ISP proxies: guides & tutorials

ISP proxies (static residential proxies) are server-hosted IP addresses registered to consumer carriers: residential ASN trust with datacenter speed, sold per IP per month, and the address never rotates. That fixed identity is the product. It is what account management, sneaker checkouts and long-session retail scraping need, and it starts at $0.98/IP (Proxy-Seller) and $1.00/IP shared (Evomi) in November 2026.

ISP proxy comparison (November 2026)​

Provider	Entry price	Volume price	Coverage	Bandwidth	Notes
Proxy-Seller	$0.98/IP	volume discounts up to 30%	23 countries	unlimited	named carriers (AT&T, Windstream, Frontier)
Evomi	$1.00 shared	$2.50 private · $4.50 virgin	US only	unlimited	virgin = never sold as a proxy before
Oxylabs	$1.50 shared	$1.10 shared (2.27K+ IPs) · dedicated $3.30 to $2.20	28 countries	fair use	US 393K, UK 54K, DE 32K, FR 26K IPs
Floppydata	$1.79/IP	bundles of 20/50/100 IPs	check dashboard	unlimited	combined with rotating residential/mobile/DC balance
IPRoyal	$1.80/IP (24h)	$2.70 (30d) · $2.55 (60d) · $2.40 (90d)	31+ countries, 500K+ IPs	unlimited	SOCKS5 support
Bright Data	$1.80 shared (10 IPs)	$1.30 shared (1,000) · dedicated $3.50 to $2.50	195 countries	100 GB/mo per IP fair use	also per-GB ISP network ($5 to $8/GB)

1. Proxy-Seller: cheapest entry, 23 countries​

Proxy-Seller lists ISP addresses from $0.98/IP across 23 countries, on named carrier networks, with volume discounts up to 30% on larger orders and the AUTOMATE15 code stacking another 15% off. Addresses are static for the rental term, and the same account sells IPv4, IPv6, residential and mobile. Dead-on-arrival addresses are replaced or refunded within 24 hours.

Best for: the lowest per-IP entry price with real country choice. Limits: full tier ladders render only in the on-site configurator, and there is no self-serve city picker.

2. Evomi: $1.00 shared, $4.50 virgin, US only​

Evomi grades its static residential pool three ways: Shared at $1.00/IP (one address shared with up to three customers), Private at $2.50/IP (dedicated) and Virgin at $4.50/IP (never previously sold as a proxy). All include unlimited bandwidth with HTTP, SOCKS5 and UDP, and Evomi replaces an IP that fails its IPQualityScore fraud-score claim.

The two constraints are structural: addresses are US only, and Shared means up to two other customers exit from the same address, fine for monitoring and risky for payment steps. Buy Private or Virgin for those.

Best for: US account work at the lowest monthly cost. Detail: Evomi pricing.

3. Oxylabs: deep US pool, dedicated tiers​

Oxylabs sells shared ISP addresses at $1.50/IP (up to 10) scaling to $1.10/IP at 2,270+ addresses, and dedicated at $3.30/IP down to $2.20. Coverage is 28 countries with the deepest pool in the US (about 393K addresses, with the UK, Germany, France and Canada following). Self-serve purchases are non-refundable beyond the $5 welcome credit.

Best for: large US and EU address allocations at committed volume.

4. Floppydata: $1.79/IP bundled with rotating traffic​

Floppydata prices static residential from $1.79/IP/month in bundles of 20, 50 or 100, unlimited bandwidth. The practical draw is the same account's rotating balance at $1/GB: static addresses for the accounts, residential and mobile traffic for the monitoring, one vendor.

Best for: combining ISP addresses with cheap mobile-capable rotating traffic. Limits: static-IP country availability should be checked in the dashboard before a campaign, and orders start at 20 IPs.

5. IPRoyal: drop-day rentals to 90-day terms​

IPRoyal prices ISP by duration: $1.80/IP for 24 hours, $2.70 for 30 days, $2.55 for 60 days, $2.40 for 90 days, across 31+ countries with 500K+ unique IPs, unlimited traffic and SOCKS5. The 24-hour tier is the cheapest way to rent addresses for a single event; the 90-day rate is the steady state. Our sneaker proxy guide and IPRoyal sneaker setup cover the main use case.

Best for: short-term address rental and sneaker drop calendars.

6. Bright Data: 195 countries at volume​

Bright Data covers 195 countries for static ISP, priced $1.80/IP shared at 10 addresses down to $1.30 at 1,000, dedicated from $3.50 down to $2.50, with a 100 GB/month fair-use allowance per IP. It also sells an ISP network product per GB ($5 to $8/GB). At a dozen addresses it is not the value pick; at hundreds, with country coverage nobody else matches, it is.

What to check before buying ISP proxies​

• Shared or dedicated. Shared addresses (Evomi $1.00, Bright Data, Oxylabs entry tiers) put other customers on your IP. Dedicated costs roughly 2.5x more and is the only sane choice for payment steps.
• Country coverage. Evomi is US-only; the others range from 23 to 195 countries. Match the country to the account you are operating, a mismatched geo is itself a fraud signal.
• Bandwidth terms. Most providers here include unlimited traffic; Bright Data caps at 100 GB/month per IP.
• Replacement policy. Static IPs burn: one flagged session kills the address until replaced. Proxy-Seller (24-hour replacement) and Evomi (fraud-score replacement) publish policies; ask before buying elsewhere.

For the class-level trade-offs (ISP versus residential versus datacenter), see the decision guide.

Sneaker proxies are ISP (static residential) addresses, rented per IP, that hold one identity through a whole raffle or drop: queue, cart, checkout. Prices start at $1.79/IP/month (Floppydata, verified November 2026), and the providers below sell them alongside the residential pools that cover raffle entries and monitoring. Datacenter proxies fail here because Footsites and Nike block server ASNs on sight.

What a sneaker proxy has to do​

Three requirements, all driven by how the sites detect bots:

1. The right ASN class. Nike, Footsites and adidas sit behind bot protection that scores the network owning your IP. Datacenter ranges are rejected immediately; ISP addresses (server-hosted but carrier-registered) and residential exits pass.
2. One identity per task. A checkout is a multi-step flow: queue position, cart, payment. Rotating mid-flow breaks the session and often the cart. The IP must hold for the whole task, which is what static ISP products sell and what sticky sessions approximate on residential pools.
3. Geography near the retailer. US releases dominate, so US IPs are the default need; EU drops want EU exits.

Speed matters less than folklore says: latency differences of 50 ms vanish inside a queue system that holds you for minutes. The ASN class and the session stability are what decide whether the checkout completes at all.

Comparison table​

Provider	ISP price (verified Nov 2026)	Bandwidth	Coverage	Also sells residential?	Sneaker fit
IPRoyal	from $1.80/IP (24h) · $2.70 (30d) · $2.55 (60d) · $2.40 (90d)	unlimited	31+ countries	yes, from $1.75/GB at bulk	drop-day 24h rentals + monthly ISP
Floppydata	from $1.79/IP/mo (bundles of 20/50/100)	unlimited	check dashboard	yes, $1/GB rotating (res+mobile+DC)	cheapest monthly ISP + mobile for app QA
Proxy-Seller	ISP + IPv4/IPv6 per-IP range; AUTOMATE15 = 15% off	unlimited	23-country ISP coverage	yes, from $1.99/500 MB	IPv6 option for IPv6-native targets
Evomi	$1.00 shared · $2.50 private · $4.50 virgin /IP/mo	unlimited	US only	yes, $0.49/GB on subscription	shared-price entry, US drops only
Bright Data	shared $1.80/IP at 10 IPs → $1.30 at 1,000 · dedicated $3.50 → $2.50	100 GB/mo per IP fair use	195 countries	yes, 400M+ pool	scale buyers managing many addresses

1. IPRoyal: the 24-hour rental model​

IPRoyal is the provider we have written about most for sneaker work, and its pricing model fits the drop calendar better than anyone else's: ISP proxies at $1.80/IP for 24 hours, $2.70 for 30 days, $2.55 for 60 days and $2.40 for 90 days (verified November 2026). A single drop day costs a few dollars in addresses; a season of weekly releases justifies the 60 or 90-day rate.

IPRoyal's ISP pool covers 31+ countries with 500K+ unique IPs, unlimited traffic and SOCKS5 support. Their residential pool covers monitoring and raffle entries (from $1.75/GB at custom volume).

The trade-off: at peak demand times, popular ISP subnets are shared ground; if a checkout keeps failing, the practical fix is rotating to a different IP, which IPRoyal's dashboard makes cheap to do. Our full IPRoyal sneaker proxy guide covers Nike SNKRS, Footlocker and adidas configurations step by step.

2. Floppydata: cheapest monthly ISP, mobile included​

Floppydata sells static residential (ISP) addresses from $1.79/IP/month in bundles of 20, 50 or 100, unlimited bandwidth, and static datacenter at $0.79/IP for the targets that tolerate it. Twenty ISP addresses for a season of drops run about $36/month.

The other half of the product matters for sneaker work too: the rotating balance ($1/GB, 30-day validity) covers residential and mobile at the same rate, and mobile carrier IPs are the strongest class for app-based releases and account warm-up.

The trade-off: coverage is narrower (148 countries for the rotating pool, and static-IP availability should be checked in the dashboard before a release), and the entry order is 20 IPs, not one.

3. Proxy-Seller: all five proxy types, stacked discounts​

Proxy-Seller sells ISP, IPv4, IPv6, residential and mobile from one account, with ISP coverage across 23 countries. The discount structure (volume, duration, auto-renewal, stacking) and the code AUTOMATE15 (15% off datacenter, IPv6, ISP and residential; 10% off mobile) reduce the effective per-IP price further.

The case for Proxy-Seller is buying everything on one invoice: addresses for checkout, residential GB for monitoring, IPv6 for the odd IPv6-native target. The case against: its residential pool (20M+) is smaller than the specialists', and city targeting on residential requires support, not self-serve.

4. Evomi: the $1 shared ISP entry​

Evomi prices static residential at $1.00/IP shared (up to three customers per address), $2.50 private, $4.50 virgin. Shared addresses at a dollar are the cheapest entry in the category, and private addresses at $2.50 are competitive with IPRoyal's 30-day rate.

Two limits to weigh: Evomi ISP addresses are US only, and shared means up to two other customers exit from the same address, which is fine for monitoring and risky for payment steps. Private or virgin addresses solve that at $2.50 and $4.50. Evomi's residential at $0.49/GB (subscription) covers the monitoring side.

5. Bright Data: address management at scale​

Bright Data sells ISP addresses at $1.80/IP shared (10-IP bundle) down to $1.30/IP at 1,000, dedicated from $3.50 down to $2.50, across 195 countries, with a 100 GB/month fair-use allowance per IP. At a dozen addresses this is not the value pick; at hundreds, the per-IP curve and the management tooling (rotation policies, per-address status) start to matter, and nobody else here covers 195 countries for static ISP.

What not to buy for sneaker bots​

• Datacenter IPv4/IPv6 as your only product. Cheap per IP, and rejected by the major retailers' protection. IPv6 has niche uses on IPv6-native targets (Proxy-Seller sells it at $0.08/IP), but it is not a checkout strategy.
• Rotating-only plans. A new IP per request destroys the checkout session. If a provider only rotates, skip it for this use.
• DataImpulse. Good proxy vendor, wrong shape: per-GB traffic products only, no ISP or per-IP product at all.
• Mobile-dedicated monthly boxes (up to $130/IP/month elsewhere) unless you run app-based releases at volume. Floppydata's rotating mobile at $1/GB covers most of that need without the per-IP commitment.

How many proxies per drop​

The honest arithmetic: each checkout task wants its own address, and success rates on protected releases are single-digit percentages even with clean IPs. A realistic personal setup is 10 to 25 ISP addresses per release ($18 to $45 at Floppydata's rate, $18 to $68 at IPRoyal's 24-hour rate), a residential balance for monitoring, and the discipline to retire an address after a failed payment attempt rather than retrying on it. Bigger stables raise costs linearly and returns sub-linearly; most of the edge is in the bot configuration and the release calendar, not the 50th IP.