3G/4G/5G Mobile Proxy Services

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Reviewed by Cem Dilmegani
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Researched by Gulbahar Karatas
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Last update: January 22, 2025

Mobile proxies leverage IP addresses associated with real mobile devices, such as smartphones or tablets. +Show More

Mobile proxies leverage IP addresses associated with real mobile devices, such as smartphones or tablets. They replace users' original IP addresses with the mobile IP addresses assigned by the mobile network operator.

To be categorized as mobile proxy service, a product must:

  • Enable the users to connect to the internet from different mobile IP addresses
  • Provide a UI or API to manage users’ connections.
If you’d like to learn about the ecosystem consisting of 3G/4G/5G Mobile Proxy Services and others, feel free to check AIMultiple Proxies & scrapers.
How relevant, verifiable metrics drive AIMultiple’s rankings

AIMultiple uses relevant & verifiable metrics to evaluate vendors.

Metrics are selected based on typical enterprise procurement processes ensuring that market leaders, fast-growing challengers, feature-complete solutions and cost-effective solutions are ranked highly so they can be shortlisted.
Data regarding these metrics are collected from public sources as outlined in the “What are AIMultiple’s data sources?” section of this page.


There are 2 ways in which vendor metrics are processed to help prioritization:
1- Vendors are grouped within 4 metrics (customer satisfaction, market presence, growth and features) according to their performance in that metric.
2- Vendors that perform high in these metrics are ranked higher in the list.


The data used in each vendor’s ranking can be accessed by expanding the vendor’s row in the below list.
This page includes links to AIMultiple’s sponsors. Sponsored links are included in “Visit Website” buttons and ranked at the top of the list when results are sorted by “Sponsored”. Sponsors have no say over the ranking which is based on market data. Organic ranking can be seen by sorting by “AIMultiple” or other sorting approaches. For more on how AIMultiple works, please see the ethical standards that we follow and how we fund our research.

Products Position Country targeting Unblocker $/GB/month
Bright Data logo

Bright Data

Leader
195
499
Bright Data is the world\'s leading platform for web data collection, serving over 20,000 businesses with tools to access, extract, and structure public web data effectively and ethically. With a robust proxy network, scraping APIs, and pre-collected datasets, it powers scalable, reliable, and compliant data-driven operations across industries.

Unmatched Performance: With a global network of over 100 million IPs in 200+ countries and advanced unblocking technology, Bright Data ensures fast, reliable, and high-success-rate data collection.

Scalability & Reliability: Built to handle operations of any size, Bright Data seamlessly supports businesses scraping terabytes of data monthly.

Advanced Automation: Save time with automated scraping tools that manage JavaScript rendering, unblocking, and crawling effortlessly.

Cost Efficiency: Volume-based pricing and optimized proxy solutions help reduce redundant requests and cut operational costs by up to 40%.

Compliance & Ethics: Bright Data prioritizes ethical data collection, maintaining strict adherence to global regulations and industry best practices.

24/7 Expert Support: Bright Data provides round-the-clock, dedicated support from a team of experts to ensure your operations run smoothly at all times.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.75 / 5 based on ~300 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
1k-2k employees
Company's social media followers
30k-40k followers
Features
Country targeting
195
Unblocker
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1901
Price
1 GB for $499 / Month
Oxylabs logo

Oxylabs

Leader
195
8
Provides:\\
More than 177M IPs in 195 countries worldwide, including residential, mobile, datacenter, ISP, and SOCKS5 proxy servers.\\
Large-scale scraping of public web data without being detected and blocked by the target websites.\\
Web Unblocker to collect data at scale from JavaScript-heavy websites.\\
API-based web scrapers\\
Web datasets for teams that want to get fresh, structured web data without building a web scraping and parsing infrastructure
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.50 / 5 based on ~100 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
300-400 employees
Company's social media followers
20k-30k followers
Features
Country targeting
195
Unblocker
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2015
Price
Micro
1 GB for $8.25 / Month
Decodo logo

Decodo

Leader
195
15
Provides proxies and scrapers for web data collection.\\
\\
40M+ ethically sourced residential and datacenter proxies in 195+ countries, including states and cities worldwide, to avoid geo and IP blocks while scraping. Decodo\\\'s proxy network includes residential, ISP (static residential), mobile, datacenter and dedicated datacenter proxies. Proxies support HTTP and SOCKS5 protocols. Offers Site Unblocker that allows users to automate proxy selection and render JavaScript web pages. \\
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Scrapers retrieve data from any website without writing a single line of code. Schedules the scraping task and receives the results via email or webhook. Provides pre-made scraping templates.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.60 / 5 based on ~200 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
1k-2k followers
Features
Country targeting
195
Unblocker
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2018
Price
2 GB
1 GB for $15 / Month
NetNut  logo

NetNut

Leader
195
20
NetNut is a proxy service providers that offers proxies for individuals and businesses, including residential (rotating & static), datacenter and mobile proxy servers. The proxy provider also offers Website Unblocker technology. NetNut provides customers with proxy services that are customised to their specific applications.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.90 / 5 based on ~100 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
50-100 employees
Company's social media followers
5k-10k followers
Features
Country targeting
195
Unblocker
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2017
Price
Starter
1 GB for $20 / Month
SOAX logo

SOAX

Leader
195
7
Offers residential, mobile, and ISP proxies for data collection purposes. SOAX provides rotating ISP, also known as static residential, proxies only in the US with extended session up to 24 hours.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.80 / 5 based on ~60 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
50-100 employees
Company's social media followers
5k-10k followers
Features
Country targeting
195
Unblocker
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2019
Price
Mobile 15
1 GB for $6.60 / Month
IPRoyal logo

IPRoyal

Challenger
195
10
Offers over 8 million proxies with HTTP and SOCKS support, including residential, datacenter, sneaker and mobile proxy servers. Allows individuals and businesses to browse the web anonymously and access to restricted content by masking masking their IP address.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.60 / 5 based on ~100 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
50-100 employees
Company's social media followers
1k-2k followers
Features
Country targeting
195
Unblocker
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2020
Price
Starter
1 GB for $10.11 / Month
HypeProxy logo

HypeProxy

Challenger
2
55
HypeProxy is a proxy service provider that offers dedicated mobile and static residential proxies for various applications including data scraping, social media automation, travel aggregation, and SEO.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.20 / 5 based on ~10 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
1-5 employees
Company's social media followers
20-30 followers
Features
Country targeting
2
Unblocker
Price
Starter
1 GB for $55 / Month
Geonode logo

Geonode

Challenger
-
-
-
Geonode is a proxy service provider offering a network of residential rotating, dedicated and shared datacenter, and mobile proxies tailored for web scraping activities.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.90 / 5 based on 8 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
20-30 employees
Company's social media followers
1k-2k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Proxy-Cheap logo

Proxy-Cheap

Challenger
105
5
Proxy-Cheap is proxy provider that offers various types of proxy services including residential, datacenter and mobile proxies for data collection activities. Provides static and rotating residential IPs.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Market presence
Company's number of employees
10-20 employees
Company's social media followers
5k-10k followers
Features
Country targeting
105
Unblocker
IPBurger logo

IPBurger

Challenger
100
20
10M+ IPs rotating and static IPs for web scraping, ad verification, and social media. IPBurger offers residential, mobile and datacenter proxies with country, state and city-level targeting.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Features
Country targeting
100
Unblocker

“-”: AIMultiple team has not yet verified that vendor provides the specified feature. AIMultiple team focuses on feature verification for top 10 vendors.


Sources

AIMultiple uses these data sources for ranking solutions and awarding badges in mobile proxies:


9 vendor web domains
7 funding announcements
24 social media profiles
15 profiles on review platforms
13 search engine queries

Mobile Proxy Leaders

According to the weighted combination of 4 metrics

Bright Data Proxies & Scrapers logo
Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers logo
NetNut  logo
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers logo
SOAX logo

What are mobile proxy
customer satisfaction leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current mobile proxy customer satisfaction leaders:

Bright Data Proxies & Scrapers logo
NetNut  logo
Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers logo
SOAX logo
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers logo

Which mobile proxy solution provides the most customer satisfaction?

AIMultiple uses product and service reviews from multiple review platforms in determining customer satisfaction.

While deciding a product's level of customer satisfaction, AIMultiple takes into account its number of reviews, how reviewers rate it and the recency of reviews.

  • Number of reviews is important because it is easier to get a small number of high ratings than a high number of them.
  • Recency is important as products are always evolving.
  • Reviews older than 5 years are not taken into consideration
  • older than 12 months have reduced impact in average ratings in line with their date of publishing.

What are mobile proxy
market leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current mobile proxy market leaders:

Bright Data Proxies & Scrapers logo
Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers logo
NetNut  logo
SOAX logo
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers logo

Which one has collected the most reviews?

AIMultiple uses multiple datapoints in identifying market leaders:

  • Product line revenue (when available)
  • Number of reviews
  • Number of case studies
  • Number and experience of employees
  • Social media presence and engagement
Out of these, number of reviews information is available for all products and is summarized in the graph:

Bright Data Proxies & Scrapers
Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers
NetNut
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers
IPRoyal

What are mobile proxy feature leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current rpa software feature leaders.

Bright Data Proxies & Scrapers logo
Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers logo
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers logo
NetNut  logo
Proxy-Cheap logo

Which one offers the most features?

Bright Data Proxies & Scrapers, Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers, Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers offer the most feature complete products.

See how features are counted.

Bright Data Proxies & Scrapers
2 features
Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers
2 features
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers
2 features
NetNut
2 features
Proxy-Cheap
2 features

What are the most mature mobile proxies?

Which one has the most employees?

Bright Data logo
Oxylabs logo
smartproxy.com logo
NetNut logo
IPRoyal logo

Which mobile proxy companies have the most employees?

55 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 32 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.

In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 8 companies with >10 employees are offering mobile proxies. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 1k employees. The largest company in this domain is Bright Data with more than 1000 employees. Bright Data provides the mobile proxy solution: Bright Data Proxies & Scrapers

Bright Data
Oxylabs
smartproxy.com
NetNut
IPRoyal

Insights

What are the most common words describing mobile proxies?

This data is collected from customer reviews for all mobile proxy companies. The most positive word describing mobile proxies is “Customer support” that is used in 6.00% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Expensive” with which is used in 2% of all the mobile proxy reviews.

What is the average customer size?

According to customer reviews, most common company size for mobile proxy customers is 1-50 Employees. Customers with 1-50 Employees make up 86% of mobile proxy customers. For an average Proxies & scrapers solution, customers with 1-50 Employees make up 89% of total customers.

Where are mobile proxy vendors' HQs located?

What is the level of interest in mobile proxies?

This category was searched on average for 8.8k times per month on search engines in 2024. This number has decreased to 0 in 2025. If we compare with other proxies & scrapers solutions, a typical solution was searched 30.5k times in 2024 and this decreased to 0 in 2025.

Learn more about Mobile Proxies

A mobile proxy is a gateway that assigns users IP addresses from from a pool of mobile internet connections. Mobile IPs are IP addresses of of real mobile devices connected to cellular networks, like 3G or 4G.

Mobile proxies rotate IP addresses frequently, making them less likely to be blocked by websites compared to datacenter proxies. They can be used for a variety of purposes, including:

  • Ad verification: Verify that ads are being displayed correctly across different locations.
  • Managing multiple social media accounts: Assign unique mobile IP for each account.
  • Bypassing geo-restrictions: Overcome geo-restrictions by assigning an mobile IP in the target location.

Mobile proxy receives request from the client and route the connection request through a mobile device that's connected to a cellular network.

The main difference between mobile proxies and other proxy types is the source of IP addresses. Mobile proxies provide IP addresses associated with 3G, 4G, or 5G cellular networks. Residential proxies use IP addresses assigned by ISPs to residential users, while datacenter proxies use IP addresses assigned to servers in data centers.