[Best proxy sites?] Oxylabs vs Bright data vs IPRoyal comparison. What should I try first?

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Hey folks. This is my first journey into paying for enterprise residential proxy plans for data scraping as a side gig. What’s considered the gold standard proxies these days? My current vendor only provides data center proxies and those get flagged up every few days.

What do you all suggest I battle test first?

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I prefer Oxylabs to be honest, found them to be more ethical :smiley: If you google the lawsuits all of these proxy providers have, I think that Oxylabs comes out on top with their transparency and such.

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I can help with this

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This tool can help you decide in terms of pricing: https://compareproxy.com

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What’s important to you? Pool size? Response time? Success rate? Do you have a list of criteria in mind to evaluate providers?

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I think you should try iproyal first, cuz it’s affordable. Maybe to get a hang of it.
And if you wanna check my post about the top proxy providers compared, just go here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivatePackets/comments/1g4sd2e/proxy_wars_2024_best_providers_for_web_scraping/

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What was the reason everyone voted for Bright Data?

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i strongly recommend alertproxies.com - 2.5$/GB residential and i think they have dedicated isps for like 4$/ip its some crazy prices haha

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I came accross a while ago that made me go for iproyal : https://www.reddit.com/r/bestwebproxies/comments/1i9lekw/why_iproyal_is_the_best_web_residential_proxy/

I hope its helpful !

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Hi, pls cam you help with the link to Dutaproxy? Can’t seem to find anything on Google

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Another reddit post was mentioning this about OxyLabs:

"From what I can gather from their whitepaper, they get residential ips for their proxies by enrolling users into a proxy network, akin to how HolaVPN used your ip in its network. However, HolaVPN was caught using its network for a botnet, which isn’t ideal. It’s not unreasonable that Hola and Oxylabs are doing the same thing since Oxylabs infringed on Hola’s patents.

By using oxylabs, you’re probably going to pool your IP into their network, while you get access to someone else’s residential IP. I don’t imagine you’re going to be doing anything illegal, but there is a very real possibility of someone using YOUR IP for quite nefarious activities. I don’t think you’d want the authorities to show up to your household while you have to explain to police that it was not you."

So now I’m second guessing