IPRoyal advertises residential proxies from $1.75 per gigabyte. The price at the smallest tier you can actually buy is $7.00. The headline is four times cheaper than the entry price and requires a ten terabyte commitment to reach. I run Ecommerce Paradise, and this page exists because IPRoyal’s pricing is genuinely good once you understand it, and genuinely confusing until you do.
Traffic That Does Not Expire
Pay-as-you-go residential traffic sits in your account until you use it, which suits occasional use far better than a monthly allowance.
Rotating Residential Proxies
This is the product the headline price refers to, and the one most store owners should not buy. More on that below.
| Volume | Subscription, 5% off | Pay-as-you-go |
|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | $7.00 per GB | $7.35 per GB |
| 2 GB | $5.95 per GB | $6.25 per GB |
| 10 GB, marked most popular | $5.25 per GB | $5.51 per GB |
| Custom, minimum 10 TB | $1.75 per GB | $1.84 per GB |
Those are the tiers published on the public pricing page. IPRoyal’s dashboard has historically exposed more granular volumes between 10 GB and the custom tier, but that calculator sits behind a login and I have not verified it, so treat the table above as the published tiers rather than every tier that exists.
The gap between $7.00 and the advertised $1.75 is the thing to internalise. Ten terabytes is not a volume any small store will ever purchase. Budget from the tier you will actually buy.
Static Residential and ISP Proxies
This is the product most ecommerce store owners should buy, and the pricing is much more reasonable.
| Term | Price per IP |
|---|---|
| 24 hours | $1.80 |
| 30 days | $2.70 |
| 60 days, marked most popular | $2.55 |
| 90 days | $2.40 |
Traffic is unlimited on static IPs, which removes the metering anxiety entirely. The pool covers 31 or more countries with over 500,000 IPs.
For the two things a store owner genuinely needs proxies for, three to five of these in your target countries costs roughly $8 to $14 a month, and that is the whole budget.
Datacenter Proxies
| Term | Price per IP |
|---|---|
| 30 days | $1.57 |
| 60 days | $1.48 |
| 90 days | $1.39 |
Cheapest option, covering 60 or more locations, and the easiest for target sites to detect and block. Fine for internal testing, poor for anything that needs to look like a real household.
One thing worth knowing: IPRoyal markets a sneaker proxy product at “from $1.39 per IP”, which is identical to the 90-day datacenter price. It is rebranded datacenter, not a separate product line.
Mobile Proxies
| Product | Price |
|---|---|
| Rotating mobile, 2 GB | $6.80 per GB |
| Rotating mobile, 10 GB | $6.00 per GB |
| Rotating mobile, 50 GB | $5.60 per GB |
| Rotating mobile, 100 GB | $5.20 per GB |
| Dedicated mobile, 24 hours | $10.11 per day |
| Dedicated mobile, 30 days | $130 per month |
| Dedicated mobile, 90 days | $117 per month |
Dedicated mobile proxies carry a 30 GB per day cap per proxy. Almost no ecommerce store needs mobile proxies, and at $130 a month you should be very clear about why before buying one.
Web Unblocker
Priced from $1.00 per thousand requests. This is a managed scraping product rather than a raw proxy, where IPRoyal handles the blocking and retries for you. Relevant only if you are running actual data collection.
The Feature That Justifies the Price
IPRoyal’s residential traffic does not expire on the pay-as-you-go model. Their own residential page describes it as never-expiring internet traffic, and states the proxies work for as long as it takes you to use up the traffic you bought.
That matters more than the per-gigabyte rate for the way a store owner actually works. If you need proxies for two hours in March and three hours in July, a monthly allowance wastes almost everything you pay for. A gigabyte that sits in your account until you use it does not.
One caveat I want to be precise about. Non-expiry is documented for pay-as-you-go. The 5% discount subscription is a recurring plan, and I would not assume the same terms apply there without checking at purchase.
Want to Test Before Paying Anything?
Bright Data runs a genuine free trial with no credit card required, which IPRoyal does not offer to individuals.
The Free Trial That Is Not Really a Trial
The residential page carries a “start free trial” button. IPRoyal’s own help documentation says something different.
Companies may be eligible for a free trial once IPRoyal verifies company registration and ownership. Individuals are told to buy the minimum amount of traffic instead.
So if you are a solo store owner, there is no free trial. Your trial is a $7.00 gigabyte, and you should treat that purchase as the evaluation.
Refunds Are Narrow
Read this before buying, because the window is much tighter than a typical money-back guarantee.
Residential refunds are only available if you have consumed 100 MB or less. Subscription charge disputes must be raised within 72 hours. Connectivity problems unresolved after 24 hours qualify for a refund.
And crypto payments are explicitly non-refundable. IPRoyal accepts 25 cryptocurrencies alongside cards, PayPal and Alipay, but paying in crypto forfeits refund rights entirely.
The practical rule is to test hard inside your first 100 MB, and to pay by card rather than crypto unless you have a specific reason not to.
Where the IPs Come From
Worth covering in a pricing article, because after 2026 it is part of what you are buying.
IPRoyal sources residential IPs through Pawns.app, a named consumer application, plus established provider partnerships. Its help documentation states that members can join or leave Pawns.app at any time.
Pawns pays participants from a $5 minimum via PayPal, Bitcoin, ACH, Venmo and gift cards. I could not verify a per-gigabyte bandwidth rate because the relevant page returns a 404, and their own disclaimer notes that only the most active users reach $500 a month.
That level of disclosure is not universal. When the FBI seized NetNut’s domains in July 2026 over an alleged two million device botnet, the difference between providers who name their sourcing and providers who do not stopped being academic. IPRoyal and Pawns.app were not named in the Spur smart TV research that implicated several competitors.
Identity verification is not mandatory for residential access, though completing it unlocks more ports, PayPal payments and access to government and banking domains.
What You Should Actually Buy
Here is the recommendation, and it is not the product the pricing page pushes.
Buy static residential IPs, not rotating gigabytes. Three to five IPs in the countries you sell into, on the 60 or 90 day term for the better rate, with unlimited traffic. That is $8 to $14 a month and it matches the job.
The job, for almost every store owner, is two things. Seeing your own storefront the way a customer in another country sees it, including currency, shipping options and payment method rendering. And verifying that your ads and landing pages appear correctly from the regions you are buying traffic in.
Rotating residential bandwidth is built for scraping thousands of pages as a different apparent person each time. You want to be one consistent German, repeatedly, for weeks. Those are different products, and buying the wrong one is the most common and most expensive mistake in this category.
How This Compares
| Provider | Entry residential | Static IP | Named sourcing |
|---|---|---|---|
| IPRoyal | $7.00 per GB | $2.70 per IP | Pawns.app |
| Bright Data | $8.00 list, $4.00 promo | $1.30 per IP | Bright SDK |
| Proxy-Cheap | $1.50 per GB | $2.44 to $2.71 | None |
| LumiProxy | $5.00 per GB | $6.00 per IP | None |
| Decodo | $2.00 per GB | $0.27 per IP | None |
IPRoyal is not the cheapest on either axis. Decodo undercuts it heavily on static IPs and Proxy-Cheap undercuts it on bandwidth. What IPRoyal has is non-expiring traffic and a sourcing program you can go and inspect, and I think that combination is worth the premium for a business buyer.
The full field is covered in my roundup of the best residential proxy providers for ecommerce.
Subscription or Pay-As-You-Go?
IPRoyal sells residential two ways and the difference is worth five percent and a fair bit of flexibility.
The subscription saves 5% on every tier. One gigabyte is $7.00 rather than $7.35, ten gigabytes is $5.25 rather than $5.51. It is a recurring charge, so it renews whether or not you used the traffic.
Pay-as-you-go costs the extra 5% and buys you the feature that actually matters, which is traffic that does not expire. You top up when you need to and the balance waits.
For a store owner the choice is straightforward. Unless you are consuming a predictable amount of bandwidth every single month, take pay-as-you-go. Paying 5% more for the right to not waste an entire month’s allowance is an obviously good trade, and the saving on the subscription is trivial at the volumes you will buy.
The one scenario where the subscription wins is a running scraping job with steady monthly consumption, which is a data operation rather than a store.
What the Price Does Not Include
Three things people assume are bundled and are not.
There is no free trial for individuals, so your evaluation is a paid purchase. There is no managed unblocking on standard proxies, since that is the separately priced Web Unblocker product at $1.00 per thousand requests. And there is no guarantee about which specific city or network you receive on a rotating plan, only country-level targeting on the standard tiers.
None of that is unusual for the category. It is worth knowing before you plan around capabilities you have not actually bought.
Three Worked Budgets
Abstract per-unit pricing is hard to reason about, so here is what three realistic setups actually cost.
The store owner checking three markets. You sell into the United States, Germany and Australia and want to see each storefront as a local customer does. Three static residential IPs on the 90-day term at $2.40 each is $7.20 a month, with unlimited traffic. That is the entire proxy budget for most people reading this, and it never needs to grow.
The store owner running paid traffic in five countries. Five static IPs on 60-day terms at $2.55 is $12.75 a month. You check ad rendering and landing page load from each region weekly. Still under fifteen dollars.
The occasional researcher. You want to pull competitor pricing a few times a year and do not need a fixed location. One gigabyte of pay-as-you-go residential at $7.35, which does not expire, covers a surprising amount of page loads and sits in your account until you need it. Total annual cost, $7.35.
Notice what none of these look like. None of them are a monthly subscription to rotating bandwidth, which is what the pricing page steers you toward and what most people end up buying.
Mistakes That Make This Cost More Than It Should
Five specific ways people overpay here, in rough order of how often I see them.
Buying rotating when you need static. The most expensive mistake by a distance. You pay per gigabyte for a product that changes your apparent identity constantly, when the job needed one fixed identity with unlimited traffic.
Budgeting from the headline. Planning around $1.75 and discovering $7.00 at the cart means either abandoning the purchase or quietly accepting four times the cost you modelled.
Paying in crypto. It looks convenient and it forfeits your refund rights completely. Unless you have a reason, use a card.
Burning past 100 MB before testing properly. Your refund window closes at 100 MB consumed. Point your test at the exact sites you care about immediately, not at generic IP checkers.
Buying mobile proxies. At $130 a month for a dedicated mobile proxy, this is the single easiest way to turn a fifteen dollar line item into a meaningful expense. Almost no ecommerce store needs one.
Where This Belongs in a Store Budget
Some perspective, because tool spending is where a lot of people hide from harder work.
Proxies are a diagnostic instrument. They tell you what a customer somewhere else sees. They do not improve what that customer sees, they do not win you better supplier terms, and they do not change your margin on a single order.
In high-ticket dropshipping, where one order can be worth $2,000 and your contribution margin is often 20 to 30 percent rather than the 50 percent people assume, the numbers that decide the business are your supplier cost, your freight, your return rate and your allowable cost per acquisition. A proxy bill does not appear anywhere in that calculation.
So cap it. If this line item is climbing past about fifteen dollars a month on a store that is not yet profitable, you are optimising the wrong thing. The compounding work is getting approved with better suppliers, because better terms improve every future order rather than telling you something you could have guessed.
And if the margin never worked in the first place, that is a niche problem rather than a tooling problem, which is what the high-ticket niches list exists to settle.
The Vendor Paperwork Nobody Does
One practical note that applies to every vendor, not just this one.
Once you hold customer data and operate as a real entity, the vendors you contract with become part of your risk surface. If an insurer, an enterprise buyer or an auditor asks who processes your traffic and where, you need an answer.
IPRoyal is answerable on that question, which is precisely why I recommend it over the cheaper options that name no legal entity at all. Keeping a simple list of every vendor, what it costs, when it renews and what data it touches takes twenty minutes to start and is part of the same discipline as getting your business formation and financial foundation right rather than improvising it later.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does IPRoyal actually cost?
Residential starts at $7.00 per gigabyte at the 1 GB tier, not the advertised $1.75, which requires a 10 TB commitment. Static residential is $2.70 per IP for 30 days.
Does IPRoyal traffic expire?
Pay-as-you-go residential traffic does not expire. It stays in your account until consumed, which is IPRoyal’s main advantage over monthly allowance pricing.
Is there a free trial?
Not for individuals. Companies may qualify after IPRoyal verifies registration and ownership. Everyone else buys the minimum gigabyte.
What is IPRoyal’s refund policy?
Refunds require 100 MB or less consumed, subscription disputes must be raised within 72 hours, and crypto payments are non-refundable.
Does IPRoyal accept crypto?
Yes, 25 cryptocurrencies. Note that paying in crypto removes your refund rights entirely.
Is KYC required?
No, but completing it unlocks more ports, PayPal as a payment method, and access to government and banking domains.
Bottom Line
IPRoyal’s pricing is fair once you ignore the headline. Static residential at $2.40 to $2.70 per IP with unlimited traffic is a sensible price for the product a store owner actually needs, and non-expiring pay-as-you-go traffic genuinely suits occasional use better than anything sold as a monthly allowance.
What you should not do is budget from the advertised $1.75, expect a free trial as an individual, pay in crypto if you might want a refund, or buy rotating bandwidth when static IPs are what the job requires.
Buy three static IPs, test them against your own storefront and your ad landing pages in the first week, and keep the whole line item under fifteen dollars a month.
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Trevor Fenner is an ecommerce entrepreneur and the founder of Ecommerce Paradise, a platform focused on helping entrepreneurs build and scale profitable high-ticket ecommerce and dropshipping businesses. With over a decade of hands-on experience, Trevor specializes in high-ticket dropshipping strategy, niche and product selection, supplier recruiting and onboarding, Google & Bing Shopping ads, ecommerce SEO, and systems-driven automation and scaling. Through Ecommerce Paradise, he provides free education via in-depth guides like How to Start High-Ticket Dropshipping, advanced training through the High-Ticket Dropshipping Masterclass, and fully done-for-you turnkey ecommerce services for entrepreneurs who want a faster, more hands-off path to growth. Trevor is known for emphasizing sustainable, real-world ecommerce models over hype-driven tactics, helping store owners build scalable, sellable, and location-independent brands.
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