IPv6 Proxy Providers: Pricing & Performance

An IPv6 proxy routes traffic through an IPv6 exit address, but IPv6 support does not mean the same thing across proxy providers. A vendor may support IPv6 on its residential network, expose both IPv4 and IPv6 through a mixed pool, or allow users to request IPv6 addresses.

IPv6 proxy availability by provider

IPv6 proxy provider benchmark

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IPv6 proxy pricing

Pros and cons of IPv6 proxy services

Bright Data supports IPv6 on its residential proxy network. Bright Data offers two residential IPv6 pool types:

1. Combined IPv4 + IPv6 residential pool, also called the mega pool
2. IPv6-only shared rotating residential proxies

The provider supports IPv6-only shared rotating residential proxies, making it more relevant to IPv6-specific buyers.

Residential IPv6 proxies do not support selected ASN targeting, ZIP code targeting, explicit IP targeting, mobile carrier targeting, or explicit operating system targeting. If users include these parameters in a proxy username while the zone is set to IPv6, Bright Data ignores them and processes the request.

Oxylabs supports IPv6 for residential and dedicated datacenter proxies. You can filter residential proxies for IPv6 addresses. Dedicated datacenter proxies support both IPv6 and IPv4. IPv6-only filtering is not available for datacenter proxies.

With Oxylabs residential IPv6 IP addresses, you can target by country, state, city, ZIP code, continent, ASN, or coordinates. You can also combine these filters with the IPv6-only option.

Some filter combinations are not always available. IPv6 with city, ZIP code, ASN, or coordinates may have limited proxy availability. Oxylabs does not charge extra for IPv6 residential proxy traffic. The price depends on how much traffic you use, not the IP version.

Decodo supports IPv6 filtering for residential and mobile proxies, but the feature must be enabled first. It is not available by default. For residential proxies, users can force IPv6-only routing.

For residential and mobile proxies, Decodo supports combining IPv6 with geo-targeting. Supported targeting options include country, city, state for the United States, ZIP code for the United States, and ASN targeting.

IPv6 availability can be limited in smaller countries or cities. Since Decodo does not share a list of where IPv6 is available at the country or city level, it is a good idea to test your target locations before making a decision.

NodeMaven offers IPv6 through its residential and mobile pools, with the same country, city, and ISP targeting, and the same rotation and sticky-session controls applied to both address pools. Pricing is shared with the residential product.

IPv6 product types

Residential IPv6 proxies

All four providers in this comparison offer IPv6 within their residential proxy products, but their routing controls differ.

Bright Data provides both a mixed IPv4+IPv6 residential pool and an IPv6-only shared pool. Oxylabs lets residential users explicitly request IPv6 addresses with its IP-version filter.

Decodo supports IPv6 filtering on its residential pool. NodeMaven provides residential IPv6 through a mixed IPv4/IPv6 pool but does not currently document an IPv6-only option.

Datacenter IPv6 proxies

Datacenter IPv6 availability is more limited among the providers compared here.

Oxylabs explicitly supports IPv4 and IPv6 on its dedicated datacenter proxies. Bright Data states that its IPv6 support is currently limited to the residential network and does not extend to its datacenter or ISP proxy networks.

Rotating vs sticky IPv6 proxies

IP version and session behavior are separate settings. An IPv6 proxy can still be rotating or session-based depending on the underlying proxy product.

Bright Data’s IPv6 residential product is a shared rotating pool. NodeMaven’s residential and mobile products support per-request rotation as well as sticky sessions. For providers that expose separate IP-version and session parameters, selecting IPv6 should not be assumed to change the rotation model.

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IPv6 routing

IPv4 fallback

Bright Data supports automatic failover from IPv6 to IPv4 when the target does not publish an IPv6 address; this behavior is enabled by default and can be disabled. If failover is disabled, an IPv4 target returns an error.

Oxylabs similarly states that a residential proxy request using its IPv6 filter may automatically resolve through IPv4 when the target does not support IPv6.

IPv6 geo-targeting

Bright Data does not support several targeting parameters in its residential IPv6 product, including ASN and ZIP code targeting. Oxylabs allows its residential IPv6 filter to be combined with location parameters, but warns that narrower combinations such as city or ZIP targeting can reduce availability.

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@misc{karatas2026,
  author = {Karatas, Gulbahar},
  title  = {{IPv6 Proxy Providers: Pricing & Performance}},
  year   = {2026},
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  howpublished    = {\url{https://aimultiple.com/ipv6-proxies}},
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Gulbahar Karatas

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