traffic never expires). Per IP, for steady throughput: Proxy-Seller IPv4 from $0.49/IP and IPv6 from $0.02/IP, Floppydata static from $0.79/IP, IPRoyal dedicated from $1.39/IP with unlimited bandwidth. Enterprise: Bright Data from $0.60/GB or $0.90/IP shared; Oxylabs from $0.44/GB shared or $1.20/IP dedicated across 188 countries.

Datacenter proxy comparison (November 2026)​

ProviderModelEntryBest rateNotes
Evomiper GB$0.45$0.30 at 1 TB ($300/mo)unlimited concurrency, 181 countries
DataImpulseper GB$0.50$0.45 at 1 TB ($450)traffic never expires, 20M IPs, sub-100 ms
Bright Dataper GB or per IP$0.60/GB · $1.40 shared/IP$0.40/GB · $0.90 shared/IP at 1,0001.3M+ IPs, 98 countries, 100 GB/mo per IP
Oxylabsper GB or per IP$0.60/GB shared · $1 shared/IP$0.40/GB · $1.20 dedicated/IP at volume188 countries, ~1.9M dedicated IPs
Proxy-Sellerper IP$0.49 IPv4 · $0.02 IPv6volume discounts up to 30%AUTOMATE15 for 15% off, 40+ countries IPv4
Floppydataper GB or per IP$1/GB rotating · $0.79 static/IP$1.50/GB non-expiringsame balance covers residential and mobile
IPRoyalper IP$1.39 (90-day)$1.57 (30d) · $1.48 (60d)unlimited bandwidth, 100 GB/mo per IP, 10K+ concurrent connections

NetNut, which we covered in earlier datacenter comparisons, was seized by the FBI in July 2026 and its parent paused the service; it is no longer recommendable and does not appear here.

Per-GB providers: bursty workloads​

Evomi: $0.45/GB, cheapest at volume​

Evomi bills datacenter per GB with unlimited concurrency: $0.45/GB pay-as-you-go, $0.40 on 200 GB, $0.35 on 500 GB, $0.30 on 1,000 GB ($300/month). Country and ISP targeting are included across 181 countries. The floor rate of $0.30/GB is the cheapest datacenter bandwidth on this page. The catch is structural: every proxy request bills a minimum of 512 bytes, which only matters at very high volumes of tiny requests.

DataImpulse: $0.50/GB flat, never expires​

DataImpulse prices datacenter at $0.50/GB ($5 for 10 GB intro) down to $0.45/GB at the 1 TB tier ($450), from a 20M-IP pool in 195+ locations with sub-100 ms latency and a 99.9% advertised uptime. Purchased traffic never expires, sticky sessions hold up to 30 minutes, and IP-whitelist authentication is available. For uneven calendars, non-expiring datacenter GBs at a flat rate beat a monthly commitment.

Bright Data and Oxylabs: enterprise per-GB​

Bright Data sells datacenter per GB at $0.60/GB pay-as-you-go, dropping to $0.51 (1 TB, $499/mo), $0.45 (2 TB) and $0.42 (5 TB), alongside per-IP shared plans from $1.40/IP at 10 to $0.90 at 1,000. Oxylabs prices shared datacenter per GB from $0.60 down to $0.40 at volume (dedicated per-IP from $2.00 to $1.20 across 188 countries). Both make sense when datacenter rides on a broader enterprise contract.

Per-IP providers: steady throughput​

When a job pushes consistent traffic through a known set of addresses, per-IP pricing with unlimited bandwidth beats per-GB, and the crossover arrives fast: at roughly 30 GB/month through one address, a $0.79 static IP has already beaten $0.50/GB metered traffic.

Proxy-Seller: IPv4 from $0.49/IP, IPv6 from $0.02/IP​

Proxy-Seller lists dedicated IPv4 from $0.49/IP across 40+ countries, with volume discounts up to 30% and the AUTOMATE15 code stacking another 15%. IPv6 addresses at $0.02/IP are the cheapest proxy product on the market, period, and fit IPv6-native targets (Google, Facebook, Reddit). Full tier ladders price out in the on-site configurator, and dead addresses are replaced or refunded within 24 hours.

Floppydata: static from $0.79/IP​

Floppydata sells static datacenter IPs from $0.79/IP/month in bundles of 20, 50 or 100 with unlimited bandwidth, and its rotating balance ($1/GB) also covers datacenter exits when you want rotation instead of fixed addresses. Twenty static IPs run about $16/month, the cheapest small bundle here.

IPRoyal: dedicated with headroom​

IPRoyal dedicated datacenter runs $1.57/IP (30 days), $1.48 (60), $1.39 (90, the popular tier), with unlimited traffic, ~10 ms latency, ~2 Gbps throughput and 10,000+ concurrent connections per address per its published specs, plus a 100 GB/month fair-use allowance pooled per IP. The most expensive entry here, and the only one publishing throughput specs, which matters for load-heavy jobs.

When datacenter is the wrong purchase​

Datacenter fails fast on Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google SERP (without CAPTCHA handling) and most Cloudflare-fronted sites; the class decision guide covers the escalation path to residential, ISP and mobile. The ten-request test settles it: send ten requests through a datacenter IP; 403s or challenges mean buy a different class, not more datacenter IPs.

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