Cheapest Mobile Proxies: Cost per Successful Request, Tested

How we measured cost

We bought rotating mobile traffic from each of 11 providers on regular terms and ran the same tests through all of them on 24–27 October 2026: about 63,000 requests per provider.

• Cost per Successful Request. We read the traffic counter in each provider's dashboard on 28 October 2026, after the test ended. Cost per Successful Request = price per GB × GB used ÷ successful requests of all our tests (infrastructure, Google and Instagram, sticky checks, TCP fingerprint). 1 GB = 1,000 MB. We report it per 1,000 requests.
• Price per GB. The regular price of the smallest mobile package on the provider's website, without promo codes or VAT. SOAX prices by country tier ($5, $4 and $2 per GB); the price shown is what our test actually cost per GB.

Limits

• Counters differ. Each provider counts traffic in its own way (download and upload, service bytes, 1,000 or 1,024 MB in a GB). With the same load the counters showed 873–1,020 MB, and Floppydata's 750 MB; we asked the Floppydata team what its counter includes.
• Small requests. Our requests were light (a Cloudflare trace, a Google results page, an Instagram profile), so cost follows the price per GB almost directly. Heavier pages cost more per request at every provider.
• Prices change. Prices and packages are as listed on 23–26 October 2026.
• Raw data and scripts. The anonymized request logs, the test scripts and the results workbook are on GitHub, so every number here can be recomputed.

More from the benchmark

• The full benchmark. All 11 providers on every metric: mobile IP share, success rate, latency, Google and Instagram, sticky sessions, TCP fingerprint, IP quality and cost.
• Best mobile proxies for Google. Best Mobile Proxies for Google: Success Rate Tested
• Mobile proxies with the least shared IPs. Mobile Proxies with the Least Shared IPs: Pool Overlap Tested