Residential proxy price comparison 2026: US city traffic

What does the index show?

Three patterns stand out in the October 2026 prices.

1. City targeting is usually included, but not always free. Five of the six other providers include city targeting in the list price. DataImpulse documents that city-targeted traffic is "billed at double the standard rate", which turns $1/GB into $2/GB.
2. Small volumes cost about two and a half times more per GB. The median falls from $3.75/GB for a single gigabyte to $1.50/GB at 1 TB, and two of the six providers have no public plan under 10 GB.
3. Discounts are permanent fixtures. Webshare and Thordata show most of their prices next to a struck-through "original" price; we record the price you pay and mark it as a sale.

Two providers are left out of the table because their prices do not map to a volume of city traffic: SOAX sells monthly credit plans from $200 (+ VAT) with prices by location tier, and keeps ZIP and ASN targeting for plans from $1,500; Oxylabs lists $6/GB up to 5 GB and plans from $30 a month without saying which tier applies to which plan.

Which internet providers sit behind US city IPs?

A residential IP belongs to the home connection it comes from, so the providers serving a city shape what an exit IP looks like. From the FCC National Broadband Map (December 2025 data, read 18 October 2026) across our 181 city pages:

• Cable dominates first place. The provider with the largest wired coverage share is Xfinity (Comcast) in 68 cities, Spectrum (Charter) in 57 and Cox in 27.
• AT&T is the most widespread second network. In its 21 wireline states, AT&T serves at least 20% of homes in 124 of our cities.
• Fiber is uneven. Lincoln (NE), Chattanooga and Clarksville (TN) report fiber at 99.9% to 100% of homes; Baltimore (13%), Naperville (7%) and Anchorage (6%) are at the bottom.
• Municipal networks matter locally. EPB in Chattanooga, CDE Lightband in Clarksville and KUB Fiber in Knoxville each reach 95% or more of homes in their city.

The ASN targeting page turns this into AS numbers, and each city page has its own provider list.

How was the index built?

• Prices: each provider's public residential pricing page, read on 18 October 2026, in US dollars. Coupon codes are left out. Sale prices with no end date are kept and marked. City-targeting surcharges are applied where the provider documents them.
• Volume rule: for each volume, the largest published plan at or below it, else the pay-as-you-go rate. Monthly subscriptions are compared by their monthly price; ours are one-off blocks that do not renew.
• Providers: the residential providers that publish per-GB prices and city targeting and are commonly cited in comparisons of US proxies. Providers whose network was seized in 2026 (NetNut) are excluded.
• City data: Census Vintage 2024 population, the FCC National Broadband Map area summaries for each Census place, NANPA area codes and the Census 2020 ZIP (ZCTA) relationship file.

The data may be reused with a link to this page. Next update: when a provider in the table changes its public prices, or in January 2027 at the latest.

Where should I go next?

Turn the data into a choice with the best US city proxies 2026 and geo-targeting proxy prices, see our pricing, or browse the 181 city pages and state pages behind the FCC figures.