Datacenter Proxy Providers Compared: Terms and Limits

Node4, Bright Data, Oxylabs, Webshare and IPRoyal datacenter proxies compared on billing unit, data allowance, minimum order and self-serve limits.

Choose a datacenter proxy provider by how it treats data, because the per-IP price is only half the bill. Node4 dedicated proxies carry no data cap. Bright Data and IPRoyal attach a monthly allowance to each IP, Oxylabs cuts concurrency once an IP passes a monthly threshold, and Webshare sells bandwidth as a separate tier. Match that to your traffic and locations, then compare the per-IP rates below. Node4 publishes this guide and sells one of the products in it.

The five providers were compared on six things: billing unit, smallest published order, data included, self-serve ceiling, free test, and protocols. Competitor figures come from each vendor's own pages, checked October 5, 2026, and each links to its source. They are published terms, not measurements; none of these providers was speed or block tested.

Five providers compared

"Not stated" means the linked page did not say, and it is not counted for or against anyone. IPRoyal's two pages disagree about datacenter traffic, so both are shown; confirm with IPRoyal before relying on either. Competitor location lists and IP sourcing were not compared in depth; if location decides your purchase, read each provider's product page.

What the table means for a real order

For example, suppose a job needs 50 datacenter IPs for a month and moves about 2 TB, roughly 40 GB per IP.

• Node4 dedicated: $59.50 a month for 50 proxies, with no data cap, so the 2 TB adds nothing.
• Bright Data: 50 IPs sit inside the self-serve range; dedicated IPs are $2.20 an IP for 10 dedicated IPs, falling to $1.30 at 1,000. At 40 GB per IP the job stays inside a 100 GB fair usage allowance per IP per month, with possible extra charges above it.
• Oxylabs: dedicated IPs are $2.25 an IP for 3 dedicated IPs, falling to $1.20 at 1,000; 40 GB per IP stays under the threshold at which concurrency is cut. On the shared per-GB plan instead, the 2 TB itself is the bill: $0.59/GB for 20 GB, falling to $0.44/GB at 2 TB.
• Webshare: the smallest paid tier is $2.99 a month for 100 proxies, plus a bandwidth tier large enough for 2 TB, priced separately on the page.
• IPRoyal: packages are priced from $1.57 a proxy for 30 days, $1.48 for 60 days and $1.39 for 90 days. Under the product FAQ's terms the order pools 5,000 GB, so 2 TB fits; under the pricing page's wording there is no cap at all. Whether a package renews automatically is not stated.

The pattern: if your job moves a lot of data per IP, a no-data-cap or large allowance matters more than a lower per-IP rate. If it moves little data, the per-IP rate and the minimum order decide, and Webshare's 100-proxy floor or Oxylabs' 3-IP floor can matter more than either.

Provider notes

Node4. Datacenter, shared and rotating datacenter proxies all use blocks Node4 owns in the US, Italy and Spain, so the three-country footprint is the main limit; residential exits, for other countries, come from a partner network. Dedicated proxies give each address to one customer, priced per proxy with no data cap. Shared proxies put up to five customers on each address and give your order one data pool; dedicated vs shared datacenter proxies covers which jobs need which. For rotation, Rotating Datacenter bills per gigabyte and Rotating Unmetered bills by concurrent connections on the same exits; a session ID holds one exit for up to 30 minutes from first assignment. The free plan is 3 free shared proxies, 1 GB a month, no card required, over HTTP(S) only. It has no end date; if your free proxies carry no traffic for 30 days we pause them, and you can reactivate a fresh set from your dashboard in one click.

Bright Data. Datacenter, residential and ISP proxies are priced on one pricing page, so a project that later needs residential or ISP addresses stays on one account. Shared IPs are cheaper than dedicated: $1.40 an IP for 10 shared IPs, falling to $0.90 at 1,000.

Oxylabs. Three buying models: dedicated per IP, shared per IP ($1.20 an IP for 10 shared IPs, falling to $0.70 at 3,000, with up to 3 users on each shared IP) and shared per GB. Decide between per-IP and per-GB before comparing rates, because they are not the same product.

Webshare. Per-proxy plans with bandwidth as a separate choice; the top tier is subject to a fair-use policy whose limit is not published on the pricing page. Its free plan, 10 datacenter proxies with up to 1 GB of data a month, with no expiry, needs no card.

IPRoyal. Fixed-term packages rather than a rolling subscription, with a traffic rule its own pages state two ways. Its residential product has different terms, including traffic that does not expire; do not carry those across to datacenter.

Which provider to choose

If your targets accept traffic from the US, Italy or Spain and your job moves a lot of data per IP, Node4 dedicated proxies remove the data line from the bill. If you need datacenter IPs in other countries, Node4 is not the fit; compare the location lists of the others. For time-boxed work, IPRoyal's packages match a known end date. For a free test with no end date and a published path to 100,000 proxies, Webshare. For one account across datacenter, ISP and residential, Bright Data. For per-IP and per-GB options from one vendor, Oxylabs. Whichever you pick, confirm the exit IP's country through the proxy before building on it, the check in the quick start guide. For the datacenter-versus-residential question itself, see datacenter vs residential proxies, and for a cost-first view across proxy types, cheap proxy providers compared.