Quick answer
Should I buy dedicated or shared ISP proxies?
Buy dedicated ISP proxies when the IP must be yours alone: allowlists, logged-in sessions, daily checks from one address. Shared IPs cost from $0.27 (Decodo) or $0.30 (Webshare) per month, dedicated ones about $1.79 to $5.00 (October 19, 2026). PinnedIP sells dedicated US IPs only, $2.03 for 30 days, no KYC.
Published shared and dedicated prices
| Provider | Shared ISP | Dedicated ISP |
|---|---|---|
| PinnedIP | Not sold | $2.03 for 1 IP, $1.34/IP · 30 days at 100 IPs (30 days) |
| Decodo | From $0.27 per IP | $2.90 per IP at 10, $2.60 at 100 |
| Webshare | $0.30 per IP (from 20 IPs) | $1.89 per IP at 50, $1.785 at 100 |
| Oxylabs | $1.50 to $1.20 per IP, up to 3 users | $3.00 per IP at 10, $2.60 at 50-100 |
Prices checked on
Per-month prices from each vendor’s pricing page; see the price index for sources and terms.
What does sharing an ISP IP change?
- Blocks travel. If another customer’s traffic gets the shared IP rate-limited or blocked on a site, you inherit the block on that site.
- Allowlists stop making sense. A partner who allowlists a shared IP lets every customer on it through, so most partners will refuse it, and they should.
- Repeated checks get noisier. A site sees several users behind one address, so results can shift for reasons that have nothing to do with you.
- Sessions can collide. Two customers logged in to the same service from one IP may trigger security checks for both.
None of this matters for one-off fetches of public pages that do not track visitors, where shared IPs are good value.
How many users share a shared IP?
Vendors rarely say. Oxylabs is explicit: its shared ISP proxies are "shared with up to 3 users". Webshare and Decodo describe their cheaper plans as shared without publishing a number. If the number is not published, plan as if it could be higher.
Is dedicated worth six to ten times the price?
Count the cost of a failure, not the price per IP. If one blocked shared IP stops an allowlisted integration or spoils a week of price observations, the $2.03 of a dedicated 30-day IP is the cheaper option. If you fetch thousands of public pages once each, shared IPs or rotating traffic may do the job for less.
Dedicated vs shared: FAQ
Can I tell whether my ISP IP is shared?
Not reliably from the outside. Ask the vendor, and read the plan name: "dedicated" and "private" plans should assign one customer per IP, while "shared" or cheaper plans usually do not.
Does PinnedIP sell shared ISP IPs?
No. Dedicated: each IP is assigned to one customer at a time for the rental.
Is a dedicated IP guaranteed never to be blocked?
No. A dedicated IP can still be limited by a site because of its own rules or the IP’s history. What it removes is the risk created by other customers during your rental.
Sources (5)
- Oxylabs ISP proxies pricing ("shared with up to 3 users") oxylabs.io/pricing/isp-proxies — Oxylabs (2026-10-19)
- Oxylabs dedicated ISP proxies pricing oxylabs.io/pricing/dedicated-isp-proxies — Oxylabs (2026-10-19)
- Decodo ISP proxies pricing decodo.com/proxies/isp-proxies/pricing — Decodo (2026-10-19)
- Webshare static residential proxy (shared) webshare.io/static-residential-proxy — Webshare (2026-10-19)
- Webshare dedicated static residential proxy webshare.io/dedicated-static-residential-proxy — Webshare (2026-10-19)