# IPRoyal alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 215 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where IPRoyal holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/iproyal/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Bright Data: 50
- Oxylabs: 42
- Decodo: 39
- Webshare: 15
- Smartproxy: 11
- ScraperAPI: 3

## Proxy and web data providers

**Small business**: 65 of 84 answers did not name IPRoyal (IPRoyal is #5 of 9 at 6%).

- Decodo: first choice in 19 of those 65
- Webshare: first choice in 11 of those 65
- Bright Data: first choice in 6 of those 65
- Oxylabs: first choice in 4 of those 65
- Smartproxy: first choice in 4 of those 65
- ScraperAPI: first choice in 3 of those 65
- ZenRows: first choice in 2 of those 65
- Crawlbase: first choice in 1 of those 65

**Mid-market**: 68 of 84 answers did not name IPRoyal (IPRoyal is #7 of 11 at 2%).

- Decodo: first choice in 19 of those 68
- Oxylabs: first choice in 7 of those 68
- Smartproxy: first choice in 7 of those 68
- Bright Data: first choice in 6 of those 68
- Webshare: first choice in 4 of those 68
- SOAX: first choice in 2 of those 68
- NodeMaven: first choice in 1 of those 68
- Rayobyte: first choice in 1 of those 68

**Enterprise**: 82 of 84 answers did not name IPRoyal.

- Bright Data: first choice in 38 of those 82
- Oxylabs: first choice in 31 of those 82
- Cloudflare One: first choice in 2 of those 82
- Decodo: first choice in 1 of those 82
- Forcepoint Web Security: first choice in 1 of those 82
- NetNut: first choice in 1 of those 82
- Netskope: first choice in 1 of those 82
- Proxy-Cheap: first choice in 1 of those 82

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