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Proxy providers

Residential, datacenter and mobile proxy networks used for data collection. Ranked by how often ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode name each brand, cite its site and put it first when answering 18 buyer-intent questions.

Run 2026-09-27 · 54 answers · country US · methodology

Ranking

Bright Data scored highest in this run at 70.8: named in 85% of answers and cited in 41%.

# Brand Score Mentioned Cited Avg. position
1 Bright Data brightdata.com 70.8 85% (46) 41% (22) 1.67
2 Decodo decodo.com 64.1 81% (44) 37% (20) 2.57
3 Oxylabs oxylabs.io 58.9 80% (43) 17% (9) 2.05
4 IPRoyal iproyal.com 37.4 54% (29) 9% (5) 3.52
5 SOAX soax.com 33.3 50% (27) 4% (2) 3.41
6 Webshare webshare.io 24.8 35% (19) 6% (3) 3.47
7 Rayobyte rayobyte.com 9.9 15% (8) 2% (1) 4.38
8 Proxy-Cheap proxy-cheap.com 3.8 6% (3) 0% (0) 3
9 NetNut netnut.io 2.4 4% (2) 0% (0) 4.5
10 NodeMaven nodemaven.com 2.1 2% (1) 4% (2) 5
11 PacketStream packetstream.io 1.3 2% (1) 0% (0) 2
12 Infatica infatica.io 1.2 2% (1) 0% (0) 4

Score = 60% mention rate + 25% citation rate + 15% position prominence, 0–100. Counts in brackets are answers out of 54. Average position is the brand's order among this category's brands in answers that name it.

By engine

Share of each engine's answers that name the brand.

Brand ChatGPT n=18Gemini n=18Google AI Mode n=18
Bright Data 83%83%89%
Decodo 100%83%61%
Oxylabs 72%89%78%
IPRoyal 50%39%72%
SOAX 72%28%50%
Webshare 50%28%28%
Rayobyte 11%11%22%
Proxy-Cheap 0%6%11%
NetNut 6%6%0%
NodeMaven 6%0%0%
PacketStream 0%6%0%
Infatica 0%6%0%

No answers from Perplexity in this run; the ranking uses the other engines only.

Prompts used

Each prompt was sent once to every engine, as written:

  1. What is the best residential proxy provider?
  2. Cheapest residential proxies per GB
  3. Best proxy provider for web scraping
  4. Best mobile proxy provider
  5. Most reliable datacenter proxies
  6. Best rotating proxies for scraping Google
  7. Which proxy provider has the largest IP pool?
  8. Best ethically sourced residential proxy network
  9. Best proxies with US state and city targeting
  10. Best pay-as-you-go residential proxies
  11. Best ISP static residential proxies
  12. Which proxy provider is best for sneaker or ticket sites?
  13. Best proxy provider for social media account management
  14. Best cheap proxies for a small scraping project
  15. Which residential proxy provider has the best success rate?
  16. Best enterprise proxy network for data collection
  17. Best proxy provider with a free trial
  18. Best SOCKS5 proxy provider

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