Best proxies for scraping Amazon in 2026
This list is for people who need to pull product, price, review, or buy box data off Amazon on a recurring basis: repricing tools, market research shops, brand protection teams, and solo operators tracking a category. It is not for anyone trying to hit Amazon’s checkout or account systems with automation, and it is not legal advice.
I picked these seven after running each vendor against live amazon.com and amazon.co.uk product and search result pages over the past few months, not just against a generic test endpoint. A proxy that sails through httpbin.org and gets a captcha wall on the third amazon.com request in a session is not useful to anyone, and most “best proxy” lists never actually check that.
One note before the list: NetNut is not on it. On July 2, 2026, Google and the FBI disrupted NetNut’s residential proxy network, which Google’s Threat Intelligence Group ties to the Popa botnet running on more than two million hijacked smart TVs and streaming boxes, per Google’s own writeup. If you were using NetNut for Amazon scraping, replace it now.
how I picked
- actually tested against live amazon.com and amazon.co.uk product, search, and review pages across multiple sessions, not a generic test target
- residential or ISP IP pool size and ASN diversity, since Amazon’s bot defenses block most datacenter ranges within a handful of requests
- session control: sticky sessions for multi-step flows like add-to-cart price checks, fast rotation for broad catalog sweeps
- real price per GB at the volume a small team or solo operator would actually buy, not just the headline enterprise rate
- whether the vendor publishes anything about how its residential IPs are sourced, given what just happened with NetNut
- how fast and how useful support was when I asked a real technical question, not a sales question
the picks
Bright Data
Bright Data is the vendor most scraping teams already know, and it earns the reputation on Amazon specifically because of its Web Scraper API templates built around e-commerce sites, plus city and ZIP level targeting that matters when you need to compare Amazon.com prices across US regions or check whether a listing is Prime-eligible in a specific ZIP. It is the most expensive option here at low volume, but the network depth shows up in session stability during long catalog crawls.
Pros: - deep residential and ISP IP pools with strong ASN diversity, which matters more than raw IP count against Amazon’s fingerprinting - e-commerce-tuned scraper templates and structured Amazon datasets, so you’re not building parsing logic from scratch - granular city and ZIP-level geo-targeting for regional price and availability checks
Cons: - the most expensive per-GB option on this list at entry-level volume - dashboard and account structure has a real learning curve for a first-time buyer
Pricing: residential proxies run about $8.40/GB pay-as-you-go, dropping toward roughly $3/GB on committed volume plans, per Bright Data’s residential proxy pricing page. Full writeup: /reviews/bright-data
Oxylabs
Oxylabs sits right next to Bright Data on price and network quality, and the thing that’s actually changed for 2026 is HTTP/3 support rolling out across its residential pool, which helps with the newer connection handling Amazon’s edge has been pushing. If you’re scaling review or repricing monitoring across a large ASIN list and want a dedicated account manager answering Slack messages instead of a ticket queue, Oxylabs is built for that tier of operation.
Pros: - 175M+ residential IPs with city-level targeting, useful for marketplace-specific pricing checks - dedicated account manager included even on mid-tier plans, not just enterprise - HTTP/3 support on the residential pool as of 2026
Cons: - entry pricing is comparable to Bright Data, so it doesn’t solve the budget problem - monthly minimums push it toward teams rather than a single operator running a side project
Pricing: from $6/GB on the 5GB Starter plan ($30/month) down to $2.50/GB on the 1TB Corporate plan ($2,500/month), per Oxylabs’ residential proxy pricing page. Full writeup: /reviews/oxylabs
Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)
Decodo is the rebrand of Smartproxy, and if you used Smartproxy before, the product underneath is largely the same 115M+ IP residential pool with meaningfully better pricing than the top two once you’re past the entry tier. For a small team doing regular price and stock monitoring on amazon.com without enterprise budget, this is where I’d start testing first.
Pros: - cheaper per-GB pricing than Bright Data or Oxylabs at comparable mid-tier volumes - 115M+ residential IP pool is large enough for sustained catalog crawling - 3-day free trial with 100MB of traffic to test against real Amazon pages before paying
Cons: - the Smartproxy-to-Decodo rebrand has left some third-party integrations and old documentation referencing the old name - support quality reports are less consistent than Bright Data or Oxylabs in independent reviews
Pricing: residential traffic starts at $3.75/GB on the 3GB plan, drops to $2/GB on the 1TB tier, or $4/GB pay-as-you-go, per Decodo’s residential proxy pricing.
IPRoyal
IPRoyal’s pitch is straightforward: pay-as-you-go bandwidth that never expires. For anyone doing seasonal Amazon scraping, like tracking Black Friday or Prime Day pricing and then going quiet for months, that matters more than a marginally lower per-GB rate on a subscription you have to keep paying whether you use it or not.
Pros: - purchased bandwidth rolls over indefinitely, good for bursty or seasonal scraping schedules - lower entry cost for small test runs than Bright Data, Oxylabs, or Decodo - roughly 32 million residential IPs across 195+ countries
Cons: - throughput under heavy concurrent load is noticeably behind Bright Data and Oxylabs, worth a small paid test before committing at scale - fewer built-in scraping templates, so you’re writing more of your own parsing logic
Pricing: $7.00/GB at the 1GB tier down to $1.75/GB at bulk volume, per IPRoyal’s residential proxy pricing page. Full writeup: /reviews/iproyal
Webshare
Webshare is the cheapest way to get a scraper running against Amazon, and it gives away 10 datacenter proxies plus 1GB of bandwidth free, permanently, no card required. That’s genuinely useful for testing your scraping logic before you spend anything. The catch is that datacenter IPs get flagged fast on amazon.com product and search pages, so treat Webshare’s datacenter tier as a development and staging tool, then move to its residential pool, or one of the other vendors above, for actual production scraping.
Pros: - free tier (10 datacenter proxies, 1GB/month, no expiry) is enough to validate a scraper before paying anything - residential proxies from $1.4/GB is the cheapest residential rate on this list - simple self-serve API and dashboard, good for a first-time buyer
Cons: - datacenter proxies get blocked quickly on Amazon product pages, they’re not a real production option there - residential IP pool is smaller than Bright Data, Oxylabs, or Decodo
Pricing: datacenter from $0.05/IP or $2.99/month for 100 proxies, residential from $1.4/GB, per Webshare’s pricing page.
SOAX
SOAX’s strength is targeting precision. You can narrow down to city and ISP level, which is genuinely useful when you’re checking whether Amazon.de and Amazon.co.uk are showing different prices or stock to different regions, or when a client wants to know what a shopper in a specific city actually sees. Sticky sessions up to 30 minutes also make it a solid pick for multi-step flows like checking a price, adding to cart, and checking again.
Pros: - city and ISP-level targeting for regional marketplace price and availability comparisons - sticky sessions up to 30 minutes for multi-step cart and checkout-adjacent flows - live chat support answered technical questions quickly when I tested it
Cons: - pricier per GB than Decodo or IPRoyal at low volume - mobile proxy access is a separate add-on cost on top of the base plan
Pricing: plans start around $90/month for 25GB of residential traffic, with datacenter proxies around $3/GB, per SOAX’s pricing page.
Rayobyte
Rayobyte is the one I’d point to specifically because of the NetNut situation. It publishes information about how its residential network is sourced and markets itself on consent-based collection rather than staying quiet about it, which is worth something after watching a competitor’s entire residential pool turn out to be hijacked smart TVs. For lower-defense Amazon pages, category listings, search results pages, basic product pages, its datacenter and ISP tiers are a reasonable, transparently-priced option.
Pros: - publishes sourcing and consent information for its residential IP pool - transparent pricing page with no hidden minimums or surprise tiers - ISP proxies from $5/IP/month are a solid, stable option for lower-defense Amazon pages
Cons: - residential pool is smaller than Bright Data, Oxylabs, or Decodo - less Amazon-specific tooling out of the box compared to the bigger vendors
Pricing: static datacenter from $1.00/IP, rotating datacenter from $0.45/GB, ISP proxies from $5/IP/month, per Rayobyte’s pricing page.
comparison table
| Pick | Price | Primary strength | Primary weakness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bright Data | ~$8.40/GB PAYG, ~$3/GB committed | e-commerce scraper templates, deep IP pool | most expensive at low volume |
| Oxylabs | $6/GB (5GB) to $2.50/GB (1TB) | dedicated account manager, HTTP/3 | high entry cost, monthly minimums |
| Decodo | $3.75/GB (3GB) to $2/GB (1TB) | price-to-volume ratio, 115M+ IPs | rebrand documentation gaps |
| IPRoyal | $7/GB (1GB) to $1.75/GB (bulk) | bandwidth never expires | slower under heavy concurrency |
| Webshare | residential from $1.4/GB, free DC tier | free tier to test before paying | datacenter IPs blocked fast on Amazon |
| SOAX | from $90/mo for 25GB | city/ISP-level targeting, sticky sessions | pricier at low volume |
| Rayobyte | DC from $0.45/GB, ISP from $5/IP/mo | transparent, consent-based sourcing | smaller residential pool, less tooling |
how to choose
Amazon’s edge fingerprints more than your IP, but the IP is still the first filter. Datacenter ranges get flagged within a handful of requests on product and search result pages, which is why every serious pick on this list leans on residential or ISP IPs rather than raw datacenter proxies. Amazon’s own robots.txt disallows nearly all automated access outside approved crawlers like Googlebot, and while robots.txt isn’t legally binding, it’s a clear signal of how aggressively the platform treats unapproved bot traffic in practice.
Match session behavior to what you’re actually doing. A broad catalog sweep across thousands of ASINs wants fast-rotating IPs so no single address racks up a suspicious request count. A workflow that needs to check a price, then simulate adding to cart, then check again, wants a sticky session that holds the same IP for several minutes, which is why SOAX’s 30-minute sticky sessions or Bright Data’s session control matter more than raw pool size for that specific job. Whatever you pick, keep concurrency and request rate modest. Getting greedy with parallel requests is the fastest way to trip a captcha wall regardless of which vendor’s IP you’re sitting behind.
On the legal side: Amazon’s Conditions of Use explicitly prohibits using “any robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means” to access its services. That’s a contract term, not a criminal statute, and the risk it carries is account termination or a cease-and-desist, not a criminal case. The Ninth Circuit’s ruling in hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn established that scraping publicly accessible data doesn’t by itself violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, but that same case ended in 2022 with hiQ agreeing to a $500,000 judgment and a permanent injunction for breaching LinkedIn’s user agreement. The CFAA question and the breach-of-contract question are separate, and winning one doesn’t protect you from the other. This is not legal advice, and if you’re scraping at any commercial scale you should get advice specific to your situation rather than relying on a proxy review to tell you where the line is. If you’re an actual Amazon seller and you just need your own listing, order, or inventory data, Amazon’s Selling Partner API is the sanctioned, no-proxy-needed path to that same data, and it’s worth checking before you build a scraper for data Amazon will hand you directly.
If part of what you’re doing involves running more than one Amazon seller or buyer account for research or competitive tracking, the proxy is only half the setup. Account isolation, meaning separate browser fingerprints and separate cookie and storage state per account, is what actually keeps those accounts from getting linked and flagged together. Multi Account Ops covers that side of the problem in more depth than fits here. Our own blog index has more on proxy fundamentals if this is your first time setting up a scraping pipeline.
verdict / top pick
For most people running regular Amazon scraping at a real but not enterprise scale, I’d start with Decodo. The 115M+ IP pool is large enough to avoid getting starved on a long catalog crawl, the pricing is meaningfully better than Bright Data or Oxylabs once you’re past the free trial, and the 100MB trial lets you validate it against your actual target pages before you pay. If you’re scaling to the point where a dedicated account manager and HTTP/3 support actually change your throughput, move up to Oxylabs or Bright Data. If your scraping is seasonal and bursty, IPRoyal’s non-expiring bandwidth is the better fit than any subscription plan on this list. And if the NetNut news made you want to know exactly where your IPs come from before you route traffic through them, Rayobyte is the pick that answers that question upfront.
Written by Xavier Fok
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