PacketStream
Peer-to-peer bandwidth at commodity prices
- Pool size
- 7M+
- Countries
- 180
- Uptime (claimed)
- 98.9%
- Response (claimed)
- 1.8s
- From
- $1.00/GB
- Free trial
- No
- Founded
- 2018
Cheapest residential GB available, with the variance you would expect.
Editorial rating 3.4/5 · last reviewed 2026-07-01
PacketStream pioneered the peer-to-peer bandwidth marketplace. Prices are the lowest for residential traffic anywhere, and reliability varies with peer availability.
- Lowest residential price per GB
- No minimum commitment
- Peer-sourced IPs vary in quality
- No city targeting
- Peer-dependent availability
8 editorial criteria
Rated by our editors against published criteria. It is an opinion with its weights shown — not a performance test.
| Signal | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 3.1 | 21% | Editorial rating of reliability, based on the provider's published success-rate figures, SLA terms and reader reports. |
| Weight 21% ·Editorial rating of reliability, based on the provider's published success-rate figures, SLA terms and reader reports. | |||
| Value for money | 3.3 | 17% | Value for money across every published plan tier. |
| Weight 17% ·Value for money across every published plan tier. | |||
| Speed | 3.7 | 14% | Editorial rating of speed, based on the provider's published performance figures and reader reports. |
| Weight 14% ·Editorial rating of speed, based on the provider's published performance figures and reader reports. | |||
| Trust & transparency | 3.4 | 14% | Sourcing transparency, logging policy, KYC friction and published audits. |
| Weight 14% ·Sourcing transparency, logging policy, KYC friction and published audits. | |||
| Location targeting | 3.2 | 10% | Country, city and ASN targeting options, as listed in the provider's documentation. |
| Weight 10% ·Country, city and ASN targeting options, as listed in the provider's documentation. | |||
| Pool size | 3.5 | 10% | Pool size and subnet/ASN diversity, as published by the provider. |
| Weight 10% ·Pool size and subnet/ASN diversity, as published by the provider. | |||
| Docs & API | 3.1 | 7% | API and documentation quality, rated by our editors against a fixed rubric. |
| Weight 7% ·API and documentation quality, rated by our editors against a fixed rubric. | |||
| Support | 3.6 | 7% | Support channels and hours the provider offers, and how readers describe their support experience. |
| Weight 7% ·Support channels and hours the provider offers, and how readers describe their support experience. | |||
What it actually costs at your volume
The advertised rate is $0.48, but at 50 GB you pay $0.82 — 1.7× the headline. That gap is why we normalise every tier.
| Tier | From | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | 1 GB | $1.00 |
| Growth | 50 GB | $0.8200 |
| Scale | 500 GB | $0.6500 |
| Enterprise | 5,000 GB | $0.4800 |
3-day trial. 14-day refund window.
What you can buy
| Type | From | Pool |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | $1.00/GB | 7M+ |
26 of 37 features listed
- Not supported: Bandwidth caps
- Not supported: Crypto pay
- Supported: Free trials
- Supported: Pay-as-you-go
- Supported: Price / GB
- Supported: Refund policy
- Supported: SLA credits
- Not supported: ASN diversity
- Supported: City targeting
- Supported: Geo coverage
- Not supported: Pool size
- Supported: Subnet spread
- Not supported: CAPTCHA handling
- Supported: Dedicated IPs
- Supported: Published speed figures
- Supported: Success-rate SLA
- Supported: Unblocker product
- Supported: Unlimited concurrency
- Not supported: Uptime SLA
- Supported: Custom headers
- Supported: HTTP/2
- Supported: IPv6
- Supported: Rotation
- Supported: SOCKS5
- Not supported: Sticky sessions
- Not supported: Whitelist auth
- Not supported: API access
- Supported: Dashboards
- Supported: Public documentation
- Not supported: Sub-user seats
- Supported: Support SLA
- Supported: Usage alerts
- Supported: Ethical sourcing
- Supported: IP reputation filtering
- Supported: KYC verification
- Not supported: Logs policy
- Supported: Public status page
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About PacketStream
Is PacketStream worth it?
Cheapest residential GB available, with the variance you would expect.
Does PacketStream offer a free trial?
No. PacketStream does not currently offer a free trial, though refund windows may apply.
How many countries does PacketStream cover?
180 countries at the time of our last review.