To buy a single static IP proxy, pick a provider that sells ISP proxies from one IP, choose a dedicated IP rather than a shared one, set the country, city and carrier, choose a term, and pay. On ProxyHive one dedicated ISP IP is $3.20/IP a month on a 30-day term, with no pack size and no quote form. Several large vendors start their ISP plans at 3 or 10 IPs, which is why people who need one address often end up paying for ten.
This guide is for the buyer who needs one to five fixed addresses: why the minimums exist, how dedicated and shared differ, how terms work, how to choose a location and carrier, and the exact steps to order one IP here.
Who needs one to five static IPs
Most static-IP buyers are not running a scraping farm. They need an address that does not change, in a place that makes sense to the system on the other end:
- An allowlist. A partner API, a client's admin panel or a payment dashboard that only accepts requests from known addresses. One IP, registered once, used for a year.
- Accounts you own. A seller account or an ad account that expects to be reached from the same location every time. The account management use case covers this, and our allowed-use policy sets out where several accounts are fine and where they are not.
- Local checks. Seeing a search page, a price or an ad as someone in one city sees it, every day, from the same vantage point.
- A small, polite scraper against a site that punishes rotating traffic but tolerates one steady visitor.
In every case the address itself is the product. Rotation would break the job.
Why vendors gate ISP proxies behind minimum orders
ISP addresses usually come in blocks that a provider leases or announces, and the block costs the same whether one address in it is sold or all of them. Each order also carries fixed overhead: provisioning, fraud screening and support. A vendor that sells in packs of ten spreads those costs over ten IPs. It is a reasonable business decision. It is also a bad deal if you need one.
Here are the smallest ISP plans on four vendors' pricing pages, as listed on 2026-09-29:
| Vendor | Smallest ISP plan listed | Price as listed | Also on the page | Pricing page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decodo | 3 dedicated IPs | $3.33/IP, $9.99 + VAT billed monthly | 10 IPs at $2.9/IP | Decodo ISP |
| Bright Data | 10 dedicated IPs | $3.5/IP, $35 billed monthly | 1,000 IPs at $2.5/IP | Bright Data ISP |
| Oxylabs | 10 IPs, shared with up to 3 users | $1.60/IP, $16 billed monthly | Unlimited bandwidth under a fair-usage policy | Oxylabs ISP |
| IPRoyal | Quantity not stated | From $2.70 per proxy for 30 days | A 24-hour option from $1.80 per proxy | IPRoyal ISP |
| ProxyHive | 1 dedicated IP | $3.20/IP a month, 30-day term | Falls to $1.50/IP at volume | ISP pricing |
What a minimum does to your price per IP
A per-IP rate only means something at the quantity you will use. If you need two IPs and the smallest plan is ten at $35 a month, you pay $17.50 for each IP you use. If you need one and the smallest plan is three at $9.99, your one IP costs $9.99. Divide the plan price by the IPs you will put to work, not by the IPs in the pack.
Where the others win
Be fair about it. If a shared IP suits the job, Oxylabs' 10 shared IPs at $1.60/IP are cheap per address. If the job only lasts a day, IPRoyal's 24-hour ISP option is something we do not sell. And if you need hundreds of IPs, every vendor in the table has a volume ladder worth pricing against ours; the Bright Data comparison does that at 10 IPs, with every figure sourced.
Dedicated IP proxy vs shared static IP
A dedicated IP proxy carries only your traffic. Its reputation is the one you give it. On ProxyHive a dedicated ISP IP has no traffic meter, so a long session or a large download costs nothing extra.
A shared static IP is the same kind of address used by more than one customer at the same time. On ProxyHive's shared plan, an IP is used by up to 3 customers and includes 1 GB of traffic per IP, with more bought per GB. It costs less. The trade-off is that another customer's behaviour can get the address rate-limited or flagged, and you will not know why.
There is also a premium plan: a fresh IP no customer has used before, which you can swap yourself from the dashboard. It suits targets that remember an address's history.
| Plan | Who else uses the IP | Traffic | Choose it for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dedicated | Nobody | Unmetered | Logins, allowlists, long sessions, anything tied to your identity |
| Shared | Up to 3 customers | 1 GB per IP included, more per GB | Read-only checks where reputation matters less |
| Premium | Nobody, and nobody before you | See the ISP pricing page | Targets that score an address on its history |
For one to five IPs attached to accounts or allowlists, dedicated is almost always the right answer. That is why it is listed first.
Static residential IP or datacenter IP?
A static residential IP, usually sold as an ISP proxy, is registered to a consumer internet provider but hosted on server hardware. Targets see a household network. You get datacenter-grade uptime and an address that stays put. The longer explanation is in what is an ISP proxy.
A datacenter IP comes from a hosting range. It is fast and fixed, but a target that checks the network owner sees a server. If your target accepts server traffic (most APIs, your own infrastructure, many B2B dashboards), a datacenter IP does the same job. On ProxyHive the two lines share one rate card, so choose on what the target accepts, not on price. Datacenter proxies are chosen by country, region and city; ISP adds the carrier.
How terms work: 30, 60, 90 and 365 days
Static IPs are rented for a term, paid up front at checkout. The IP is yours and stays the same address for the whole term.
| Term | Discount on the monthly rate | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| 30 days | None | Trying an address, short projects |
| 60 days | 5% | A campaign or a pilot |
| 90 days | 10% | A quarter of steady work |
| 365 days | 20% | Allowlists and accounts you intend to keep |
The term discount stacks with the volume discount, which starts at 5 IPs: smaller orders pay the full per-IP rate, and from there each IP costs less. A 365-day term costs 20% less per month than twelve 30-day terms, and saves you twelve renewal dates.
Two practical notes. First, pick the term by how long the address must stay the same, not by how long you think the project will run. An allowlisted IP that changes after 30 days means a support ticket with whoever maintains the allowlist. Second, if keeping the exact address matters, renew before the term ends, or turn on automatic renewal in the dashboard.
Choosing country, city and carrier
ProxyHive ISP IPs are chosen by country, region, city and carrier at checkout. Here is how to decide each one.
Country
Match the market the target expects. A US retailer's price page should be read from the US; a German marketplace from Germany. The ISP product page lists the countries we cover, and the order form shows what is in stock on the day.
Region and city
Only narrow to a city when the target changes what it shows by city: local search results, local ads, delivery-area pricing. Otherwise a country is enough, and leaving the city open gives you more stock to choose from.
Carrier
The carrier is shown by name before you pay, at no extra cost. It matters for two reasons. Some targets score traffic by network, and a household-name provider in that market reads as ordinary. And if the IP stands in for where you or your team work, the carrier should be one people there use. After delivery, look up the IP's network owner with any ASN lookup tool to confirm it matches the order.
How to order one static IP on ProxyHive
Before you start, check that your use is allowed. The allowed-use policy is public and plain, so you find out before you pay.
1. Create an account and top up
Sign up at https://app.proxyhive.io and top up your balance. The minimum top-up is $10, by card, PayPal or cryptocurrency. Whatever you do not spend stays on the balance and does not expire.
2. Configure the order
Choose ISP, the dedicated plan and a quantity of 1. Pick the country, then region, city and carrier from what is in stock. Choose the term. The price on screen is the price checkout charges; tax is added only where we are required to collect it.
3. Pay and collect the IP
The IP appears in your dashboard as soon as payment clears. Open the order: it lists the IP, its HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 ports, and a username and password. The dashboard can copy them in the format your tool wants, such as HOST:PORT:USER:PASS or USER:PASS@HOST:PORT.
4. Test it
Replace the placeholders with the values from your order and run:
curl -x "http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT" "https://api.ipify.org?format=json"
Run it twice. Both responses should show the same IP, the one on your order. For SOCKS5, use socks5:// and the SOCKS5 port instead. The curl integration guide covers the flags in more detail.
5. Optional: switch to an IP allowlist
If the machine using the proxy has a fixed public IPv4 address, you can switch the order to IP allowlist authentication in the dashboard and drop the username and password from your configuration.
A checklist before you buy a static IP anywhere
- What is the smallest plan? Divide its price by the IPs you will use.
- Dedicated or shared? If the page does not say, assume shared and ask.
- What is the monthly price at the term you will pick? And is it billed monthly or up front?
- Is traffic metered on a dedicated IP?
- Is the carrier named before you pay, or only after delivery?
- Can you choose the city, and is that extra?
- What happens if the IP is blocked on your target in week one? Ask for the replacement policy in writing.
- Is tax included in the price shown?
A vendor that answers all eight on its pricing page is one you can budget against. The residential proxy pricing guide has the equivalent list for per-GB traffic.