IPLight vs IPRoyal (2026)

How to read this page. Every competitor figure below is the publicly listed rate on that provider's own pricing page as checked on 3 November 2026. Prices, tiers and promotions change often — confirm on their site before you buy. IPLight is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a reseller of any provider named here. Where a competitor is genuinely the better fit, we say so.

Quick verdict

Price comparison

Note the shape of IPRoyal's ladder: the 1 GB tier is $7.00 per GB, and the advertised $1.75 per GB only applies to custom volume from 10 TB. Budget from the tier you will actually buy. IPLight's rate does not change with volume, so there is no penalty for buying small and no reward for pre-committing.

Where IPRoyal is the better choice

• Non-expiring traffic. The clearest differentiator in this comparison, and it is not marketing spin: for genuinely sporadic use it removes the main waste in per-GB billing.
• Long sticky sessions. Up to seven days on rotating IPs — useful for workflows that must look like one returning visitor over a week without buying a static IP.
• Short-term ISP trials. A 24-hour ISP rental at $1.80 per IP is a cheap way to test a target before committing to a month.
• Extra product lines. Mobile proxies, a per-request Web Unlocker and free developer tools in one account.

Where IPLight is the better choice

• Rate at every tier. $1/GB flat versus $7.00 per GB on the 1 GB tier and $5.25 at 10 GB. The gap narrows only at 10 TB of custom volume, which very few buyers reach.
• Larger pool. 177M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries and regions against 64M+ — fewer dead ends on niche locations.
• Static ISP at scale. $2 per IP per month from 15 IPs on 30/60/90-day terms beats IPRoyal's $2.40–$2.70 monthly equivalents once you hold more than a handful of IPs.
• Datacenter billed by traffic. $1 per GB (100 GB minimum) rather than per IP, which suits high-bandwidth jobs that do not need many distinct exits.
• One rate, no ladder. No need to model whether your volume reaches the next tier before you know what you will pay.

The "traffic never expires" nuance

This is IPRoyal's best marketing line and it is substantive, not cosmetic: if you buy 5 GB in March and use it in July, you have lost nothing. If your workload is genuinely sporadic — a quarterly audit, an occasional price check — that property is worth more than a lower headline rate.

The trade-off appears as soon as volume is steady. At 50 GB per month, IPRoyal's listed tier is $4.90–$5.15 per GB while IPLight bills the same 50 GB at $1 per GB. Non-expiry only pays for itself when the alternative would have expired unused. If you consume what you buy, you are simply paying a higher rate for a feature you never use.

What switching actually involves

Both providers use a single gateway endpoint with username-password authentication, so migration is a configuration change:

# Same code, different endpoint: swap host, port and credentials
import requests

proxies = {
    "http":  "http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gateway-host:port",
    "https": "http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gateway-host:port",
}
r = requests.get("https://your-target-site", proxies=proxies, timeout=20)
print(r.status_code, len(r.content))

Frequently asked questions

Related pages