Top Picks for Residential Proxy Services for Reddit
- Best overall (price + reliability)→ Decodo
- Best for largest IP pool / scale→ Bright Data
- Best for enterprise support & SLAs→ Oxylabs
- Best cheap / pay-as-you-go starter→ IPRoyal
- Best for flexible tiered pricing→ SOAX
Compare all six at a glance
Ranked by our editorial score, out of 10. Entry price is the lowest published rate on each provider's smallest plan; bulk price is the lowest published rate at their highest listed volume tier.
Provider | Best for | UK-capable pool | Entry price | Bulk price | Trial | Score |
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Decodo | Overall value | 115M+ IPs | $3.75/GB | $2.75/GB | 3-day, 100MB | 9.4 |
Bright Data | Largest pool / scale | 400M+ IPs | $4–8/GB | $3/GB | 7-day | 9.2 |
Oxylabs | Enterprise reliability | 175M+ IPs | $6/GB | $2.50/GB | None | 9 |
IPRoyal | pay-as-you-go | 64M+ IPs | $7.35/GB | $1.75/GB | None | 8.8 |
SOAX | Tiered credit pricing | Tier-1 (UK/US) | $0.85/GB* | $0.50/GB | Free Sandbox | 8.6 |
*SOAX's $200/month Builder plan is the effective entry point; its lowest advertised per-GB rate applies within that plan's Tier-1 bracket.
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Methodology & trust
How we evaluated these providers
This is an editorial ranking, not a paid placement list. Every figure below was pulled directly from each provider's public pricing page in August 2026, then sense-checked against independent proxy-industry benchmarking coverage. We didn't run our own bandwidth tests for this specific comparison — where we reference success rates or latency, that's the provider's own published figure, flagged as such.
Pricing transparency
Whether per-GB cost, minimum spend and top-up rules are published clearly, without needing a sales call to find the real number
UK targeting depth
Whether the network supports country-only targeting, or goes down to city, ZIP/postcode and ASN level within the UK.
Risk before you commit
Trial length, refund windows and whether pay-as-you-go exists, so you can validate a workflow before signing up for a monthly plan.
Support & tooling
Dashboard usability, API documentation, and whether account management is self-serve or requires a dedicated rep.
Reviewed by the Buy Residential Proxy research team
We track pricing changes across the residential proxy market and update this page when a provider changes plans meaningfully. This page does not use aggregated user-review scores — the scores above are our own editorial judgment, weighted toward the criteria in the panel above.
Published 22 Aug 2026 · Last verified 22 Aug 2026 · Sources: provider pricing pages, cross-checked against independent proxy benchmarking coverage.
The six providers, in detail
Ranked by editorial score. Pricing shown is per-provider list pricing at time of verification — promotional rates can change without notice, so confirm on the provider's own page before buying.
"The best all-round value pick for UK-focused scraping and data collection in 2026."
Decodo — the rebrand of Smartproxy — pairs a genuinely large 115M+ IP pool with some of the most transparent per-GB pricing in this category, starting at $3.75/GB on its smallest plan and dropping to $2.75/GB at 100GB.
UK targeting reaches down to city and ZIP-code level, and the network posts a claimed 99.92% success rate with sub-half-second response times, which lines up with third-party scraping benchmarks that consistently rate Decodo among the faster residential pools.
The 3-day trial is thin at just 100MB, but a 14-day money-back window on paid plans lowers the risk of committing. For teams running UK-only jobs — price comparison, ad verification, sneaker or ticket monitoring — Decodo's mix of pool size, granular targeting and straightforward pricing makes it the easiest recommendation on this list. For more information, read our Decodo Review.
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"The biggest pool on the market, with pricing that rewards volume."
Bright Data's residential network is the largest in this roundup by a wide margin — 400M+ IPs across 195 countries, sourced through what the company describes as an ethically vetted peer network. UK coverage includes free country, city, ZIP and ASN-level targeting, and the platform's 99.99% published uptime SLA is aimed squarely at teams that can't tolerate downtime in production.
Standard list pricing sits at $5–8/GB, though Bright Data runs frequent promotional pricing — as low as $4/GB on the Starter plan at time of writing — that meaningfully changes the value equation, so it's worth checking the live page before budgeting. A 7-day free trial is available, and the Proxy Manager adds SOCKS5 support plus real-time network monitoring that smaller providers don't match. For more information, read our BrightData Review.
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"The enterprise choice when uptime and support SLAs matter more than price."
Oxylabs targets larger, more compliance-conscious teams, and the plan structure shows it: entry pricing starts higher at $6/GB on the 5GB Starter plan, but every tier — including Starter — comes with a dedicated account manager, unlimited concurrent sessions and free geo-targeting down to city and ZIP level across 195 locations.
The 175M+ IP pool is one of the largest in the category, and Oxylabs' published 99.95% success rate is corroborated by independent proxy benchmarking outlets. There's no self-serve free trial, which puts Oxylabs at a disadvantage for solo developers wanting to test before they buy, but for agencies and enterprises running production scraping pipelines that need predictable support response times, it's built for exactly that. For more information, read our Oxylabs Review.
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"The most affordable entry point for small jobs, with traffic that never expires."
IPRoyal is built for buyers who don't want to commit to a subscription: pay-as-you-go pricing starts at $7.35/GB with no monthly minimum, dropping to $1.75/GB on 10TB+ custom plans, and — unusually for the category — purchased traffic never expires.
The 64M+ IP pool is the smallest of the six providers here, but UK coverage reaches city level, and sticky sessions can hold for up to 7 days, which suits long-running account-management or ad-verification tasks better than a fast-rotating pool. There's no formal free trial, but the low-commitment small packages effectively serve the same purpose. IPRoyal is the right call for freelancers, small teams, or anyone testing a UK proxy workflow before scaling into a larger provider. For more information, read our IPRoyal Review.
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"Flexible tiered pricing for teams that want to shop rates by region and volume."
SOAX prices its residential network in three geographic tiers, and the UK falls into Tier 1 alongside the US — meaning UK traffic starts at a relatively steep $0.85/GB at low volume, scaling down to $0.50/GB once usage passes 15TB a month. Plans run from a $200/month Builder tier up to $3,000/month Enterprise, all billed in credits that expire after 60 or 365 days depending on billing cycle.
A free Sandbox tier lets developers test the API and targeting options — down to ASN and ZIP code on higher tiers — before committing spend. SOAX suits teams that already know their monthly volume and want predictable, tiered pricing rather than a flat per-GB rate, though the credit-expiry structure needs more attention than a straightforward monthly plan. For more information, read our Soax Review.
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Full feature comparison
The same six providers, side by side on the details that matter for UK jobs specifically.
Feature | Decodo | Bright Data | Oxylabs | IPRoyal | SOAX |
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IP pool | 115M+ | 400M+ | 175M+ | 64M+ | Undisclosed |
City-level UK targeting | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Higher tiers |
Pay-as-you-go | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (credits) |
Free trial | 3-day, 100MB | 7-day | 7-day | None formal | Free Sandbox |
SOCKS5 support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Dedicated account manager | Higher tiers | Higher tiers | Higher tiers | No | Enterprise tier |
Success rate | 99.92% | 99.99% | 99.99% | Not published | Not published |
FAQs: About Reddit Residential Proxies
A residential proxy routes your traffic through real ISP-assigned IP addresses (from real devices/networks). For Reddit, this often looks more like a normal user than a datacenter IP, which can reduce blocks and login challenges.
Yes, using a residential proxy is legal in most jurisdictions. What you do with it can still breach a target site's terms of service or relevant law, so treat legality of the tool and permissibility of the use case as two separate questions, and check the rules of any site you're accessing.
Entry pricing among the providers compared here runs from roughly $1.75/GB on IPRoyal's high-volume custom plans to around $8/GB on Bright Data's list price. Most small and mid-size teams running UK-only jobs land somewhere between $3 and $5 per GB.
IPRoyal and Decodo have the lowest realistic entry prices for small to mid-size UK jobs. SOAX and Bright Data only become cheaper per GB once you're buying at very high monthly volume — their advertised low rates apply at the top of their pricing ladder, not the bottom.
Bright Data publishes the largest residential network among the six compared here, at 400 million-plus IPs, followed by Oxylabs at 175 million-plus and Decodo at 115 million-plus.
Decodo, Bright Data, Oxylabs and IPRoyal all support city-level UK targeting on their standard plans. SOAX offers it on higher tiers. NetNut's public documentation covers country-level targeting with less detail published on city-level granularity.
Decodo offers a 3-day, 100MB trial; Bright Data and NetNut offer 7-day trials; SOAX has a free Sandbox tier for API testing. Oxylabs and IPRoyal don't publish a formal free trial, but both allow a small first purchase instead.
Our take
For most UK-focused jobs, Decodo is the easiest recommendation: a large, well-targeted pool at genuinely competitive pricing with a refund window that lowers the risk of trying it. If your job needs the deepest possible pool or hard uptime guarantees, Bright Data and Oxylabs are built for that, at a price. If you're testing a workflow on a small budget, IPRoyal's non-expiring, pay-as-you-go traffic is the lowest-risk way to start.
