Side by side
IPRoyal vs Shifter
The short answer
On residential, Shifter is the cheaper of the two at $0.75/GB against IPRoyal's $1.75/GB, a gap of about 57%. One thing to read before you decide: we carry a warning on IPRoyal and none on Shifter.
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Just an email
Just an email
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Card, PayPal, crypto
Card, crypto
Free trial
None
None
IPs (their number)
34 million
31 million
Countries
195
130
Won't work for
Nothing we know of
Nothing we know of
Warnings
Gets its IPs from a phone app
None
IPRoyal against Shifter, product by product
Residentialcompared above
$1.75/GBon Custom plans Subscription (5% off), read 12 Aug8 plans
$0.75/GBon Popular (200 GB), $149/mo, read 12 Augfrom $50/mo on Starter (50 GB), 4 plans
Fixed ISP
—priced per IP address4 plans
—priced per IP addressfrom $42/mo on Starter (25 IPs), 4 plans
Datacenter
—priced per IP address3 plans
Does not sell this
Mobile
$5.20/GBon 100GB, read 12 Aug8 plans
Does not sell this
Choose IPRoyal if
the country list is wider, 195 against 130.
Choose Shifter if
the rate is lower, $0.75/GB against $1.75, and we carry no warning on Shifter and one on IPRoyal: gets its ips from a phone app.
Questions
Does IPRoyal or Shifter ask for ID?
Both ask for the same thing: just an email.
Which is cheaper, IPRoyal or Shifter?
Shifter, at $0.75 per GB against IPRoyal's $1.75 per GB, both residential rates read from the providers' own pages and dated above.
Which has more addresses, IPRoyal or Shifter?
IPRoyal, on their own numbers: 34 million, 195 countries against Shifter's 31 million.
Neither of these?
We don't pick a winner, the numbers are the same ones on each provider's page, checked yesterday.