Best High Speed Proxies Based on Our Benchmark
The best proxy for speed is not always the one with the lowest response time. In real-world scraping and automation, speed is important, but requests must finish reliably. A provider that seems fast on its own but fails more often can cause more retries.
Response time
Success rate
Fastest residential proxy
Residential results are the most tightly contested. Oxylabs and Decodo have the lowest response times, while Apify is consistently the slowest. Success rates cluster closely, and no provider holds a consistent lead; daily rankings change frequently.
Fastest datacenter proxy
Oxylabs consistently combines the lowest datacenter response times with the highest success rates. Apify and Decodo are close to Oxylabs on speed but complete fewer requests successfully. Webshare, a more recent addition to the benchmark, has so far matched Oxylabs on success rate but responded more slowly than the other providers.
Fastest mobile proxy
Oxylabs and Decodo lead the mobile benchmark on both speed and success rate, with Oxylabs typically slightly faster. Both keep response times under 2 seconds on most days. NodeMaven, added more recently, has so far trailed both on speed and success rate.
Fastest proxy servers: Residential, datacenter & mobile
Oxylabs ranks at or near the top for response time in all three benchmark categories and leads the datacenter benchmark on success rate. If you want one provider that performs well on speed across proxy types, Oxylabs is the most consistent choice in our data.
Decodo is among the fastest providers in the mobile and residential benchmarks. In the datacenter benchmark, it is competitive on speed but completes fewer requests successfully than Oxylabs and Webshare.
Webshare is particularly strong in the datacenter category, delivering some of the lowest response times in the benchmark. This makes it essential for any speed-focused comparison.
However, Webshare does not lead in success rate compared to more balanced providers. It suits those who prioritize low latency over consistency in request completion during long web scraping sessions.
Webshare is less dominant in the residential proxy network. Although competitive, the benchmark does not highlight its performance as strongly as datacenter proxies do.
Price comparison of top high-speed proxies
Higher GB per dollar indicates lower effective cost:
Add as preferred sourceHigh-speed proxy benchmark methodology
We tested residential, mobile, and datacenter proxy services from servers in Europe, the United States, Singapore, and Brazil. Each server runs a test cycle every 20 minutes. This produces 288 requests per day per vendor. Over 30 days, this produced:
- 86,400 residential proxy requests (10 vendors)
- 43,200 mobile proxy requests (5 vendors)
- 43,200 datacenter proxy requests (5 vendors)
- 172,800 total requests
Requests are drawn from a pool of around 17,000 URLs, and every request hits a different URL so providers cannot cache responses. Residential and mobile proxies are tested with Amazon, Bing, eBay, and YouTube. Datacenter proxies are tested with Amazon, Bing, and eBay.
We focus on two main performance metrics:
- Success rate measures how often requests are completed successfully. A request counts as successful if it returns a status code between 200 and 399 and the page contains the expected content, such as a product title. CAPTCHA pages, block pages, timeouts, errors, and empty pages count as failures.
- Average response time shows how long successful requests take from start to final byte. Only successful requests are included, so failed requests do not skew latency results.
For the full methodology, see our proxy benchmark methodology.
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@misc{karatas2026,
author = {Karatas, Gulbahar},
title = {{Best High Speed Proxies Based on Our Benchmark}},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://aimultiple.com/high-speed-proxies}},
note = {AIMultiple. Retrieved October 14, 2026}
}Results and timestamps of 592 data points. Download the summary data shown in this article's charts and tables as a ZIP file containing 9 CSV files.
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1 updatesReplaced the qualitative benchmark descriptions for residential, datacenter, and mobile proxies with specific response time and success rate figures.
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