Proxy Grove vs IPRoyal: Per-IP Unlimited or Pay-per-GB

This article is a factual comparison. It is not an affiliation, a speed test, or legal advice. Proxy Grove sells Mobile, Residential, and Corporate on Pricing. IPRoyal sells residential GB pools, ISP and datacenter per IP, mobile, and a Web Unblocker. Follow applicable law and each site’s terms.

Teams comparing Proxy Grove vs IPRoyal are usually choosing a meter and a traffic-expiry rule. IPRoyal’s public residential catalog is billed per gigabyte. Their pricing page markets traffic that never expires and a custom rate of $1.75/GB from 10 TB (10,000 GB). Proxy Grove’s published Unlimited plans are billed per IP per day (1, 7, 30, or 90 days), with traffic included on those plans subject to fair use. Name the SKU and the GB volume before you name a winner.

If you already keep IPRoyal GB credits because they do not expire, this page will not tell you to burn them. It will tell you when allocated per-IP unlimited egress is a better fit, and when IPRoyal’s GB pool (or Unblocker) is the better fit.

What each company actually sells

IPRoyal’s public pricing hub (iproyal.com/pricing/, 21 August 2026) lists:

• Residential from $1.75/GB, with a 64M+ pool line on the product card
• ISP from $1.80/proxy, 500K+ unique IPs
• Datacenter from $1.39/proxy, 60+ locations
• Mobile from $117/month, 4.5M+ IPs
• Web Unblocker from $1.00 per 1,000 requests

The residential pricing page (iproyal.com/pricing/residential-proxies/) also markets never-expiring traffic, no monthly minimum, city-level targeting, sticky sessions up to 7 days, auto-rotate at 1 / 10 / 30 minutes, instant IP change, unlimited concurrent sessions, and HTTP plus SOCKS5 in their docs (different ports per protocol). Their own page still includes review copy that says “more than thirty two million” IPs while the 10 GB card says 64M+ in 195+ countries. Treat pool size as vendor marketing. We have not measured it. Their sticky-session docs also state they cannot guarantee the same IP for the full TTL because residential peers can leave the network.

Proxy Grove publishes three proxy SKUs plus Enterprise custom: Residential, Mobile 4G/5G, and Corporate. HTTP and SOCKS5 are included on published Unlimited plans. Sticky or rotating is a plan setting. Country targeting is the public geo model. We do not sell a public datacenter SKU, a $117/month mobile IP product, or a Web Unblocker billed per thousand requests. If the job is “buy GB that never expire and rotate a large residential pool,” IPRoyal’s product is built for that. If the job is “give me N IPs in this country for a rank tracker, browser profile, or httpx client,” Proxy Grove is built for that.

How the money works

IPRoyal residential, public grid (21 August 2026). Subscription tab (they label it 5% off) vs Pay As You Go:

• 1 GB: $7.00/GB subscription, $7.35/GB PAYG
• 2 GB: $5.95/GB subscription, $6.25/GB PAYG
• 10 GB (most popular): $5.25/GB subscription, $5.51/GB PAYG; card copy says 64M+ IPs in 195+ countries
• Custom: $1.75/GB subscription / $1.84/GB PAYG, available from 10 TB (10,000 GB)

$1.75/GB is not the self-serve entry rate. At 10 TB that headline is $17,500 of residential GB. Do not budget $1.75/GB for a 10 GB month. Never-expiring traffic is the real operational difference versus vendors whose monthly GB buckets reset. If you buy 50 GB in January and use 10 GB, IPRoyal’s published rule is that the rest remains until you consume it. Confirm current terms in their dashboard; promotions change.

Proxy Grove Unlimited (21 August 2026):

• Residential from $2/IP/day
• Corporate from $2/IP/day
• Mobile from $4.50/IP/day
• Durations 1 / 7 / 30 / 90 days
• Traffic on those plans is not billed per GB. Fair use still applies.
• HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS5, sticky or rotating

Worked examples, not promises:

1. Sticky SEO, 4 residential IPs, 30 days, heavy pages. Proxy Grove: 4 × $2 × 30 = $120, traffic on the plan. IPRoyal: GB × rate. At the 10 GB subscription card, 10 GB is $52.50. If the job pulls 80 GB, you are far past that card. If it pulls 8 GB and you might not use the rest this month, never-expiring credits can beat a monthly bucket elsewhere. The meter and the expiry rule both decide.

2. Irregular quarterly crawl, 15 GB then idle. IPRoyal’s never-expire pitch is aimed at that shape. A Decodo-style monthly bucket can waste unused GB. Proxy Grove unlimited IPs still charge for the days you hold the IPs, even if you crawl nothing. If you only need two days of egress per quarter, a small IPRoyal GB pack can be cheaper. If you hold sticky identities all month, per-IP unlimited can be cheaper than 80 GB at $5/GB.

3. Static business-grade identity. IPRoyal ISP is from $1.80/proxy on the hub; datacenter from $1.39/proxy. Proxy Grove Corporate is $2/IP/day with unlimited traffic on the plan. A low-traffic always-on ISP on IPRoyal can be cheaper per calendar month. A high-bandwidth sticky corporate session on Proxy Grove can be cheaper than putting the same bytes through a GB meter. Run both numbers.

IPRoyal mobile on the hub is from $117/month per listed card, not $4.50/day. That is a different product. Do not compare our Mobile day plans to their residential GB card.

Sessions, targeting, and Unblocker

IPRoyal docs describe sticky sessions with a lifetime from 1 second to 7 days, and randomized rotation per request. Auto-rotate intervals of 1, 10, or 30 minutes appear on the residential pricing page. On Proxy Grove, sticky vs rotating is a plan/endpoint setting. Do not invent a second rotating-proxies URL; use rotating proxies.

IPRoyal markets city-level targeting. Proxy Grove’s public location library is country-level (see Portugal residential proxies as that unique page ships). If the SOP is “this city,” IPRoyal’s published targeting is the closer match. If the SOP is “this country, sticky, then rotate,” either vendor can fit; billing still decides.

HTTP vs SOCKS5: IPRoyal docs use different ports per protocol. Proxy Grove includes both on Mobile, Residential, and Corporate Unlimited. For the protocol trade-off, use SOCKS5 vs HTTP. For identity, use residential vs datacenter.

IPRoyal Web Unblocker is billed from $1.00 per 1,000 requests on the pricing hub. Proxy Grove does not sell an unlocker. If you need managed unblocking, that is their SKU (or Bright Data / Oxylabs). See vs Bright Data and vs Oxylabs. Do not treat our IPs as a CAPTCHA bypass.

Onboarding

IPRoyal markets no contracts, a zero monthly minimum, and self-service. We did not load a public all-customer KYC policy comparable to Oxylabs’ 75% approval page. Confirm current onboarding and restricted targets in their dashboard. Their residential page says use proxies for any website you want, as long as it is legal. That is their wording, not a license to ignore site terms.

Proxy Grove checkout is self-serve at app.proxygrove.com. Self-serve is not a claim that we skip abuse controls.

When IPRoyal is the better fit

Keep or choose IPRoyal when most of these are true:

• You want a large shared residential pool billed per GB, including a 1 GB start.
• Never-expiring traffic matters because your GB use is bursty, not monthly-smooth.
• You need city targeting or sticky TTL knobs they document (up to 7 days, not guaranteed).
• You want their Web Unblocker per thousand requests, or ISP/datacenter per proxy at their hub rates.
• You are actually buying tens of terabytes, where $1.75/GB is a real quote, not a homepage headline.

Those are real jobs. Proxy Grove does not replace never-expiring GB credits or Unblocker.

When Proxy Grove is the better fit

Choose Proxy Grove when most of these are true:

• You want N known IPs for SEO, ad QA, localization, or storefront checks.
• Unlimited traffic on the plan matters because sessions are heavy.
• You want HTTP and SOCKS5 on the same SKU family without a GB bucket.
• You want to start from $2/IP on published Residential/Corporate day plans, not $7/GB for 1 GB.
• You already have Python, a rank tracker, or a browser profile tool and only need egress.

Use residential, mobile, or corporate. Async Python jobs should use httpx and asyncio. For Decodo’s monthly GB buckets see Proxy Grove vs Decodo.

You can use both

A common setup: IPRoyal never-expiring GB for irregular rotating collection; Proxy Grove IPs for sticky local QA. Matching meters to jobs is not “migration.”

Before you switch, list sticky vs rotating, country list, estimated GB per month, whether unused GB must roll over, IP count, and HTTP vs SOCKS5. Price the same workflow on both meters. Confirm protocol ports in each dashboard. Confirm what you are not buying. If you need Unblocker or 10 TB at $1.75/GB, Proxy Grove is the wrong cart. If you need allocated unlimited IPs, a $7/GB starter pack is the wrong cart.

Sources (21 August 2026)

• https://iproyal.com/pricing/
• https://iproyal.com/pricing/residential-proxies/
• https://docs.iproyal.com/proxies/residential/proxy/rotation
• https://docs.iproyal.com/proxies/residential/proxy/making-requests
• https://proxygrove.com/pricing/

IPRoyal is a trademark of its owner. Proxy Grove is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by IPRoyal. Names are used only to identify the products compared.