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Best 4G/5G/LTE Mobile Proxy Providers (2026): 8 Compared

Updated September 19, 2026. Prices, limits and features were read from each provider's own pages on that date. Performance figures come from Proxyway's independent 2026 benchmark and are labeled as such. Nothing here comes from hands-on testing by the author, and no customer reviews are quoted or invented.

Three radio labels, one product. That is the 4G/5G/LTE mobile proxy market in a sentence: a carrier-assigned IP address, rented by the gigabyte or by the modem, with "4G", "5G" and "LTE" printed on the box largely for the benefit of search engines. The labels matter less than the plumbing. Where the IP is sourced, which carrier's ASN it lands on, how long a sticky session survives when your script pauses for a minute, and what a gigabyte costs once the launch promotion lapses: those four things decide whether a plan works.

The short verdict. Decodo is the safest pooled pick for most US work. Oxylabs earns its premium if you need coordinate-level targeting and 24-hour sessions. DataImpulse is the cheapest by a distance, with a pool-quality caveat worth checking before you commit. For a private line, ProxyEmpire's Verizon 5G package and IPRoyal's day rentals are the most transparent offers. One name from older roundups is missing on purpose: Bright Data stopped selling mobile proxies to new customers in 2026.

Best 4G/5G/LTE mobile proxies at a glance

Entry prices are as read on September 19, 2026.

• Decodo: shared pool, billed per GB. Best for balanced price and speed. City and ASN targeting across 700-plus carriers. Entry: $4/GB pay-as-you-go, or $3.75/GB on the 2 GB plan (50% promotion).
• Oxylabs: shared pool, monthly tiers. Best for scale, deep targeting and 24-hour sessions. State, city, coordinate and ASN targeting. Entry: $30 for 4 GB ($7.50/GB).
• SOAX: shared pool, credits shared with residential. Best for one balance across both networks. Country, region, city and ISP targeting. Entry: free Sandbox at $5/GB for US traffic; $3/GB on Builder ($200/month).
• DataImpulse: shared pool, pay-as-you-go. Best for the lowest price. Country targeting free; state, city, ZIP and ASN cost extra. Entry: $2/GB, $5 minimum purchase.
• NodeMaven: shared pool bundled with residential. Best for mixed residential and mobile workloads. Country, region, city and ISP targeting; ZIP on selected plans. Entry: $3.50 paid trial (750 MB); "from $2.20/GB" advertised.
• IPRoyal: pool per GB, plus dedicated devices. Best for renting a private line by the day. T-Mobile and Verizon shown for the US. Entry: $6.80/GB at 2 GB; dedicated from $10.11/day.
• ProxyEmpire: dedicated modem. Best for US Verizon 5G and long sessions. Verizon only, 50 US locations. Entry: $250/month for US 5G; $125/month multi-country.
• Proxy-Seller: per-IP rental, shared or dedicated. Best for short rentals with named carriers. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. Entry: from $10 per IP per week.

What a 4G/5G/LTE mobile proxy is (and what it isn't)

A mobile proxy relays your traffic so that the destination sees an address handed out by a cellular carrier such as Verizon, T-Mobile or AT&T, not one leased to a hosting company. Carriers ration IPv4 space with carrier-grade NAT (CGNAT), so a single public address fronts a crowd of real subscribers at once. Block one and you strand paying customers. That asymmetry is why anti-bot systems treat carrier ranges gently, and it is the whole commercial logic of the product.

Here is the part that vendor pages blur. "Mobile proxy" covers two physically different supply chains. Proxyway, the proxy-review site that runs an annual benchmark, separates mobile networks that are crowdsourced from real people's phones from networks assembled out of SIM-card farms. Almost every shared pool in this article is the first kind: IPs surfaced by apps and SDKs running on consumer devices. Dedicated products such as ProxyEmpire's packages are the second kind, a modem with a SIM in a rack. Proxyway noted in 2026 that the large providers still stay away from SIM farms, while Proxidize and Rayobyte have started packaging them as cheap rotating pools.

The distinction changes what you can expect. Phones go offline. Modems don't, though they sit on one carrier. And a vendor's own FAQ may be franker than its headline: Proxy-Seller says its mobile IPs are carrier addresses, not necessarily addresses from an actual SIM card.

4G vs LTE vs 5G: what the label buys you

The naming mess predates proxies by fifteen years.

In October 2010 the ITU announced that LTE-Advanced and WirelessMAN-Advanced met the IMT-Advanced requirements, which made them "true 4G" in its wording. The original LTE, standardized in 3GPP Release 8, sat outside that club; ITU-R documents of the period filed it under IMT-2000, the 3G family. Two months later the ITU relaxed. It said "4G" was undefined and could reasonably be applied to LTE and WiMAX, and to evolved 3G such as HSPA+, as long as they delivered a substantial improvement over the first 3G systems. Carriers had already jumped: Verizon was advertising LTE as 4G, T-Mobile was doing the same with HSPA+. LTE-Advanced followed in March 2011 as 3GPP Release 10.

So a modern "4G LTE" connection is usually LTE or LTE-Advanced sold under the 4G label, and the proxy trade inherited the confusion wholesale. Here is how vendors describe it:

• Oxylabs puts LTE between 3G and 4G, says LTE-Advanced can match 4G performance, and calls 5G the fastest. That is the closest to the standards history.
• Geonix calls LTE a technical designation for 4G networks that may run slightly slower than modern 4G or 5G. Same product, small caveat.
• NodeMaven says a "4G proxy" means a mobile proxy on 4G/LTE, with "mobile proxy" as the umbrella for 3G, 4G and 5G. In effect, 4G and LTE are one product.
• mobileproxies.org says LTE, 4G and 5G IPs all sit behind CGNAT, so anti-bot systems treat them alike and generation mostly changes speed. The trust signal is unchanged.
• Proxy-Seller recommends 4G for steady automation, 5G for high volume and latency-sensitive flows, and LTE for long-running sessions. That reads as sales positioning.
• IPRoyal says a specific generation simply gives better speed, connectivity or reliability. Performance, not identity.

For buying purposes, yes. Treat "4G", "LTE" and "4G LTE" as one product line. The radio generation changes throughput and latency. It does not change the thing an anti-bot system reads, which is the IP, its ASN and the network behavior around it.

Only where bandwidth or latency is the bottleneck: heavy pages, bulk downloads, real-time checks. For logins, ad checks and light scraping, the pool's IP quality matters far more than the radio. No provider page read for this article publishes a like-for-like test of its 4G exit against its 5G exit, so any claimed multiple should be treated as marketing until you measure it yourself.

Three questions cut through the labels. Can you choose the generation, or does the pool pick it for you? (Proxy-Seller says you choose; NodeMaven says its system serves the fastest connection available in each location; most other product pages don't say.) Which carrier and ASN does your exit IP actually belong to? And is the quoted speed measured at the proxy gateway, or is it the hardware's theoretical ceiling? IPRoyal's "up to 100 Mbps" is the second kind of number.

Shared pool or dedicated modem

A pool sells you access to many IPs by the gigabyte. A dedicated line sells you one device for a period of time.

Pools win on variety. In Proxyway's 2026 test, Oxylabs returned 1,192,449 unique mobile IPs from 1.2 million requests, and Decodo was close behind, with more than 95% of requests landing on a never-before-seen address. Dedicated modems win on continuity: one IP for hours, reset on your command, with your session history staying yours.

Session behavior deserves more scrutiny than it gets. Sticky is a request, not a promise. Proxyway's session data shows Oxylabs and Decodo mobile sessions running from 1 minute to 24 hours, with a default of 10 minutes, and both rotate automatically after 60 seconds of inactivity. A script that idles for a minute between steps can lose its IP mid-flow. SOAX caps mobile sessions at 60 minutes (its pricing page states the one-hour maximum) and defaults to a 15-minute inactivity threshold you can change. DataImpulse allows up to 120 minutes.

Dedicated packages come with their own fine print. ProxyEmpire's US 5G line resets on demand, while its multi-country line resets only four or five times a day. IPRoyal's dedicated proxies allow unlimited concurrent sessions but cap traffic at 30 GB per proxy per day. Both describe "unlimited" bandwidth as subject to carrier fair-use rules.

Mobile vs residential vs datacenter proxies

The mobile premium has narrowed. Proxyway's spring 2026 pricing data puts the median mobile rate at $4.38/GB for 5 GB, against $3.75/GB for residential; at 500 GB it is $2.48 against $2.25. Some mobile pools now undercut residential outright, after Rayobyte cut mobile rates by up to 98% and Proxidize and Proxyrack moved below $2/GB.

Three sets of numbers from Proxyway's 2026 data frame the choice. On the hard-target test, median success was 75.26% for mobile, 74.43% for residential and 57.46% for datacenter. The best individual results were 85.31% (DataImpulse, mobile), 81.23% (Byteful, residential) and 79.84% (Webshare, datacenter). Mobile and residential were tested on Amazon, Google and Instagram; datacenter on Amazon and Google only. On price, the median rate at 50 GB was $3.50/GB for mobile, $3.00 for residential and $0.54 for datacenter. And the source differs: mobile IPs come from a carrier network behind CGNAT, residential IPs from home ISPs, datacenter IPs from cloud or hosting ranges.

Read the success figures with care. At best, Proxyway found mobile proxies succeeded about 5% more often than residential ones on hard targets; at worst, the two performed the same. Mobile IPs are not a magic key. They are a modest edge that costs a modest premium.

How these providers were compared

This is desk research, not a lab report. Each provider's pricing, session limits, targeting and trial terms were read from its own pages on September 19, 2026. Independent performance data comes from Proxyway's Proxy Market Research 2026, published June 30, 2026, whose data was mostly collected in March and April 2026 and which benchmarks 13 providers. Where the two disagree, the provider's live page wins for prices and Proxyway wins for performance.

A warning about those performance numbers. Vendor success rates such as 99.75% or 99.95% usually describe infrastructure: can you connect to a small, unprotected page? Proxyway's own infrastructure test fetches a roughly 6 KB page from a global CDN that does not block requests. Its separate test against Amazon, Google and Instagram gives a very different picture: a median of 75.26% for mobile, and a best of 85.31%. Proxyway itself cautions that the second test has many variables and is only useful for comparing providers under identical conditions.

Providers were shortlisted by how often they appear across published comparisons and by whether their own product pages use the 4G/5G/LTE wording. Bright Data was excluded because it no longer sells the product (see below). Several strong names in Proxyway's data, including Evomi and Byteful, were left out because their current plan pages were not verified for this article.

Best 4G/5G/LTE mobile proxy providers in 2026

Twenty million IPs across 140-plus countries is the headline, but the detail that separates Oxylabs is targeting: continent, country, state, city, coordinates and ASN, all included at no extra fee. Sticky sessions run to 24 hours, and the protocol list covers HTTP(S), HTTP/3 and SOCKS5, with unlimited concurrent sessions.

Pricing is monthly only. A 4 GB plan costs $30 ($7.50/GB), 15 GB costs $100 ($6.67/GB), 100 GB costs $500 ($5/GB) and 715 GB costs $2,500 ($3.50/GB). Proxyway records that Oxylabs dropped pay-as-you-go, which is why older roundups still quoting $9/GB are out of date. The free trial is a form for business users, and it can only be used once.

In Proxyway's benchmark Oxylabs posted the best global mobile infrastructure success rate (99.84%) at 0.76 seconds, with 99.49% of its US IPs tagged as mobile by IP2Location. Proxyway also lists its sourcing partners as Honeygain, JumpTask and an SDK, and the company holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification.

Two flags. The product page gives two US pool sizes, 2,214,912 in its FAQ and 4,429,824 in its location list, and the second is exactly double the first, which suggests one of them is stale. And the entry tier is the priciest per gigabyte in this group.

Best for: teams that need coordinate or ASN targeting and long sessions, and can pay for it.

Formerly Smartproxy (renamed in April 2025), Decodo is the value play among the established names. Its page claims 10 million IPs from 700-plus carriers across 160-plus locations, supports HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, and includes city and ASN targeting at no extra charge.

The plan ladder reads: 2 GB at $3.75/GB, 8 GB at $3.50, 25 GB at $3.25, 50 GB at $3.00, 100 GB at $2.75, and pay-as-you-go at $4/GB. Every one of those is a 50% launch discount; list prices are double. There is a 14-day money-back window, and Decodo's purchase page advertises a three-day free trial. Orders are processed through Paddle as merchant of record. The "from $2.25/GB" banner belongs to the enterprise tab.

Measured performance is the reason to shortlist it. Proxyway clocked 99.75% infrastructure success at 0.74 seconds, the most unique US IPs of any provider (152,424 from 280,000 requests), and the quickest response on the Amazon, Google and Instagram test (2.71 seconds). Decodo's own claim of under 0.5 seconds sits well below the 0.74-second measurement. Sticky sessions run from 1 minute to 24 hours, with the same 60-second idle rotation as Oxylabs. Proxyway also noted that Decodo removed its OS filter.

Best for: most US pooled workloads where price and speed both matter.

One credit balance covers residential and mobile traffic, which is the point. SOAX advertises 33 million-plus mobile IPs (its developer docs say 30 million-plus), and its docs name Verizon, AT&T and Deutsche Telekom among the carriers.

The pricing page was rebuilt this year and it changes the math. Cost per gigabyte depends on the country tier, and the United States sits in the most expensive one. Sandbox is free, with US traffic at $5.00/GB. Builder ($200/month) drops it to $3.00, Team ($500) to $2.20, Scale ($1,500) to $1.50 and Enterprise ($3,000) to $0.85. The site's own calculator prices 100 GB of US traffic at $300 on Builder. Country, region, city and ISP targeting come on every plan; ASN and ZIP arrive at Scale.

Proxyway measured 99.74% infrastructure success at 0.92 seconds, and SOAX had the best mobile-IP purity for US traffic (99.98% tagged mobile). One quirk to plan for: SOAX hands out IPs near the requester's own location even with no filters applied, so test from the region where your servers will run. Also note that its mobile page still mentions a $1.99 test while the new pricing page lists a free Sandbox plan. Confirm which one applies.

Best for: teams that mix residential and mobile work and want a single bill.

Two dollars a gigabyte, traffic that never expires, and a $5 minimum. That is the entire pitch, and it holds up. The provider advertises 16 million-plus carrier IPs in 195 countries, sticky sessions up to 120 minutes, HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, and free country targeting. State, city, ZIP and ASN filters cost extra; Proxyway says the surcharge doubles the price. The $5 trial buys 2.5 GB at the mobile rate. (The "5 GB for $5" figure some reviews quote matches the $1/GB residential rate, not the mobile one.)

The performance story is odd in a good way. DataImpulse posted the best success rate on Proxyway's hard-target test at 85.31%, and it was one of the few providers to open Google at a decent rate. Its infrastructure numbers are ordinary: 99.69% success at 1.00 second.

Now the catch. In Proxyway's IP2Location check, only 78.36% of DataImpulse's mobile IPs averaged out as mobile across all tested locations. The US pool was better at 95.78%, but Brazil managed 29.69%. Proxyway speculates that some providers count any phone-sourced IP as mobile, even when the phone was on another network. The company sources through an SDK and a bandwidth-sharing app. If your work depends on exits that read as carrier ranges, run an ASN check on a sample first.

Best for: budget-driven work where you can verify the US exit ASN before scaling.

NodeMaven doesn't sell mobile on its own. AIMultiple's July 2026 review notes that mobile addresses come bundled into the same per-gigabyte plans as residential ones, with no separate mobile package. The plan page lists 30 million-plus residential IPs next to a mobile pool of about 295,000, and a July 2026 third-party review says 250,000-plus. That pool is small beside the residential one. Its title tag uses the exact phrase 4G/5G/LTE mobile proxy, and Proxyway's coverage points to it coming from the makers of the Multilogin browser.

Sessions can be set from one minute to 24 hours, and a "super sticky" option keeps an IP for as long as it stays available; AIMultiple advises validating retention in a pilot for anything beyond 24 hours. Pricing is layered: a $3.50 paid trial with 750 MB, a "from $2.20/GB" headline, and on the plan page read for this article a 40 GB monthly tier at $3.45/GB after a 20% discount (list $4.31) and pay-as-you-go at $4.10/GB (list $5.13). Targeting covers country, region, city and ISP, with ZIP on selected plans. NodeMaven claims a 99.54% success rate and sub-0.6-second speed. Proxyway tested it separately from its main mobile benchmark, so those figures are unverified here.

One thing to confirm with sales: the plan page lists roughly 295,000 mobile IPs, yet a location list on the same page showed 299,783 for the United States alone. The numbers don't reconcile, so ask for a current mobile count.

Best for: workloads that switch between residential and mobile and want shared traffic across both.

Two products live under one banner. The rotating pool is priced per gigabyte, from $6.80/GB at 2 GB down to $5.20/GB at 100 GB. The dedicated product rents a device: $10.11 for 24 hours, $130 for 30 days, $123.50 per month on 60-day terms, $117 per month on 90-day terms. Dedicated lines allow unlimited concurrent sessions and cap traffic at 30 GB per proxy per day.

There is no free trial. IPRoyal offers a replacement or refund within 24 hours of purchase, with different terms for rotating and dedicated plans, and it recommends its one-day rental for testing. The mobile page lists T-Mobile and Verizon beside a US count of 520,886 IPs, claims about 0.8 seconds of response time, 99% uptime and speeds up to 100 Mbps, and supports HTTP(S) and SOCKS5.

Mixed signals to reconcile: its dedicated US page says it sells only dedicated IPs, but the main mobile page sells both; and the FAQ cites "over 1.5 million" US carrier options against the 520,886 shown on the location list. Proxyway did not test IPRoyal's mobile network in 2026, so no independent performance data exists in this article.

Best for: auditioning a dedicated modem for the price of a lunch.

ProxyEmpire's dedicated page (updated September 17, 2026) sells two packages. The USA 5G package costs $250 per month, runs on Verizon only, offers 50 US locations and resets on demand. The multi-country package costs $125 per month and covers three US locations plus the United Kingdom, Austria and Israel, with resets four to five times a day. Both include unlimited bandwidth under carrier fair use, and HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 and HTTP/2. The company says its devices are hardware it operates, and it is candid that they are built for long sessions rather than extreme volume.

It also runs a rotating mobile pool. In Proxyway's data, ProxyEmpire priced that pool at $4.50/GB for 5 GB and $3.34/GB at 50 to 100 GB, roughly half the year-earlier rates, with 96.02% of US IPs tagged mobile, a 1 to 120 minute session range and a $1.97 trial for 100 MB. Those pool prices are from spring 2026 and were not re-verified.

The trade-off is concentration. The US 5G package puts every request on a single carrier.

Best for: long, steady US sessions where one Verizon identity is acceptable.

Proxy-Seller rents mobile IPs one at a time. Shared access starts at $10 per IP with a minimum of one IP for one week, and the order form lets you choose dedicated or shared, location, carrier, rotation (by link, every 5 minutes or every 30 minutes) and order length. The catalog names AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone, Jio and Orange across 20 countries. Speed is shown as 5 to 30 Mbit/s, bandwidth as unlimited under carrier fair use, and targeting stops at country and carrier.

There is no standard free trial, though enterprise teams can request a proof of concept. The company holds ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications and says it checks that your stated purpose of use is correct before delivery. Its 99.5% success rate and 99.7% uptime are vendor claims; Proxyway's mobile test did not include Proxy-Seller.

Best for: short rentals where you need AT&T named on the product page.

Bright Data was the default recommendation in this category for years, and several 2025 and early 2026 roundups still list it with 7 million mobile IPs. Proxyway's 2026 report says the company discontinued its mobile proxy product in April 2026, citing Bright Data's own documentation. TechRadar's Bright Data review, dated August 13, 2026, says existing users with an active mobile proxy can keep it, while the service is unavailable to new sign-ups and inactive accounts. Any article still selling Bright Data mobile plans to new customers is out of date.

Proxyway's 2026 benchmark flags Evomi for the best US mobile infrastructure success (99.95%) and the fastest US response (0.41 seconds), and Byteful for the fastest global mobile response (0.48 seconds). Proxidize and Rayobyte sell SIM-farm-based pools. None were verified against live plan pages for this article.

4G/5G/LTE mobile proxy pricing compared

Prices in this market moved fast. Proxyway's year-over-year rate data shows Decodo's and ProxyEmpire's mobile rates at 50% of the previous year's, and Oxylabs at 67% to 83%. Oxylabs and SOAX have both removed pay-as-you-go from mobile, which pushes the minimum spend up. Promotional pricing also blurs the picture: Decodo's every listed rate is a half-off offer.

Here is what 100 GB of US mobile traffic costs on published plans:

• DataImpulse: $200 ($2.00/GB). Country targeting only; filters cost extra.
• Decodo: $275 ($2.75/GB). A 50% promotion; list is $550.
• SOAX: $300 ($3.00/GB). Builder plan plus $100 of extra credits; the US is the top price tier.
• ProxyEmpire (pool): about $334 ($3.34/GB). From Proxyway, spring 2026; not re-verified.
• Oxylabs: $500 ($5.00/GB). Advanced plan.
• IPRoyal (rotating): $520 ($5.20/GB). 100 GB tier.
• NodeMaven: not listed at 100 GB; its 40 GB monthly plan is $138 ($3.45/GB).

Then there is the other billing model: flat rent for one device. Simple division shows when it pays off. The break-even volume is the monthly price divided by the pooled per-gigabyte rate.

• ProxyEmpire USA 5G ($250/month): pays off at about 125 GB a month against a $2/GB pool, 83 GB against $3/GB, and 50 GB against $5/GB.
• IPRoyal 30-day dedicated ($130/month): about 65 GB against $2/GB, 43 GB against $3/GB, and 26 GB against $5/GB.

Two limits on that arithmetic. A single modem carries one identity, so it only replaces a pool if your job fits through one IP; and IPRoyal's 30 GB daily cap means about 900 GB is the theoretical monthly ceiling. Volume alone doesn't settle it.

US coverage: carriers, states and cities

The carriers you can name differ sharply between vendors, and the differences are easy to miss because every page says "real carrier IPs".

• Proxy-Seller: names AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. Location controls: country and carrier.
• IPRoyal: shows T-Mobile and Verizon beside its US IP count. Controls: state, city and carrier on the rotating pool.
• ProxyEmpire: Verizon only, on the USA 5G package, across 50 US locations.
• SOAX: developer docs name Verizon and AT&T. Country, region, city and ISP on every plan; ASN and ZIP from Scale.
• Decodo: 700-plus carriers, none named for the US. City and ASN targeting; ZIP and state per Proxyway.
• Oxylabs: targets by ASN rather than carrier name. State, city, coordinates and ASN.
• NodeMaven: T-Mobile mentioned in its FAQ. Region, city and ISP; ZIP on selected plans.
• DataImpulse: no US carriers named. Country free; state, city, ZIP and ASN paid.

Proxyway's US-filtered mobile test used 280,000 requests per provider. Decodo returned the most unique IPs (152,424), Evomi posted the best US success (99.95%) and the US median sat at 98.79%. On purity, SOAX tagged 99.98% of US IPs as mobile, Oxylabs 99.49%, Decodo 99.39%, ProxyEmpire 96.02% and DataImpulse 95.78%.

For a US-only job the practical order of questions is: which carrier, which state or city, and can filters be combined? ASN targeting is the closest proxy for carrier choice on Oxylabs and Decodo. Pool depth per carrier is rarely published, so ask for it.

Best mobile proxy by use case

• Ad verification and app QA: carrier realism and city targeting matter more than price. Oxylabs and Decodo cover both, and ProxyEmpire's dedicated line suits multi-step QA flows that must keep one IP.
• SERP and price monitoring: high volume across many IPs favors a pool. DataImpulse and Decodo are the low-cost options, with the caveat that Proxyway's Google results were weak across the board.
• Multi-account and social media management: use a proxy only within each platform's terms. IPRoyal's own FAQ concedes that mismanaged accounts get banned whatever the IP, and no vendor can guarantee otherwise. Sticky sessions and dedicated lines fit this work; per-request rotation does not.
• Mixed residential and mobile pipelines: SOAX and NodeMaven let one balance serve both networks.

How to test a mobile proxy before you commit

The audition is cheap. DataImpulse's trial is $5, ProxyEmpire's is $1.97, NodeMaven's is $3.50, IPRoyal's day rental is $10.11 and Decodo offers a free three-day trial: roughly $20 to $23 across five providers, depending on whether SOAX's $1.99 test still applies. Oxylabs' trial requires a business request.

Run the same checklist on each:

1. ASN lookup. The exit IP should belong to a mobile network operator, not a hosting or cloud range. NodeMaven, SOAX and IPRoyal publish free IP lookup tools.
2. Test from your real server region. SOAX and Oxylabs bias IPs toward the requester's location, so a laptop test can mislead.
3. Send about 100 requests at your actual target. Infrastructure success rates say little about how an anti-bot system treats you.
4. Hold a sticky session past its idle window. Pause for 90 seconds and see whether the IP survives. On Oxylabs and Decodo, the default rotation after 60 seconds of idleness means it may not.
5. Check leaks and fingerprints. DNS and WebRTC leak tests are free on NodeMaven and IPRoyal, and IPRoyal offers a TCP/IP fingerprint checker.
6. Read the refund window before paying. IPRoyal gives 24 hours, Oxylabs three days, Decodo 14 days.

Are 4G/5G/LTE mobile proxies legal?

The tool is lawful in most places; the use is what matters. Oxylabs tells customers to get legal advice for their situation. NodeMaven's terms, as summarized by AIMultiple, make customers responsible for everything done through their accounts, API keys, sub-users and scripts. Proxy-Seller says your use must comply with applicable law, target-site terms and privacy obligations, and it asks for your purpose before delivering credentials. Oxylabs, SOAX and IPRoyal each publish a KYC policy, and SOAX gates postpaid billing behind business verification.

Sourcing is the other risk. Proxyway's 2026 report documents botnets that monetized infected devices through residential proxy SDKs, describes Google's action against a dozen IPidea-linked proxy brands, and cites a 2026 FBI alert about devices being drafted into residential proxy networks. Some vendors now require KYC before granting ASN targeting. Buy from a provider that explains how its IPs are sourced. This article is not legal advice.

FAQ

What is the difference between 4G, LTE and 5G mobile proxies?
In practice, 4G and LTE are the same product line, since most "4G" networks run LTE or LTE-Advanced. 5G is newer and can be faster where coverage exists. Generation changes speed and latency; the trust signal comes from the carrier IP and CGNAT, which all three share.

Is a 5G proxy faster than a 4G one?
It can be, in covered areas, but no provider page read for this article publishes a direct comparison. Measure latency on your own target before paying extra.

Are shared mobile proxy pools made from SIM cards?
Usually not. Most shared pools are crowdsourced from real phones through apps and SDKs. SIM-card modem farms mostly power dedicated products, though Proxidize and Rayobyte now sell farm-based pools.

How long can a sticky mobile session last?
Published maximums: Oxylabs and Decodo up to 24 hours, NodeMaven up to 24 hours, DataImpulse 120 minutes, SOAX 60 minutes. Oxylabs and Decodo rotate after 60 seconds of inactivity by default, per Proxyway.

How much does a 4G/5G/LTE mobile proxy cost in 2026?
Pooled entry rates range from about $2/GB (DataImpulse) to $7.50/GB (Oxylabs' smallest plan). Dedicated lines run from $10.11 per day (IPRoyal) to $250 per month (ProxyEmpire's US 5G package). Check dates: many rates are promotional.

Should I buy a dedicated or a shared mobile proxy?
Pools suit many independent requests. A dedicated modem suits long sessions on one identity. The break-even is the monthly rent divided by the pool's per-GB rate, about 83 GB against a $3/GB pool for a $250 line.

Which US carriers do mobile proxies use?
Vendors name Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T, with Verizon the only carrier on ProxyEmpire's US package. Many vendors, including Decodo, Oxylabs and DataImpulse, don't name US carriers on their product pages.

Do mobile proxies support SOCKS5 and UDP?
SOCKS5 is nearly universal. UDP is patchier: Proxyway found only two of ten mobile networks supported it by default, and QUIC support is rarer. Oxylabs lists HTTP/3.

How do I check that a proxy is really mobile?
Look up the exit IP's ASN and confirm it belongs to a mobile carrier, confirm rotation changes the IP, and run DNS and WebRTC leak tests. Proxyway's IP2Location check is a model: it counts IPs tagged with a mobile network code.

Why isn't Bright Data on this list?
Proxyway reports that Bright Data discontinued mobile proxies in April 2026, and TechRadar says new sign-ups can't buy the product.

Which one to pick

For a US pool on a normal budget, start with Decodo. For hard targeting and long sessions, Oxylabs. For the lowest cost, DataImpulse, after an ASN spot-check. For a private Verizon line, ProxyEmpire; to audition a dedicated modem cheaply, IPRoyal's day rental; for AT&T and short rentals, Proxy-Seller. Confirm every price on the provider's page the day you buy, because this market reprices quarterly.

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