Rayobyte review (2026): cheap terabytes, a no-card trial, and a slow network

Rayobyte pricing (as of October 2026)

Pay-as-you-go

$3.50/GB (1–49 GB), $2.00 (50–249), $1.50 (250–999), $0.70 (1–5 TB)¹

Enterprise

From $0.50/GB, by quote¹

Minimum

1 GB¹

Expiry

Not stated on the pricing page; Proxyway says “the traffic never expires”²

Free trial

On self-serve products, no card required¹

Not comparable

A separate “Scale” product ($100/month for 6,600 GB) has no targeting and no SOCKS5; we don’t compare it per GB¹

Reading the staircase

The tiers are set by how much you buy, so it can pay to round up. Forty gigabytes at $3.50 costs $140; fifty at $2.00 costs $100. Likewise 900 GB at $1.50 is $1,350, while a full terabyte at $0.70 is $700. Rayobyte’s pricing page doesn’t say whether purchased traffic expires, but Proxyway reports that it never does² — if that holds, buying up to the next tier costs you nothing but cash flow. Confirm it with Rayobyte before buying a terabyte you won’t use this month.

Above 5 TB, Enterprise pricing starts at $0.50/GB by quote¹. Rayobyte also sells a product called “Scale” at $100 a month for 6,600 GB. It has no targeting and no SOCKS5, so it isn’t comparable with the per-GB residential prices on this site and we leave it out of our comparisons¹.

For comparison at 1 TB: Evomi charges $790 pay-as-you-go (or about $490 on its monthly plan), PacketStream $1,000, Webshare $1,500 and Oxylabs $2,500^3,4,5,6. Our price-per-GB tables run the same sums at five volumes.

Targeting, protocols and sessions

Targeting

Country, city, ZIP, ASN and OS¹

Protocols

HTTP(S), SOCKS5, UDP and HTTP/3¹

Sticky sessions

120 minutes per Rayobyte’s pricing information; Proxyway’s review says “up to 60 min”^1,2

Targeting is deeper than the price suggests: country, city, ZIP, ASN and operating system, with HTTP(S), SOCKS5, UDP and HTTP/3 support¹. Among the budget options here, Rayobyte is the one that lists ZIP and ASN targeting alongside its standard per-GB rates: Evomi’s ASN targeting uses 4× the traffic⁷, and Proxy-Cheap’s targeting isn’t confirmed.

Sources disagree on session length. Rayobyte’s pricing information lists sticky sessions of up to 120 minutes, while Proxyway’s review says “up to 60 min”^1,2. If your workflow needs more than an hour on one IP, test it before you rely on it.

Proxyway also found two dashboards and messy documentation² — a usability cost rather than a technical one, but it adds to set-up time.

Sourcing, KYC and trust

Sourcing claim

“50M+ opted-in devices” per month¹

Measured pool

1,887,661 unique IPs over 3.6M requests²

KYC

Required for residential, via SumSub²

Default blocks

Financial institutions, login pages, mailing and API endpoints; access by request²

Rayobyte says its residential network draws on more than 50 million opted-in devices a month¹. We found no independent rating of that claim, but the company does vet customers: residential access requires KYC through SumSub, a third-party identity service².

It also blocks some categories by default — financial institutions, login pages, mailing and API endpoints — and unblocks them through a documented approval process². For a scraper of public pages that changes nothing. For anyone whose workflow touches logins, it adds a step and a conversation with Rayobyte about why.

Independent performance evidence

The weak spot is speed. A 1.86 s average for a 6 KB page was the slowest of the seven providers here that Proxyway tested in April 2026; Decodo averaged 0.53 s and Oxylabs 0.60 s in the same round^2,8,9. Success, at 98.02%, is fine. For bulk collection where throughput comes from concurrency rather than single-request latency, slow responses matter less; for anything interactive, they matter a lot.

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 Rayobyte — and who shouldn’t

Pick it if

• You want to try residential proxies without a card, then buy a single gigabyte for $3.50¹.
• You buy a terabyte or more at a time and don’t want a monthly subscription.
• You need ZIP, ASN or OS targeting at a budget price.
• You’re comfortable completing an ID check.

Skip it if

• Latency matters — Decodo was more than three times faster in testing.
• You can’t or won’t complete KYC; Webshare and Decodo don’t require it upfront^10,8.
• You buy under 50 GB at a time and only need city targeting — Evomi is cheaper.

Alternatives to Rayobyte

• Evomi review — cheaper below a terabyte, with city targeting included.
• Decodo review — much faster in the same April 2026 test round.
• Webshare review — no KYC unless flagged, if a monthly subscription suits you.

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