IPRoyal Proxies Review

IPRoyal sells residential, mobile, ISP (static residential) and datacenter proxies from one self-service dashboard. Its residential product is built around two features that most competitors don't offer together: purchased traffic that never expires, and sticky sessions that can hold the same IP for up to seven days. The static products are just as flexible on time — you can rent ISP proxies and dedicated mobile proxies for a single day, or for 30, 60 or 90 days.

The trade-off is price at small and mid volumes. IPRoyal's residential traffic starts at $7.35/GB for a single gigabyte, and its $1.75/GB headline rate needs a subscription of 10 TB or more. Targeting covers region, country, US state and city, with ISP-level and radius targeting available on top, but the finest options are locked behind ID verification and spending thresholds. That makes IPRoyal a strong pick for buyers with irregular or bursty usage, and a weaker one for teams that need cheap gigabytes every month.

IPRoyal at a glance

IPRoyal proxy products

IPRoyal's four proxy families share one account and dashboard, but they are priced and configured differently. Residential and rotating mobile proxies are billed by traffic; ISP, datacenter and dedicated mobile proxies are rented per IP for a fixed period.

Residential proxies

Residential proxies are IPRoyal's main product. It claims 64M+ residential IPs in 195+ countries, all reached through one backconnect gateway. You can request a new IP on every request (IPRoyal calls this "Randomize") or keep the same IP with a sticky session. The documented sticky lifetime runs from 1 second to 7 days, which is far longer than the 24-hour or 30-minute caps common elsewhere. The product page also mentions dashboard options to change the IP with a single click or API call and to auto-rotate it every 1, 10 or 30 minutes.

Location targeting is set in the password part of the proxy string. The documentation lists:

• Region — Africa, Arab States, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America and South/Latin America.
• Country — two-letter ISO codes, and you can list several countries so the router picks one at random.
• State — US states only.
• City — by city name.
• ISP — a specific internet service provider in a location, available only after ID verification and $1,000 or more in spending.
• Geolocation — a latitude/longitude point plus a radius of at least 10 miles, with an optional strict mode that fails the request rather than falling back to the nearest IPs.

We couldn't find ZIP-code or ASN-number targeting in the documentation. The ISP option comes close to ASN targeting in practice, but the spending threshold puts it out of reach for small buyers.

IPRoyal adds a few extra controls. A High-End Pool option, available only with an active subscription, limits you to the fastest and most reliable IPs in a smaller pool. A killswitch flag makes a sticky session return an HTTP 410 error instead of silently switching to a new IP when the original goes offline — useful when an unnoticed IP change would break a logged-in session. You can also skip specific IPs, filter domains and, with support's help, exclude static ISP addresses from the residential pool. Residential proxies support unlimited concurrent sessions and TCP connections; UDP isn't supported on this product.

IPRoyal claims a 99.4% success rate, response times around 0.5 seconds and 99.9% uptime for residential traffic. We haven't verified these numbers.

Best for: web scraping, price and SERP monitoring, ad verification, and account work that needs the same IP for days rather than minutes.

ISP (static residential) proxies

IPRoyal's ISP proxies are static IPs registered to consumer internet service providers. The IP stays the same for the whole rental period. IPRoyal claims 500K+ unique IPs in 31+ countries, though the location list on the same page shows close to 40 countries, led by the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Australia. It doesn't name the ISPs behind the addresses.

You can rent ISP proxies for 24 hours, 30 days, 60 days or 90 days. The 24-hour option is unusual and handy for short campaigns or testing a location before committing. ISP proxies support HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, both TCP and UDP connections, username/password or IP whitelist authentication, and country, state and city selection. Traffic is "included under our Fair Usage Policy", but the ISP page doesn't say how many GB that covers. IPRoyal claims a success rate of up to 99.99%.

Best for: long-lived social media and e-commerce accounts, cold email setups, and any task that needs one stable residential-looking IP.

Mobile proxies

IPRoyal sells mobile proxies two ways. Rotating mobile proxies draw on a pool of 4.5M+ mobile IPs and are billed per GB. Dedicated mobile proxies give you a single mobile IP for 24 hours, 30, 60 or 90 days — IPRoyal describes this as "basically renting a phone with a SIM card". Both support 5G, 4G, 3G and LTE, HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, custom rotation and instant IP changes from the dashboard or API, and the product page mentions carrier filtering.

There are two gaps. IPRoyal doesn't publish how many countries or carriers its mobile network covers, so check the dashboard for your target market before buying. Its pages also disagree on data limits: the mobile product page says dedicated plans have "a daily data limit of 30GB per proxy", while the mobile pricing page advertises "zero bandwidth and session limits".

Best for: social media management, mobile app testing and QA, mobile ad verification and targets that block residential IPs.

Datacenter proxies

IPRoyal's datacenter proxies are dedicated IPv4 addresses — one user per IP — rented for 30, 60 or 90 days. Each IP includes 100 GB of traffic per monthly cycle, pooled across your order: 10 IPs share 1,000 GB a month. If you go over, speeds are reduced until you buy extra bandwidth from the dashboard. They support HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, unlimited threads, country, state and city selection, and IPRoyal claims 99.9% uptime.

Location counts depend on the page. The datacenter pricing page says "over 50 countries", while the product page says 60+ locations and lists countries from the US and Japan to Namibia and Botswana. IPRoyal doesn't publish a total datacenter pool size or offer pay-per-GB rotating datacenter proxies.

Best for: high-volume scraping of lightly protected sites, testing and automation where speed and a fixed cost matter more than stealth.

IPRoyal pricing

All prices below come from IPRoyal's pricing and product pages on 4 November 2026, in US dollars.

Residential proxy pricing

Residential traffic can be bought pay-as-you-go or as a monthly subscription. A subscription adds the same amount of traffic to your account each month at a 5% discount, and unused traffic never expires under either model.

The public pricing page lists only these four points. Rates for volumes between 10 GB and 10 TB appear in a discount table inside the dashboard order form, which we couldn't see without an account, so we haven't listed them. The $1.75/GB figure that IPRoyal and our data quote as the starting price applies only to a 10 TB+ subscription. A small team buying 10 GB pays three times that.

ISP proxy pricing

These are "starting from" prices. The final price depends on location and quantity, which you choose in the dashboard.

Datacenter proxy pricing

Each IP includes 100 GB a month, pooled across the order. Extra bandwidth can be bought in the dashboard; the public pages don't list its price.

Mobile proxy pricing

Rotating mobile proxies are billed per GB:

Dedicated mobile proxies are billed per IP:

Billing rules, trial and refunds

• Traffic expiry: residential traffic never expires. If you cancel a residential subscription, unused traffic stays available. Pay-as-you-go orders can't be cancelled once complete.
• Subscriptions: residential subscriptions renew monthly and can be upgraded, cancelled or reactivated in the dashboard; a "quick top-up" adds extra traffic equal to your current plan. ISP, datacenter and mobile subscriptions can be cancelled at any time, and the IPs stay active until the end of the paid period.
• Auto top-up: residential accounts can automatically buy a set amount of GB when the balance falls below a threshold you choose.
• Free trial: none for regular self-service customers. The residential quick-start guide points you to the 1 GB pay-as-you-go package instead, and the mobile page suggests a 24-hour dedicated proxy as a test. Companies can request a free Enterprise trial after IPRoyal verifies company registration and ownership. Note that the residential product page still shows a "Start Free Trial" button, which conflicts with the FAQ.
• Refunds: refunds cover service failures, not change of mind. You must ask within 24 hours of the charge, and only if you can't connect or have a problem support can't fix within 24 hours. ISP, datacenter and dedicated mobile orders must have used under 500 MB; rotating mobile orders under 100 MB. IPRoyal's pages give different windows for subscription renewals (72 hours in its general refund article, 24 hours for manual residential renewals), and one summary page says one-day plans are non-refundable — check the refund article for your product before you buy.
• Payment: Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover, PayPal, Alipay and cryptocurrency are shown on the pricing pages; the ordering guide also mentions Google Pay. Coupon codes can be applied at checkout.

What 10 GB, 100 GB and 1 TB actually cost

The residential gaps matter: IPRoyal discounts bulk orders, so 100 GB and 1 TB will cost less than the ceilings shown, but you'll need to open the dashboard order form to see the exact rate. What the table does show clearly is that IPRoyal residential traffic is expensive at small volumes compared with providers selling at $2 to $4 per GB, and that its datacenter offer is cheap for heavy traffic because each IP includes 100 GB.

Features and dashboard

IPRoyal's dashboard covers the everyday tasks most buyers need:

• Proxy list generator. Choose location, rotation type, session lifetime, protocol and output format, then copy a list of ready-made proxy strings. The quick-start guide includes a built-in proxy tester.
• Authentication. Username and password, or IP whitelisting so no credentials are needed.
• Sub-users. Create separate sub-users with their own traffic allowances for teams, clients or projects.
• Statistics. Usage data for your orders and traffic.
• Access controls. IP skipping (exclude IPs you don't want) and domain filtering (limit which domains a proxy may reach).
• Proxy regions. Gateways in Germany, the US and Singapore, plus an automatic option that picks the nearest one, and dedicated entry nodes for users connecting from China.
• APIs. Each product has its own REST API. The residential API (resi-api.iproyal.com) covers sessions, orders, subscriptions, sub-users, whitelists, IP skipping, reports and proxy-list generation; the ISP, datacenter and mobile APIs cover orders and proxies.

The residential product page lists integration guides for Puppeteer, Playwright, Crawl4AI, Zapier, Octoparse, ParseHub, CAPTCHA solvers such as CapSolver and NextCaptcha, and antidetect browsers including Multilogin, GoLogin, AdsPower, Dolphin, Incogniton, VMLogin, Lauth and Wade X. If you run several browser profiles, our antidetect browser directory covers most of these tools.

Beyond proxies, IPRoyal sells a Web Unblocker billed per request and a Web Scraper API that its documentation labels as beta. We don't cover those products in this review.

Setting up IPRoyal proxies

Residential proxies use one gateway. Targeting and session settings go into the password part of the proxy string, each added as an underscore-prefixed key. IPRoyal's documentation uses this format:

Host:      geo.iproyal.com
Port:      12321 (HTTP/HTTPS) or 32325 (SOCKS5)
Username:  USERNAME
Password:  PASSWORD plus optional parameters

Rotating:  USERNAME:PASSWORD@geo.iproyal.com:12321
Country:   USERNAME:PASSWORD_country-us@geo.iproyal.com:12321
State:     USERNAME:PASSWORD_country-us_state-california@geo.iproyal.com:12321
City:      USERNAME:PASSWORD_country-de_city-berlin@geo.iproyal.com:12321
Sticky:    USERNAME:PASSWORD_country-br_session-abc12345_lifetime-30m@geo.iproyal.com:12321

The documented parameters are:

• _country-xx — two-letter ISO code; several can be listed with commas, for example _country-dk,it,ie.
• _state-name — a US state, used with _country-us.
• _city-name — a city, used with a country.
• _region-name — a region such as europe or northamerica.
• _isp-name — a specific ISP (verified accounts that have spent $1,000+).
• _geolocation-LAT,LON,RADIUS — target exit nodes within a radius in miles (minimum 10); append ,strict to fail rather than fall back.
• _session-xxxxxxxx — makes the session sticky. The value must be a random alphanumeric string of exactly 8 characters.
• _lifetime-30m — how long a sticky session lasts, from 1 second to 7 days, written with a single unit such as 10m or 24h.
• _killswitch-1 — return HTTP 410 instead of switching IPs if the sticky IP drops.
• _streaming-1 — use the High-End Pool (subscriptions only).

Without a session key, every request gets a new IP. Here is a sticky request with curl, checking which IP you receive:

curl -x "http://USERNAME:PASSWORD_country-us_session-abc12345_lifetime-30m@geo.iproyal.com:12321" \
  -L "https://ipv4.icanhazip.com"

The same request in Python with requests:

import requests

username = "USERNAME"
password = "PASSWORD_country-de_city-berlin_session-abc12345_lifetime-1h"
proxy = f"http://{username}:{password}@geo.iproyal.com:12321"

r = requests.get("https://ipv4.icanhazip.com", proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy})
print(r.text)

For SOCKS5, switch the scheme to socks5:// and the port to 32325. ISP, datacenter and dedicated mobile proxies work differently: you get a list of specific IPs (or mobile hostnames) with their own ports and plain username/password credentials from the order page, and you pick HTTP or SOCKS5 in the order's formatted proxy list.

IP sourcing, compliance and policies

Sourcing. IPRoyal's help center says its residential network was built through the Pawns.app initiative, where users share their internet connection and can join or leave at any time. Its separate sourcing page describes the 64M+ pool as coming from a partner network: suppliers go through third-party identity verification, a business-model review, a hands-on evaluation and must provide evidence that they acquire IPs with device owners' consent. The two pages emphasise different sources, so the most likely reading is that the pool combines Pawns.app peers with vetted partners. Like most providers, IPRoyal doesn't name its partners.

KYC. IPRoyal's KYC policy describes three stages: automated checks of IP address, email and other data at registration; identity verification at purchase, which "ensures unrestricted access to all our services and features"; and automated reporting of suspicious requests after purchase. In practice, its documentation treats ID verification as the step that unlocks restricted domains. Its machine-readable summary page goes further and says all clients go through identity verification. Expect to verify your ID if you want full access.

Restricted targets. Some sites are blocked by default for new residential users: adult, piracy, mainstream streaming, government, gambling, banking and payment, crypto exchanges, game stores, ticketing and similar categories. Verifying your ID unlocks a set of domains including LinkedIn, Yahoo and Microsoft login pages, Ticketswap and listed banks; .gov and PlayStation sites need ID verification plus $500 in spending, and a few domains stay blocked regardless. On ISP and datacenter proxies, .gov and bank sites, IMAP and mail ports are blocked until you verify your ID.

Acceptable use. The acceptable use policy (version 7, updated 15 October 2026) bans malware, DDoS attacks, fraud and phishing, credential theft, click fraud, fake accounts and reviews, spam, privacy invasion, reselling the service, abusing free trials and circumventing identity checks. It also has detailed scraping rules: no accessing content behind logins, paywalls or DRM without authorisation, no bypassing robots.txt, rate limits or API restrictions, and no using collected content to monitor identifiable people or, without permission, for model training. IPRoyal can suspend any account, though its KYC page says it will usually ask for an explanation of your usage first.

Certifications. IPRoyal's Trust Center lists SOC 2 and ISO 27001 as "in progress". Neither is completed yet, so enterprise buyers who require those reports should ask for a timeline.

Customer support and documentation

IPRoyal offers 24/7 support through live chat, email and Discord, according to its own service summary. Enterprise customers get dedicated account managers. We haven't measured response times ourselves.

The documentation (docs.iproyal.com) is clear and practical. Each product has dashboard walkthroughs, a parameter reference with copy-ready examples in cURL, PHP, Python and JavaScript, response-code explanations and a full API reference. The docs are also available in Chinese and as plain Markdown files, which helps if you feed them to coding tools. A separate help center answers billing, refund and policy questions, and quick-start guides cover each proxy type. The main weakness is consistency: refund windows, trial availability, data limits and location counts differ between pages, so you'll sometimes need to ask support which version is current.

Pros and cons

Who should (and shouldn't) use IPRoyal

IPRoyal is a good fit if you are:

• An irregular or seasonal user. Traffic that never expires means a 50 GB purchase can last a month or a year, with nothing wasted at renewal.
• Managing accounts that need the same IP for days. Seven-day sticky residential sessions, static ISP proxies and dedicated mobile IPs all suit long-lived social, marketplace or email accounts.
• Running short campaigns or tests. 24-hour ISP and dedicated mobile rentals let you try a location or run a one-day job without a monthly commitment.
• A heavy datacenter user. Dedicated IPs from $1.39 a month with 100 GB each make high-volume, lightly protected scraping cheap.
• A developer who wants good docs. Clear parameter references and per-product APIs make IPRoyal easy to automate.

Look elsewhere if you are:

• Buying 10–500 GB of residential traffic a month on a budget. Several providers sell residential traffic for $1 to $4/GB at these volumes.
• Needing ZIP or ASN targeting without first spending $1,000 and verifying your ID.
• Wanting to test before you pay. There's no free trial and refunds only cover service failures.
• An enterprise that needs finished SOC 2 or ISO 27001 reports today.
• Targeting mobile users in a specific country or carrier without checking coverage in the dashboard first.

IPRoyal vs alternatives

Decodo offers deeper residential targeting — ZIP code and ASN included — sticky sessions of up to 24 hours, and residential plans from $3.75/GB at 3 GB down to $2/GB at 1 TB. It also has a 3-day free trial and a 14-day refund on first purchases. Monthly traffic doesn't roll over, though, so choose Decodo if your usage is steady and you want lower per-GB prices with an easy trial, and IPRoyal if your usage is irregular or you need sessions longer than a day. Read our Decodo proxies review.

DataImpulse is the closer match on billing: its residential traffic also never expires, but it costs $1/GB, falling to $0.80/GB at 1 TB. The catch is that state, city, ZIP and ASN targeting cost extra on its standard pool, sticky sessions top out at 120 minutes, and it has no ISP proxies. Choose DataImpulse for cheap, non-expiring traffic with basic targeting; choose IPRoyal for long sessions and static ISP or dedicated mobile IPs. Read our DataImpulse proxies review.

Webshare is the budget option for datacenter and static proxies, with a permanent free plan of 10 datacenter proxies and ISP proxies sold at a fraction of IPRoyal's per-IP price at volume. Its residential traffic costs $3.50/GB on the 1 GB plan, falling to $1.40/GB at 3 TB, with ZIP and ASN targeting, but bandwidth doesn't roll over and it has no mobile proxies. Choose Webshare for cheap datacenter IPs and a free way to start; choose IPRoyal for mobile proxies, non-expiring residential traffic and longer sessions. Read our Webshare proxies review.

For more options, browse our proxy provider directory, the residential, ISP, mobile and datacenter directories, and our guides to the best residential proxy providers, best ISP proxy providers and best mobile proxy providers. New to proxies? Start with what a proxy is and how it works.

Final verdict

IPRoyal is built for flexibility rather than the lowest price. Residential traffic that never expires, sticky sessions of up to seven days, ISP and dedicated mobile proxies you can rent for a single day, and datacenter IPs with 100 GB of traffic each give it a combination few competitors match. The documentation and per-product APIs are solid, and the dashboard covers sub-users, whitelisting, IP skipping and domain filtering.

The weaknesses are just as clear. Small residential purchases cost $5.51 to $7.35 per GB, the $1.75/GB rate needs 10 TB, there's no free trial, refunds only cover service failures, and the finest targeting options sit behind ID verification and spending thresholds. Several of its own pages also contradict each other on trials, refund windows and limits. If your traffic is irregular or you need long-lived sessions and short static rentals, IPRoyal is worth shortlisting. If you buy steady monthly volumes and want the lowest price per GB or ZIP-level targeting, compare the alternatives above first.

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