IPRoyal Review
Easy to use proxies with low commitment requirements.
IPRoyal offers a wide variety of products for social media managers, web scrapers, and various other hustlers on a budget. You can buy just one IP, rent proxies for a week, or get traffic that never expires. The prices have become a hit-or-miss, but IPRoyal’s flexibility is undeniable.
But there are always compromises. What will IPRoyal’s be? And will its products pack enough punch to justify the provider over Decodo, DataImpulse, or even premium competitors like Bright Data? Let’s find out!
Rating 8.5 / 10
★★★★★ Rated 4.3 out of 5
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3-Minute Human Summary
- IPRoyal offers all kinds of proxy servers: residential proxies, dedicated server-based IPs, and even mobile dongle farms. Its residential proxies are sourced in-house, via a bandwidth sharing app and an SDK.
- The residential proxy network offers city-level filtering and other advanced features like sub-users. We found it to be on the smaller side, the infrastructure failed around 3-4% of the time, and some requests took time to complete because the providers keeps slow proxies in the pool. The latter can be fixed with a toggle on the dashboard.
- The datacenter and ISP proxies also have a huge location coverage, with UDP support and rare (but paid) features like state & city targeting.
- IPRoyal’s residential proxy traffic costs more than even premium alternatives like Bright Data, but it never expires. The other proxy types are rather affordable and start from just a few dollars.
- User experience is one of IPRoyal’s strong points, with a powerful dashboard, access features, wallet, and manual or automated top-ups. KYC is not necessary, but it unlocks extra functionality and targets.
- Overall, IPRoyal can be a strong choice if you’re looking for flexibility – either in terms of features, harder to find locations, or ways to use proxies without making big commitments.
If you’ve come from Google, you may be interested in IPRoyal’s Pawns.app. We compare it with similar services here.
News about IPRoyal
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By Adam Dubois
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The Lithuanian provider meets 2023 with a fresh face and new aspirations.
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The growth is fostered by the provider's proxyware Pawns app.
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General Information
- Country: Lithuania
- Founded: 2020
- Employees (LinkedIn): 100-150
- Proxy networks: Datacenter, ISP, residential, mobile
- Web scrapers: Proxy API for general unblocking
- Supporting tools: Proxy checker, browser extension
- Price range: Mid-market
- Starting price: $1.53
- Payment methods: Credit card, PayPal, crypto, Apple Pay, Google Pay, AliPay
- Trial: 24-hour refund for some products
IPRoyal started out in late 2020. The company initially focused on renting IP space to other companies, but its attention quickly shifted to selling proxies directly to customers. Today, it offers four different proxy networks that cover all IP types.
IPRoyal runs its own residential proxy pool via a bandwidth-sharing app called Pawns, as well as an SDK. In a few years, the provider has managed to grow the network to several million IPs. This is an impressive feat, and it also lets IPRoyal claim that the proxies are sourced ethically.
IPRoyal used to be among the most affordable services, in line with Storm Proxies and PacketStream. It also put much focus on sneakerheads, with special datacenter plans and residential proxy endpoints for stores like Nike.
After several price hikes, IPRoyal nears closer to mid-range providers like Decodo. Still, small users remain the company’s main audience, even if it wouldn’t mind selling you terabytes of residential traffic for a large project or reselling. In fact, the provider has been inching upmarket every year, giving up entry-level customers to its daughter project MarsProxies.
According to the CEO Karolis Toleikis, IPRoyal’s ambition is to grow into a top three provider in the near future. Considering that it now employs over 100 people and increased the year-over-year revenue by 50% in 2024, the company is on the right track.
IPRoyal Proxy Networks
IPRoyal sells all four main types of proxy servers: residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile. Use the tabs to learn about their features, pricing, and performance in more detail.
🏠 Residential Proxies
This is IPRoyal’s main product with IPs sourced from real people’s devices. Its claim to fame has been non-expiring packages that get cheaper the more traffic you buy.
- Advertised pool: 32M IPs
- Countries: 150+ with state, city & coordinate targeting
- Rotation: Every request, 1s-24hr, manual
- Other features: High-end pool, exclude ISP proxies, exclude IP ranges, denylist domains
- Starts from: $7 for 1 GB. Scaling pay as you go available
- Advertised proxy pool: 64 million IPs
- Countries: 150+
- Integration method: Gateway address (gateways in East & West Coast US, Germany, Singapore)
- Filtering
- Random: ✅
- Country: ✅
- City: ✅
- ASN/ISP: ⚠️
- Other: Continent, state, coordinates, exclude ISP proxies, exclude IP ranges, high-end pool
- Rotation
- Every request: ✅
- Sticky sessions: ✅ (custom duration up to 7 days)
- Session behavior: New IP after disconnect, ability to establish strict sessions
- Protocols
- HTTP: ✅
- HTTPS: ✅
- SOCKS5: ✅ (no UDP)
- Authentication
- Credentials: ✅
- IP whitelist: ✅
- Sub-users: ✅
- Concurrency: Unlimited threads & ports
- Traffic: Plan based
- Other: Allowlist/denylist domains
You won’t find IPRoyal’s residential proxy network lacking in features. It covers over 150 countries, with filters up to the city level. It’s convenient that you can target several countries at once to expand the IP pool.
The rotation settings are flexible, as well: IPRoyal’s system allows creating sessions that last up to seven days – of course, there’s no guarantee that a proxy won’t go offline sooner. In those cases, you can choose not to rotate IPs and fail requests instead.
One area where IPRoyal lacks is protocol support. While you can use SOCKS5, it works only with the TCP protocol, ruling out several use cases. What’s more, some features require meeting specific conditions to work: ISP targeting and sub-users have minimum spend requirements that can reach $1,000, you’ll need to verify your identity before denylisting domains, etc.
- Model: Scaling pay as you go, monthly subscription with rollover traffic
- Format: Traffic
- Modifiers: –
- Top-ups: ✅ (manual or automated)
- Starting price: $7 for 1 GB
- Trial: ❌
IPRoyal offers two pricing models. The first lets you buy non-expiring packages whose rates scale at bulk. The second charges monthly, rolling over unused traffic. This method brings extra benefits, such as better support and the ability to enable a higher quality (but smaller) pool.
The provider gives you even more freedom by letting you extend traffic manually or set up automated top-ups. This way, you’ll never run out of gigabytes as long as you have money in your wallet or credit card.
Unfortunately, IPRoyal can no longer be considered a cheap provider. In fact, without any discounts applied, it costs more than even premium alternatives like Bright Data or Oxylabs. This makes it hard for us to recommend IPRoyal’s proxies over competitors.
Standardized price comparison
We last tested IPRoyal’s residential proxies in April 2026, for our annual proxy market report.
Pool size & composition
* IP2Location database, Usage type data point (ISP, ISP/MOB, MOB IPs)
** Combines Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands.
Comparison with other providers
IProyal’s proxy network was large, but deceptively so. In the unfiltered pool, over one million IPs belonged to various Comcast-related ASNs. We believe they were possibly acquired without permission; by the time we finished testing, Comcast had reclaimed most of the IPs.
Otherwise, the proxy pool was on the smaller side. It was perfectly capable of competing with providers like DataImpulse or Evomi, less so with Decodo or SOAX.
Infrastructure success rate
Requests: Same as the pool test
Target: Nearest server of a global CDN
Comparison with other providers
The infrastructure failed surprisingly often. An error rate of 3-4% may not seem like much; but at our scale, it meant that over 100k requests out of the 3.6 milion would fail before even reaching the target’s defence mechanisms.
Infrastructure response time
Requests: 6 KB page size – same as the pool test, 2 MB page size – 5,000
Target: Nearest server of a global CDN
6 KB page size
2 MB page size
Comparison with other providers
6 KB page size, average response time
IPRoyal’s residential proxies were also rather slow to establish connections. Their median response time kept up with other providers well. However, the slowest proxy servers were really slow, skewing the average. This signals that IPRoyal didn’t purge underperforming proxies from the pool.
- Basic request: USERNAME:[email protected]:12321
- Using filters: USERNAME:PASSWORD_country-dk,it,[email protected]:12321
- Establishing sessions: USERNAME:[email protected]:12321
- Using IP whitelisting: geo.iproyal.com:11200, 11201…
IPRoyal filters the pool by adding parameters to the password. This way, you can establish sticky sessions, specify a country, etc.
Customers who prefer to authorize by whitelisting an IP can do so using the dashboard widget. It allows setting up filters and then bind this configuration to your IP address, giving you only a hostname and port to use.
IPRoyal enables around 100 ports for IP whitelisting. It’s much better than nothing, but configuring each port separately for sticky sessions can be a pain, and one hundred isn’t a big number.
🏢 Datacenter & ISP Proxies
These are server-based IPs in static lists assigned only to you. IPRoyal also used to offer sneaker-optimized proxy servers but discontinued the product after the market died down.
🏢 Datacenter proxies
- Formats: Dedicated list
- Countries: ~60 in six continents with state & city selection
- Rotation: Static
- Other features: Multi-device access, extra requirements, 0 fraud score
- Starts from: $9 for 5 IPs ($1.8/IP)
🏢🏠 ISP proxies
- Formats: Dedicated list
- Countries: ~32 in five continents with state & city selection
- Rotation: Static
- Other features: Multi-device access, extra requirements, 0 fraud score
- Starts from: $4 for 1 IP
- Formats: Dedicated list
- Pool size: Based on purchased IPs (500k ISP proxies in total, DC not specified)
- Countries (August 2026)
- Datacenter: 63 in six continents
- ISP: 44 in five continents
- Integration method: IP list
- Targeting
- Country: ✅
- State: ✅
- City: ✅
- ISP/ASN: ❌
- Distribution: Free country selection during purchase, random subnets
- Replacement: Free monthly
- Rotation: ❌
- Traffic: Unlimited
- Concurrency: Unlimited
- Protocols
- HTTP: ✅
- HTTPS: ✅
- SOCKS5: ✅ (with UDP)
- Authentication: Credentials, IP whitelist
- Other: 0 fraud score, multi-device access, custom requirements
Full supported country list (August 2026)
IPRoyal’s proxies cover a lot of ground, especially the datacenter variety. Of course, not every country is always in stock; but when we last checked, most were available and had at least 50 IPs.
The provider had the best coverage in Europe, though even Africa was relatively well represented with countries like Botswana, Egypt, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.
In addition to country-level targeting, you can go ahead and choose a particular state or city. Don’t expect the variety to be big: outside the US, two to three cities are available on average.
The proxies take the format of a simple IP list. They’re pretty much unlimited: you can establish as many threads or send as much traffic as you like. Furthermore, they support SOCKS5 traffic, including the UDP protocol.
- Model: Subscription
- Format: Pay per IP
- Starting price
- Datacenter: $1.8 for 1 IP
- ISP: $4 for 1 IP
- Upsells: State & city targeting, 0 fraud score, multi-device access, custom requirements
- Trial: 24-hour refund
IPRoyal’s proxies use a subscription-based pricing model. You can get a monthly plan, pay every two months (5% off), or three months (10% off). The ISP proxies can be rented out for just one day, most likely for limited releases.
The provider charges for the number of IPs you get. There are also several upsells. For one, you can opt buy only proxies with a low fraud score on Scamalytics or IPQualityScore – this costs 10-15% more. Paying 30% extra lets you enter custom requirements into a text field.
It’s possible to choose any number of IPs you want, starting from just one. This doesn’t make sense for ISP proxies, as getting just two IPs cuts the rate from $4 to $3/IP. Buying more decreases the price further, but the gains stop at 100 just IPs. Therefore, IPRoyal’s pricing remains competitive until 200-300 proxies and then drops off.
Rates at different IP quantities
We last benchmarked IPRoyal’s 100 US-based ISP proxies in April 2025. The provider gave us the IP list.
Basic analysis
IPRoyal evidently decided to flex its muscles and gave us proxies from 100 different subnets – very impressive. The majority were associated with large consumer ISPs like AT&T and CenturyLink.
IP quality
Residential percentage: IP2Location database, Usage type data point (ISP, ISP/MOB, MOB IPs)
An IP database identified all but one proxies as residential, which is good. One quarter of them had a matching ASN and owner; this is desirable but very hard to achieve with ISP proxies. However, in four cases out of ten, the IP’s owner was located outside of the US.
Infrastructure performance
Requests: 70,000 over 7 days
Target: Nearest server of a global CDN (~6 KB page size)
Our server location: US
IPRoyal’s ISP proxies performed rather poorly in our synthetic benchmarks. These proxies are hosted in data centers with great connections, so they shouldn’t fail unless blocked by the target. In addition, they connected relatively slowly – for comparison, Massive’s response time was 0.09 s, or five times faster.
Download speed
Target: Hetzner’s 100 MB Ashburn benchmark
Proxies tested: 10
For dedicated ISP proxies, IPRoyal didn’t have much throughput. While 5 MB/s is enough for rendering full pages, downloading smaller files, and streaming videos, we expected the speed to be in the dozens of megabytes.
Performance with popular targets
Requests: ~2,600 per target
Location: US (both the gateway and our server)
Comparison with other providers
IPRoyal experienced some issues with Amazon, proving that IP variety alone isn’t enough. Other than that, its results were okay.
📱 Mobile Proxies
IPRoyal’s mobile proxies come in two formats: you can rent dedicated devices or buy access to the full pool and pay for traffic.
- Format: Dedicated mobile dongles, pool with 4.5M IPs
- Countries: 15 in four continents
- Rotation: Available in all formats
- Starts from: $10.11 per device for 24 hrs or $13.6 for 2 GB ($6.8/GB)
A full review isn’t available for this product yet 🙁
How to Use IPRoyal
This section covers IPRoyal’s registration procedure, dashboard, and customer service.
Registration
To start using IPRoyal, you must first fill in a registration form. It requires entering your name, surname, and phone number as personal details, and you might need to confirm the registration via phone.
Alternatively, IPRoyal allows logging in with Google or LinkedIn accounts.
KYC & Usage Policies
KYC isn’t obligatory. But without it, your use of proxies will be relatively limited. Completing identity verification will unlock more ports, PayPal, as well as government and banking domains.
The identity verification process involves sending an ID to a third-party service called Idenfy.
Dashboard
IPRoyal has a fully-featured dashboard for working with its proxies. It lets you add money, buy a plan, set up proxies, monitor traffic use, contact support, and more. The dashboard is available in English and Chinese, and there’s a dark theme for those who need it.
IPRoyal’s dashboard is divided into self-contained sections for each product. They let you buy proxies, authenticate them, and track use where possible. As such, you only need to leave your tab to change the account settings – or deposit money if you opt to use the wallet functionality.
That said, the dashboard is less isolated than it used to be: the Home page lets you toggle usage statistics between different products, and there are pages for all orders and invoices, no matter the proxy type.
IPRoyal allows buying proxies using two methods. One is to deposit money onto the platform; the second is to create orders directly. The difference is that the former option lets you extend monthly subscriptions or top-up residential traffic without making additional money transfers. In any case, it’s possible to save payment information in the settings.
You can track orders under individual proxy types or a separate page for invoices. The system allows adding a note to an order and then searching for it, which is a nice touch for usability.
Platform access
IPRoyal protects access with two-factor authentication. It sends a code by email every time you try to log in. In addition, the dashboard allows configuring 2FA with authenticator apps, tracking activity, and logging out devices. If you no longer need an account, you can delete it by yourself – this isn’t a common feature.
The dashboard has industry-leading tools for team access. You can create organizations and invite team members with three permission levels: admin, member, or billing. Organizations get their own stats and even payment methods, if you so prefer. Then, you can further divide an organization into projects, assigning traffic to each.
Proxy access
For regular proxy setup, IPRoyal offers a fully-featured widget. It lets you select location filters, rotation settings, and a create proxy list or copy automatically-generated code samples. With datacenter or ISP proxies, IPRoyal simply displays a list of assigned IPs.
You can also create sub-users for residential proxy access; they have separate credentials, statistics, and traffic allowances.
IPRoyal’s residential proxies have a graph that shows traffic expenditure over time. You can freely choose the start and end dates, as well as filter the graph by the websites you accessed.
Alternatively, you can download a data usage report by entering a username, date range, and your preferred data measurement unit. IPRoyal creates a CSV file that shows daily traffic use per target. This isn’t the most convenient reporting format but still better than nothing.
For general information about the service, IPRoyal provides a network status page. It’s actually very granular, showing the health of various infrastructure components.
Finally, you can opt to get automated traffic reminders by email.
API Access
IPRoyal provides API endpoints for each proxy type. They’re fully functional, letting you interact with the account, proxy servers, get location and other information.
The residential proxy API is the most fleshed out, while the mobile endpoint only lets you view remaining balance and rotate an IP.
Documentation
IPRoyal’s documentation has improved a lot throughout the years and can now be considered comprehensive. The provider offers quick-start guides, a YouTube channel, a help center, and a documentation hub. All are well made and shouldn’t leave you wanting for information.
Hands-On Support
IPRoyal answers queries 24/7 via live chat, email, and Discord. We tried contacting the support via live chat; an agent responded within a minute and competently answered as many questions as we threw at them. Color us impressed.
Conclusion
IPRoyal is a strong mid-market option for a wide range of uses. It’s still going through growing pains: the features and user experience are already there, but the proxy pool remains relatively modest.
Is IPRoyal the right pick for you? It depends. The residential proxy network should be just fine for small to mid-size use. While it can’t measure up to the premium providers yet, the service is improving fast. And the upsides make a compelling case: non-expiring traffic, and some of the most flexible IP rotation settings we’ve seen.
For enterprises, the situation is tricky. IPRoyal may not have the steam to be the sole supplier, though you can always use it as a secondary choice.
In conclusion, you can surely try IPRoyal for most tasks today, just be aware of the limitations.
IPRoyal Alternatives
Rating 9.3 / 10
★★★★★ Rated 4.7 out of 5
Decodo has similar rates, great user experience, and residential proxies that perform better. It’s probably the main alternative that you should consider.
Rating 8.6 / 10
★★★★★ Rated 4.3 out of 5
Rayobyte is a strong pick if you need datacenter or ISP proxies. Its residential network performs worse but has attractive pricing and a larger pool.
Rating 9.3 / 10
★★★★★ Rated 4.7 out of 5
Bright Data has more features, more flexibility, and it’s one of the top choices overall. Consider it if you found IPRoyal lacking and don’t mind paying more.
Recommended for:
Anyone looking for cheap residential proxies.
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Adam Dubois
Proxy geek and developer.