IPRoyal review (2026): week-long sessions on traffic that keeps

IPRoyal pricing (as of October 2026)

Pay-as-you-go

1 GB $7.35, 2 GB $12.50 ($6.25), 10 GB $55.10 ($5.51), 10 TB+ $1.84/GB¹

Subscriptions

About 5% less: 1 GB $7.00, 10 GB $52.50, 10 TB+ $1.75/GB¹

Minimum

1 GB¹

Expiry

Never¹

Price history

Prices rose after long-running coupons were dropped²

Pay-as-you-go comes in packages: 1 GB for $7.35, 2 GB for $12.50, 10 GB for $55.10, falling to $1.84/GB only at 10 TB and above. Subscriptions shave about 5% off — $52.50 for 10 GB a month¹. We could only confirm those tiers; prices between 10 GB and 10 TB weren’t visible, so our price tables leave those cells blank rather than guess.

Put in context: the median entry price across the market in Proxyway’s 2026 research was $4.00/GB², so IPRoyal’s first gigabyte costs nearly twice the median. At 10 GB, $5.51/GB is more than five times PacketStream’s rate and more than Decodo’s $4.00 pay-as-you-go^3,4. Proxyway now describes IPRoyal as pricier than some premium rivals⁵.

What you get for that is traffic that never expires¹. For a team that buys 10 GB and uses it over six months, that can still beat a cheaper plan whose unused gigabytes vanish every month.

Targeting, protocols and sessions

Targeting

Country, city and ISP¹

Protocols

HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 (TCP only)¹

Sticky sessions

Up to 7 days¹

Sessions can be set up to seven days, and the network gives you a new IP after a disconnect unless you ask for a strict session^1,5. For comparison, Decodo and Oxylabs stop at 24 hours, Evomi at 120 minutes, and PacketStream’s sessions run on a rolling 60-minute idle timeout^6,7,8,9. Proxyway reports SOAX also allows up to a week, but SOAX credits expire after 60 days^10,11.

Targeting covers country, city and ISP; SOCKS5 is supported over TCP only, so UDP-based tools are out¹. Some ports, PayPal payments and some target domains are locked until you complete KYC⁵.

A long session is only as stable as the home connection behind it. Residential peers go offline — people turn off routers and computers — so a seven-day maximum is a ceiling, not a promise. Design multi-day flows to survive an IP change.

Sourcing, KYC and trust

Pool

Claims 64M+; Proxyway measured 2,330,578 unique IPs from 3.6M requests⁵

KYC

To unlock more ports, PayPal payments and some domains⁵

Reviews

Trustpilot shows the rating as unavailable “due to a breach of our guidelines” and says it removed fake reviews¹²

Support

24/7⁵

IPRoyal claims more than 64 million IPs; Proxyway counted 2,330,578 unique IPs from 3.6 million requests in April 2026⁵. Support runs 24/7⁵. KYC isn’t required to start, but unlocks more ports, PayPal and some domains.

One reputational flag: Trustpilot currently shows IPRoyal’s rating as “unavailable due to a breach of our guidelines” and says it removed a number of fake reviews for the company¹². That says nothing about the network’s performance, but it does mean you can’t use IPRoyal’s user rating as evidence either way.

Independent performance evidence

Proxyway described IPRoyal’s success as having fallen, and the April 2026 numbers bear that out: 96.11% is the lowest success rate among the seven providers here in that round, and the 4.13 s 95th-percentile response means one request in twenty took longer than four seconds⁵. That tail matters more for long sessions, where you can’t simply rotate away from a slow peer.

Third-party figures are snapshots from the stated date, on the tester’s targets and setup; see our methodology for how we use each source.

Pros and cons

Who should pick IPRoyal — and who shouldn’t

Pick it if

• You need one IP for hours or days — multi-step checkouts, logged-in sessions, slow crawls.
• You buy traffic occasionally and want it to keep indefinitely.
• You prefer pay-as-you-go to a subscription.

Skip it if

• You need mostly rotating traffic at low cost — Evomi, PacketStream and Rayobyte are far cheaper.
• A day-long session is enough; Decodo tested faster and more reliably.
• You need SOCKS5 over UDP¹.

Alternatives to IPRoyal

• SOAX review — sessions up to a week per Proxyway and better April 2026 results — but credits expire after 60 days.
• Decodo review — 24-hour sessions with faster measured responses.
• Rayobyte review — also non-expiring (per Proxyway), much cheaper per GB, shorter sessions.

For the full picture, see the best residential proxies by use case, the price-per-GB tables and our index of all eleven reviews.