Best proxies for web scraping paid in crypto (2026)

What matters in a proxy for web scraping?

Five things decide most scraping projects:

• Rotation control. A new IP per request spreads load; a sticky session keeps one IP through a login-free flow such as paginated search.
• Price per GB at your volume. Check whether traffic expires. Ours is billed in decimal GB (1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes) and never expires.
• Targeting. Country and city cover most SERP and price work; ZIP or ASN matter for narrow tests.
• Concurrency and retries. Your code should back off on 429 and 5xx responses.
• Your targets. Proxyway's 2026 research found the residential median success rate fell from 99.28 % on infrastructure to 74.43 % on real targets such as Amazon, Google and Instagram. Test on your own targets.

How do I use a rotating residential proxy in Python?

Put targeting and session settings in the username, USERNAME-country-{cc}-city-{city}-session-{id}-ttl-{minutes}, and point requests at the gateway. The Python proxy guide covers httpx, aiohttp and Scrapy; the web scraping use case covers retries and pacing.

import random
import requests

GATEWAY = "gw.namelessproxy.com:7777"

def proxy(country="eg", session=None, ttl=10):
    user = f"USERNAME-country-{country}"
    if session:
        user += f"-session-{session}-ttl-{ttl}"
    url = f"http://{user}:PASSWORD@{GATEWAY}"
    return {"http": url, "https": url}

# New exit IP on every request
for page in range(1, 4):
    r = requests.get(f"https://example.com/catalog?page={page}", proxies=proxy(), timeout=30)
    print(page, r.status_code)

# Same exit IP for 10 minutes
p = proxy(session=f"s{random.randint(1000, 9999)}")
print(requests.get("https://api.ipify.org", proxies=p, timeout=30).text)

Is web scraping with proxies legal?

It depends on the data, the site and the claim; this is not legal advice. US courts have reached different results depending on whether a case was about contract, the CFAA or copyright. Under the GDPR, public pages can still contain personal data, so collecting it needs a lawful basis. Our Acceptable Use Policy allows public-data collection only, asks you to respect site terms and robots.txt, and blocks banking, government and payment portals.

How did we rank these providers?

We kept providers that accept crypto and publish residential prices and a KYC rule on their own pages, checked on 5 October 2026. Firm no-KYC statements rank first, conditional ones next, and KYC-gated providers last. Within each group, pay-as-you-go price decides. Several providers here beat us on trial terms or targeting depth; we list them anyway. Full KYC data: Proxy KYC Index 2026.