Best Mobile Proxies for Web Scraping: 2026 Comparison

Bright Data sunset its mobile proxy product for new customers in April 2026. The dedicated product page now 301-redirects, the mobile pricing page returns a 404, and the company's support has confirmed the change (Illusory, April 2026). Most "best mobile proxies for web scraping" articles still list it as the top pick.

This comparison is built on what is actually available to buy in 2026, split by the architecture that matters for scraping: rotating mobile proxies when IP diversity solves the problem, dedicated mobile proxies when target hardness solves it. All pricing is verified against official provider pages in June 2026.

Why Most Mobile Proxy Comparisons Are Outdated

Two recurring problems with the current "best mobile proxies" content. First, most articles still recommend Bright Data mobile, which has been closed to new customers since April 2026. Second, almost none separate rotating from dedicated mobile proxies by use case. They solve different problems.

A rotating proxy server for web scraping works against targets with basic rate limiting. Rotate through carrier IPs, the blocks disappear. Against Cloudflare's managed challenge, Akamai Bot Manager, DataDome, PerimeterX (now HUMAN), or Kasada, pure rotation fails. Those systems check TCP/IP fingerprints, TLS signatures, DNS consistency, and session coherence (ScrapeOps, May 2026, FingerprintJS, 2025). A new IP every 30 seconds reads as more suspicious to those stacks, not less.

There is a third issue almost no comparison covers: protocol depth and AI agent readiness. Every listed provider supports HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5. On networks with active deep packet inspection that flags standard proxy protocols, that is not enough. And as scraping increasingly shifts to autonomous AI agents using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), providers without MCP support cannot plug into the agent stack directly.

Rotating Mobile Proxies: The Volume Tier

Rotating mobile proxies fit when IP diversity solves the problem. SERP scraping, ecommerce price monitoring at scale, lead generation, market research. The target typically uses basic anti-bot that triggers on repeated requests from the same IP.

Bright Data Mobile (Closed to New Customers)

Previously the default recommendation. Country, ASN, and carrier-level targeting on a 7M+ mobile IP pool, pay-per-GB pricing at $9 to $14.40/GB. Since April 2026 the product is sunset for new signups. Existing customers may retain access on legacy contracts; new accounts cannot purchase mobile IPs (AIMultiple, May 2026).

Included here only so readers stop landing on it from outdated listicles.

Oxylabs Mobile

Enterprise-tier rotating mobile proxies with country, state, city, ASN, and coordinate-level targeting. 20M+ mobile IPs across 140+ countries with 2.2M+ US mobile IPs alone (Oxylabs Mobile Proxies).

Pricing starts at $9/GB pay-as-you-go. Monthly tiers run $7.50/GB (Starter, 4GB) and $6.67/GB (Basic, 15GB), dropping to $5.00/GB (Advanced, 100GB) and $3.50/GB at the Corporate tier (715GB, $2,500/month) (Oxylabs mobile proxies pricing).

HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 supported. Payment in cards, wire transfer (USD and EUR), AliPay, and PayPal. Oxylabs explicitly does not accept cryptocurrency. KYC is required. Oxylabs also operates an official MCP server for AI agent integration, but it is positioned at the enterprise tier.

Suited for compliance-heavy enterprise projects where ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, and dedicated account management matter more than cost.

Decodo Mobile (Formerly Smartproxy)

10M+ mobile IPs across 160+ locations with 700+ carriers cited. Currently running 50% off all mobile plans, so the per-GB rates below are promotional. The 50GB plan at $3.00/GB is the most popular option, with the 2GB plan at $3.75/GB and pricing scaling down to $2.75/GB at the 100GB tier; pay-as-you-go runs $4.00/GB (Decodo mobile proxies pricing).

Beyond raw proxy access, Decodo bundles SERP, eCommerce, and Web Scraping APIs that return structured JSON. The Site Unblocker handles anti-bot bypass automatically. An official n8n node is available for no-code AI workflows that scrape, parse, and deliver data in minutes.

HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 supported. Country and city-level targeting. 14-day money-back guarantee on paid plans. Strongest balance of cost and feature depth in the rotating tier for developer-led scraping setups.

Dedicated Mobile Proxies: The Hardened Target Tier

When the target runs Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, PerimeterX, or Kasada, rotating IPs alone are not enough. Dedicated mobile proxies provide a single carrier IP with sticky sessions, consistent carrier parameters, and the kind of connection coherence advanced anti-bot systems expect from a real mobile user.

ProxyEmpire Dedicated Mobile

The standout feature is on-demand IP reset control. A scraping script can send an API call to force the cellular modem to rotate IPs instantly, without contacting support or waiting for a scheduled rotation cycle (ProxyEmpire Dedicated 4G/5G).

Two dedicated mobile packages on the official pricing page:

• USA 5G Mobile Proxies: $250/month with access to all 52 locations in 38 states (Verizon only), instant IP rotation on demand.
• Multi-Country Package: $125/month covering USA (NY, Miami, Texas), Israel, UK, and Austria, with IP rotation on demand 4-5 times per day.

Rotating mobile is available separately. With the current 50% promo, pricing runs $4.50/GB at the 1GB pay-as-you-go tier, $4.17/GB (6GB), $3.75/GB (20GB), $3.34/GB (45GB), $2.96/GB (110GB), and $2.50/GB (300GB) on the Mobile XL plan, down to $2.00/GB at the 1,000GB plan (ProxyEmpire rotating mobile). Regular rates are roughly double without the promo.

HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 supported. Unlimited bandwidth and unlimited concurrent connections on dedicated plans. Carrier targeting (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone). $1.97 trial activates the account with sample residential and mobile bandwidth. Data rollover across all plans.

IPRoyal Dedicated Mobile

Highest raw performance in this category. On 5G, IPRoyal advertises speeds up to 100 Mbps with approximately 0.8 second response times and 99% uptime (IPRoyal Mobile Proxies). Pool of 4.5M+ mobile IPs across 3G, 4G, 5G, and LTE.

Dedicated mobile pricing:

• 24 hours: $10.11/day
• 30 days: $130/month for sustained workflows
• 60 days: $123.50/month
• 90 days: $117/month

Rotating mobile pricing per IPRoyal's official page:

• 2GB: $6.80/GB
• 10GB: $6.00/GB
• 50GB: $5.60/GB
• 100GB: $5.20/GB

No data caps on dedicated, single static port per IP, country, state, city, and named-carrier targeting (Vodafone, Orange, Verizon, T-Mobile). HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 supported. Payment accepted in cards, wire transfer, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and 25+ cryptocurrencies.

Less feature-rich than ProxyEmpire's reset API, but the raw 5G throughput is hard to match for scraping workflows where speed matters more than programmable IP control.

VoidMob: Both Architectures, Full Protocol Stack, MCP-Ready

Every provider above does one thing within a fixed protocol set. VoidMob covers both rotating and dedicated mobile proxies from one dashboard, with a deeper protocol stack than any of them and native support for the agent-era scraping workflows that the rest of the market has not caught up to.

Rotating and Shared Tier

VoidMob's rotating and shared mobile proxies run on real mobile devices with global location coverage. Suited for human-like high-volume scraping where bandwidth and real mobile IP diversity are the constraints. The shared tier has among the lowest restrictions of any provider in this comparison: no KYC, crypto payment accepted.

Sticky or rotating sessions per request with configurable rotation intervals, HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 supported.

Dedicated Tier

The dedicated tier carries three infrastructure features that no other provider in this comparison offers in combination.

Configurable p0f TCP/IP fingerprinting per port, matched to the OS the scraper claims to be. If the scraper sends a Chrome-on-iOS user agent, the TCP stack parameters (TTL, window size, MSS, options order) match iOS. Anti-bot systems run p0f-style passive fingerprinting alongside browser checks, and most setups break here (breakdown of platform proxy detection). No blocked websites for legitimate use beyond a handful of institutional domains like EDU and GOV.

1:1 carrier parameter matching aligns DNS, timezone, and locale per port to the proxy's geolocation. A Verizon New York IP exits with Verizon DNS, America/New_York timezone, and en-US locale.

Carrier-native DNS resolution eliminates DNS leaks that anti-bot systems use to detect proxy traffic (DNS leaks and proxy detection).

Full Protocol Stack

Where every other provider in this comparison supports only HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5, VoidMob's dedicated tier adds:

• VLESS over Xray with REALITY transport, mimicking a real TLS 1.3 handshake to a legitimate domain. Standard SOCKS5 and HTTP CONNECT have recognizable signatures that deep packet inspection flags immediately. REALITY traffic reads as ordinary HTTPS.
• OpenVPN for setups that already standardize on it.
• UDP transport for VLESS, which avoids the TCP head-of-line blocking that hurts throughput on long-running scraping connections and survives DPI focused on TCP-based proxy protocols.

That protocol depth is what makes the dedicated tier work against Cloudflare scraping challenges, Akamai Bot Manager, DataDome, and DPI-heavy regional networks where standard HTTP and SOCKS5 traffic is being inspected before it reaches the target.

MCP Support for AI Agent Scraping

The shift worth flagging in 2026: most production scraping is moving to AI agents. The Model Context Protocol was donated to the Linux Foundation in December 2025 and is now natively supported in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Cursor, with approximately 97 million monthly SDK downloads (ChatForest, April 2026). Pinterest's production deployment alone handles ~66,000 monthly invocations across 844 active users.

Most mobile proxy providers in this comparison do not yet expose MCP servers. Oxylabs offers one at its enterprise tier with the corresponding pricing. VoidMob exposes MCP support across the dedicated tier, which means AI agents using Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client can route scraping requests through carrier-grade mobile infrastructure directly, with the p0f, carrier-native DNS, and protocol options all available through the same interface.

For setups where the scraping pipeline is itself an AI agent rather than a Python or Node script, this changes the integration cost from "build a custom proxy connector for the agent" to "point the agent at the MCP server."

Provider Comparison Table

Pricing verified against each provider's official pricing page in June 2026. Decodo and ProxyEmpire rotating rates reflect active 50% promotions and roughly double once those expire.

Common Scraping Issues and How Architecture Fixes Them

403 errors on Cloudflare-protected targets with rotating proxies. IP rotation alone does not solve this. Cloudflare checks TLS fingerprint, TCP/IP stack parameters, and DNS consistency in parallel with IP reputation. The fix is a dedicated mobile proxy with p0f fingerprint matching and carrier-native DNS.

Session drops during multi-page scraping. Rotating proxies cycle IPs mid-session, which breaks cookie-based auth flows. The fix is a dedicated mobile proxy with sticky sessions. ProxyEmpire, IPRoyal, and VoidMob's dedicated tier all support this.

DNS leaks revealing proxy usage. Most mobile proxy providers route DNS through their own resolvers. Anti-bot systems detect the mismatch between a carrier IP and non-carrier DNS. The fix is carrier-native DNS resolution.

DPI blocking standard proxy protocols. Some networks and targets inspect traffic at the protocol level, and standard SOCKS5 and HTTP CONNECT have recognizable signatures. The fix is VLESS over Xray with REALITY, which mimics legitimate TLS instead of presenting as a proxy protocol.

Plugging proxies into an AI agent pipeline. Building a custom proxy adapter for each agent platform takes engineering time. The fix is MCP, which exposes a standard interface that Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, and other agent clients understand natively.

Before going live against a hardened target, you can verify your proxy configuration is working correctly with the proxy validator.

FAQ

Decision Framework

Start with rotating mobile proxies. If the target uses basic rate limiting and IP-based blocking, rotation alone solves it. Decodo for the best developer cost balance, Oxylabs for compliance-heavy enterprise needs.

When the target runs Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, PerimeterX, or Kasada, or when the scrape requires session continuity across authenticated pages, move to dedicated. ProxyEmpire for on-demand IP reset and lower entry pricing, IPRoyal for raw 5G throughput.

When the pipeline needs both architectures, deeper protocol coverage (VLESS, OpenVPN, UDP), TCP/IP fingerprint coherence end-to-end, or MCP integration for AI agent scraping, VoidMob is the only provider in this comparison covering all of it from one dashboard. The shared tier handles volume with among the lowest restrictions of any provider. The dedicated tier handles hardened targets and agent workflows where everything else falls short.

Wrapping Up

The mobile proxy comparison market changed twice in 2026. Bright Data exited the new-customer mobile market in April, leaving Oxylabs and Decodo as the credible rotating choices and ProxyEmpire and IPRoyal as the dedicated picks. Then the protocol layer started moving as scraping shifted toward AI agents and MCP became the integration standard. VoidMob is the only provider in this comparison that covers both shifts: both architectures, full protocol depth including VLESS over Xray and OpenVPN, p0f TCP/IP fingerprint matching, carrier-native DNS, and native MCP support for agent workflows.

Match the architecture to the target, verify pricing against each provider's official page (since promotional rates change), and pick the protocol depth and MCP readiness the pipeline actually needs.

For the related anti-detection setup that pairs with these proxies, the device fingerprinting guide covers the browser layer.