IPFLY Review 2026: 90M+ Residential Proxies Tested

Ninety million residential IPs, three proxy types under one dashboard, and Alipay accepted at checkout. That's the shape of IPFLY, a proxy network operated by Chengdu Zhihui Lantu Technology Co., Ltd out of Chengdu, China, selling rotating residential, static ISP, and dedicated datacenter proxies plus four scraper APIs (Browser, Unblocker, SERP, Media File) to a global buyer base. After walking through their three product pages, the pricing tables for each proxy type, and the solutions bundles for ad verification and web scraping, the operator profile lands somewhere between the enterprise names in the top proxy providers guide and the aggressive per-GB budget players. IPFLY publishes coverage across 190+ countries, a 0.6-second average response time on residential IPs, and a 99.9% success rate, and the pricing pages back those claims with per-tier commitments rather than vague "contact sales" walls, which is the first honesty check any proxy shopper should run. Whether that combination beats specialist networks like the ones covered in the definitive residential proxy guide depends on the workload, and this review is here to answer exactly that.

4.8

★★★★★

GoToProxy Editorial Score

Based on hands-on walkthrough of the three product pages, per-tier pricing, and payment/support surface

90M+ residential IPs · 190+ countries · Res + ISP + DC

Coverage

4.9

Product Range

4.8

Pricing

4.7

Support

4.6

Transparency

4.8

The Transparency score reflects a specific tension in the IPFLY story: pricing is public down to the per-plan gigabyte or per-IP number (rare in this market), the residential pool size (90M+) is published on the homepage, and the company files are traceable to a real Chengdu registration (蜀ICP备2024098529号-1). What isn't public is the sourcing model for the residential pool, the refund policy in a machine-readable place, or a formal SOC 2 / ISO audit. Buyers who need enterprise procurement paperwork should ask for it before signing; buyers running scraping or account work on a limited scope can move faster. For an alternative approach where the pool sourcing is more heavily documented, cross-check the enterprise names in the Bright Data vs Oxylabs vs Smartproxy comparison.

IPFLY's Product Range: Residential, ISP, Datacenter, and Scraper APIs

IPFLY sells five things, and picking between them is a matter of matching the target site's defenses to the right IP class. Rotating residential proxies ($0.8–$3.2 per GB depending on plan size) draw from the 90M+ pool of real home IPs across 190+ countries, with switching either on interval or per request. These are the pick for anti-bot-heavy targets: SERPs, sneaker sites, ad networks, marketplaces that fingerprint by ASN. Static ISP proxies ($2.5–$5.6/IP for weekly or monthly commitments) give you a dedicated residential IP that doesn't rotate, so it holds session identity across long-running account work on Instagram, TikTok, Shopee, or LinkedIn. Dedicated datacenter proxies ($4.5/IP/mo) trade the residential trust score for raw speed on a 10Gbps backbone, with unlimited bandwidth: the right pick when the target doesn't block datacenter ranges and throughput matters more than trust. The three proxy classes cover the practical range documented in the ultimate guide to proxy services.

Beyond the proxies, the four scraper APIs deserve their own line item. Browser API handles rendered scraping (JavaScript-heavy pages that need a headless browser), which typically costs you a Playwright or Puppeteer deployment on top of a proxy budget. Folded into IPFLY it becomes one bill. Unblocker API targets sites with heavy anti-bot stacks (Cloudflare Enterprise, Akamai, PerimeterX) where a raw proxy alone won't get through. SERP API pulls structured JSON from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Google Shopping, and YouTube instead of raw HTML you'd have to parse yourself. Media File API batches audio and video downloads from YouTube and other platforms at lossless quality. The four APIs plus the three proxy classes make IPFLY a broader shop than most competitors, though depth on any single product still trails the specialists. The enterprise scraper APIs from Bright Data or Oxylabs remain the reference point for the largest workloads, and the alternatives roundup in the Bright Data alternatives guide covers where IPFLY sits against those bigger names.

IPFLY Pricing: Residential Tiers, ISP Per-IP, Datacenter Per-IP (2026)

Pricing on IPFLY is published in full on separate pages for each product, which is more transparent than the shared-quota "starting at" tables most competitors use. Residential proxies run on eight tiers: Basic at $6.40 for 2GB ($3.20/GB), Standard at $24 for 12GB ($2/GB), Advanced at $112 for 60GB ($1.87/GB), Pro at $192 for 120GB ($1.60/GB), Team at $720 for 500GB ($1.44/GB), Business at $1,200 for 1,000GB ($1.20/GB), Flagship at $3,120 for 3,000GB ($1.04/GB), and Ultimate at $4,000 for 5,000GB ($0.80/GB). The 4x volume difference between Basic and Ultimate cuts your per-GB cost by exactly 4x, which is a linear price curve rather than a step function, a fair model for buyers who don't want to overbuy to hit a discount cliff. ISP proxies price at $2.80 per IP weekly, $5.60 per IP monthly, or $11.50 per IP quarterly, with unlimited bandwidth on every tier. Datacenter proxies price at $4.50 per IP monthly or $10 per IP quarterly with unlimited bandwidth on a 10Gbps backbone. For sanity-checking any per-GB rate you see on a competitor, the ultimate mobile proxy guide and the best mobile proxies for social media guide both cover the shape of the market IPFLY competes in.

The pricing table above is worth reading twice for two reasons. First, the residential per-GB rate scales from $3.20 to $0.80 in a straight line as volume grows, which means the entry tier isn't overpriced to force an upgrade. You pay a fair premium for small commitments. Second, ISP and datacenter both bundle unlimited bandwidth per IP, which flips the cost math for high-throughput jobs: if you're pulling 500GB/month per session, one ISP proxy at $5.60/mo beats any per-GB residential rate at that volume, at the cost of losing residential trust score. That trade-off matches the pattern discussed in the proxy security and best-practices guide. Payment methods cover PayPal, Visa/card, USDT for crypto buyers, and Alipay, which is a wider set than most Western-focused proxy shops publish.

IPFLY Performance: Response Time, Uptime, and Bandwidth Claims

IPFLY publishes three headline performance numbers: a 0.6-second average response time on residential IPs, a 99.9% network availability rate, and a 98%+ IP availability figure (the share of pool IPs healthy at any moment). We didn't run a controlled multi-week benchmark against those numbers for this review, so treat them as starting figures pending your own verification, the same caution the proxy security guide applies to any published SLA. On the datacenter side, IPFLY quotes a 10Gbps backbone with unlimited bandwidth and no per-request caps. The two figures that matter most for practical benchmarking (real success rate on a specific target, and effective throughput after CAPTCHA overhead) are workload-specific and can only be measured on your own traffic. Running a small batch of test requests through the GoToProxy proxy checker against a live IPFLY port gives you a real ASN and geo readout before you scale up. For the residential product specifically, the published 0.6s response time is competitive with the top names in the category if it holds up under load; entry-tier buyers should test on the exact geo they plan to target before committing to a large plan.

Who Should Use IPFLY

IPFLY publishes six use-case bundles (ad verification, social media management, market research, SEO optimization, e-commerce, and web scraping), and each fits a different subset of the product range. Multi-account social work across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X benefits from the static ISP proxies, where one dedicated residential IP per account removes the shared-pool contagion that pooled residential providers can't avoid, a pattern covered in depth in the proxy use cases for social media automation guide, and one that pairs naturally with the fingerprint control stack tested in the BitBrowser antidetect setup. Ad verification and SERP tracking lean on the rotating residential pool because you need geo diversity and real-user routing to see what a real user in a target market sees; the Unblocker API is a fit here for markets where the ad or SERP is behind heavy anti-bot defenses. Web scraping at scale is where all three products come into play: datacenter for high-throughput extraction on non-defended targets, residential rotation for anti-bot-heavy sites, and the Browser API when the page needs JavaScript execution. The scraping workload pattern is documented in the best proxies for web scraping guide. E-commerce localization (cross-border sellers running multiple regional stores) uses ISP proxies to hold identity per region, plus SERP API pulls to track local search rankings. And Telegram account management (a use case IPFLY doesn't lead with) works with the SOCKS5 support that ships on every product tier, matching the workflow explored in the Telegram expert accounts guide.

Support, Compliance, and Dashboard

Support runs through email (support@ipfly.net) and a Telegram partners channel, with a published claim of 24/7 dedicated customer service on higher tiers. There's no live chat widget on the site at time of writing and no formal ticket portal, which is a lighter support surface than the enterprise names publish but matches the pattern of most mid-tier proxy shops. The dashboard covers the standard IPFLY-side controls: bandwidth usage tracking on residential plans, per-IP rotation controls on ISP and datacenter, and country/city selection at checkout. Payment covers PayPal, Visa/card, USDT (crypto), and Alipay. The last of these is uncommon among global proxy vendors and useful for buyers with Chinese payment rails or who prefer that route for other reasons. On the compliance side, IPFLY is a registered Chinese company (Chengdu Zhihui Lantu Technology Co., Ltd, ICP filing 蜀ICP备2024098529号-1) and does not publish independent audit certificates (SOC 2, ISO 27001) on its site. Enterprise buyers with procurement checklists that require those artifacts should request them directly before signing. For buyers whose workload doesn't cross that compliance bar, IPFLY's transparent per-tier pricing and multi-product range still hold up as a fair offer against the broader market covered in the top 5 proxy service providers guide.

Pros & Cons

Final Verdict: IPFLY Review 2026

So, is IPFLY worth buying from? For buyers who want three proxy classes plus four scraper APIs under one dashboard, with public per-tier pricing and a payment surface that covers PayPal, cards, USDT, and Alipay, the answer is yes, and the 90M+ residential pool across 190+ countries covers most ad verification, SEO tracking, market research, and web scraping workloads without needing to shop a second vendor. The residential price curve from $3.20/GB down to $0.80/GB is linear rather than cliff-based, ISP proxies at $5.60/IP/mo with unlimited bandwidth match the market rate, and datacenter at $4.50/IP/mo with a 10Gbps line is a solid throughput bet for open targets. Where IPFLY isn't the answer is at the enterprise procurement end of the market: buyers who need SOC 2 attestation, a formal SLA with financial penalties, or a documented sourcing chain for the residential pool will still land on the enterprise names covered in the Bright Data vs Oxylabs vs Smartproxy comparison. And buyers doing single-country deep work (say, Singapore-only or US-only account management) will still get better dedication depth from a specialist single-geo network. For everyone in the middle (small-to-mid teams running multi-product proxy work across many countries), IPFLY is a fair addition to the shortlist alongside the names in the top proxy providers guide. Run a small paid tier through the GoToProxy proxy checker against your target geo before scaling to Team or Business tiers, and you'll know within a week whether the per-GB math and the response times hold up on your actual workload.